[wellylug] Debian on HP Compaw d530

Cameron Hart sexy at cam.rebel.net.nz
Fri Jan 30 14:12:08 NZDT 2004


On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 13:57, JP wrote:
>  --- Jamie Dobbs <jamie.dobbs at orcon.net.nz> wrote: > I
> am trying to get Debian 3.0r2 to work on a HP
>
> > Compaq d530 PC and having
> > some issues.
> > The machine has on on-board Broadcom LAN card which
> > Debian does not appear
> > to have drivers for, but I have got around this by
> > installing another LAN
> > card that Debian does support.
> > The machine has an on-board 'Intel Extreme Graphics
> > 2' videocard which try
> > as I might I cannot get to work, even with a fairly
> > vanilla X config, and
> > X -configure just crahes - anyone have any hints?
>
> Jamie
>
> Perhaps you could try Knoppix?
>
> If it works, you can cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and
> find the settings you need.
>
> Knoppix is invaluable for Debian hardware
> configuration, since it is Debian-based itself.
>
> And it won't touch your existing setup at all.  So if
> Knoppix doesn't work, you're no worse off.
>
> Just out of interest, what happens when you do an
> lspci?
>
> Cheers
> TB
>
> [Posting using new address to avoid using work one].
>
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I was in the middle of a debian install and trying to figure out what hardware 
I had, but lspci did not work, because it had not been installed yet. If you 
find yourself in a similar situation, try

cat /proc/pci

-- 
Cameron




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