Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread Gerard Robin
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

Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread David Purton
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

Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread nate
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

Re: video card detection (follow up)

2001-10-28 Thread Cary Cherng
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

Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread Gerard Robin
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

Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread D.
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

Re: video card detection (follow up)

2001-10-28 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
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? > >

Re: video card detection

2001-10-28 Thread Brian Nelson
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

video card detection (follow up)

2001-10-27 Thread Cary Cherng
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?

Re: video card detection

2001-10-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
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

Re: video card detection

2001-10-27 Thread Ian Patrick Thomas
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'

video card detection

2001-10-27 Thread Cary Cherng
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?