On Sunday 26 November 2006 11:41, Reinhard Gimbel wrote: > Hello ! > > Hans du Plooy wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 18:46 +0100, Alain Barthélemy wrote: > >> Hi, I'm new to Linux. I just installed suse 10.1 on my old laptop, > >> Armada M700 and found the display problem. It's like the top part of the > >> screen is shown at the bottom. I tried to change the resolution, monitor > >> and frequency around but couldn't get it to work. The VGA card is ATI 3D > >> Rage P/M Moility AGP 2x. > > > > Which driver are you using? Even though it says "Rage Mobility" it is > > actually a Mach64 (at least it was on my m700), which can be problematic > > in Linux. If I remember correctly I used the r128 driver. However, > > that was SUSE 9.3, and I see in 10.1 there is a r128 and r128old > > in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers - not sure what the difference is. > > > > Either ways, if you really want to make it work very nicely, try to get > > GATOS drivers going. Again, I'm not sure what the current situation is, > > but a couple of years ago that was the only way to get those cards to > > function 100%, especially if you had the All-In-Wonder models. > > In addition I would advise to try either fbdev or vesa X11 drivers to > get the system running in principal before doing the experiments with > r128/r128old. > > Using fbdev or vesa drivers might not result in a system with a high > graphics speed but should bring at least a right display screen. > > It is also a good idea to backup each state of the file > /etc/X11/xorg.conf (with useful names ...). Thus you can fall back a > before working setting. > -- > Never give up ! > > Best regards / Gruß, Reinhard. > > "Software is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open."
One of the things I like to do with older systems is use a Knoppix live boot disk and see how the system responds. If the display works, I copy the configuration files for X to whatever distro I want to install. This usually works. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
