Mandrake 9.0 + 8500 = no workie

stompah · Jan 2, 2003

Just installed Mandrake 9.0. Video card is a retail Radeon 8500 w/64mb RAM.

I can get past the login screen only to get an error. It says X has trouble running.

Where do I find the driver and how do I install it in command line? Are there any other ways to fix this that I dont know of?

Johnny Knoxville · Jan 2, 2003

Mandrake 9 works fine for me with the retail ATI 8500, straight out of the box. Try the drivers at ati.com, good luck installing them, because you'll need it

stompah · Jan 2, 2003

dude this is starting to bite.

stompah · Jan 4, 2003

*sniffle* *sniffle*

Titan386 · Jan 4, 2003

So your starting in a command line and trying to start X Windows with startx, right?

Could you get the exact error message?

The file the handles the settings for the X server is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Try editing that file, and find the driver line for your video card, and try the generic vesa driver and see if that works.

As root, open the file:
pico /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

look for something like this:

Code:

Section "Device"
        Identifier "Nvidia GeForce 4"
        Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

Where it says nvidia on mine, you want to change that to vesa. Save the file and try starting X again.

zachj · Jan 5, 2003

Worked fine for me as well, minus the fact that my card is 128MB, not 64. If all else fails, try a reinstall. Doesn't seem like you can have too many important files on there . . .

Z

stompah · Jan 5, 2003

ya I just reinstalled a short while ago. Titan386, when it came time to install the video driver I just selected the VESA driver liek u said.

It works now. All I have to do is take a quick tutorial on Linux commands and the I will try to install the proper driver. If that fudges uip the rig I will just reinstall again... lol

Thanx.

zachj · Jan 5, 2003

I was very much under the impression that the Radeon 8500 was natively supported, even in 8. I strongly remember installing no drivers and that it recognized my card when installing Linux. Am I wrong, here?

Glad it works

Z

stompah · Jan 5, 2003

*shrug*

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