Either I'm high or graphics messed up
I have nVidia GeForce 6600 (GT I think) card and I think the distro didn't have a good driver for it. It works fine under Win XP.
I just finished install and when I boot up, it starts loading and then it tries to show the desktop, but all I see is colored bars everywhere; it kinda looks like when they're doing the screen test on a TV with all those colored bars, except the bars a way smaller and there's a lot more of them.
When I do Ctrl+Alt+F1, you can see it switching modes, but it looks like the same screen but in black and white. I first tried running in rescue mode and I could actually see what I was doing then.
So I got the nVidia driver from the website on a disk and mounted and then ran it...it brought up an install screen and it started to walk me through. Then it got to a point where it needed a kernel or something and so it wanted to know if it could go download it from the nVidia ftp, but that failed making the whole install fail.
So I rebooted and tried doing Ctrl+Alt+F1 again and this time just typing everything as if I could see what was going on in the console. And nothing happened. I did all the same steps to mount and then go to cd and run script but nothing happened or could be seen, just a bunch of black and white.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Thanks.
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