I have an ATI radeon hd 5670 graphics card. the propriety drivers did not get added during system install.
I added the additional backport/tainted repositories and installed radeontool. I execcuted the aticonfig initialisation in terminal which stated fglrx was not running, despite a few reboots.
I installed 2 other ATI drivers one was a xvba VA API backend, the otherone the name I forget but was liek an ATI library, both through the repositories.
on reboot. the mageia logo appears and the dots apear one by one, then it changes screen to the KDM probably but goes blank (monitor has no output recorder ??out of range ?? Xorg driver interaction
( on mintlinux12 the drivers were conflicting boot system was bootable and able to unstall drivers thru synaptic. That time had to uninstall the generic Xorg ATi drvers before installing the propriety ATI catalyst. )
using KDE and set to auto login
on a side note also using GRUB2
with following entry from grub.cfg which is on linuxmint13 partition sda6 (mageia is on sda5)
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menuentry "linux (on /dev/sda5)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 81c4aa00-4d25-467f-acaa-8f8c6c1891cf
linux /boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=81c4aa00-4d25-467f-acaa-8f8c6c1891cf splash quiet resume=UUID=fafaa5e0-7f08-4a78-8a0c-fdc2fe27e358 vga=788
initrd (hd0,msdos5)/boot/initrd.img
}
menuentry "linux-nonfb (on /dev/sda5)" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,msdos5)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 81c4aa00-4d25-467f-acaa-8f8c6c1891cf
linux /boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=81c4aa00-4d25-467f-acaa-8f8c6c1891cf resume=UUID=fafaa5e0-7f08-4a78-8a0c-fdc2fe27e358
initrd (hd0,msdos5)/boot/initrd.img
}
vga=788 gives error --outdated or something similar
any help would be much appreciated. thanks
PS am relatively new to linux using about 6 weeks, migrated from win7.
