Re: [SLUG] Intel L440GX+ and Linux

From: Mario Lombardo (mario@alienscience.com)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 23:33:18 EDT


You can buy low-profile risers for PCI and the like. Usually rackmount
companies have them. At least that skirts around the problem by introducing
a different video card.

Here's a link of links:
http://www.linux-1u.net/Parts/
look for "riser" on the page.

/mario

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:58, you wrote:
> i have had no luck installing any OS with X on this motherboard.
>
> whenever any OS switches to graphical mode the system locks up within
> minutes.
>
> the L440GX+ has an integrated Cirrus Logic GD5480 graphics controller with
> only 2MB of VRAM.
>
> i have a 2U rack system w/o the riser card so i can't really add a video
> card without it.
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thanks,
> thor
>
>
>



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