How do I tell the mandrake installation to use the generic vga driver during the installation instead of loading the radeon driver??

From the command line as root.( To switch to root just type su- then thepassword when asked)

run the command xf86config

This will let you rechoose the vidio driver.


Or you can vi into your xf86config-4 file and manually switch the driver.

not sure what you mean. For the purpose of 'after the install'?....or for the purpose of 'getting through the install'?

If you press F1 at the first spash screen, you'll then get a prompt.....type
text
and hit Enter.

You can also try
linux vga=normal

This isn't a previously setup linux machine. I don't think this will work during the install will it?? The issue I am having is that when it tries to load the gui portion of the install, xfree crashes after trying to load the radeon driver, though it did work once for some reason.

I've tried a text mode install, but when it gets to the package selection it is empty.

THis is mandrake 9.2 for amd64 beta 2 BTW

I think a basic vga driver is all that is used during the install. Have you searched the bug reports for the beta? Perhaps there is an issue with a work-around. Check Mandrake's sight.

This might be an odd agp port issue. You could try noagp, or a switch to try running the driver in very normal mode!