[CLUE-Tech] Gateway 400SP notebook/ 2.5.72 kernel

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 12:06, Dan Harris wrote:
> I just got my shiny new Gateway 400SP ( 2.2GHZ Celeron, 512MB, 40gig).  
> It was too good of a deal to pass up.

Not so good if it doesn't work with the OS you wanted to use on it... 

> So, to troubleshoot, I thought I'd start with lspci.  lspci reports that 
> it's an Intel VGA Unknown device.  Google couldn't find me anything 
> about the chipset for my exact model.  I tried kernel 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 
> hoping that someone had included support for it.  No luck...

Er... The problem isn't with the kernel, it's with X. You need to find
out what card/chipset the laptop uses and then find out of there's an X
server to support that video chipset. 

Zonker
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