linux_jester Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 I've recently upgraded my graphics card from a voodoo 4500 to an ATI Radeon 9600. Since then Mandrake boots into a console mode and does not go into the KDE or Gnome environments as it did before. I've tried playing around with xf85config while logged in as root but with no success. I can not believe that I have to reinstall the OS everytime you upgrade a peice of hardware. Does anyone have any info/tips that I can use to get things working again? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 You don't have to reinstall. You need the ati radeon drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linux_jester Posted October 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 /var/log/XFree86.0.log reports (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found (EE) No devices detected I take it this mean that the driver that I used from the ATI site was the wrong one? Looking on the ATI site, they have drivers for XFree86 versions 4.1.0, 4.2.0 and 4.3.0, does the version of XFree appear during boot or is there a command that I can use to find this information? Also, once I've installed the rpm using rpm -ivh *.rpm, do I use XFdrake again to reconfigure? Sorry for the questions but I am new to Linux. Thanks for your patience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 Mdk9.1 uses XFree86 4.3.0. that's the driver you should have installed. If you installed the wrong one, then uninstall it with: # rpm -e <package name> I'm not familiar with the driver other than knowing it exists, but follow the instructions from ati. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted October 24, 2003 Report Share Posted October 24, 2003 If you don't have it solved, "drakxconf" is a CLI tool that will let you set and test card, monitor, and resolutions and test to make sure it works. Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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