White noise on linux

J

I currently upgraded my system.i put a new motherboard (intel D102GGC2), processor (intel Pentium 4, 3066 MHz,x86-64) sata hard disk (160 GB).the motherboard come with ATI RADEON XPRESS 200 (64MB) graphics.the system runs fine in win xp.but whn i tried to install linux on it the graphics i saw was a copmlete mess.i just got white noise.i tried suse 10,10.1,fc4,fc5,mandriva 2006.xandros and ubuntu hung in during the intalation.can some one plz help me i need a linux distro in my system.

M

I guess you will need to download and install drviers for the graphics chip. ATI is a big problem when it comes to linux.

J

i cant do nething on the system.how can i install the driver if i cant see nething.on the initial boot i just see white noise jst like the cable of a tv pulled out.

ps-btw i m thinking to upgrade the graphic card next month.so can someone confirm will suse 10.1 will work on geforce cards

^^ Yup.. it works fine wid geforce cards.. Though i doubt that the ATI card is the cause of your problem..

M

jitun said:
i cant do nething on the system.how can i install the driver if i cant see nething.on the initial boot i just see white noise jst like the cable of a tv pulled out.

ps-btw i m thinking to upgrade the graphic card next month.so can someone confirm will suse 10.1 will work on geforce cards

OK to confirm press alt+ ctrl + F1. See if you see command line there, something like a DOS box(sorry I dunno how well are you versed with linux).
Then give this command

Code:

dmesg | tail

If you cannot understand what's there just type this

Code:

dmesg | tail > dmesg.txt

and give the dmsg.txt file here, someone may be able to sort it out then.

D

ON which stage on installation you are getting this problem first tell this,

then i might help in ur case,

By the way anyone knows where is GNUrag these days,

Come back after a long time and every thing have been changed here.

M

demoninside said:
By the way anyone knows where is GNUrag these days,

GNUrag is seen around here but doesn't post much. Busy person that he's become now

.

demoninside said:
Come back after a long time and every thing have been changed here.

Things always keep on changing.

btw cant he start X with VESA driver and correct display resoltn?

Try the knoppix livecd has excellent H/W detection... Even Slackware will be good..

J

This problem occures if you have Newest graphics card. There are two cause of this problem. Firstly open System Info tools from K>System Tools>System Info and select Memory. See if swap space is activated or not. If it is then open the file xorg.conf from /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Make a backup copy using cp like this
#cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf.old
Then in the Drivers's section add the line
Option "ShadowFB" "Yes/True/on/1"
save the file and restart the PC.
If you can't work in graphical environment then boot into text mode or select Recovery mode from Login menu of gdm/kdm. It will give you a terminal. So you can't open the Memory page of System Info. Try editing xorg.conf file and see if it works. It has solved the problem for me.