Re: IMS Twin Turbo 128 video card problems


Subject: Re: IMS Twin Turbo 128 video card problems
From: Rich Dolinsky (r.e.dolinsky@verizon.net)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 11:34:48 MST


Did you have a monitor on the onboard video card, cause i cant install os x
without one, and i dont have one to try it out with

on 1/29/02 1:30 PM, Chris Ruprecht at chrup@earthlink.net wrote:

> Mat,
>
> Ok, wrong assumption :-( - as long as you are running one of the
> 2.2.x kernels. Since your running on an "old world" machine, this is
> not a big issue though. You can put kernel 2.4.9 or later into your
> 'Linux Kernels' folder in your System folder on your start drive.
> This should allow you to boot up in text mode and you should be able
> to install from here. I have not tried 2.1, but I had similar
> problems on a PowerMac 9600, I eventually gave up and installed MacOS
> X.
>
> Best regards,
> Chris
>
> At 11:39 -0500 01/29/2002, Matheau Casner wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am a YDL and Linux newbie. I am trying to install YDL 2.0 (Pomona) on a
>> Power Computing clone: Power Tower Pro 200Mhz (9500).
>>
>> It came with a Integrated Micro Solutions Twin Turbo 128 video card with 8Mb
>> RAM. YDL 2.0 seems to get hung up with the video driver upon starting X. The
>> Twin Turbo video card choice was available to me in the install screen so I
>> assumed it would work. Has anyone else had difficulty getting X to run on
>> this card? Would YDL 2.1 be a good upgrade for this.
>>
>> Thanks for your thoughts...
>> Mat Casner
>> mcasner@redlogic.com
>



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