On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> hmm,
> Thanks for the suggestions. didn't seem to do the trick though. When I
> installed mandrake, i did select intel 845 (which i think is what i
> have). I tried vesa, and that didn't seem to help. Another thing that
> i didn't notice before. when I boot up, it gives me this error:
>
> PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collisions
>
> Could that be the video card?? (if you can't tell, i'm not much of a
> hardware guy).
Run `lspci`. There should be a description next to "00:1f.1". Is it
your video controller?
> any help would be appreciated. Also -- should I try another
> distribution? Say Red Hat?
As long as you're using a relatively new release, I don't think it
matters especially much. The only hard part might be finding
distro-specific help. *shrug*
Jima