I don't have the same card; but basically have the same problem. Mandrake 9.0 works out of the box on my Toshiba laptop. But with 9.1, X seems to struggle. The configuration fails, and I am not able to start X even if I set my card manually. Right now I am using the Vesa driver. Any good card should support this. With Vesa I am able to get my usual resolution of 1024x768x24. My card is an S3 SuperSavage. My guess is that the problem is with XFree86 4.3 ? Mandrake 9.0 used XFree86 4.2.
srinivas
On Saturday 29 March 2003 09:08 am, Leo Abbott wrote:
> I am knowledgeable about Windows (and DOS) but a Linux greenhorn. I bought
> Mandrake 9.0 Power Pack several weeks ago and used Expert install to get
> all the partitions and hardware right. Worked great with every thing I
> tried-mostly exploring the desktop and Internet. Screen 1024x768 16bit
> with NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/64.
>
> Yesterday I downloaded the last 9.1 ISO and ran an upgrade. Upgrade
> successful, reboot. Ended up with 3 screen flashes, a black screen and a
> logon prompt. Logged on but could not load KDE or any Xwindow. Logoff but
> could not shut down so turned it off, rebooted same story. Tried Install.
> Carefully checked Video setting: said NVIDIA TNT2, the only choice. Same
> result. Error messages about improper shutdown and:
> (EE) NVIDIA 0 failed to initialize the Nvdriver kernel module!
> (EE) NVIDIA ***aborting***
> (EE) Screen(s) found. But none has a useable configuration
> fatal error: no screens found.
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0,0"
>
> I am on Dual boot, Windows first drive, and Linux on a second drive. One
> option is to wipe Linux and reinstall 9.0 which works. But before doing
> that is there some way to get 9.1 to use video card and screen as nicely as
> 9.0 did?
>
> I will hold off hoping for advice that will save 9.1.
You are right. I have the same card in one of my computers and it works great
under 9.0. I'm afraid I haven't endeavoured into 9.1 to be able to share
experiences with you, but what you say discourages me to upgrade
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