Dear All, I decided to try to tweak my video display last night and ended up not being able to get back into LM8.2. I tried to work with files through console because I was able to at least get to a console but nothing was working. I really do not know what video driver I should use for my brand new Athlon XP1600+ system with an ELitegroup Ecs Motherboard with onboard video. lan, and sound. It is an Elite ECS Socket A l7vmm motherboard with th VT8375 Northbridge and VT8233A Southbridge chipset. This system is only a couple of days old. LM8.2 installed quite nicely. I used the recommended install so the video was setup automatically and I do not know what driver was chosen. It worked right away with everything working immediately except some sound. The sound worked automatically and beautifully for CD's but not xmms. That is a minor problem now to be addressed later.
I decided to do a fresh install today thinking that would straighten all out. It seemed to go through the install quite nicely but then w;hen I booted up it would not boot into Linux but just showed 0404040404004 infinitely running across the black screen. When I put in the rescue disk I could get into the console and see that all my files were still there and accessible, but I am a newbie and did not know how to get Xconfigurator going through text and would not known what driver to choose anyway. I printed out some info about my system before the crash and for the video it says: VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc: Unknown device 8d04(prog-if 00[VGA]) Subsystem:Elitegroup Computer systems: Unknown device 0a76 FLags: bus naster, 66Mhz, medium devsel. latency 32, IRq11, mEMORY AT 31000000(32-Bit, non-prefetchable) size =512K Memory at d8000000 ( 32- bit, prefetchable) size =128M Expansion ROM at <unassigned> disabled size =64k I have reinstalled twice and the same thing happened. Now I am using Partition commander to format my drive for Linux hoping this will take care of the problem. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Marcia
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