[huskerlug] Re: Linux distros/updates/?
- From: "James W. Macdonald" <jm62316@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 08:52:18 -0600
Is it possible that it is setting a graphics mode that is out of the range of
either the graphics card of the monitor?
Try changing the monitor. Listen for the"click" when it changes modes.
I've seen this happen, and sometimes you just get a blank screen.
Jim Macdonald
James Worrest wrote:
> I don't know if I have a good copy of it or not. You should
> say also the system has to do SVGA. Anyway, a copy of it that I had
> found all the hardware on a computer I figured it would and it even
> found the soundcard, but no video! As I said, I have to make sure I
> got a good CD of it. All the the listings at the beginning and the end
> show up and the sound files play, but no pictures when by the behavior
> of the program it appears I'm in a GUI even though I have a blank screen.
> Anyway, I plan to play with it more and do see if I have a
> faulty copy of the CD, which is a possibility. ---Jim
>
> On Sunday 12 January 2003 18:14, you wrote:
> > --- James Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I'm going to play around with Knoppix on a computer
> > > or two. I have
> > > found SuSE (I have used 6.3 and now 7.3) to be the
> > > best distro for strange
> > > graphic controllers, and being cheap that's the only
> > > type I have. I have
> > > gotten it to run on just about everything I tried.
> > > Other distros don't even
> > > leave me with a usable graphics
> > > I have a feeling it's weak point is getting it to
> > > behave with some audio
> > > cards, probably RedHat or some other distro would do
> > > a better job with that,
> > > if I didn't think I also had to have steller audio,
> > > I wouldn't even bother
> > > with another distro. ---JIm
> >
> > Knoppix, http://knopper.net/knoppix finds all the
> > hardware, and comes up ready to access the internet...
> > I use Knoppix as my hardware test demo. I go to a
> > store, and they don't know if Linux will run on a
> > certain processor, mainboard, sound and video card
> > combo, and get to the internet, I just stick in the
> > CDrom, and boot! It finds everything in about 30
> > seconds, and comes up, even with the Internet working!
> > Any conflicts are tagged! Then, if it is OK, I can go
> > to http://pricewatch.com and get all those pieces to
> > build it at the right price!
> >
> > Made in Deutchland, home of Suse! (by elves in der
> > schwartzwald!)
> >
> >
> > =====
> > Patrick
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