User Feedback :: DSL Video Card issue

First off, DSL is an excellent mini-distro!   I have used it at work on a couple of machines sucessfully, however, I cannot get it to boot properly on my home PC.

What happens at home is this:  I pop the CD in, hit reboot, the PC starts to boot from the CD, gets to the point of the first DSL screen, where I just hit the enter key for the default boot process.  Then its starts to decompress stuff, then the screen goes blank - and stays that way.  It appears to continue booting at this point, based on drive activity, but the screen stays blank.   On other machines where I have had sucessful bootups, the point where "tux" appears on the upper left corner of the screen is the same point where my screen goes blank on my home PC.   I am guessing that I am having a video card compatability issue.   My video card is a Nvidia Geforce 2 MX, with 16MB of RAM.

For what its worth, I have tried a total of 3 "mini-distros", and 2 of them won't work on my home PC.  The 2 that don't work are DSL and "Feather" Linux, and the one that does work is "Puppy" Linux.    By the way, DSL is my favorite, and that is why I am anxious to get it working properly at home.

Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks!  

Quote (ke4nt1 @ July 12 2004,10:54)

After the first DSL screen Press the F2 key, then try typing in the command "dsl vga=normal "

The command "dsl vga=normal" worked!!!  

I had looked that the screen that appears when you hit "F2" at boot, but didn't see that option.  Where did you find it?

What is the default vga mode, if I set it to "normal" by using this command?

BTW, I am currently  running DSL and am using it right now to surf the web!  

Thanks again!