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    Linux Live CD's and MSI 1029?

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by Travo, Jul 18, 2006.

  1. Travo

    Travo Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've tried a few Linux Live CD's and all of them revert the ati x700 to a generic vga driver at 1027x768.

    Does anyone know of a distro that has widescreen support?

    Or is there a way to manualy add 1280x800 to one of the live cd iso's?

    Any info is greatly apreciated.

    Thanks in advance.
     
    Travo, Jul 18, 2006
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  2. LiquidSpikes

    LiquidSpikes Notebook Geek

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    I use Mepis Linux, It allows you to set whatever resolution want at boot, I think you press F5... it might be F2 anyways on the Grub boot screen it will tell you.

    PM me if you have any questions :)
     
    LiquidSpikes, Aug 2, 2006
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  3. Travo

    Travo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks Bro, I'm downloading it now.

    I recently decided to wipe my system clean and do a dual boot.

    Now I'm running XP Pro and Suse 10.1

    Suse is running better than I had thought, the only problems I'm haveing is getting 3D acceleration with the ATI card, and getting the right drivers for the wifi card.
     
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    LiquidSpikes Notebook Geek

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    hmmm.... what wireless card are you using?
    Mepis supports alot of them, my intel pro wireless 2200B/G works off the live CD...

    Mepis has 3d acceleration for the X700 all you have to do is enable Fglrx in the Mepis control panal.
     
    LiquidSpikes, Aug 3, 2006
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    stephen_1029 Newbie

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    Likely if its an Inprocom card you'll need ndiswrapper. WRT the GFX card binary drivers only required for 3d / Games etc, and perhaps a 1280 x 800 display.

    Xorg.log for this setting. Google modelin generator to get the appropriate modelines.

    I understood the Suse 10.1 setup was reasonably good.

    (II) fglrx(0): h_active: 1280 h_sync: 1301 h_sync_end 1333 h_blank_end 1408 h_border: 0
    (II) fglrx(0): v_active: 800 v_sync: 800 v_sync_end 800 v_blanking: 816 v_border: 0

    stephen
     
    stephen_1029, Aug 3, 2006
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