No GUI in Mandrake 7.2 installation

[Glenn Williams]

On Saturday 30 March 2002 03:28 pm, you wrote:
> Maybe your hardware is a little too new for the distro and the x
> server for the video may not be available in the 2.2 .14 (if memory
> serves right) kernel. One solution might to contact pcsurplus.com.
> They had a sale on S3 Virge Trio 4mb video cards last week for $3.95.
> The S3 Trio 4mb is a close to as close to a John Q Public video card
> you'll find and will run on just about everything including a match
> book cover with a picture of a penguin drawn on it.
>
> Glenn Williams wrote:
> > Hello, group:
> >
> > After my third attempt to install Mandrake 7.2 on my Pentium III
> > 1Gig, 1000M Intel machine, I still cannot satisfy the install
> > script that I have a viable monitor (Mag View / Pro View VM 700E)
> > and and video adapter card (Rage 128 GL 4X AGP 4X w/ 32M video
> > memory).


Hi, Lee:

Thanks for the suggestion - I think it's a good one.  I checked and saw 
nothing on their current list that's close to the S3 Virge Trio 4M card 
you mentioned.  I will check around locally though, to see what's 
available.

Regards,

Glenn

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