[sllug-members]: Newbie Needs Help

[Knight Walker]

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 03:28 +0000, Jared Hackett wrote:
> Hi I'm Jared and I just joined sllug. I have been trying to dual boot
> linux and windows. my windows is already set up and I just bought a
> new hard drive the the linux half. I've tried installing ubuntu 7.04
> and fedora core 7 both screens go blank after the intiall install and
> I don't know how to change it fedora correctly found my graphics card
> and the graphical install worked well but when I tried to boot it runs
> through a screen of text and blank nothing else. so if anyone would be
> willing to help a noob it would be greatly appreciated.
> Jared

Is your video card an ATI card?  If so, you'll probably need special
drivers for it, which will come from different places for Ubuntu and
Fedora Core.

-KW