"G. Eichner" <geichner@cyberia.com> 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.....
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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: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/XFree86-3.3.3.1-SuSE/libc5/xsvga.rpm"><A HREF="ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/XFree86-3.3.3.1-SuSE/libc5/xsvga.rpm</A">ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/XFree86-3.3.3.1-SuSE/libc5/xsvga.rpm</A</A>> and do # rpm -Uvh svga.rpm This ought to help your video issues. Let us know how it goes. -Dee W.D.McKinney (Dee) deem@wdm.com Faith is acting on your passions & beliefs. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>