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ASRock P4VM890 Motherboard and Linux
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| spanky macfarlane 2007-06-11, 7:13 am |
| Hello all
Have just installed the above motherboard as
a replacement to a clapped out Gigabyte.
I am using all my old hardware ...except for
the AGP nVidia graphics card which is not
compatible with the new MB (no AGP slot)
I can only get the on board graphics card to
work using VESA driver ...which is OK except
for annoying flicker.
Onboard graphics chip on the new motherboard
is "VIA Unichrome Pro 3D/2D Graphics".
Have tried to install the VIA driver with
apt-get but get a broken packages message.
Any tips please on getting the onboard
graphics working or should I be looking at
buying a PCI graphics card.
My OS is Debian Sarge.
Desktop is an older Intel P4 1.7
Thanks in advance
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| AJackson 2007-06-11, 1:14 pm |
| On Jun 11, 9:11 am, spanky macfarlane <gcl...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> Hello all
> Onboard graphics chip on the new motherboard
> is "VIA Unichrome Pro 3D/2D Graphics".
>
> Have tried to install the VIA driver with
> apt-get but get a broken packages message.
Which say what?
> Any tips please on getting the onboard
> graphics working or should I be looking at
> buying a PCI graphics card.
>
> My OS is Debian Sarge.
> Desktop is an older Intel P4 1.7
Any reason not to upgrade to Etch? That might solve this problem.
Good luck
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| cmr.Pent@gmail.com 2007-06-13, 7:15 am |
| Hi!
Your graphics card is shit. I have VIA Unichrome on my laptop, and I
couldn't manage to get it working under Slackware.
You might really try upgrading to Etch. In my case (I now have Etch)
it did help, glxgears work in a pretty smooth fashion. But Google
Earth locks down the X after like minute or so everytime.
Just by a nice PCI card.
Andrey
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| spanky macfarlane 2007-06-17, 7:13 am |
| cmr.Pent@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Your graphics card is shit. I have VIA
> Unichrome on my laptop, and I couldn't
> manage to get it working under Slackware.
>
> You might really try upgrading to Etch. In
> my case (I now have Etch) it did help,
> glxgears work in a pretty smooth fashion.
> But Google Earth locks down the X after
> like minute or so everytime.
>
> Just by a nice PCI card.
>
> Andrey
Thanks for the comments.
I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on a spare partition
which has a later kernel to the one that I
am using but still had the same old flicker
problem and problems getting the VIA driver
to work. I read that Ubuntu was supposed to
work out of the box with VIA ...but no go.
Will soon be installing Etch ...
and have been looking around for a good PCI
card but as I am on a tight budget can
anyone suggest a cheapy that works OK.
Thanks
However
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| Anton Ertl 2007-06-17, 7:13 am |
| spanky macfarlane <gclegg@ozemail.com.au> writes:
>Will soon be installing Etch ...
>and have been looking around for a good PCI
>card but as I am on a tight budget can
>anyone suggest a cheapy that works OK.
We have good experiences with the Sapphire Radeon 7000. I expect that
a Radeon 9250 would also work fine. If the X-Server does not work
with 'driver "ati"', replace that with 'driver "radeon"' (the "ati"
driver should recognize that automatically, but in some cases it does
not).
- anton
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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen
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