Gene Heskett wrote:
All video cards should respond to the vesa driver. Trolling
thru /var/log/Xorg.0.log with 'less' will answer that question. But vesa
has I believe a max resolution of 800x600 so while it will work it will
not work to the cards or monitors real capabilities. There 2 schools of
thought, one being to go get from Nvidia, the correct driver for your
card. But that driver does not play nice with applications that need
realtime or near realtime kernel performance as it can lock other
processes away from the kernel by disabling IRQ responses, sometimes for
hundreds of milliseconds in its efforts to give you fast graphics.
Nvidia has been kind enough to throw some friendlier code over the legal
wall which has allowed the linux folks to write drivers for these cards,
and that driver is much nicer to apps that need realtime access to the
kernels services. By not hogging the IRQ's.
This driver, called "nouveau", is available from most all the distro's
and can be installed directly from the repo's with the distros favorite
package manager as soon as you get a working network connection going.
Vesa, now there's a word I've not come across for a long time. I'm not
sure what the resolution is it's using but it's certainly better than
800x600. However, clearly things are not quite right and I'm hoping that
now I'm online and can use the appropriate software management tools it
will be sorted out for me. The information above is invaluable because
now I know what I'm looking for and why.
Thanks to Greg and Curt for the info about su - and Gene for the
correct syntax for checking a PATH.
Thank you for the flowers, Richard.
I couldn't get roses, I hope the daffodils will suffice.
R
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