[ale] Need help with Installation

[cor.angela at mindspring.com (Cor van Dijk)]

Geoffrey wrote:

> Tomek Skurzak wrote:
>
>> i am new to Linux. I tried to install Yoper and Suse. In both cases I 
>> had problems with the video card. The bottom line is that I can not 
>> see anything on the screen after the linux boots up. Even when I try 
>> to adjust the screen visuals inside the monitor.
>>
>> Would you know any commands in the shell I could use to change the 
>> graphics? or any other suggestions?
>>
>> The box is IBM  PII 300MHz.
>
>
> Do you know what video card it has?  Switch to a virtual console 
> (ctrl-alt-F3 should work) and then check out /var/log/XFree86.0.log or 
> /var/log/Xorg.0.log depending on what version you're running.  If you 
> can't figure out what's going on there, post the contents of the log 
> file and we'll go from there.

I had the exact same card and tried to install Suse8.2 a while back. Did 
not work. Contacted Suse about this. Was told that they consider this an 
obsolete card and sorry, no help.
Good luck, Cor van Dijk