Re: installing linux
From: Frank Scully (frankxs_at_use_my_company_name.com)
Date: 07/04/05
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Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 20:55:50 -0400
Hmm.
Is this a Walmart "whitebox"?
I'm working w/ one just now.
Dances With Crows wrote:
> 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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