[ale] Need help with Installation

[Tomek Skurzak]

> Tomek Skurzak wrote:
> >>Geoffrey wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Tomek Skurzak wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>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?

As I can remember 9.1.