Hello All,
I was looking forward towards installing a debian based distro for my client who uses Mandrake 10.1 on a Celeron 2 Ghz. and Intel 845 glva mobo and Intel ethernet card. However to my surprise, neither Ubuntu 5.10 live nor kubuntu 6.06 live+install gave a screen resolution of more than 640 x 480 in spite of the xorg.conf having entries for 1024 x 768 and 800 x 600.
So I installed Mandriva 2006 on his system and it worked out of the box with no driver or extra installation needed. Even the HP 690 printer was auto detected and configured during installation itself.
Those who intend to install this distro need to keep one thing in mind that after the install configuration is done, it will show up as a list containing all the hardware like mouse, printer, video, sound, network etc before it actually does the installation. This is not just a list, it is a configurable list where the devices can be configured manually and it will be needed if you want to make changes just before install. For eg. Ethernet from dhcp to static, boot loader from lilo :P to grub, video system resolution and such tweaks. After installation, It has a very good package manager that can search for repository mirrors and lets you add from a big list of servers in different regions. It keeps the existing cd packages list too.
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On Saturday 04 November 2006 19:34, Rony wrote:
Hello All,
I was looking forward towards installing a debian based distro for my client who uses Mandrake 10.1 on a Celeron 2 Ghz. and Intel 845 glva mobo and Intel ethernet card. However to my surprise, neither Ubuntu 5.10 live nor kubuntu 6.06 live+install gave a screen resolution of more than 640 x 480 in spite of the xorg.conf having entries for 1024 x 768 and 800 x 600.
Sarge works out of the box. So Ubuntu etc should. What is the order of the resolution in the config file. 1024x768 should be the first followed by the fall backs. Also your sync params might be wrong.
jtd wrote:
On Saturday 04 November 2006 19:34, Rony wrote:
Hello All,
I was looking forward towards installing a debian based distro for my client who uses Mandrake 10.1 on a Celeron 2 Ghz. and Intel 845 glva mobo and Intel ethernet card. However to my surprise, neither Ubuntu 5.10 live nor kubuntu 6.06 live+install gave a screen resolution of more than 640 x 480 in spite of the xorg.conf having entries for 1024 x 768 and 800 x 600.
Sarge works out of the box. So Ubuntu etc should. What is the order of the resolution in the config file. 1024x768 should be the first followed by the fall backs. Also your sync params might be wrong.
The order was correct and pre-loaded. What are the sync params? I have noticed this problem even in Mercury 845 boards. However Mandriva did not pose any problems.
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On 04-Nov-06, at 8:08 PM, jtd wrote:
Sarge works out of the box. So Ubuntu etc should. What is the order of the resolution in the config file. 1024x768 should be the first followed by the fall backs. Also your sync params might be wrong.
it has some weird 13xx resolution that fails and the higher ones dont load - delete that line and you are fine
hi rony. I insidentally happen happened to install ubuntu 6.06 on a machine with exactly same configuration. the mobo was a giga byte 845. I did not find any problem and believe that debian should work as well. infact ubuntu went so smoothly that the gentelman has not used any thing ever since I installed it. he is in Neral and I had told you this when I was at your place for going to the bof meeting. if there are some other specifications you need about the config, do let me know. Krishnakant.
krishnakant Mane wrote:
hi rony. I insidentally happen happened to install ubuntu 6.06 on a machine with exactly same configuration. the mobo was a giga byte 845. I did not find any problem and believe that debian should work as well. infact ubuntu went so smoothly that the gentelman has not used any thing ever since I installed it. he is in Neral and I had told you this when I was at your place for going to the bof meeting. if there are some other specifications you need about the config, do let me know.
Hi Krish, its not the same for all 845 chipsets and mobos. I feel that even within 845, there are different grades and maybe the GL chipset is low grade and not properly recognised by some linux distros. That client has an Intel original 845 GLVA. My own system has 845 GEBV2 and its the most compatible one with various distros.
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On Sunday 05 November 2006 10:36, Rony wrote:
krishnakant Mane wrote:
hi rony. I insidentally happen happened to install ubuntu 6.06 on a machine with exactly same configuration.
Hi Krish, its not the same for all 845 chipsets and mobos. I feel that even within 845, there are different grades and maybe the GL chipset is low grade and not properly recognised by some linux
if the chipset is the same, it has to work. Some chips have a different id and irq setting.
jtd wrote:
On Sunday 05 November 2006 10:36, Rony wrote:
krishnakant Mane wrote:
hi rony. I insidentally happen happened to install ubuntu 6.06 on a machine with exactly same configuration.
Hi Krish, its not the same for all 845 chipsets and mobos. I feel that even within 845, there are different grades and maybe the GL chipset is low grade and not properly recognised by some linux
if the chipset is the same, it has to work. Some chips have a different id and irq setting.
I recollect now, I had installed Kubuntu 5.10 on an 845 GLVA but that board did not have on-board LAN whereas the problem board had one so the designs were different.
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