Re: compaq issues

[Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@redhat.com>]

Do you have any idea what kind of video card this machine has on board?

Failing getting the onboard card to work, you might be able to simply disable
the onboard card and install a new(er) video card.

Regards,

Matt Galgoci

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 01:06:59PM -0700, john f. floren wrote:
> A friend of mine wants to try Linux on his old (about 1995) Compaq computer.
> However, when we tried to install RedHat 6.2 it couldn't load the GUI-type
> installer, because (I think) there was a built in video card on the computer
> and not a separate one. We probably could have installed it via text mode, but
> Don (my friend) didn't want just a command prompt interface, which is what I
> thought we'd end up with if we installed.Is there any way to hack the GUI's
> into working with his computer?
> 			Thanks.
>  --  Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Publisher's
> Edition) Kernel 2.2.14-5.0 on an i486
> 
>   1:06pm  up 2 days,  4:24,  2 users,  load average: 0.29, 0.62, 0.37
> 
> "Veni, Vidi, Deleti"
> (I came, I saw, I deleted your files)
> 
> Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.)