2010-Acorn Beta-1 on Dell C600/500

[PaulH]

Just needs cheat code "noscsi" and choose LiveCD to boot.

However, video card selected is Rage 64 instead of Rage 128.

This is what I did to solve the problem.

Login as root, type "XFdrake" and choose Rage 128 video card.  For some reason you must "Test" otherwise in my case the selection is dropped.  You will see bands of colours on your screen along with a text box, click "Yes".  Then type "startx" and you will be fine.

Paul H

[gettinther]

Can you run

Quote:lspci -v

so I can pick up your card info and check lsdetect against ?

Thanks.

[PaulH]

Could not cut and paste so here it is:

Kernel modules: 3c59x

01:00.0  VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x
(rev 02)  (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
             Subsystem: Dell Latitude C600
             Flags: bus master, stepping, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
             Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
             I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
             Memory at fdffc000 (32 bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
              [virtual] Epansion ROM at fd000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
              Capabilities: [50] AGP version 2.0
              Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2
              Kernel modules: aty128fb

I left out the communication info.

Paul H


I  had to use XTerm  as Root Terminal would not work. 

[gettinther]

Thank you, I'll look into it.  Merry Christmas.