On Wednesday February 12 2003 08:33 pm, John S. Chalice wrote:
> Hey there..
>
> It looks like I found my problem that I've been having for awhile.
> This may be what is stumping many of you users of HP computers who
> decided you wanted linux, and a better video card.
>
> Since my computer (HP Pavilion 7935) came with onboard video.. and
> not its own card, when I tried configuring my computer for linux, I
> ended up selecting 'configure both heads independently'.. referring
> to (Head 1): My onboard display adapter.. and (Head 2): my other
> video card. When I did this, my computer was complaining (though I
> only found this out after logging the startx output messages)
> because when you put in a new video card, the onboard video
> disables itself entirely, and yet linux was trying to use the
> onboard video. This also leaves me with 16MB of set-apart RAM I
> can't get my hands on, but.. that's not too big of a deal.
>
> Anyway.. I just thought this might help some people who don't know
> why their HP computer doesn't like linux. :)
>
> I have put in a GeForce4 MX 440-SE (PCI) and it seems to be working
> fine now.
>
> Hope this helps some of you :)
What you touched on is really a bios deficiency in many ready made
computers. The larger problem is making any changes to ready mades.
The computer left the factory with the bare minimums to support the
original hardware configuration, design, and OS.
Adding in hardware later probly won't go over to well, and changing
the OS from Windoze often doesn't either.
Are you sure there's not a bios option, somethin like "memory hole
at 16mb", and that it's not enabled?
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