hi-

i have an old pavilion ze5200 notebook that a friend now inherited. he waited until vista will be forced down his throat. well it may not have the graphics for that system.

is one distro better than another for putting up with computers built for and tested with xp integrated graphics? isnt support for that stuff built into the kernel which is across distros and linux distros include the kernel in the os? if the answer is just vesa it wont fly as i have been down that road before. on the desktop i have now i dont fool with vesa.

if vesa worked easily everytime i wouldnt have had all those lockups in 9.x suse.

on my desktop i use nvidia with suse and it is excellent. 10.3 with nvidia is cool. if he had a desktop and i could upgrade this wouldnt be an issue.

thanks for any advice,
jim

i thought about this some more.

i guess when i am ready to fool with this
i will try to find out the model of the
graphics that is integrated like ati, sis etc.

then i will have more leads on how to approach
this as it is the graphics and not the pc brand
and model that determine any solution.

the only thing with vesa that might work is editing
xorg.conf but it seems funny because before it "locks
up" sometimes i can use yast to generate a xorg.conf
and whatever it writes doesnt work automatically.

thanks and nevermind for now. i will write back
when we are ready to fire up that pc.


thanks,
jim