bad video mode booting from 7.10 cd

[A. Belli]

Don't know if this helps, but if it's your graphic-card have a look on:

http://projects.tuxx-home.at/?id=matrox_drivers

If you know german this would be the perfect site:
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Matrox-Grafikkarten

Greetings.

P.S.: Have you tried XUbuntu? Or any other liux-distro?



Joao Ferreira gmail schrieb:
> Hi guys,
> 
> just to let you know I've just finished installing from the Alternate CD
> and everything is fine.
> 
> I got 800x600 out of the box. :)
> 
> thanks
> 
> joao
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 11:38 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> On 04/08/2008 09:19 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
>>>>> It's a CRT, quite old. I never got more than 800x600 or 1027x768
>>>> from
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> does this help ?
>>>> Partially - I need the _model_ number.Look on your monitor and tell us
>>>> what the model number is. That is the only way that I can find out the
>>>> Horizontal and Vertical frequencies & specs of the monitor - unless of
>>>> course you still have the manual for it :-).
>>> SAMSUNG (not Samtron sorry), SyncMaster3
>>>
>>>> Also please provide the amount of RAM the system has.
>>> the computer has 256Megs RAM; the Video card I believe it's 4Megs.
>>>
>>>> When you say booting from 7.10 CD; are you trying to boot using a
>>>> LiveCD? If so, it most likely won't work on your system. You'll need to
>>>> install from the Alternate CD.
>>> Ok. So what is this "Alternate CD" people mention ?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> joao
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>> Use 7.10 or 8.04 (alternate CD's only).
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
>> Be sure to click the "Check here if you need the alternate desktop CD.
>> This CD does not include the Live CD, instead it uses a text-based
>> installer." Just below the Start Download button.
>>
>> Or:
>> http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/7.10/
>> Scroll down and download:
>> ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso
>>
>> Hardy beta (which will be release in about 16 days) is here:
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta
>> [read the page/notes]
>>   http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/
>> [Alternate install CD]j
>> Scroll down and download:
>> ubuntu-8.04-beta-alternate-i386.iso
>>
>>
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