bad video mode booting from 7.10 cd

[Joao Ferreira gmail]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 12:35 +0200, A. Belli wrote:
> Don't know if this helps, but if it's your graphic-card have a look on:
> 
> http://projects.tuxx-home.at/?id=matrox_drivers
> 

ok. thanks. I'll check it out.

> If you know german this would be the perfect site:
> http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Matrox-Grafikkarten
> 
> Greetings.
> 
> P.S.: Have you tried XUbuntu? Or any other liux-distro?

Yes, I've used several distros on this computer over the years (Debian,
RedHat, Mandrake...) on all I always got 800x600....

but I'll try to go up.... :)

> 
> 
> 
> Joao Ferreira gmail schrieb:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > just to let you know I've just finished installing from the Alternate CD
> > and everything is fine.
> > 
> > I got 800x600 out of the box. :)
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > joao
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:38 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> >> On 04/08/2008 09:19 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> >>>>> It's a CRT, quite old. I never got more than 800x600 or 1027x768
> >>>> from
> >>>>> it.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> does this help ?
> >>>> Partially - I need the _model_ number.Look on your monitor and tell us
> >>>> what the model number is. That is the only way that I can find out the
> >>>> Horizontal and Vertical frequencies & specs of the monitor - unless of
> >>>> course you still have the manual for it :-).
> >>> SAMSUNG (not Samtron sorry), SyncMaster3
> >>>
> >>>> Also please provide the amount of RAM the system has.
> >>> the computer has 256Megs RAM; the Video card I believe it's 4Megs.
> >>>
> >>>> When you say booting from 7.10 CD; are you trying to boot using a
> >>>> LiveCD? If so, it most likely won't work on your system. You'll need to
> >>>> install from the Alternate CD.
> >>> Ok. So what is this "Alternate CD" people mention ?
> >>>
> >>> thanks
> >>> joao
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >> Use 7.10 or 8.04 (alternate CD's only).
> >>
> >> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
> >> Be sure to click the "Check here if you need the alternate desktop CD.
> >> This CD does not include the Live CD, instead it uses a text-based
> >> installer." Just below the Start Download button.
> >>
> >> Or:
> >> http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.10/
> >> Scroll down and download:
> >> ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso
> >>
> >> Hardy beta (which will be release in about 16 days) is here:
> >>
> >> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta
> >> [read the page/notes]
> >>   http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/
> >> [Alternate install CD]j
> >> Scroll down and download:
> >> ubuntu-8.04-beta-alternate-i386.iso
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
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