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I have installed mageia 2 and install went ok, but when i try to boot, i get a screen that looks like tv noise with colors. During setup i got a message that my card needed some ati-blabla driver, but i thought that i could install this after i boot into mageia. But i can't boot, all i can is go to failsafe command line mode.

What can i do to make this work? I assume i should install the driver from the command line in failsafe mode, but i don't know how! My graphics card is Asus EAH3650 series. And i had tried mandrake/mandriva in the past but more like for a hobby, so i am a newbie.

Thanks for your help,
Leandro

Hello,
You probably need a non free driver. To install it:
1 Open a console
2 Connect under root
$ su -
don't forget the - type Enter and then give the password
3 Install the nonfree media
#urpmi.addmedia nonfree ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Magei ... ee/release
and press Enter
4 Install the driver
# urpmi ati
the system will say that there is no rpm called ati and will giive you a list of rpm that contain the word ati. Choose the right one, if you don't know, choose all of them (-a)
5 reboot

I forgot, if you have mageia2 64 bits, use in line 3 :

# urpmi.addmedia nonfree ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Magei ... e/release/

This is covered in the errata
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Errata#Proprietary_card

Thanks for your reply, i will try this a bit later and let you know how it worked. Also, i had to restart the pc twice with alt+ctrl+del during this screen, i dont think it caused any problems, right?

Ok guys, i followed djennings' vesa driver suggestion cause it seemed simpler, and all is working fine now. Thanks for your help!