Blurry Video when Installing
Hi,
I'm very excited to replace my Mandrake linux installation with Debian 3.0. I
bought a full 7 CD set and just tried to install the system "fresh". Problem
is, almost immediately after entering a boot loader option at the boot
prompt, the text of my display gets completely broken up and unreadable. It
looks like somebody swiped a knife horizontally several times through each
line of pixels, shifting some, wiping out others. Text characters are no
longer discernable. So when Debian opens the text-based menu system I can't
even read the text that, I suppose, is asking me to "Choose a Language". This
never happened under SuSE or Mandrake (the other two intalls I have
previously tried). Bootloader options I have previously been forced to use to
successfully install linux from CD were mem=nopentium and ide=nodma, but
neither helped with Debian.
I've tried looking at the LILO boot options HOWTO to find something suitable
that might be responsible, but I didn't see anything helpful. I also checked
over my BIOS settings as recommended in the online Install documentation.
Based on that, I turned off RAM Shadowing, but otherwise don't know what to
do. I must admit that I still don't understand half of the BIOS settings even
after looking over the scant documentation that shipped with my motherboard
and also online.
If you have insights, I'd sincerely appreciate it.
FYI: My system is kit-built from the following parts....
* Soyo K7ADA motherboard (on-board sound)
* AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz CPU
* 256 MB DDR SDRAM
* nVidia GeForce 3 64 MB AGP 4x video card
* Maxtor 40GB IDE hard drive
* LG CD-RW drive
Thanks in advance for your help.
--Damon Butler
number6@chorus.net
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