Motherboard and memory questions
Hi, I have an HP Pavilion a1203w that came with Micro$haft XP, which has worked fine for the year and a half (or so) that I have had it. Almost every Linux that I put on the second hard drive (160Gb) either "freezes up," won't load, goes flakey and craps out on me within the first two weeks in some way or another. I have been able to run 3 distros without problems as long as I don't try to upgrade them ..... Libranet 2.8.1 - 2.4.21 kernel (Jon Danzig passed away and his son, Tal closed the doors) ..... Beatrix @005 - 2.6.7 kernel(Stephen Watsky went into Diabetic something and is now in a nursing home somewhere in the US) ....... SimplyMepis 2004 - don't remember the kernel ( Warren used a modified Debian kernel which can no longer be upgraded). What I have on it right now is Beatrix (Ubuntu Clone), but I have never been able to get any Ubuntu to work i.e. freezups, etc.
My box has a Semperon 3000+ processor, 512Mb RAM. I will show you what "lspci" says .... I don't understand it at all ..... I'm providing all this info and asking these questions because I have been told on several forums that this box has a hardware problem, and I am trying to track it down. I have the 40Gb hard drive (with the M$ XP) completely disconnected, so that the only drive is the one which seems to cause me all the grief. Code:
# lspci I have no "/sbin/lspci." I tried Code:
gedit /sys/bus/pci/devices Also, just about every Live Linux CD I try (Knoppix 5.11 included, Mandriva One, SimplyMepis 6.5 etc.) either freezes up or won't load, as well ..... the exceptions are the old Beatrix and Mepis mentioned above, but I have had success with PC-BSD 1.2 loaded on the hard drive and FreeSBIE 3.0 as a live CD. Needless to say, I am very confused, as BSD is supposed to be light years behind Linux, from some of the commentary I've read, but I don't have the problems noted above when I run BSD :? TIA for any good advice I get. |
Looks like this is your chipset http://www.sis.com/products/sis760.htm
and according to the guy who writes the video drivers http://www.winischhofer.eu/linuxsispart1.shtml Quote:
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I have and Advent 7086 notebook on which i installed SUSE 10.2 and it uses SIS661GX graphics does anyone know how
to configure my graphics so that i can play games like chromium on my pc, where can i get the linux drivers for my motherboard ???? |
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Thanks again .......IM2 |
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