[NCLUG] Mandrake and graphics card

[Max Beaven]

Elizabeth,

I'm a bit of a newbie to Linux but have sucessfully installed/used 
Mandrake 9 and 10 and also the latest Fedora on my AMD box with a Radeon 
7000 card with no problems. I did notice the 3D performance in Mandrake 
9 was slower, so you might try a newer version or as James mentioned 
Fedora works great as well. Nvidia and ATI both have Linux drivers 
available on their sites for the GeForce and Radeon platforms, so you 
might also give those a shot.

Best regards,
Max

Person Who Asked To Have Her Name Removed From The Internet wrote:

>hi all,
>I have Madrake 8.1 currently installed, on an
>AMD Athlon 32-bit machine
>but my graphics card died.
>I went out and bought a 
>PNY Verto ge-force FX 5200 AGP card 
>got it running on the windows partition but does not
>work in the Mandrake.
>Read the instructions on the website and tried to update
>XFree86 (version 4.1) ran the rpm for this,
>but all I get is the Nvidia logo coming up and
>intermittently goes away, then fades back in.
>I cannot access ctl-alt-f1 to get to a command prompt at all.
>
>So then I went out and got the ATI Radeon 9200 card,
>but this one doesn't work either.
>
>The websites mention somthing about Mandrake's kernel
>not including something necessary for AGP to work,
>but I could not figure out what/where to install!
>
>Then I went looking for SuSe download, figuring maybe
>if I tried another OS it would work (i found somewhere
>that these graphics card should work for redhat and suse,
>and i dont wanna buy redhat so thought I'd try suse)
>But I couldn't find an appropriate ISO image of each CD
>to download for my system (everything's either 64-bit or
>not an ISO)
>
>I used to have a Millenium Matrix graphics card.
>
>Any help would be much appreciated,
>-lost and confuzzled
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