A week ago I started on what I thought was going to be a simple install
of Kubuntu on an older but hardly ancient (I Thought) HP Pavilion A305W
"debranded" computer. The unit had been my wife's computer and she had
moved to a Eurocom laptop, which as eurocom promised had installed
Kubuntu 8.10 with hardly a flicker. (ok there were a couple of minor
glitches but they were more my having to take a big version leap from
Suse 10)
I swapped in a new harddrive to replece the existing one on the HP, and
started to try the install on the HP.
The install want without a complaint until the reboot, when the system
hung as the icons were coming into focus on the KDE 4 splash screen.
the demo mode from the cd (which I tried second as I knew I wanteed to
install) would only start up in "safe graphics mode". I ran the install
from there and my video got installed as VESA, 800*600.
Looking at the display setings applet, it shows I have AUTO 800*600 and
the hardware settings that the KDE help pages says should be there is
no-where to be found. I belive the system has integrated Intel video
but I could not get any of the utilities that I have found so far to
confirm that.
The System uses only PCI connectors and so I dug out my PCI cards from
an old system. I had two ATI Mach64 cards and an S3 card. the ATI
cards would not start even in demo mode. the S3 card seemed to start up
when I was trying it with an old 15 inch monitor in my workshop, but
whne I connected it to my Dell P1230 21 inch CRT in my office it said
that I could not find a valid mode.
it seems to run fine on the VESA mode, but I am used ot 1280*1024.
800*600 does not even show some of the system dialogs which run off the
screen at the bottom.
The only documnetaion I found said something like run xfix. that ran
and said all was well.
IS there a way to ask Kubuntu to rerun the config on the PCI cards? is
there a utility that should what is happening with he hardware settings
in kubuntu?
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Charles MacDonald Stittsville Ontario
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