Second Install not going so well
A little over a month ago I successfully used made an install CD and installed Sarge on an old Dell XPS200 (Pentium 2 @ 200 MHz and 4 gig drive) selecting all the default prompts that were presented to me. It was my first ever foray into the world of Linux. But as you can imaging it was painfully slow trying to do anything. Yesterday a friend gave me their old HP Pavilion 7855 (Pentium 3 @ 1 GHz and a 20 gig drive) So bolstered by my first success I thought I would try again and do a fresh install all over again and maybe have some decent performance.
Well there were a few differences in terms of what I was asked during the install. I'm guessing that the problem I'm having now has to do with the display drivers. Last time the install couldn't sense what the adapter was and asked me some questions about the physical size of my monitor. This time it presented a list of adapters and I selected the highlighted one. The display was sharp, in focus and perfect during the install and while it is booting the text is perfect, then at about the point that the login screen should appear the display goes, not black, but a grainy grey with fine reddish streaks.
The video adapter is built into the mother board and so I went to the HP web site to see if I could find out what it is and this is what I found;
Video
Graphics down (on motherboard) integrated in chipset. No AGP slot.
Attribute Properties
Video graphics PCI local bus
Controller Intel 810 E
Video memory 11 MB shared memory ;
integrated graphics;
not upgradable
Feature connector (game/joystick) Yes
Resolutions:
640 x 480 16/256/32 K/64 K/16.7 M colors
800 x 600 16/256/32 K/64 K colors
1024 x 768 16/256/32 K/64 K colors
1280 x 1024 256 colors
So any idea how I can fix this problem without having to wipe the drive and re-install (1.5 hours to download the 500 odd meg of files) and then guess again as to the proper diver?
Cheers,
Jan
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