Mandrake 10.2 video on Toshiba M55 laptop help
Black Sun and said: Er... what? This is brain-damaged. ? Writing papers only requires OpenOffice or LaTeX, and specialized crap like CAD programs should be...
I have been trying for some time now to get linux on my Toshiba M55 laptop. I have tried nearly all of the mainstream distros with no success. I have, however, gotten closest with Mandrake 10.2, and since Mandrake is also my favorite distro I have focused my attention to solving this last problem -- the video (x windows).
This laptop has an onboard video "card", the Intel 915GM. With some of the other distros where I could get video working, both the Xorg i810 driver and the general VESA one were succussfully utilized. In the case of Mandrake neither these nor the Intel i810 or i915 work properly. In most cases the modules simply fail to load. With the case of the general VESA driver, it loads, but gives totally garbled video.
Hello Before I say anything else, I would like to state that connecting to the external projector and then booting up from scratch *does* lead to a...
While I am pretty computer literate, and somewhat knowledgable with linux, my knowledge of video hardware and how Xorg handles it all is not sufficient to solve this problem. I am not even sure what more information I should post here to help others help me. But I sure would appreciate being shoved in the right direction. I have installed linux successfully on about 10 or so systems, but this is my first laptop and it is proving to be far more difficult than my other efforts. TIA for any help.
JB