On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 22:43, john rigby wrote: > Ha there folks, > Well, a new machine and same result. > I purchased the full bottle M8.0 and need to get SOME value back :-) > Many people complained of it not being very successful and it failed for me > several times on 3 machines. > It would seem to install ok to a degree - but only in text mode, despite my > trying to ensure it would be graphic. > > I have now even bought a Jetway moboard as I was told it was lux friendly. > SIS 630T chipset > It has O/b video AGP4x shared mem amount immaterial as I've seen so far. > O/b sound AC'97 > P3 667 Chip > > No graphics install by M8.0 > No sound > BTW: I've never been able to get sound working on any prior system. > > Advice requested please: > > 1. In the manuals I can find no reference to "going GUI" from dreaded > Terminal mode. Can one? > I tried F1 and select other options at bootup but it will not accept any > change from L3 to L5 > > 2. As I paid for the presentation of 1000's of programs with the retail > Powerpak, is there a chance that I could use say a 2 disk minimalist set of > 8.1 ( or 2) to get a start and then install the programs I want from the 8.0 > Set? > > Note: In Australia north of Brisbane we not only put our clocks back, but > Telecom can't see why I REALLY need to be on the Internet. I average a D/l > speed of 1.8 overall ( I quit when it often gets to 1.0 or less) and lose > about one in two of any large (10Megs+) downloads. I've officially been told > "voice capability is good enough and they aren't obliged to demonstrate more > than 9600 Bd capability........ unless I want to spend a few hundred per > week on ADSL or........... so using the disks, not to mention the $140 spent > on them seems a good idea. > > 3. What is the vote nowadays - my figures show 50/50 for 8.1 and 8.2 re user > install/working satisfaction. > > 4. If Mandrake can't for some reason detect a graphics card, should it not > say so? Or will it simply default to a Terminal/text install? > > Thanks and > Cheers, > > John > > I have a Jetway 630TCF with the SiS 630 chipset. Install comes up Graphic without any effort on my part since the video supports Framebuffer. With the 530 and 8.0 there are some problems on some implementations usually solved by setting options in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
Option "sw_cursor" Option "no_bitblt" Option "FastVRam" It makes no sense for the install to come up text without any graphics. But if the install does, then your CDs are seriously damaged (at least one run of the pressed CDs had trouble with a RAMDisk). It might try to come up text if you have less than 64M RAM since the 630 shares 8M of main memory with video memory which makes a 32M setup really offer only 24M to the system. In that case you would be fortunate to install at all. IN any event, 630 from Jetway with the supercheap VIA C3 - 733 processor and 64M RAM installs just fine here. And because there is shared video memory, RAM is VERY relevant. Civileme
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