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tadpoleaus Offline

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Posted: April 01 2007,23:03

G,day

I am having problem getting DSL installed on my son's old PC, I have tried using Xubuntu, but this takes about 3+ hours to install and is slower than (enter analogy here), and takes about 5+ mins to boot.

DSL seems to run up from the CD (dsl-3.2-syslinux), but as soon as it tries to run X, (I think that is what is happening) it just shows a black screen. I don't think it hangs, I think it is a video/screen issue. Prior to this I was running Windows 98 with no problems.

I was able to install it into the hard disk, and some how get it running to a command line, not sure how.

I can get it up and running from CD with failsafe, but only when I pick the lowest possible screen size and attributes, really the screen looks so 1960's and it is not functional.

I was able to get the live CD to work on my PC, 3.0 mhz, and looks goods and works fine, so CD not broken.

Any direction will be good, have tried most alternate settings (F2 & F3) stuff, but any direction from youall is appreciated

My background is IBM mainframes (don't judge me too harshly), so I understand the Linux concepts, but the implementation is slowly getting up to speed, so write answers slowly.

Hardware:
Compaq Presario 2276 (circa 1998)
333MHz AMD K6-2
4.3gb hard disk
256 Mem

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Posted: April 02 2007,02:43

Some forum search results:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=12457
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=5440

If nothing in them works, please state which video system you are using.

tadpoleaus Offline

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Posted: April 02 2007,04:24

Thanks for those,

no real help though...., still no screen to display

There was an error when I tried to load Xunbuntu, as follows:

SIS630 comp. bus not detected, module not inserted.
Looked for SIS5595 but found unsupported device 5597
SIS5595 not detected, module not inserted.

Hmm, the onboad diplay is SIS 5597 (4 mb) I am getting an uneasy feeling about this, I think That Linux may hate my motherboard.

Any thoughs......

tadpoleaus Offline

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Posted: April 02 2007,04:51

Hi,

With further investigation I found this:

http://www.linux-sxs.org/multimedia/sis559798.html

It states that the SIS5597 is a dog....well for Linux anyhow, I will post here what I did to over come the problem(s), but any other details on how to over come this are quite welcome.

Juanito

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Posted: April 02 2007,05:12

One thing you could try is to boot from the Knoppix 3.4 CD, in some cases there are modules on this CD that are not present on the DSL CD.

If you're lucky, the answer may be as easy as copying a missing module for your display.

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