Hey there..
It looks like I found my problem that I've been having for awhile. This
may be what is stumping many of you users of HP computers who decided
you wanted linux, and a better video card.
Since my computer (HP Pavilion 7935) came with onboard video.. and not
its own card, when I tried configuring my computer for linux, I ended up
selecting 'configure both heads independently'.. referring to (Head 1):
My onboard display adapter.. and (Head 2): my other video card. When I
did this, my computer was complaining (though I only found this out
after logging the startx output messages) because when you put in a new
video card, the onboard video disables itself entirely, and yet linux
was trying to use the onboard video. This also leaves me with 16MB of
set-apart RAM I can't get my hands on, but.. that's not too big of a deal.
Anyway.. I just thought this might help some people who don't know why
their HP computer doesn't like linux. :)
I have put in a GeForce4 MX 440-SE (PCI) and it seems to be working fine
now.
Hope this helps some of you :)
Sincerely,
John S. Chalice
a.k.a. crysaliq -- http://crysaliq.home.attbi.com
