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MSI 1029/Redhat HELP!!

post #1 of 5
10/28/05 at 11:52pm
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Hello,

I installed RH ES v. 4 on my new MSI 1029 laptop. The machine was running horribly slow with low resolution from the VESA video driver. I installed the driver from ATI (X700) and things improved. However, the computer's performance is bad.

Hardware issues seem to go beyond the video card. I get error messages about the sound card crashing. I know that some laptop MOBOs have issues with 1GB ram machines, so I set my mem=1008M at boot, still doesn't help.

Has anyone gotten things working on this system?

Thanks,
Mike
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post #2 of 5
10/29/05 at 3:07am
why do you sue red hat. Use a more well known distro and with beterr hw support. Ubuntu, suse10, vector linux.
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post #3 of 5
10/29/05 at 1:41pm
I am using Red Hat Fedora Core 4. It's pretty good. I have a Dell XPS Gen 4 Desktop and an XPS Gen 1 laptop. I had a lot of problems with Fedora Core 2 even booting. Core 4 is much improved finding and including peripherals and their appropriate drivers. Also look at the output from dmesg it might give you better clues on how to solve the problem.

Tattooz
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post #4 of 5
10/29/05 at 4:11pm
I haven't looked at the compat list but does Ent. Server even support common laptop stuff? If you want RH I'd try FC.
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post #5 of 5
10/29/05 at 5:25pm
go use another distro. Highly recommend ubuntu and onebase
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