Installation problems
Hi,
I'm having a couple of problems installing Linux on my machine. The problems are revolving around two pieces of hardware, my ethernet card and my video card.
My ethernet card is a 3com 3c905TX card. During the boot messages, the card appears to be correctly detected, however I don't seem to be able to communicate with any other machines. Every so often, I also get the following messages on my screen:
eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status ff status fff.
eth0: Transmitter encountered 16 collisions -- network cable problem?
eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another device?
eth0: Host error, FIFO dagnostic register ffff.
(That line repeats a bunch of times)
eth0: Too much work in interrupt, status ffff. Temporarily disabling functions (7800)
The card works fine under Win98. Any suggestions?
My video card is a Real 3D StarFighter AGP card with 8M of RAM. There doesn't seem to be any support for this card and when I try to use the SVGA server, it detects the amount of RAM wrong. It thinks I have 64k instead of 8M and therefore don't have enough memory to start the server. At best I can run X Windows with 320x200 resolution, which is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Is there an X server out there that works with this card?
I was so looking forward to installing Linux. It kind of sucks that I've hit these road blocks.
Thanks,
Rich
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