Re: installing linux
From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_gmail.com)
Date: 06/19/05
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Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 18:05:41 -0500
On 18 Jun 2005 13:02:08 -0700, eSunny staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
> please advise me on installing linux on my machine, as i have tried
> earlier with suse and redhat, there was a problem with the display
> settings, the display driver SiS M760 was not supported by [either] of
> them.
Which version of SuSE? Which version of Redhat? This is important.
The SiS M760 is a fairly new chipset AFAICT, so if you tried to install
something ancient, like Redhat 9 or SuSE 8.0, I'm not surprised that it
didn't work. Xorg 6.8.2 or 6.8.0 (the X supplied with the latest SuSE
and Fedora Core 3 or 4) say that they support the SiS M760 with the
"sis" X module.
> Model : 1x Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ Speed : 798MHz
Eh? Those don't match up. An Athlon XP 2000 runs at ~1666 MHz
according to /proc/cpuinfo, so this Sempron 2800 shouldn't be running at
~800 MHz unless you've got some ACPI throttling going on. What did you
mean here?
> MP APIC : No
If your board supports APIC, go ahead and turn it on. Having more IRQs
can be a good thing.
> System : FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo A 1640
Is this the make and model of the {laptop,desktop}? Is this a laptop?
If it's a desktop, then the question doesn't really belong in
col.portable.
> Total Memory : 480MB DDR-SDRAM
> Total Memory : 512MB DDR-SDRAM
Which is it? If the SiS M760 is one of those @#$%^ing chips that uses
"shared video memory" (i.e. "steals 32M of system RAM instead of having
dedicated VRAM") then that blows. Well, you don't always get to choose
your graphics chipset on a laptop.
> Device : Smart Link 56K Modem
This may be a LoseModem. Find out what lspci says it is and report
it--brand names and the Windows Device Mangler can and will lie like
rugs when it comes to modems and soundcards.
> Adapter : SiS 900-Based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
This should be supported with the sis900 module. HTH,
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