no gui after video card install

Lakota · 12-12-2004, 05:07 PM

I am at a loss. Friend installed an ati 9600 in his pc, his is nearly same as one in my signiture. When he booted mandrake he said XFdrake started and was all filled in other than driver, tried all available radeon drivers in xfdrake and none work, xfails and ends at command prompt. Knoppix boots fine into x. He has 10.0 official running. His Windows partition works with the radeon 9600 as that is where I am posting from. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

opjose · 12-12-2004, 08:31 PM

The ATI driver is a weird beast.

It may be that it's not recognizing the PCI ID's for his card.

You may have to force this but I'll refer you to the ATI documentation on this subject.

dalek · 12-12-2004, 10:15 PM

You may have to do this from command line but can you reinstall the drivers for the card? I know I have to do that if I put in another nvidia card. I have never had a ATI card so I'm just guessing.

Hope that helps a little anyway.

Lakota · 12-13-2004, 04:20 PM

I'll combine both suggestions, read up at ati's site tonight and put their new driver on a thumb drive to try installing Tues or Wed night. If anybody has a Radeon 9600xt and knows what the default Mandrake driver is for that card in Mandrake 10.0, I would be interested to know.
Thanks.

Lakota · 12-14-2004, 07:39 PM

Ok, that is now sorted and working, the default driver is vesa, and is found in the other directory (not vendor) in XFdrake. Did not want to bother with proprietary drivers as involves kernel recompile and such. He got the card for gaming in Windoze. Vesa is perfect for what he uses Mandrake for.