[Wylug-help] Various distros - update

[Anne Wilson]

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On Thursday 20 May 2004 18:37, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 20 May 2004 00:58, James Holden wrote:
> > Might be something to do with framebuffer support.
> >
> > Try booting with 'vgalo' as a boot option. This will turn off the
> > kernel framebuffer console and just use plain old 80x85 text mode.
>
> Hi, James
>
> That still comes up with the flashing monitor lights and no response.
> Booting Mandrake in non-fb mode starts OK, but that's text only - no
> possibility of X.  I haven't had time to try the other card yet, and
> it's not looking good for tomorrow, but over the weekend I'll get to
> it.  Thanks for the suggestion
>
It looks as though it really was the graphics card.  I put in an old
Matrox Mystique pci card and Mandrake has accepted it without problems.
Now I know I have a working system I can play around to see what's
possible ;-)

Anne
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