[ale] Need help with Installation

[Geoffrey]

Tomek Skurzak wrote:
>>Geoffrey wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Tomek Skurzak wrote:
>>>
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>>>>i am new to Linux. I tried to install Yoper and Suse. In both cases I
>>>>had problems with the video card. The bottom line is that I can not
>>>>see anything on the screen after the linux boots up. Even when I try
>>>>to adjust the screen visuals inside the monitor.
>>>>
>>>>Would you know any commands in the shell I could use to change the
>>>>graphics? or any other suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>The box is IBM  PII 300MHz.
>>>
>>>
>>>Do you know what video card it has?  Switch to a virtual console
>>>(ctrl-alt-F3 should work) and then check out /var/log/XFree86.0.log or
>>>/var/log/Xorg.0.log depending on what version you're running.  If you
>>>can't figure out what's going on there, post the contents of the log
>>>file and we'll go from there.
>>
>>I had the exact same card and tried to install Suse8.2 a while back. Did
>>not work. Contacted Suse about this. Was told that they consider this an
>>obsolete card and sorry, no help.
>>Good luck, Cor van Dijk
> 
> 
> Do you know any other version of linux (excluding Suse and Yoper) that would
> run with S3 Trio64V2 video controller?

I'm surprised Suse would say it's an obsolete card.  I'm running cards 
much older than that on Suse 9.2.  You might download the suse live eval 
and give it a spin.  Or go with a knoppix cd as others have noted.

What version of Suse did you try?

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Until later, Geoffrey