video card

[Art Baur]

Thank you Neil the computer is a Dell Inspiron year 2000 Bios 08 and to why 
it took 4 days. I keep tiring to install in VGA install and keep getting the 
Vesa fault. Brought the pixel count down and installed. Had rom for drivers 
and installed at same time. The Compaq I don't have the drivers and am 
tiring to round them up before I do the change over. The Compaq is 2005. I 
plan on weighting for the LTS release on 4.24.008 before I change over.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil" <hok.krat at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions" 
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Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:53 AM
Subject: Re: video card


> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Art Baur <chivo at myclearwave.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> My desk top has a Nvidia Vanta/ Vanta card and I want to switch it over 
>> to
>> something better and Ubuntu friendly(still running XP). I want a better
>> image and something were I don't have to bash my brains out to install. 
>> My
>> lap top took me 4 day to resolve. Okay I'm sloooooow. Last question I'm 
>> also
>> installing a new 300 gig Harddrive will ubuntu recognize all the gig? 
>> Comp
>> is a Compaq and for my motherboard have no idea. Pentium 3 at 1600. All
>> ideas welcome.
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>
> All but maybe the newest Nvidea or Radeon cards are supported. Nvidea
> and Radeon offer proprietary drivers on their sites (download section,
> choose card, choose Linux I believe), but you shouldn't need them.
>
> Did you try to install Ubuntu on the laptop (I'll assume that)?
> What took so long?
> - The graphics card (symptoms: only low resolutions allowed or
> crashing at the first signs of something else as the text)?
> - The lack of cdrom drive (some old laptops have that problem)?
> - To little memory (the normal installer seems to demand 300 megs)?
>
> What kind of laptop is it? What is in it (CPU, graphics card, 
> motherboard ) ?
> Answers to these questions would help in defining where the problems
> of your laptop install is, and therefore whether you might encounter
> them on the upgrading of your desktop PC.
>
> The hard drive question: The hard drive will be recognised. It will be
> possible to use the full 300 GB.
>
> However: it may not be possible to boot from it.
> I do not know your motherboard, and I do know there were some
> motherboards with biosses that could only adres 128 GiB. I do not know
> exactly when this was (might be way before the 1600 MHz PIII) and I do
> not know if this really matters, but it is worth noting.
>
> If you are only planning to add the drive and not use it as boot
> device there will be no problem.
> <extra info>
> Windoze uses the information provided by the bios to determine what
> the specs of the harddisks, and will not be able to see the extra
> space if the bios doesn't see it. Linux checks the harddisks by itself
> and will see the space if the bios doesn't. This has an disadvantage:
> the startup time is a bit bigger, because Linux has to perform an
> extra check
> However, Linux is build to be eternal (close to it) so you do not have
> to reboot often. It also has an advantage, because Linux can detect
> drives whether the Bios detects them or not. This is especially
> usefull in old servers with large harddisks.
> </extra info>
>
> Neil
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