fahd Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 Hi folks! We bought i945gnt chipset motherboards, and I tried to install mandy 2007 on it. MCC recognizes the video controller as i945, but it still does not work, namely the system hangs. Please tell me how to solve this issue? Thanks a lot. Fahd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 4, 2006 Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 Got any error messages from when it hangs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahd Posted December 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2006 Got any error messages from when it hangs? No. Simply the monitor goes black and the system hangs. If I try to connect to any term(Ctrl+Alt+F1..F6), nothing happens. I have read that, intel has issued a driver for i945gnt for Mandriva Linux 2007. I downloaded it (an ISO file) and began installing it. Unfortunately it notified that X-Srerver does not run (that is why I downloaded it). I also quested after this issue in mandriva homepage. It was a big astonishing: Mandriva affirm that the actual Kernel of mandy 2007 (2.6.17-5) supports these intel motherboards (i945g..). I doubt this. Any way I say: This is the Linux world, in which You should be careful of spending your money. In other words you buy a car and learn how to redesign it in order to be usable and take your family for a picnic. Should your family wait for you 1, 2 or even a lot of years to complete the car-redesign? Staggerer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 5, 2006 Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 I suppose you could always pass the vesa parameter for install, so that you use a generic driver, might help. Remember, the kernel on the install CD's is different from the one installed on your machine, which is why sometimes there's problems with getting the installer working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahd Posted December 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 Again the Mandriva2007. When i set mcc to login in kde (runlevel 5) the monitor begins flickering. But when i set the system to run in level 3, and then run the script startxit runs well and i can login in kde without any previously mentioned issue. It seems it is the TIME to give a try to another linux distro. It does not worth to spend 3 days in installation mandy 2007 on modern motherboards. Thanks again. Fahd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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