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Posted: Jan. 30 2007,22:57 QUOTE

Hi folks
I hvve been bouncing around on Distros and pleased to mention that I had success on DLS ...except bad video
video is bad = low contrast yellow and green, I can barely see the images but I can shut down (I found that by accident the first time i booted.)

The Dell Latitude LM is a p133 40m ram 2 g drive and has a neoMagicGraph 128z has 40m on Linux boot the post screens show a vzv 40k vbe/2.0 Thats all gibberish to me but I hope some one with a little more experience and perhaps a similar machine will be  out here.

On DSL boot disk from floppy; can't boot from CD, the scan command comes up each boot and returns nothing so I use 0. Since it's an old laptop I choose doubble buffering and have used 5 or 6 graphic depths and settings. 791 785 771 788  
I have not been able to get back to a useable screen since the first boot. Is there a safe mode or guaranteed setting?

any suggestions are appreciated
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Posted: Jan. 30 2007,23:07 QUOTE

Maybe try this a first boot screen:

boot:  fb800x600

or

boot:  dsl vga=normal

or at the boot prompt press F3 and try various vga=xxx based on your systems requirements
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Posted: Jan. 30 2007,23:48 QUOTE

Quote (roberts @ Jan. 30 2007,18:07)
Maybe try this a first boot screen:

boot:  fb800x600

or

boot:  dsl vga=normal

or at the boot prompt press F3 and try various vga=xxx based on your systems requirements

I have tried you suggestion fb800x600 with success.

Thank you.

I'm moving toward a frugal install and MyDSL thanks for the very quick reply !!
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Posted: Jan. 31 2007,03:21 QUOTE

I had the same problem with my Gateway laptop and it has the same video card.  It likes vga=791 will run on 1024x768.

I did the grub install and it prompts me for the resolution when I start up.


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P166MMX desktop 48MB ram 1GB HD
Gateway 2500 laptop PII 266 220 MB ram 10GB HD
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