topic rh7.2 and ze1210 in Operating System - Linux

rh7.2 and ze1210

Andrzej Ciereszko — Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:43:10 GMT

I have a problem with getting my graphic card to work while installing the system... System says it cant probe the card or the display... And it won't test out on anything that I could think of during the installation... I can't start out the installation in the graphic mode eihter obviously... HELP!!!! what am i doing wrong???

Re: rh7.2 and ze1210

Duarte Santos — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:57:20 GMT

The Xfree version in RH 7.2 is a bit old, you might consider installing Red Hat 8.0 or Mandrake 9.0.

Re: rh7.2 and ze1210

Luke M. Elliot — Fri, 20 Dec 2002 02:51:17 GMT

I had little to no problem with Mandrake 9.0 (beta 3). I started with Redhat 8 tonight...and haven't managed to get it working yet. I will let you know if I figure it out.

Re: rh7.2 and ze1210

Luke M. Elliot — Fri, 20 Dec 2002 03:19:38 GMT

Ok I have a solution for Redhat 8.0 found this site:

http://www.geocities.com/scooteradventure/

which guided me towards setting the video card to S3 Savage4 (Which is the card in the laptop).

The problem with that is the monitor has the wrong settings so your mouse becomes unaligned. So I had to poke around and found that setting the monitor to:
HP D2810 1024 14-inch Display

works well. So I would say try changing the monitor first, otherwise you may have to play find the mouse cursor like I did.