On Friday 03 December 2004 08:51, Sean wrote: > On Thu, December 2, 2004 3:49 pm, John Summerfield said: > > On Friday 03 December 2004 00:31, Randy McDonald wrote: > > > > > > Don't get anything with an Intel i810 or i815 chipset; I have several > > (all ombord graphics) and none of them works well at present with any > > Linux > > Hey John, > > There is support for these chipsets and any problems should be reported. > Did you make a bugzilla entry? You might find some useful hints at: There's a considerable number of them at bugzilla.redhat.com to do with xorg and the only resolutions i've seen are "this" duplicates "that" and a "try this." > > http://i810fb.sourceforge.net/howto/index.html > > In cases where it doesn't "just work" there are some kernel/module > settings that can be made. That is good news for those who must use them. I'm not so concerned about kernel framebuffer support - it's nice to have wide screens and such, but my first attempt to install Nahant was an abject failure. I then went to the evectra and luckily chose a different screen resolution. My screens do 1600x1200 but whenever I try to do that, it either refuses (Ubuntu) or offsets the screen image. Some resolutions work, but higher resolutions that do work flicker dreadfully. Then RAM is a problem. The evectra (one slot) supports 256. The others support no more than 512. And at least two of them don't like some of the RAM I have, so the evectra's running on 128. The Gateway declined a second 256 so it's running on 256. My main workstation is an Athlon and everything works well; I get to the other boxes using the Athlon as an x-terminal. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
