Mandriva didnt have my video card listed under installation, now what?
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Mandriva didnt have my video card listed under installation, now what?
I bought a copy of Mandriva limited edition 2005 from "Linux Format", and everything was fine with the install,
however, My cheap graphics card was not listed under the ones visible on the install screen, I chose a generic Intel one and contined the installation w/o a trouble.
However as I expexted the GUI will not load, only text based, in my boredom I explored a bit and considered only learning text-base, but figured I paid for a GUI I meant as well work a bit and get it to work.
I installed mandriva Limited Edition 2005 on a compaq presario 6027, p4 2.0 ghz, 512 mb ram and a 80 gig hd, alongside windows xp with the bootloader.
my graphics card is a cheap integraated intel 82845G/GL Graphics Controller.
Monitor resolution 1024x768 with 75 herts refresh.
My question was, Do I need to install or download a patch or driver for my intel? Wherre can i find it? How do I install it?
Thaks for your help,
-mike m.
Last edited by pokerplayer; 09-18-2005 at 12:01 PM.
Your best bet is to use the "i810" driver set in your xorg.conf.
1) Log in as root (su in the terminal) and type ` vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf `
2) Find the Device section Tip: The name will be Section "Device", you can find it most easily by, once entering vi, typing /Section "Device" and pressing Enter.
3) Press i on your keyboard to enter Insert mode so you can type into the vi editor.
4) Edit the Driver part of that section to read like the follwing:
Code:
Driver "i810"
5) Press Esc (escape) and type ` :wq ` to write the file and quit.
6) Press Control+D to log out of root mode and ` startx ` to retry starting up the X server.
Hint: Your Device section might look like the following:
Thanks for your help, I read a bit on the command line, typed a bit, hit a few mis keys and "presto" i am up and running and i must say linux PWNS windows.
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