Maybe most but certainly not all. Just put a new mobo,with onboard Nvidia graphics,on my old AMD dual-core box about a month ago and Vesa mostly just refuses to start X or if it starts X it'll freeze the computer solid before I can get a Nvidia driver installed.bigpup wrote:I was under the impression that the Vesa video driver would work with any video card. So far that has held true for me.Stripe wrote:hi all
cant get my laptop to boot slacko, I get as far as testing the driver clicking on ok and the machine freezes with a black screen, have tried probe as well as vesa (which works in the lucid pups) but still get the same problem.
how would I find which graphics the machine is using so that I could try and get the right driver
cheers
stripe
It uses the basic video capability built into the video card.
The most common problem with Vesa driver is trying to use a resolution setting that the driver can not handle.
It only works with basic resolution settings.
640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, etc....
Works fine with the "nouveau" driver ootb so I've been running FatDog.