driver of poliview pt725a

[sara fink]

It's not mine. A friend of mine bought it few years ago, and she had
windows. now windows died and I convinced her to put linux.

the card doesn't have 3d support. I checked a week ago lspci and I choose
accordingly from the mandriva setup menu. The problem is that in the
mandriva menu it was only with 3d support. I believe it was something like
U3 (have to check again the name). With other distribution you expect
troubles? I tend to install her slax.

I saw an old post in gentoo bugzila that it says vesa. the bug was resolved.


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Oron Peled <oron at actcom.co.il> wrote:

>  On Tuesday, 2 בMarch 2010 15:51:02 sara fink wrote:
> > I tried to install mandriva on a pc and tackled a problem with the video
> > driver of the screen poliview pt725a . When I get to the login screen it
> > asks user & password and then I get a screen that it doesn't support 3d
> > desktop effects. I tried various drivers during the installation but
> > couldn't find an appropiate one. Anyone has experience with this monitor?
> > Which driver should be used?
>
> 1. I googled for this model and it looks like an LCD screen with normal VGA
>   adapter. In this case, there's no special driver for the screen. You
> should
>   check the VGA chipset (the output of lspci), and see if this chipset
>   has a driver with 3D support.
>
> 2. My first (seemingly wrong) suspition, was that it's one of the new
> fangled
>   screens that have *only* digital connector -- NEVER BUY THESE!
>
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