Mysticle31 Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Hi guys. First post here. I've been playing with different distros trying them all out. I've had a hell of a time getting some (ex Kubuntu) to actually use and display fglrx in the fglrxinfo and not mesa. Seems to be a common deal. Out of all the times I've installed Kubuntu (at least 10) sometimes it goes smoothly, sometimes not. Suse had it's own issues with my bluetooth.. I can go on and on. Anyhow I digress. I'm looking to try Mandriva, however, I can't get it to load X off the live CD!. It works fine in my Tablet (to test the CD) and the MD5 checksum was ok. Just on my desktop, no go. I don't know if there are any logs or anything that were created. It's not supposed to touch my HD during the process. Any ideas? Has anyone else ever experienced this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 7, 2007 Report Share Posted December 7, 2007 Welcome aboard. :) You will have to tell us what hardware your computer uses (especially graphics-card). Without that information hardly anyone can help you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticle31 Posted December 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2007 Ah yes, sorry about that. I've got a Radion 9600 with 256megs, or was it 128, I don't remember. 2.8ghz P4, 800mhz FSB, Abit IC7-G, 1024 megs of Corsair TwinX, 2 37 gig Raptors in raid 0 (use as primary drive), a 160gig secondary drive for data, two 20s and a 40 gig that I like to JBOD together for TV recordings (hoping to try MythTV or some other DVR program with scheduling and web plugins..etc.) For my other linux distros I have partitioned off 100 megs of my 20 gig (primary master) for use as /boot and Raid 0 array is /. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mysticle31 Posted December 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 (edited) I got it going. I had problems with installing the proprietary drivers for my Radion in other distros. So I changed to an Nvidia card and it loads now.. Creating new thread for my RAID problem Edited December 9, 2007 by Mysticle31 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 There is that ATI Radeon 9600 Video card (256mb) problem again. See my other post in another thread regarding ATI driver installs. In my opinion you made a smart and sensible move. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted December 11, 2007 Report Share Posted December 11, 2007 My friends returned the ATI card and got a GeForce FX5500 256mb Nvidia card. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.