all Ive ever done to get a wireless card to work in Ubuntu is make sure my Kernel is up to date, and enable the card in the Restricted Drivers Manager if necessary.

Fortunately, the wireless card I use contains an Atheros chipset, so no drivers are required.

Same hear,
Wen i load the CD ubuntu and after it loads a screen apperas and says that the X server (ur grafical Interface) fails to load,
Or somthing like that?
Dunno what the problem is
I have an GeForce 2 mx 400 video card PLS HELP

If I remembered correctly (which maybe I didn't) I thought that site said it.. but regardless, you can sort of tell its unsupported by using Linux.. if I didn't say so, I was using ubuntu linux..

Anyway, I'm pretty much a n00b in all things Linux, but ubuntu was fun and pretty easy to toy with, and I have the discs.. havn't tried the driver out yet though..

Thanks for pointing out some.. things..
[b]~nick[/b]

PS. Where did you get info saying your card was not supported? Just curious.

Okay color me stupid, but are you sure this isn't supported? A quick [google]SiS760 linux[/google] Google took me to http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsispart1.shtml [3rd result] which states:
[quote]Installing any driver downloaded from this website does not mean installing some sort of "third party" software. I am, in fact, the author and maintainer of both the official X.org and XFree86 SiS/XGI driver as well as the Linux kernel's SiS/XGI framebuffer driver.[/quote]
So someone is working on it, and a little further down I saw
[quote]
2. Supported SiS/XGI graphics chips and video bridges
* The old series (SiS 5597/5598, 6326/AGP/DVD, 530, 620),
* the 300 series (SiS 300/305, 540, 630/S/ST, 730/S),
* the 315 series (SiS 315/E/PRO, 550, [M]650, 651, 740, [M]661[FMG]X, [M]741[GX]),
* the 330 series (SiS 330 "Xabre", [M][b]760[/b][GX], [M]761[GX]), and
* the 340 series (XGI V3XT, V5, V8, Z7; SiS342 - yet to be released).
[/quote]
Emphasis mine.

Please note I am really not trying to put you down. I could very well be missing something here.. All I am trying to say is that if nothing else, this guy has found a way to support your card on linux.

He commits his "Free" version to X.org where it should be included with any distro using X.org, from what I see of the license, should be any most Debian distros as at a glance it's GPL licensed so it qualifies for inclusion..

Anyway, long winded post, my apologizes ;)

P.S. just noticed crowmag pointed this site out as well.. Basiclly, you should have atleast some support with any Distro, personally I recommend [url=http://www.debian.org]Debian[/url] [testing or unstable in case anyone was wondering.]

You could try starting off with Damn Small Linux which is only a 50 meg ISO. It doesn't use a graphical installer, nor does it install XDM, GDM or KDM which are X session managers. On boot, it just dumps to the text-mode login prompt where, after login, you must type "startx" to begin your X session.

At the prompt, you can type "mc", this will start Midnight Commander, a text-mode file manager with built-in text file editor. This might be a little easier than trying to negotiate everything from a command prompt.

DSL is Debian based and after a hard disk installation, you can build as large of an installation as you desire... that is after you solve your video driver problems of coarse. :D

nick, to install linux you might have to go for a distribution with a non graphical installer (i.e. an installer that doesn't use x windows) and then fix stuff from the command line. It wouldn't be too difficult for a relatively experienced Linux user, but I can see why you're having problems. I wish I could be more helpful...

By the way.. was reading on the site you provided, and it says for to work I have to [i]be[/i] in linux, which is usually impossible for me.. oddly enough. It has the common graphical errors as a unsupported operating system would.. I'm still looking into it.

Wish me luck...!
[b]~nick[/b]

Meh.. the board came with the computer. To save me a lot of searching (although I am) is there anything I can do? :P

Thanks for the interest..
[b]~nick[/b]

This page gives a fairly thorough coverage of xorg/xfree86 SiS drivers:

http://www.winischhofer.at/linuxsispart1.shtml

If the video chipset is integrated into your mb and uses shared memory...

I've never been a fan of integrated video chipsets my self and can assure you that purchasing even a "value" card with dedicated memory will reap you rewards in speed and performance you had not assumed with an on board controller no matter what OS you use.

Kinda wondering.. I have a SiS760 and it supposedly doesn't support Linux (any type, I suppose), but regardless-- is there a way I can make it work? I don't want to have to buy a new video card just for that.. :?

Any help/interest is very much appreciated.. even though I don't believe there is anything that can be done, [i]we[/i] can try! :)
[b]~nick[/b]