On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 10:20 -0700, Dennis Bagley wrote: > Hey gang, > > I was given a Dell Inspiron 8000 that I would like to turn into a Linux > machine. However, So far the only distro I have been able to run a full > install is RH9. > > When I try either FC2 or FC3 - it starts fine with the usual text lines > then about when it's trying to do a startx - it freezes.
Dennis, This sounds like a video card problem. Do you know if it has an Nvidia card in it? If you go to Dell.com and put in the service number, it should give you all the specs. If it is a Nvidia card, you'll need to boot into text only mode (run level 1 or 3 on RH or FC) and run the Nvidia installer which you can get from Nvidia's web site, make a small modification to the xorg.conf or XF86Conf, and you'll be good to go. Knoppix doesn't include the closed-source Nvidia driver, which would explain why it failed. Or, just bring it to the May RLUG meeting and I'll take a look at it! As a side bar to this, if people would refuse to use ATI's or Nvidia's products because of their closed binary drivers, we wouldn't have problems like this. Distros won't include closed source drivers because of licensing concerns. Theo of the OpenBSD project just released a song for the upcoming 3.7 release that talks about this: http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html#37 (be sure to read the side notes) Mark -- Mark C. Ballew Reno, Nevada [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://markballew.com PGP: 0xB2A33008 AIM: pdx110
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