Guest Peter O Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Hello Everyone, I have Mandriva06 running on a P3 800MHz system. The existing ATI video card crapped out, and I had a Voodoo3 2000 AGP card with 16M video memory. The monitor is a TTX-1771. I can not make the Voodoo card work under Linux! I can not even use the xorg generic vga description with the range of horizontal and vertical update ranges that the monitor supports (using the "upgrade" feature of the installation CD). At least, in this case, the set up times out, as there is only garbled graphics on the screen. When letting the system use the generic Voodoo3 card, the system just hangs. Using xf86config from the command line does not help either. Is there a working driver for this card? The card works fine under W98SE, though I had to track done the proper driver for it. Any comment, any help? Thanks, Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 When you see the Lilo, try and press the Esc-button. Enter Linux init 3 Login as "root" and enter XFdrake and try to change your driver to "vesa" I thought it is under "other". Try the "test" to see if your new driver is accepted by your Voodoo-card. If it's OK, reboot your system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peter O Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Hi Gul, Thanks for the help, it is working now! The key was the "vesa" under "others" and not under "xorg". From "xorg" neither "vga" nor "vesa" worked. Thanks, Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 (edited) You're welcome. :D Edited January 24, 2007 by Gul Dukat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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