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the screen just gos blank

 

i had this problem when trying to install red hat 9

so i removed the graphics card and installed the os whit no problems

the vesa driver is not compatible with my graphics card

 

how do i change the driver if i cant login

 

the motherboard is v2dp and the

CPU AMD Sempron 2GHz

RAM 500MB at 333MHz bus

 

i have two hard drives one with windows

and one with red hat 9

 

also if i remove the graphics card again i will be able to logon with

no problems

 

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Boot in failsafe mode. When asked about the init, type "init 3". This will not start the GUI automatically. Now you can log in as root in an command-line environment and run "XFdrake" for setting up your graphics and monitor.

 

Good luck. :)

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I also have an FX 5200, and I do NOT get framebuffer mode with ANY distro, no matter which resolution/color depth I choose.

It also refuses to load the xorg "nv" driver i most distros I've tried (it does load in few of them after a lot of modprobing)- the stock nvidia driver works, though, without issues.

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i did manage to install red hat with no problem what i did was remove the FX 5200

and installed red hat then i changed the display settings and the video card settings

to the correct ones

 

i then reinserted my FX 5200 NVIDIA graphics card turned on the system

and red hat booted inot the graphical desktop

 

i just bought Linux Bible 2005 Edition it had Fedora Core 3 so i installed that and it found

my video card and assigned the correct driver

 

and i have just sucessfuly setup my dial up connection which took me ages because i

couldn't install the driver it was either the kernel source missing, a folder, or a file

so i would like to thank all the people who made it possable for me to connect to the internet

in linux

 

this is the first time on the internet with linux and i am begining to like linux better than windows

one it provides much more of a challange and two its simply better than windows

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I understand your feelings. When I got Linux and managed to log into the internet with it for the first time, I was more than happy. It was a new computing experience.

 

Fedora is a good distro btw. ;)

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The problem was you were using a newer card than red hat 9's xfree86 supports.

 

Thats why it FC3 had no problems with the card.

 

Arctic and I use Fedora pretty exclusivly so if you have questions, just drop a post in here "other distros" . Helps if you add "Fedora or FC" in the subject, sometimes I don't look at all the post :)

 

If you want to upgrade to FC 4 via yum

 

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

 

If your on dial-up, that could be painful upgrade :)

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