On 17 Dec, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > > I installed debian on a professor's machine yesterday, but have hit a > barrier: we don't know what the video "card" that it uses is. Unix/ > linux tech support in our department is non-existent (which is why he > asked me for help). It can't even tell us what card type to use in > configuration. The best he could come up with is that "matrox" usually > works. However, we've hung the machine (not just X) three times this > way. > > Does anyone know what setting to use? > > rick >
Is SuperProbe installed? Can you use that? SuperProbe is supposed to identify the chipset for you. It's in xbase. HTH, -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College
