On 27/11/12 09:05, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 26/11/12 22:19, Keith Edmunds wrote:
"Correct" is an interesting adjective. You could try a text mode install from the alternate [sic] CD (https://help.ubuntu.com/12.10/installation-guide/)
Unfortunately the alternate CD was discontinued with 12.10 (at least as far as I can tell it was).
However I have now managed to get 12.10 to install - a combination of changing to a different monitor and playing with xorg.conf (playing with different HorizSync values until I found one the monitor liked) meant I managed to get a workable 800x600 desktop from which to run the install.
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The graphics hardware is ATI RAGE XL (on the motherboard), which ATI no longer support but should be supported by the mach64 driver if only I can work out the right xorg.conf for my hardware. I have to say though that at this point I'm thinking that rolling back to 12.04 (or back even further) is seeming like a better idea. If anyone has any suggestions before I give up on it I'll certainly try them though.
I had similar problems when trying to install Mandriva on my i7 machine which has an ATI graphics card.
I have to add the following to the boot command when installing :- nomodeset ati.modeset=0 radeon.modeset=0 and then I can get to the desktop with a complete install. Once there, I then have to install a proprietary driver.
HTH.