From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> ...and display is the problem: I've got a three years old Dell Dimension
> desktop, with ATI Radeon X800 display adapter, and none of the three distros
> I tried would allow me to change the resolution to anything but 640*480,
> which is of course quite unusable. All started up ok, and all had the
> desktop configuration in a fairly easily found place, but the resolution
> drop-down didn't have any other choises to select.
>
> Knoppix at least recognized the adapter in the loading process, others I
> don't know if they did.
>
> So any tips as to how I could get drivers for that card? If downloading is
> needed, it has to be a simple web page because almost none of the dialogs I
> opened would fit into 640*480, so all the buttons would be pretty much
> invisible (out of screen) which makes life a bit difficult.
>
> And another question: I was almost about to install SUSE 10.1 on this
> system, but I backed out at the point where it was going to shrink the
> windows partition. I've got a single HD, with a single partition, and there
> is a lot of empty space (100+ gigs), but has anyone done that - is it safe?
> Does Windows (XP) have a problem with that? Or should I just buy a second
> disk and use that?
>
>

Speaking as a USB person....I tend to install to a USB disk & then
plugin different disks as required. It's a habit I picked up working at
secure sites where the machines had no internal hdd'es.

Adam

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