[newbie] HP Computers
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 :) Sincerely, John S. Chalice a.k.a. crysaliq -- http://crysaliq.home.attbi.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Computers
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? -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] HP Computers
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 9:46 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: *snip* 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? It's not just the ready-made one's with this problem. I've found that MANY all-in-one's either don't have the option to disable the onboard video, or if even if they have the option, it doesnt work. I have a ASUS sp97v board with a dead onboard vga and a PCI vga card I disabled the onboard card using a jumper on the motherboard to do so, and yet X still detects the card and attempts to use it, however the memory is freed and everything works if I tell X to not use that card. He should look on the board, near the onboard VGA connector, to see if there is a jumper to disable the onboard stuff.. It will allow the board to give up it's shared vga memory, and might even actually disable the onboard video like it's supposed to. -- Chuck Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
