Hi,
I installed Linux-Mandrake 9.0. Everything went pretty smooth. Selected
Gnome for default desktop. After install, upon reboot got "first-time" (I
think) screen, to do more configuration. This screen was unusable, because
the display was all messed up. I had basically three vertical bands across
the screen: red, green, and blue, I think. On top of that, there was the
first-time screen, but it was all out of sync and mostly unreadable. Also,
I couldn't find the mouse pointer anywhere on the screen, not that there was
really anything to click on. I had to use the cpu reset button to quit the
screen.
Since then, when I boot I go right to desktop, but the screen is still
messed up. The left-hand third of the display is repeated in the middle and
right sides of the screen, and it's kind of wavy and unreadable in places.
On that screen, I was able to find the mouse pointer and get to a menu item
called "action->logoff" (I think that's what it was), but that's all.
I picked all the defaults, except I took 1280x1024, instead of 1600x1200,
for display res.
Has anyone seen this? Where do I go from here? I uninstalled Mandrake, and
will re-install soon, but what do I do different, or if I end up with the
same thing, how do I troubleshoot? The installation guide doesn't seem to
cover my case.
Is there a better place to ask this question?
My system is
motherboard: GVC-VP1541
cpu: AMD-K6P2/350
video: SiS 5598/6326
PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0
monitor: NEC MultiSync FP1370
Thanks,
Tim
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