thegitksan
March 7th, 2010, 02:39 AM
Good evening all. My trusty old ATI Radeon 9800 AGP 256 MB graphics card just bit the dust, and so I bought a replacement - an ATI Radeon 3650 AGP 512 Mb card. It is what is available for my:
Dell Dimension 8300
3GHz speed
4Gb RAM
Dual boot: WinXP & Hardy 8.04.3 LTS
I had problems getting the drivers properly installed for WinXP, eventually got it with a Hotfix from ATI/Sapphire. And now when I boot into Ubuntu, after some text messages, the screen goes blank and stays that way. I think very likely the drivers for the new card need to be installed and the old drivers uninstalled, but I don't know for sure.
I can get command line text mode to come onscreen, but nothing GUI. I had no choice in my order - ordinarily, I'd have uninstalled anything to do with the old card before installing the new one. However, the old card is kaput.
Any ideas for an approach for me?
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Updated information:
I tried putting the LiveCD into the boot drive (8.04.1) to see if it would work, and it seems to work fine. I wonder if simply re-installing over top of the existing OS might work. I don't have anything important on the partition that I can remember. Alternatively, perhaps if I went for an upgraded version, that might also do the trick?
Does anyone know? I am wondering if reinstalling or upgrading might get the OS to recognize the new graphics card. Ideally, it would be done without losing everything I have on the partition right now, but I'd toss it if I had to.
Another thought - is there a utility that can help my OS figure it out on its own?
Dell Dimension 8300
3GHz speed
4Gb RAM
Dual boot: WinXP & Hardy 8.04.3 LTS
I had problems getting the drivers properly installed for WinXP, eventually got it with a Hotfix from ATI/Sapphire. And now when I boot into Ubuntu, after some text messages, the screen goes blank and stays that way. I think very likely the drivers for the new card need to be installed and the old drivers uninstalled, but I don't know for sure.
I can get command line text mode to come onscreen, but nothing GUI. I had no choice in my order - ordinarily, I'd have uninstalled anything to do with the old card before installing the new one. However, the old card is kaput.
Any ideas for an approach for me?
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Updated information:
I tried putting the LiveCD into the boot drive (8.04.1) to see if it would work, and it seems to work fine. I wonder if simply re-installing over top of the existing OS might work. I don't have anything important on the partition that I can remember. Alternatively, perhaps if I went for an upgraded version, that might also do the trick?
Does anyone know? I am wondering if reinstalling or upgrading might get the OS to recognize the new graphics card. Ideally, it would be done without losing everything I have on the partition right now, but I'd toss it if I had to.
Another thought - is there a utility that can help my OS figure it out on its own?