[KLUG Members] Problems installing Fedora Core 4 (Red Hat Linux)

[Michael Lueck]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 10:59:46 -0700 (PDT), Don R. Budd wrote:

>Intel Desktop Board D915PBL,

Hi Don,

Nice choice of board. Make sure you run the latest BIOS... can be a monkey
puzzle to make their BIOS diskette though! ;-)

Happen to disable the onboard sounds to use the plugin card? That might help.

Graphics and Linux usually does not equal nVidia chips though. ATI plays with
alternate OS developers far better than nVidia does... and on Windows nVidia
has the better (and even unified) driver... so hard to get a cross platform
graphics chip these days!

Unless you are tied to that distro, you might fetch the latest Ubuntu CD and
try that. They did a good job integrating X.org from what I hear and work w/o
issue with many laptops that cause issues with other distros. You might find it
works better with the nVidia board.

Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/