Guest roycar71 Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Hi all, I am new to linux. I just installed Mandriva powerpack linux 2008 on a five partitioned harddrive with 3 other OSes with bootmagic as fifth partition. I installed Mandriva on forth partition, as logical partition. Booting up to Mandriva menu works fine. But once it gets fully loaded I get alot of bluey lines/white lines and you can not see anything to make adjustments. I have reinstalled and get same problem. I have tried to adjust resolution through install and get same problem. Does anyone know how to work around this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 Welcome to Mandrivausers.org! What is your video card? It sounds like a video driver issue and using proprietary drivers will fix it. Knowing which card will get better instructions. You will have to work on the command line at first, but the gui will follow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 20, 2008 Report Share Posted January 20, 2008 It seems it's the card in his sig (Radeon 9200). Reinstalling is not the way to go: Linux is not windows. Do you get a login screen without a graphical environment after having the garbled graphic screen and hitting alt+ctrl+backspace ? You may try this key combo 3-4 times, so that the oS will probe for a few usable video resolutions- one of them may work. Else, hit alt+ctrl+F1 (up to F6, login as root and run mcc/xfdrake to adjust your video properties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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