tef
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Posted: Aug. 13 2006,23:07 |
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I've run DSL on this exact machine. It's painful! Don't you love the boot sequence's description of Processor 0 as running at "0MHz"? :-)
It sounds like you're having difficulty getting the right graphics setting for X. Unfortunately, I have the settings saved on the hard disk now and am loathe to go undo them so as to walk you through a first-time boot. However, I recall there being two factors which were "make or break" for me:
The most important, least intuitive thing is entering the right cheatcode on boot. E.g.,
The "vga=788" tells the machine to use a video setting which will play nicely with the Presario.
Also, when prompted to choose your X server, be sure to use "Xfbdev" instead of "Xvesa." We old school.
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By the way, if you're looking for a network card for your son's new toy, beware the "Cardbus" cards: they didn't work for me. Instead I'm using a TRENDnet TE100-PC16R.
FYI: I found some old notes suggesting I enabled sound with the following command:
| Code Sample | | sudo modprobe sb irq=5 |
In other news, I get an odd NMI plaguing my 1220. Sometimes.
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