RandomGoon
10-25-2006, 04:27 PM
I've not been able to find the "easy" solution to my issue so I'm asking y'all for help. What I have is a customer's machine which he no longer wants Window$ installed upon. I therefore installed Etch for him but now have video issues. Here is what he gave me to work with:
Dell Optiplex GX60
Video detects as i845
Monitor is HP Pavilion f1503
I've managed to get Etch to install and have Gnome running with all the updates installed. I don't know where to go from here. Please advise me as to a course of action; I'll provide more information as requested if what I have given is insufficient.
'Goon
EDIT:
Figured it out by messing with the BIOS on the machine. It was set for only 1MB frame buffer; increased to 8MB and all's rosy with it now.
Dell Optiplex GX60
Video detects as i845
Monitor is HP Pavilion f1503
I've managed to get Etch to install and have Gnome running with all the updates installed. I don't know where to go from here. Please advise me as to a course of action; I'll provide more information as requested if what I have given is insufficient.
'Goon
EDIT:
Figured it out by messing with the BIOS on the machine. It was set for only 1MB frame buffer; increased to 8MB and all's rosy with it now.