Help with installing Linux

ok update

after checkling what graphics card (whats the short slang for this?) it appears that it is a PCI card as on the side it reads:

"3D Propher 4000XT PCI"

Also how would i check the bios, thought that was a windows thing? And after that how would i check if the onboard card is completely disabled, when i plug the monitor into that screen i get nothing from it, as rthought its not plugged into anything.

think that was all, thanks

jsut fired up ubuntu again and its is saying after i do the login and password that -bash: no job control in this shell. Never had this before, wjhat does it mean

too add even more to this post, im still confused on what x.org server i shld choose, i usualy choose GLcore as its defualt one, should i pick that or the many others?
 
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ok neihter DEL or TAB or F1 or F2 work, if i hit escape it loades something, its not BIOS, but its give me the option of ubuntu, kernal 2.6.12-9-386, same thing but with (recovery mode) at the end, or, ubuntu memtest86+

and at the bottom it says if i type e i can edit something, or c for command prompt, or something else but i forget and computer is turned off now
 
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ok f10 got me in, and i found the advnaced tab but now im stuck.

the options iget are:
power-on self test
power loss management
PCI devices
Bus Options
Device Options
PCI VGA configuration

what do i select?

under bus options ther is a bit that says onboard VGA controller, it is set as enabled, should i disable it?
 
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Under PCI devices i get this:

USB Controller IRQ 11
USB Controller IRQ 11
ethernet Controller IRQ 3
VGA controller IRQ 5
Other Communication DEvice IRQ 10
Compaq Audio Device IRQ 5

Other option under "BUS options" is "PCI Bus Mastering Enable"

I tried just disabling the onboard VGA controller and then restarted dong the whole sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and i had similiar problem. This time instead of saying about the BUS begin wrong it just said screen found but not usable.
 
how would i find the model of my screen, all i know is that it'a got an IBM logo on the front and that it is i beleive 17" but measuring it from corner to corner with my 11" rule it looks only 15", in heights it 8.5" and width is 11". Refresh rate i have no clue. Anything else i would need to know and how would i find it out?
 
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well im at my dads for the weekend so wont be finding out the information until sunday evening or monday. Will post what it says on the back. I know from when using win98 its 800x600, but also when doing the sudo dpkg-reconfigure thing that the only three options are 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768.

Speak on Sunday i guess. Happy weekend
 
ok this is some of the information on the label found on the back of my screen.

Type/model: 2248-O2N

S/N: 66-36124

Manuf: January 13 1997

V : 100-240 -
A: 1.5
Hz: 50/60

FCC ID: H41CM15008

Anything else needed? Thats alk that seemed important, most else was like the things it compliues with or something.
 
did that and nothing i had to changed so it is still working. Any ideas on what to do.

only thing i can think of was when it asked me to put vertical refresh rates, it had 43-60 already so i left it, this is the only place i could think of putting the refresh rate of 50 but then it was alrady sone so didnt and thought there would be another place but there wasnt.

oh and also i wasnt sure on what (dont know what it was) i should select, VESA or trident? i picked trident.
 
:):):) i got something running hehehehehehe cant beleive its finally working. Now im need much help ion what im doing. First is how to change the brightness of the monitor even more then the buttons on the screen allow as the screen is far too dark to really view anything. On windows98 i right clicked, selected properties, think it was the settings tab, then advanced button on that, which give me the option of like increases the birghtness (wasnt called this though) to a level where i could actually see things almost how they were meant to be viewed, it give the screen white grainy look but was atleast viewable. anyway back to the point can i do this on ubuntu? hope i can
 
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