VGA mode not supported

[David McGlone]

On Saturday 22 November 2008 9:08:05 am Art Alexion wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:02 AM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > 2008/11/22 Art Alexion <art.alexion at gmail.com>:
> >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:15 PM, David McGlone <d.mcglone at att.net> wrote:
> >>> I managed to get a half working X. Enough to enable the restricted
> >>> driver for my graphics card.
> >>
> >> Has anyone figured out a way to get the restricted modules working
> >> from, say, aptitude on tty3 so that I don't need to struggle "to get X
> >> working enough to enable the restricted driver"?
> >
> > If you know the name of the package it's just to do as normal; apt-get
> > install packagename
> > else you can use apt-cache search or the search function in aptitude
> > to search for your driver.
>
> So as far as you know, I wouldn't have to edit sources.list to enable
> some restricted repository?

That's the problem. With the desktop install, it doesn't present the option to 
enable a way to set up an Internet connection through a network or such and 
thus will not get the repositories where these drivers lurk. Using the 
alternate CD if does give you the option to specify the IP and Gateway. 

On this particular install, I was lucky that the restricted drivers repository 
was enabled.

-- 
David M.