"card" selection in X for HP Kayak XC

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

I installed debian on a professor's  machine yesterday, but have hit a 
barrier:  we don't know what the video "card" that it uses is.  Unix/
linux tech support in our department is non-existent (which is why he 
asked me for help).  It can't even tell us what card type to use in 
configuration.  The best he could come up with is that "matrox" usually 
works.  However, we've hung the machine (not just X) three times this 
way.

Does anyone know what setting to use?

rick

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