Try an md5sum on your .iso files to make sure the
download went okay and that the files weren't corrupt.
 I would expect X to work fine with your video card. 
Something peculiar is happening.

--- Per Einar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have downloaded the 2 Mandrake 8.0 CDs, and burnt
> them correctly (I hope).
> Now, when I boot up with the inst-cd, the graphical
> installation gives me
> very weird colors, I can hardly see anything, the
> colors are mostly black,
> with some green in some places. It's impossible to
> install Mandrake this
> way. I tried playing around with my contrast
> settings and all, but that
> didn't solve anything.
> 
> I tried the text installation too, but it gave me a
> segmentation fault after
> selecting the printer, and I would really prefer to
> use the graphical
> installation.
> 
> My graphics card is a Voodoo3 2000, but I am unable
> to find enough info
> about my monitor for it to be of any help, it's a
> Packard Bell one.
> 
> If I don't succeed with this, do you have any
> pointers to a good linux
> distribution with the 2.4 kernel, Xfree 4 and KDE 2,
> that is easy to
> install?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Per Einar Ellefsen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 


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