Before
installing Zeta, you should verify that your system is supported.
At the very least, you should make sure your motherboard, CPU, graphics,
sound, and network cards are compatible with Zeta.
Is My System Supported?
Zeta has a wide range of supported hardware. On yellowTAB's web
pages (http://www.yellowtab.com/support/hardware/)
you will find a list of the hardware compatible with Zeta and information
about all known problems. If you want to make sure that Zeta works
correctly on your computer you can see if your hardware is supported
using the search function.
Is there hardware listed on our site that doesn't work correctly?
Tell us about it!
Do you have Zeta running on hardware not listed on our web site?
Tell
us about it! There are probably people wondering why that specific
hardware is not listed!
Running Zeta with a not supported graphic card
If you find that your graphics card is not supported, you
should be able to use it in unaccelerated VESA mode. While not optimal,
you will at least get full color and resolution this way.
Make boot options permanent
If your machine includes some sort of hardware that that
prevents Zeta from booting properly, you may need to enter the boot
options menu (press the Spacebar when the bootloader appears) and
select Safe mode, disable SMP, Don't call
the BIOS, or even debug mode. If it turns out that
you need to invoke one of these options every time you boot, you
can make these options permanent.
in /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers/sample and
you'll find the following files:
ata.sample
atapi.sample
awe64
kernel.sample
vesa.sample
Each of them includes various options relating to dozens of boot-time
parameters. You should be able to determine what each of them do
by opening them in a text
editor and poking around. If you want to activate one of the
options in these files, copy it to /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers
and uncomment (remove the "#") any lines you
want to activate.
kernel.sample includes options mirroring the choices shown
in the boot options menu, while the others will let you configure
specific sound card settings, set vesa modes for graphics cards,
and set advanced options for ATA and ATAPI devices.
You can also use the virtual_memory file to establish a swap file
of a smaller or larger size than the Virtual
Memory preferences panel will allow. Note that setting your
swap file to a lower size than recommended will probably impact
performance, and is not recommended.
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