"G. Eichner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Friend's new machine came with:
>
> AMD k6-2 3??MHz cpu
> Gigabyte motherboard (GA-5X ??)
> 8.4 gb hdd (eide)
> Matrox G200 AGP
> 128MB RAM
> .
>
Howdy....nice box for sure.....
> ..
>
> Machine came with Win 98 installed a 4.2gb partition, leaving
> other half available for Linux.
>
> I installed SuSE 5.3 on the last half,
> hda2 / 4+ gb
> hda3 swapfile - 127MB
>
Good move for starting out.
> Set to boot from floppy. It worked fine except I didn't have the
> appropriate X-server, so I was waiting before setting up the X
> Window system and KDE.
>
> Turned out lots of lockups with the Matrox G200 AGP card and the
> ALI chipset on this Gigabyte motherboard. Vendor was good about
> swapping the video card out for a...
>
I wouldn't do that, the G200 is excellent. I run a commercial display manager
called Accelerated-X from Xi Grpghics, Inc. and it works excellent!
I hear that the SuSE Xserver works great also. Grab:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/XFree86-3.3.3.1-SuSE/libc5/xsvga.rpm
and do
# rpm -Uvh svga.rpm
This ought to help your video issues. Let us know how it goes.
-Dee
W.D.McKinney (Dee) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Faith is acting on your passions & beliefs.
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