82865G graphics woes
Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 5:09 am
At the moment I'm trying to get my OptiPlex 170L to work with ROS. At the moment, it installs and boots fine, along with the network driver (it installs just fine and works beautifully), but the graphics (and sound) are what I'm aiming to get working.
From what I found via a few searches on Google, somebody on the forum implied that it works fine (this post was in September of 2011, mind you) but I can't get the graphics to exactly work as they should. If I manually install the driver and reboot, the screen's resolution degrades to something insanely small and the color bit depth goes down to probably 8 colors... That, and the OS nearly locks up if I try to adjust the resolution.
I will most definitely try a live 0.3.14 image and slipstream the graphics driver files into the ISO and will report back. However, I wanted to know: are the DLL files necessary, or would just putting the inf / sys files in the appropriate directories suffice?
Thanks a lot, all. I'm blown away at the amount of progress this has made...
Oh, and for reference: The audio driver exhibits a very interesting behavior if you install the driver manually on this particular machine. You see, the OS locks up if you attempt to reboot the OS after installing it. I've had this exact same issue on a Latitude D610 laptop when I installed.. the audio driver. I'm sure it's an issue with the audio stack.
From what I found via a few searches on Google, somebody on the forum implied that it works fine (this post was in September of 2011, mind you) but I can't get the graphics to exactly work as they should. If I manually install the driver and reboot, the screen's resolution degrades to something insanely small and the color bit depth goes down to probably 8 colors... That, and the OS nearly locks up if I try to adjust the resolution.
I will most definitely try a live 0.3.14 image and slipstream the graphics driver files into the ISO and will report back. However, I wanted to know: are the DLL files necessary, or would just putting the inf / sys files in the appropriate directories suffice?
Thanks a lot, all. I'm blown away at the amount of progress this has made...
Oh, and for reference: The audio driver exhibits a very interesting behavior if you install the driver manually on this particular machine. You see, the OS locks up if you attempt to reboot the OS after installing it. I've had this exact same issue on a Latitude D610 laptop when I installed.. the audio driver. I'm sure it's an issue with the audio stack.