dapper on a slow pc

[Balvinder Kataora]

On 24/07/06, Dimitri Mallis <dimitri.mallis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi
>
> i am trying to install dapper on a P3, 500mhz, 128mb, 8gig hdd, sis
> 8mb graphics, sound blaster (old card), bt*** tv card (it is
> supported, i checked)
>
> i put the shipit cd in & it starts a normal install. then when it
> starts launching gnome, it takes for ever. eventually the screen
> blanks (as i guess it tries to load a screen saver). there are no
> icons on the screen at this point, not even the top & bottom panel
>
> there didnt seam to be a text based install in the boot menu. how can
> i get around this so i can install. i dont need to go into the live cd
> version. i just want to do a straight install
>
> thanks
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i had a similar problem only with the ppc version. the trick is to manually
edit the xserver conf file and remove the line that says

load 'dri'

simply do sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

scoll down remove that line and restart the server by doing sudo xserver
restart

see how taht goes

someone could check the path to xorg is correct, it was some time ago and im
on a win machine at the moment so i can't check  it

hope this helps
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