Mandriva 2006 didn't pick up my monitor
 

Hello all. I'm having trouble with mandriva 2006 not picking up my NEC Accsyc50 LCD monitor. When it boots up all i see is fuzzy screen, and that's it. Anybody know how i can setup my monitor? Not sure how to get to Runlevel 3 when it's like this. Thank you for your time on this matter.

System
AMD Athlon XP 1.2GHZ
2GB Ram
Nvidia 6600 AGP 8X
40GB Dual boot XP/Mandriva

Are you connecting your monitor via "DVI" or the old standard "SVGA"? The digital dvi causes problems from the last time I looked at it; your better off with the svga.
If you can see your lilo boot selection screen, just hit the Esc key as soon as it comes up. That will take you to a boot prompt at which you should type:

linux 3

and hit the Enter key. That will force a boot into run level 3 which is the text mode. You should boot to a command line login prompt. Login with your user name and password and run:

$ su
<enter root password>
# XFdrake

that will bring up the mandriva graphics config program, XFdrake, from which you can reset all your graphics configuration(monitor, resolution, color depth, graphics card, etc) and test the configuration.

Yeah your right about the DVI thing. I'm using that with this video card. I don't want to give that up :( I got my resolution down to 800x600 (16) using XFdrake, thanks, but couldn't see my mouse at all. But i was able to download the nvidia drivers, but couldn't install them, when i tried to get into level 3 mode, some stuff about a kernel path i think. The nvida drivers where looking for that. I have this PC dual booted with XP, so i'm not sure now if i should use partition magic to give back the entire drive back to xp. I like the DIV for the gaming. Wanted to try Battlefield 2 for Linux but looks like that might now happen. If you know of any other resolutions, plz send my way ASAP :) Thanks for the information.

You need to install the kernel-source before installing the nvidia driver.

how would i go about doing that? never did anything with the kernel before, i'm still a linux newbie.

Select the first package that gets printed from the list. You can also use the software manager (rpmdrake) if you don't like using the command line.

Thanks, i tired that command in runlevel 3 but didn't work. So now i moved the Video cable from the DVI to the VGA and getting all updates. Next i will try to install in nvidia drivers in run level 3, and if that doesn't work then going back to windows xp on this machine :( oh well.