On Mon December 19 2005 9:26 am, egearing@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone ever try loading SuSE 10.0 onto a Dell Latitude C800? I've tried, but all I get is a black screen when x loads. I think the reason is it sees the graphics card as an ATI Rage 128 when it really is an ATI Rage Mobility M4 16M. Is there anyway to get it configured porperly? Two other Linux operating systems load X OK. They are Mandriva LE 2005 w/ a generic VESA driver and also Kubuntu Linux loads X properly. Any help would be appreciated. I'm also trying to get a Belkin F5D7010 wireless NIC to work with those but no luck either so I'm hoping SuSE 10.0 will help me solve that problem. Thanks,
there was a thread not too long ago about ATI video cards. Go to the ATI site and download the driver from them. Normally you go to init 3 and run sax2 to setup video cards, but I think ATI is different... You can try going to init 3 ( so X isn't running) then run sax2 and setup the generic VESA card for a test.. do a google search for ndiswrapper. I will soon have a DELL XPS system, so I'm right behind you with the setup.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800