Hey all,
I downloaded SimplyMEPIS 2004.04 today to try out and possibly use to replace Fedora Core 2 with. However, I have encountered 2 problems.
1. My network adapter won't startup, and
2. I can't get my resolution past 800x600
The second problem I can explain better. When X starts in 1024x768 it looks like a TV with bad reception. The picture is all fuzzy, and it does this no matter if I boot up into kernel 2.6.7 or 2.4.47 (I think the last one is correct). But when I boot into 800x600 in kernel 2.6.7 it works just fine. I have an old 15in
monitor but I know the max resolution is 1024x769 because thats the resolution I use in Fedora Core 2 and Windows.
The first I just get a message that says eth0 could not start.
I was willing to handwrite the lspci output from mepis to post but quess what (and this might get me to use something else anyway), they don't have lspci. I tried running the command /sbin/lspci and I get a directory does not exist error or something like that. So I open up the file browser and check out the /sbin/ folder and is was right no lspci. so here's the lspci output from FC2 though I don't see how it will be any help.
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2)
01:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation SmartLink SmartPCI561 56K Modem
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600XT] (rev a1)
Thanks for your help. If you want to know anything else let me know
