Apoc Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 As the title suggests. Synopsis: I have successfully installed Mandrake 10 on my old Athlon 1800, which has only crashed once when i removed the CPU fan while running and overheating.. hehe. I decided to replace windows on my main box (cos its never been properly stable since XP SP2 Beta... pah. System: iiayama 754 master pro thingy monitor 1GB Ram 500GB HD's (120, 160, 80, 80, 60 ) but after problems only the 1st 120 is plugged in. DVD-RW (pioneer) 128 or 256 Radeon 9600 GFX TV Tuner card Skystar 2 PCI Satellite card (Firewire / usb / ethernet / audio blaster gold thingy sound card etc etc) Right install sorks fine. No errors. Lilo installs fine and gives me lots of boot options and selects the >64GB one as default. None of the GUI modes will boot at all. they seem to work and (on selecting interactive) get to the SSHD section that completes ok then black screen. Its as though the monitor can't get signal info from PC (but it doesn't turn off.. so its as though it can't display the signal it is getting.) That was with the resolution at 1600*1200 (same as when i ran XP) in the test screen on install this was fine. Tried again on a new install at 1200*whatever and the same.. seems to be a GFX thing (as this is the monitor i use on the other Mandrake box i have). Any ideas all the other solutions tend towards nvidia, any help pointers etc. The other solution i found was for memory, but the install works sweetly all 4 times i've done it on this box now (2 were due to user error doh). Cheers Apoc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Radeon seems to be problamatic when it comes to Linux. Nvidia offers better support for Linux. There are a couple of posts about this card you can have a look at. Maybe even try the offical Radeon driver. I remember it takes quite a bit of work to get it working. Sorry it is not much of an answer, but best I can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 try that one: at lilo press Esc and type at prompt: linux splash=quiet vga=normal then press Enter. Does it work on your box? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apoc Posted July 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 nope still same.. I will chek out some of the other posts on this site see if i can get a solution.. Was looking forward to running my main box on linux too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 Use the genaric VGA driver instead of the Nvidia one. This is the driver used for the GUI install and should still work after the install. After that you can ofcource try switching to the genaric nvidia driver that comes with Mandrake first and if that doesn't work you can also try installing the Nvidia driver from their website. Also remember windows is odd. So somethings don't directly translate into linux from windows. Try using a 800x600 resolution. Try using a genaric monitor settings instead of the manufacturers ones listed in the install. Remember to test the configuration at the end of the install untill you find a usable setting. Shoot low untill your up and running. Took me a week to figure out the new kernel and the Nidia drivers drop off my normally high resolution for my monitor. I eventually had to test different settings out in the custom monitor area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 19, 2004 Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 are talking during boot, or when boot is done and you try to start X? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apoc Posted July 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2004 All, thanks for help an suggestions. I eventually used the: [esc] linux 3 [enter] method to get to the command prompt. From here i did the following (after a bit of googling for drivers and help): login as root, change to tmp directory: wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/firegl/fglrx-g...-3.2.8.i586.rpm rpm -Uhi --force fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.8.i586.rpm (now i had errors here due to source which i can sort out easier now i don't have to use command line as much) fglrxconfig most were the defaults apart from the horizontal sync being 30-132 and vertical being 50-200 then i could select the 1600*1200 resolution. Cross fingers and: startx hey presto it worked. probably more of a fudge than a fix but i can progress from here now i hope.. Cheers guys APOC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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