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Re: [LUG] Meeting in Paignton

 

Quoting Anton Channing <achanning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

My machine has both an on board graphics chip (an accident,
I bought the wrong motherboard.  My first ever self built PC),
and an AGP graphics card, and I installed Debian Testing with
ease.  I had previously had problems with SuSE and Mandrake
distributions.

Admittedly, it is currently only running in 800x600 mode, but
at least it got that far, and presumably, when I get back to the
replies I had on that, I will be able to fix this also.

And to be fair, Windoze XP doesn't always seem happy with
my graphics card anyway.  It runs okay, but sometimes the
graphics go all scewy (of some might just say thats Windows
anyway), and eventually crashes. I think at some point I will either
ditch the AGP card, or upgrade the motherboard and processor
to one that doesn't have a built in graphics chip.


Well we had another go last nite at installing Suse 9.1 Personal.  Works 
really well, I think its running off the PCI card rather than the on-board 
video card.  My friend is impressed with it, he likes all the free games and 
said to me "I was reading that Linux handbook you gave me and you can do lots 
more on Linux than you can on a PC" :-)

Since I loaned him the motherboard and CPU (Celeron 300A, Intel 815 
motherboard) I might let him have something a tad faster (Celeron 800 or P3-
667) and see how he gets on with that.

Rob


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