Finally found the info on Dell's site with some help. Video reads
70CV FASSEMBLY, PRINTED WIRING ASSY, GRPH, 8MB, LONSDALE/LAVACA Which I am not familiar with at all. Words of wisdom anyone? Dennis On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 10:49, Mark C. Ballew wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
