On Sunday 27 February 2005 01:13 pm, et wrote:
> On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:11 am, Lee Wiggers wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:10:57 -0800
> >
> > Erylon Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > If your laptop was "happily running 10" and an upgrade screwed it
> > > up, I don't feel sorry for you ;>)
> > >
> > > e
> >
> > Damn! And I really wanted someone to feel sorry for me, too. No
> > cooperation at all in this world of ours.
> >
> > For the record, my main box is 9.2 and won't change soon. The
> > laptop is a toy.
> >
> > Also for the record, when I dl'ed the iso's and did a fresh install,
> > then updated with the gui, as a rookie would have done, everything
> > worked perfectly except that it wouldn't do x at 70hz. My only
> > complaint then was the lack of a gui installer, but that's probably
> > due to the 256m memory in the laptop.
>
> more likely not the 256, but what ever of that 256 is "shared video memory"
> so to get the install, when it askes "hit enter to install, or f1 for
> other options, hit f1 and type (without the quotes, of course) "linux
> mem=240M" (don't foprget the last capital M) if you have 256 installed
> memory and 'share' 16 megs as video mem. or if you have 32 megs shared
> video mem then subtract 32 from the 256, (linux mem=224M)
>
> > I am about to do a club update, just to see if it withstands that.
> >
> > Lee
Lee has the same laptop I do - I had to use a small patch to increase video
memory from 1 meg (wow!) to my current 128 megs, under v9.2. (I've got 512
total though). Amazingly enough, you can't do it from BIOS. (Dell Inspiron
1100).
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