[HLUG] Failed Mandrake installation

[Sue & Michael Ranyard]

Mark and Julian,

Thank you both for your comments.  I will try and get hold of a copy of  
Ferdora

In the meantime I have tried, without success to use the fdisk /mbr prompt.
Im using Windows XP and I've tried both Command Prompt and cmd.exe.  Both  
these would not accept fdisk /mbr
Tried a windows 98 boot disk -message 'incorrect DOS version'
Made a DOS start up disk under XP and got message - 'bad command or file  
name

I assume I am doing something wrong

Michael
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:54:20 +0100, Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm>  
wrote:

> Mark Broadbent wrote:>
>> Hello,>>
>> Sue & Michael Ranyard wrote:
>>
>>> I installed Mandrake 10.1 and had problems.  It will not work with my   
>>> internal or external modem, though both work fine with Windows.  It  
>>> will  not work with my sound card (though I know I need a different  
>>> one for  Linux.)
>>> I installed a Graphics card on my computer - a Radeon 9550 - having  
>>> read  somewhere that this would work with Linux.  But now, when Linux  
>>> loads, I  finish up with a blank screen.  Clearly Mandrake Linux  
>>> doesn't work with  this graphics card.  I have tried looking for  
>>> drivers and failed to find  any.
>>
> Just for comparison - A user with the latest version of Ubuntu says '
>
>> Well I have a Radeon 9550 that I purchased about a month ago which is  
>> running on a dual boot sys WinXPmce/Ubuntu.
>>
>> But, I am Having a hard time getting the 9550 running well. This was  
>> actually my first ATi purchase, as I purchased all nvidia in the past  
>> with less problems.
>
>
> So it may not be completely plain sailing but he did get them working. I  
> think getting the hardware acceleration working might be what he means  
> by 'working well' Nvidia cards are always better supported and better  
> drivers under Linux.
>
> Also someone else said :-
>
>> I just wondered if someone can help me install my ati radeon 9200/ 9550  
>> under MDK 9.2 or 10.2. I got the 9200 to work under 9.2, but is still  
>> not that good. I got nothing working with the 9550.
>>
>> I am using the drivers provided by ati.
>>
>> Is there any drivers available that performs better, and that are  
>> easier to install?
>>
>> Yes I did go the init 3, init 5 way also.
>>
>> Are them drivers any good? Better than MESA I must say!
>>
> So you're not the only one with issues. Is there any ware you get get  
> another (nvidia) based card?
>
> Julian
>
>>>
>>> I tried using a CD live version of SuSe 9.3 but also got a blank  
>>> screen.   Clearly it does not like this graphic card.
>>>
>>> However the CD live version of Knoppix 3.9 works OK
>>
>>
> Knoppix probably has the best hardware compatability of any distro all  
> told. Although that might start another thread of its own ;-)
>
>
>>
>> There is a general hardware compatibility list at [1] however this is  
>> not distribution specific.  It clearly depends on the X server version  
>> to whether it works at all or not and a very recent distribution  
>> (Fedora Core 4 springs to mind) should be more successful (Mandrake  
>> 10.1 is relatively old in open-source software terms).
>>
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me if drivers exist for the card?
>>
>>
>> ANTI provide drivers, see [2].
>>
>>> If they do, how can I install them?
>>> If they don't, then, for the moment I want to uninstall Mandrake.  I   
>>> understand that if I just reclaim the Linux partition for windows,  
>>> then  LILO will not work.  But how can I get get rid of the LILO menu  
>>> that  allows me to choose between Linux, failsafe and Windows?
>>
>>
>> You'll need a command prompt (that's a real DOS prompt) and run the  
>> command:
>>
>> > fdisk /mbr
>>
>> to restore the windows bootloader.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mark
>>
>> [1] http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showcat.php?cat=182
>> [2] https://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswer.asp?questionID=1176
>>
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