Which graphics card I choose?

**bimaljr** · 2006-12-12 18:49:11

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Topic: Which graphics card I choose?

Hi,
I am new on this site and this software too...

My Hardware profile :
P4 3.06Ghz processor
Intel 102Ggc Motherbord
256MB DD RAM
80GB HDD

Now my problem...
Whenever I boot from CD, I get screen for choosing Graphics Card. I have choose 3 or 4 type of Card but not get the screen. The screen was flicker and bad display...

What do I do?

Please help me

**LarryT** · 2006-12-12 19:37:16

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

try vesa, and dont forget to click on "done" when the screen comes back, after choosing the vesa driver !!!

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**bimaljr** · 2006-12-15 05:32:12

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

Now, I cannnot see the Graphical boot screen and not the Graphics Card list box...
I just see the screen resolution(800x600, 1024x...) box and colour depth(16,32,...) box

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

And so, does it work or not ?
You just need good enough resolution to run GParted . This is not to play gaim

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**bimaljr** · 2006-12-15 10:43:13

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

I could see the graphical boot screen before I have tried it for 3 or 4 uses, but now it is not displaying the graphical boot image and I can see only the command prompt screen... I cannot see the dislplay card selection box, I just shifted to resolution screen and colour depth screen...

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

Did you try Xvesa server ?

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**bimaljr** · 2006-12-15 16:38:56

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

LarryT wrote:

Did you try Xvesa server ?

No.. I am very new to Linux too...

I am very familiar to Windows.

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

Okay, take it easy
Here we are : after the livecd boot off this screen appears waiting for you to chose any modules to load : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/li … /live2.jpg
chose the fifth line beginning with

Xvesa

Then, after this screen comes back, click the last line, which begins with

Done

And tell me if you now can see anything more, please.

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**bimaljr** · 2006-12-15 17:14:17

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

Thanks... It's works now
But, The default software started is just scanning scanning and scanning... not results found... what do I have to do?

**LarryT** · 2006-12-15 18:54:56

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

do you know the size of your partitions and the file system on them ?
FAT32 takes *very* long time to scan.

You could try to start a shell -the window with a $ on it, and then type the following:

fdisk -ul

and hit <enter>
Then copy the output and past it here.
To do this , please refer to the docs : http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/ti … etails.htm
It is not for an output, but it is *exactly* the same.

Hope you'll succeed

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**bimaljr** · 2006-12-16 05:51:52

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

I have two HDD
1st HDD : 80GB, 4 partitions with WindowsXP
1. 10 GB NTFS
2. 20 GB FAT32
3. 20 GB FAT32
4. 30 GB FAT32
2nd HDD : 10GB, 2 partitions with Fedora Core 6 with Default Installation
(I don't know more about partitons on this)

...

**LarryT** · 2006-12-16 09:48:39

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

Well, i know it mayt be difficult for you, but ... this is not what i need. I asked you the output of fidsk -ul ...

BTW, how long did you wait for after GParted laucnhed ?
Like i said above, scanning fat32 takes a looooooooot of time...

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**bimaljr** · 2006-12-16 11:09:02

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

OK... This is what I get from "fdisk -ul" command :

root@GParted:~# fdisk -ul

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80060424192 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders, total 156368016 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *          63    20498939    10249438+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2        20498940   156360644    67930852+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5        20499003    61464689    20482843+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6        61464753   102430439    20482843+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7       102430503   156360644    26965071    b  W95 FAT32

Disk /dev/hdb: 10.2 GB, 10205282304 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1240 cylinders, total 19932192 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *          63      208844      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hdb2          208845    19920599     9855877+  8e  Linux LVM
root@GParted:~#

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

exactly in this windwo, could you please run this :

gparted /dev/hda

and tell if it make any change ?
Just because LVM are not supported atm, so it could make a problem when scanning.
BTW; like i saifd, fat32 takes looooot of time to be scanned

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**bimaljr** · 2006-12-16 21:36:08

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

I had run "gparted /dev/hda"... but after a long scanning time, my system hangs and nothing works..

But I have also tried "gparted /dev/hdb" and works fast and perfectly, and the window is showing me my Linux HDD...

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

Plors may have an idea : he is back !

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**bimaljr** · 2006-12-17 05:44:12

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

Plors may have  an idea : he is back !

Have you contacted plor and asked my question??? If not please do so... Thanks

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I guess he will visit the forum asap

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**plors** · 2006-12-18 01:28:11

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

hi, sorry for the delay

bimaljr, could you type 'parted /dev/hda' and then give us the output of the 'print' command? I'm trying to determine wether this is a parted or a gparted issue.

As LarryT already stated, scanning fat32 can take a long time, but it should definitely not hang. There are some plans to improve this scanning performance, but it all depends on the amount of spare time i will have

**bimaljr** · 2006-12-18 16:51:10

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

parted is works perfectly... it gives me perfect and fast result. I have tried "parted /dev/hda" and "parted /dev/hdb" both works fine...

but the gparted is not working for "gparted /dev/hda"

**plors** · 2006-12-18 18:12:41

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

then i guess it has something to do with the scanning of the filesystems. Let's find out what's going wrong

The following commands are used to determine the used/unused space. Please execute them from a terminal to find out which one is causing the trouble.

ntfsresize --info --force /dev/hda1
dosfsck -a -v /dev/hda5
dosfsck -a -v /dev/hda6
dosfsck -a -v /dev/hda7

thnx

**bimaljr** · 2006-12-18 20:37:11

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

Hey, Thanks, The problem is solved :-)

My problem is in hda5 (a file with zero bites "SHIVA.NRG")
I delated that file from windows and restarted my pc and the Gparted works fine...
Is this a bug in Gparted?

Results ::::
When I do : ntfsresize --info --force /dev/hda1

root@GParted:~# ntfsresize --info --force /dev/hda1
ntfsresize v1.13.1 (libntfs 9:0:0)
Device name        : /dev/hda1
NTFS volume version: 3.1
Cluster size       : 4096 bytes
Current volume size: 10495422976 bytes (10496 MB)
Current device size: 10495425024 bytes (10496 MB)
Checking filesystem consistency ...
100.00 percent completed
Accounting clusters ...
Space in use       : 5054 MB (48.2%)
Collecting resizing constraints ...
You might resize at 5053620224 bytes or 5054 MB (freeing 5442 MB).
Please make a test run using both the -n and -s options before real resizing!
root@GParted:~#

when I do : dosfsck -a -v /dev/dha5

root@GParted:~# dosfsck -a -v /dev/hda5                                        
dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
Boot sector contents:
System ID "MSDOS5.0"
Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
       512 bytes per logical sector
     16384 bytes per cluster
        38 reserved sectors
First FAT starts at byte 19456 (sector 38)
         2 FATs, 32 bit entries
   5118464 bytes per FAT (= 9997 sectors)
Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size)
Data area starts at byte 10256384 (sector 20032)
   1279551 data clusters (20964163584 bytes)
63 sectors/track, 255 heads
        63 hidden sectors
  40965687 sectors total
/SHIVA.NRG
  File size is 0 bytes, cluster chain length is > 0 bytes.
  Truncating file to 0 bytes.

(And hangs up and nothing done for a long time)

when I do : dosfsck -a -v /dev/dha6

root@GParted:~# dosfsck -a -v /dev/hda6
dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
Boot sector contents:
System ID "MSDOS5.0"
Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
       512 bytes per logical sector
     16384 bytes per cluster
        38 reserved sectors
First FAT starts at byte 19456 (sector 38)
         2 FATs, 32 bit entries
   5118464 bytes per FAT (= 9997 sectors)
Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size)
Data area starts at byte 10256384 (sector 20032)
   1279551 data clusters (20964163584 bytes)
63 sectors/track, 255 heads
        63 hidden sectors
  40965687 sectors total
Reclaiming unconnected clusters.
Checking free cluster summary.
/dev/hda6: 12065 files, 179600/1279551 clusters
root@GParted:~#

when I do : dosfsck -a -v /dev/dha7

root@GParted:~# dosfsck -a -v /dev/hda7
dosfsck 2.11 (12 Mar 2005)
dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN
Checking we can access the last sector of the filesystem
Boot sector contents:
System ID "MSDOS5.0"
Media byte 0xf8 (hard disk)
       512 bytes per logical sector
     16384 bytes per cluster
        38 reserved sectors
First FAT starts at byte 19456 (sector 38)
         2 FATs, 32 bit entries
   6738432 bytes per FAT (= 13161 sectors)
Root directory start at cluster 2 (arbitrary size)
Data area starts at byte 13496320 (sector 26360)
   1684493 data clusters (27598733312 bytes)
63 sectors/track, 255 heads
        63 hidden sectors
  53930142 sectors total
Reclaiming unconnected clusters.
Checking free cluster summary.
/dev/hda7: 88407 files, 1113489/1684493 clusters
root@GParted:~#

Thanks for your support...

**plors** · 2006-12-18 22:13:03

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Re: Which graphics card I choose?

well, whatever the reason, gparted should not hang
I'll do some investigating later, in the meanwhile i'm happy your problem is solved.

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1 Topic by bimaljr 2006-12-12 18:49:11

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2 Reply by LarryT 2006-12-12 19:37:16

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3 Reply by bimaljr 2006-12-15 05:32:12

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4 Reply by LarryT 2006-12-15 07:21:46

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5 Reply by bimaljr 2006-12-15 10:43:13 (edited by bimaljr 2006-12-15 10:43:38)

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6 Reply by LarryT 2006-12-15 12:17:07

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7 Reply by bimaljr 2006-12-15 16:38:56

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8 Reply by LarryT 2006-12-15 16:45:05

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9 Reply by bimaljr 2006-12-15 17:14:17

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10 Reply by LarryT 2006-12-15 18:54:56

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11 Reply by bimaljr 2006-12-16 05:51:52

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12 Reply by LarryT 2006-12-16 09:48:39

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13 Reply by bimaljr 2006-12-16 11:09:02 (edited by bimaljr 2006-12-16 11:10:54)

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14 Reply by LarryT 2006-12-16 19:43:09

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15 Reply by bimaljr 2006-12-16 21:36:08

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16 Reply by LarryT 2006-12-16 22:05:44

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17 Reply by bimaljr 2006-12-17 05:44:12

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18 Reply by LarryT 2006-12-17 10:36:51

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19 Reply by plors 2006-12-18 01:28:11

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20 Reply by bimaljr 2006-12-18 16:51:10

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21 Reply by plors 2006-12-18 18:12:41

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22 Reply by bimaljr 2006-12-18 20:37:11 (edited by bimaljr 2006-12-18 20:38:09)

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23 Reply by plors 2006-12-18 22:13:03

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