"gmcaplan---" == gmcaplan--- via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
gmcaplan---> Below is a question that I posted on Ask Ubuntu 8 days ago. gmcaplan---> I have received no replies, so I am now asking whether any of you might gmcaplan---> be able to help. Can I tell you to just go and buy a cheap PCIe graphics card made in the last 10 years? *grin* gmcaplan---> BTW, in addition to the Diamond Stealth card, I also have a PCI Mach64 gmcaplan---> VGA card made by ATI and a PCI VGA card made by STB Systems. The STB one gmcaplan---> has a big chip made by S3 and a PROM (I think) labeled "NITRO 3D/GX EDO gmcaplan---> 1.0". Those have essentially the same problem. All those cards are really stupid old, and the support has probably been dropped. Have you done a 'lspci -v' and then a the output of 'dmesg' after a clean reboot? gmcaplan---> I have added to my system a very old Diamond Stealth PCI gmcaplan---> VGA video card. That card can talk to the BIOS and gmcaplan---> display correctly on a VGA monitor (provided that I tell gmcaplan---> the BIOS that my primary graphics card is PCI-E not PCI), gmcaplan---> but it does not work in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I think I need gmcaplan---> a generic VGA driver. Here is some info from lshw: gmcaplan---> *-display UNCLAIMED description: VGA compatible controller gmcaplan---> product: 2000PV [Stingray] gmcaplan---> vendor: ARK Logic Inc gmcaplan---> physical id: 5 gmcaplan---> bus info: pci@0000:03:05.0 gmcaplan---> version: 00 gmcaplan---> width: 32 bits gmcaplan---> clock: 33MHz gmcaplan---> capabilities: vga_controller gmcaplan---> configuration: latency=0 gmcaplan---> resources: memory:fdc00000-fdffffff memory:febf0000-febfffff gmcaplan---> Also, here is what happens when I try to install fglrx: gmcaplan---> sudo apt-get install fglrx gmcaplan---> Reading package lists... Done gmcaplan---> Building dependency tree gmcaplan---> Reading state information... Done gmcaplan---> E: Unable to locate package fglrx gmcaplan---> I'd appreciate any help or suggestions. For fglrx, you might need to enable more repositories, especially for old hardware like this. Can you please post the 'lspci' output, and your dmesg output as well. gmcaplan---> (P.S. I think I have to set the BIOS to PCI-E because when I sent it to gmcaplan---> PCI it finds the built-in video port on my AMD CPU.) The next thing I would do is try to boot from an older liveCD and see if it can work with that display as well. But honestly, just get a new(er) card that is made in the past 10 years. :-) John