Guest drahcir25 Posted November 3, 2005 Report Share Posted November 3, 2005 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 [moved from Hardware by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 3, 2005 Report Share Posted November 3, 2005 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. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drahcir25 Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 ok i understand what your talking about and i will try that and i will post another reply to let you know what happened Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drahcir25 Posted November 6, 2005 Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 6, 2005 Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 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. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted November 7, 2005 Report Share Posted November 7, 2005 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 :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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