Linux & Asus AGP-V7100

[Guest]

Hi y'all,

I tried to install Red Hat Linux 7 on a self-assembled PC with the Athlon Tbird 950MHz, Asus A7V Pro Mobo, 128MB RAM, and the Asus AGP-V7100 GeForce2 MMX 32MB videocard.

RH doesn't allow me to use graphical install (fatal server error: no screens found) and dumps me at the text install.

I managed to install RH, but am unable to configure X Windows, even manually. Probing returns an error message.

What to do?
Change the video card? Which one would you suggest?
Change the Linux distro? Which one would work?

Is there a work-around?

TIA.

 

[Pettytheft]

The easiest thing to do would be to use a newer version, Redhat 7.1, Mandrake 8.0 or Suse 7.2, they have full support for the hardware you listed.



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[Guest]

Hi, can you execute 'startx -- -verbose 5 -logverbose 5' and post the results of /var/log/XFree86.log.0 here?

And here is a good HOWTO:

<A HREF="http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/nvidia/mandrake7x/" target="_new">http://www.evil3d.net/articles/linux/howto/nvidia/mandrake7x/</A>



<A HREF="mailto:jostber@frisurf.no">jostber@frisurf.no</A>

 

[Guest]

Thanks Jostein,

I went to the link you provided, but to the Red Hat thread, not Mandrake and followed the instructions to the letter. I write these words of thanks to you running Red Hat Linux 7.0 with the GNOME desktop, connected to the Internet.

Once again, thanks! I can now start the transition from Windows to Linux in earnest.

Michel.