The two machines that Unbuntu or Mandriva didn't like the video cards in both have Nvidia cards. Both cards have 512mb of video ram on them, and are agp 4x. They may not be the most up-to-date cards, but they're still current enough that you would think they would work. The machine that I've been running fedora on is a Dell Poweredge server that's about 3 years old now. The video controller is an intel chip, but I don't remember the exact one. I think is was an E7XXXX, or something close to that. Anyway, F8 doesn't like the controller in the poweredge server, so it's going to take a new video card to get it running f8. I posted what I posted just to see if others were having the same or similar problems. I didn't think the card specs were that important at the time. Thanks for your reply though. It was certainly much better that the response I got from that summerfield guy. I don't know why he said what he said, I certainly never did anything bad to him, but if that's the way he wants to be, it's a free country. I'll just ignore him from now on. Jim On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 13:04 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > Jimmy Bradley wrote: > > Well, I downloaded the F8 live cd, and burned it to a > > cd,everything went fine until it got to my video controller, and then f8 > > said it couldn't recognize my video controller. Funny, F7 had no > > problems with it. I don't know about anyone else on this list, but I've > > been seeing this same sort of problem on other machines running other > > distros. Ubuntu 7.10 doesn't like the video controller, and 7.04 didn't > > like the ethernet or wireless card. Mandriva 2008 also doesn't like the > > video card. > > What I don't understand is, if you supported a piece of hardware > > in one version, why don't you support it in your new version. I could > > understand it if I was running old hardware, but it's all only about 2 > > or 3 years old. > > I guess for now I'll keep running F7 on that machine, until I get a > > new video card for it,the other machines, I've changed distros on them. > > So far, the only distro that I haven't had this problem with > > yet(knock on wood) is Cent OS, but who knows, that may change with > > version 6. > > Gee....I wonder what video card you are using. You never say. Or maybe > there was no point? :-) >
