[NCLUG] Mandrake and graphics card

[James DeWitt]

Hi Elizabeth,

Sorry I can't help with Mandrake.  If you are used to an RPM based
distribution, you might want to try Fedora.  It is a free, community
supported distribution that many of us have had good luck with.

http://fedora.redhat.com/

Also, I'd suggest installing the RPM version of apt 
(and synaptic if you would like a gui) for package management.  
It really makes keeping your system up to date easier.

http://freshrpms.net/apt/

Cheers,
James DeWitt


On Tuesday 23 March 2004 4:44 pm, 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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