[ale] Need help with Installation

[skurzak at hotmail.com (Tomek Skurzak)]

> 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

Do you know any other version of linux (excluding Suse and Yoper) that would
run with S3 Trio64V2 video controller?