Re: "card" selection in X for HP Kayak XC

[stephen.p.ryan@dartmouth.edu]

On 17 Dec, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Is SuperProbe installed?  Can you use that?  SuperProbe is supposed to
identify the chipset for you.  It's in xbase.

HTH,
-- 
Stephen Ryan                   Debian GNU/Linux
Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College