[sllug-members]: Newbie Needs Help

[u235sentinel]

Knight Walker wrote:
> 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
> 

I recently tried the ATI drivers for OpenSuse 10.2.  Very easy 
installation and so far it's been stable.  I'm running it on an nc8543 
HP laptop.  I'm thinking of trying the 3D desktop for grinz.  People are 
work are wondering why I don't stick with Wintendo.  It works sooo well 
on that hardware.

Only problem is I haven't run Windows on my main work computer since 
1999 (with the occasional vmware session).  I'd still go with NVidia. 
They have been there for years