On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 04:32:34AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc
> > seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Cary Cherng wrote:
> These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and
> pc seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this
> normal or am I missing something?
maybe.
What point in the install are you up to?
The base installation should complet
Cary Cherng said:
> These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and
> pc seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this
> normal or am I missing something?
depending on the card it can be very normal. both my desktop
at home and my laptop require special configurat
No matter what I do this thing refuses to cooperate. The installation goes fine
until the x setup. Since it can't detect the video card and manually
configuring doesn't seem to work, I let it go with the VGA16 X default but then
when it goes to configure i see the nice graphically display. The o
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng wrote:
> These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc seem
> to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or am I missing
> something?
I guess that you have potato.
do (as root):
1 apt-get install
As with any software sometimes it will not detect all
hardware. I know on my Laptop I have the S3 Savage
and during initial installation this card was not
detected, I had to manually configure it. During that
process you will get to a data base of video cards and
it should be on that list. You n
On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:47:46AM -0700, Cary Cherng wrote:
> My pc has a diamond v770 tnt2 and my laptop has some kind of ATI mobility
> rage 128. I can't possibly see my tnt2 as being too "new". Anyway, I need to
> do some manual configuration right? Where can I find info on this?
>
>
Cary Cherng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and
> pc seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this
> normal or am I missing something?
It's pretty normal, considering potato has XFree86 3.3.6 (latest is
4.1.x).
--
Brian
on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc
> seem to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or
> am I missing something?
Install lspci:
$ apt-get install lspci
R
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:26:11PM -0700, Cary Cherng wrote:
> These are my first attempt at installing Debian. Both my laptop and pc seem
> to have video cards that cannot be identified. Is this normal or am I missing
> something?
>
>
It's not abnormal. If you're using potato then you'
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