Just installed Mageia. I'm new to the community. I've tried a couple other Linux distros before but generally I'm new to the Linux world as well.
Straight to the problem.
I decided to install mageia yesterday, so I downloaded the latest 32-bit version from the site, burned it to a DVD and whatnot. I was actually impressed with the installer, other installers usually don't give you that much freedom and options. One of the pictures from the slideshow has it's text erroneously copy-pasted but that's irrelevant.
Since my PC has crappy hardware I decided to use xfce for my desktop environment. Since this choice isn't available during the installation, I checked "other". Once the installation was complete, I rebooted my PC and Mageia actually didn't load at all after the GRUB. Total graphic card mess:
So I looked it up in Google and apparently mageia has problems with older "fglrx"-family Radeon cards. The first suggested fix was to open up:
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/etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf
and to add the line:
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radeon.modeset=1
I didn't have a "radeon.conf" file in modprobe.d so I thought maybe creating one with nano could do the trick. So I did create one with the aforementioned line within, but it didn't work.
Next suggested fix from another thread was to edit:
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/etc/X11/xorg.conf
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Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName "ATI Radeon HD 2000 to HD 6300 (radeon/fglrx)"
Driver "ati"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
... and replace "ati" with "radeon"
So I did replace it with "radeon", and changes did occur. No longer was my screen a total mess. It was now a 3/4 mess. I could see the cursor but other than that there were one big red taking half the screen and the rest was black, again with a regular normal cursor.
So I ended up replacing it with "vesa", don't even know why, that was my last hope and the system actually was able to run. However in this "vesa" mode I have a really crappy desktop with maximum 1280 x 1024 resolution and something resembling 16-bit colors.
I'd really like to use my GPU and its intended driver with Mageia. Otherwise I should forget about HD or any other video media for that matter. Even .flv clips at youtube stutter. How can I fix this ?
Thanks in advance.
System:
Cpu: Intel Celeron 420 (Conroe-L)
Gpu: Ati Radeon HD2600Pro
Ram: 2GB Pqi
HDD: Maxtor 80GB SATA2
eHDD: Seagate FreeAgent Go 500gb
