[Herefordshire] - Reclaiming Partition Space

[Mark Broadbent]

Dr Chris Owens said:
>    Many thanks for your continuing interest. In response
>
> Make: Hi-Grade Computers
> Model:     Badge:- Ultinote AS8400,     Label:- L8400 Series Notebook
> No 17NG018024
> Processor Spec:        Intel x86, Family 6, Model 8, Stepping 10, 320
> MB RAM Monitor:    Plug-nPlay Monitor on S3 Inc Savage/MX w/MV 1024x768
> 16 bit High Colour

Hi Chris,

The graphics card you have is supported by the savage driver which the
Mandrake installer selected for you.  What I can see is that your display
resolution and colour depth imply a 4MiB video memory not 8MiB (1024x768
at 2 bytes per pixel with double buffering is a shade over 3MiB used).
In Windows can you check that in the device properties of the video card. 
Alternatively, you can try to up the colour depth to 24 (or 32) bit (using
the same resolution) to test that theory?
Thanks
Mark

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Broadbent" <markb at wetlettuce.com>
> To: "County of Herefordshire Linux Users Group."
> <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] - Reclaiming Partition Space
>
>
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> >     Am still a bit stuck in getting the display right. The best I
>> >     have
>> > managed is to get a few scattered icons, some on top of each other,
>> > some that are draggable leaving a trail of ghost images, others
>> > inactive, lots of grey blue mish/mash which we saw last night but
>> > now with a readable message "KDE is up and running"in amongst it - a
>> > small advance but LINUX is still not usable from a graphic
>> > interface.
>>
>>
>> >     I think I need a path from the grub prompt to the root command
>> > line and then a way to get into changing the resolution and monitor
>> > settings in Drakx rather as Mark was doing at the end of the
>> > evening. This would save having to re-install Mandrake 10.0 from
>> > scratch in order to get to the post install 'Configuration Screen'
>> > where I have to date been trying to get the right settings. Would I
>> > be right and does anyone have any ideas.   In summary it looks as
>> > though everything has installed OK but I can't get access to a
>> > usable interface to change the display settings so that the whole
>> > becomes viewable.
>>
>> Could you find out what the make and model of the laptop is please.
>> >From that we should be able to find the correct settings without
>> >going
>> through to much trial and error.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mark
>>
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