**A google.com/linux result for your video card.***************
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-l...-Dec/0465.html
Hello Alex,
on Tuesday, December 05, 2000 at 02:35:42 -0500,
you sat in front of your keyboard and wrote:
> I installed the xmach server, the onw that is suppouse to be for ATI
> video cards and it does not work, will I be able to use an ati card (a
> u$ 200 video card) on my linux? do suse supports ati video cards? mine
> is an AGP al in wonder ati vido card with 32 megs, so how do I install
> it? please please I am going crazy with this!!!
For the ATI All-in-Wonder 128 AGP you need the SVGA server which has support
for the rage129 chipset of this card. I have one with 16Mb and it works
flawlessly for X display and for video/tv watching under Linux.
Regards...
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Jean-François Bocquet <tns01@free.fr> ================================+
Cut and paste.
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If SuSE detected and ran the card without a hitch in 2000 all of the distros should do it by now. To me, this indicates a possible hardware problem.
I didn't google your monitor, but since you seem to know the specs, I'll have to trust you. (You may want to check those and write them down.) Check all of the connections and make sure they are well seated.
Go to the redhat site and read the installation guide. It saves you a world of trial and error. God knows how much crap I would have avoided had I read it before--instead of after-- taking linux admin. classes.
In the Guide, there is the syntax for commands you can pass to the installer and kernel. You can specify the appropriate driver, xserver, and horizontal and vertical refresh rates for your monitor and video adapter.. ( If they are available in the initrd image for the installer kernel.) You may have to give it appropriate generic values for the install and get specific afterwards.
You may want to google.com/linux your particular model of Dell computer to see if there is some sort of command to give it at the command-line prior to install. There are some computers which you have to do this, depending on the hardware installed and the motherboard.
If this is the first time you are playing with linux: Plan your install on paper--write a spec-sheet on every chip in the computer and every device. Read the installation guide at RedHat online. Check the hardware compatability list at redhat. (Basically everything you had to do when Windows 2000 first came out, remember?)
Just for your information. Everytime I do the spec-sheet thing and all of the other stuff, I never need it. Everytime I don't do all of the steps for a proper install--I needed to. Karma????
