Hello,

Sorry to post a thread about an issue that seems to come up often, but I am a complete newb and would really appreciate a slight nudge in the right direction here.

My video card is a 128mb Leadtek 6600GT.

I installed Mandriva 2006 on a 20gb partition on my pc so that it can dual boot with windows. The only major problem I had was that I could not really find a video card driver that worked when I hit the "Test" button. I tried all the Nvidia drivers at either 1024X768 and 1280X1024, tried all the Winfast ones as well and also tried quite a few of the Xorg ones. Now, when I boot up and load Linux, the screen looks the same way it did for the failed "test" screens, like a psychedelic blue screen.

I read some instructions on how to install drivers ( ww.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-9746.html)... but will I be able to install without a GUI? Also, I have not configured an internet configuration for it yet...

Hopefully its an easy fix?

e: what other information would be useful?

The drivers are meant to be installed whilst not running a GUI. Take a look at this article which may help you out. Its old, but still useful. Where the article mentions /etc/X11/XF86Config, replace that with /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Also make sure you have the kernel source installed (using the software installation tools) before attempting to install the drivers.

In Mandriva, from the command line, the software installer is urpmi

Thanks for the replies. I tried the VESA driver and rebooted the computer. For some reason, the first time I reboot after I try a new video card driver it does not work, but I found that if I rebooted again, the GUI boots up and everything is fine. Now just to get my internet to work...