Guest ramazz Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 How do I tell the mandrake installation to use the generic vga driver during the installation instead of loading the radeon driver?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 From the command line as root.( To switch to root just type su- then thepassword when asked) run the command xf86config This will let you rechoose the vidio driver. Or you can vi into your xf86config-4 file and manually switch the driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 not sure what you mean. For the purpose of 'after the install'?....or for the purpose of 'getting through the install'? If you press F1 at the first spash screen, you'll then get a prompt.....type text and hit Enter. You can also try linux vga=normal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ramazz Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 This isn't a previously setup linux machine. I don't think this will work during the install will it?? The issue I am having is that when it tries to load the gui portion of the install, xfree crashes after trying to load the radeon driver, though it did work once for some reason. I've tried a text mode install, but when it gets to the package selection it is empty. THis is mandrake 9.2 for amd64 beta 2 BTW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 23, 2003 Report Share Posted October 23, 2003 I think a basic vga driver is all that is used during the install. Have you searched the bug reports for the beta? Perhaps there is an issue with a work-around. Check Mandrake's sight. This might be an odd agp port issue. You could try noagp, or a switch to try running the driver in very normal mode! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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