bad video but boots, Dell LM p133 40m ram 2g driveForum: User Feedback Topic: bad video but boots, Dell LM p133 40m ram 2g drive started by: marc66thomas Posted by marc66thomas on Jan. 30 2007,22:57
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 Posted by roberts on Jan. 30 2007,23:07
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 Posted by marc66thomas on Jan. 30 2007,23:48
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 !! Posted by tightgroup on Jan. 31 2007,03:21
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. |