Linux graphics card drivers?

[fluffymark]

Some fiddling around with BIOS settings and reshuffling of the PCI cards to avoid PCI slot 1 (which apparently conflicts with the AGP socket) and jellyfish now has a happy shiny working graphics card. Yaaaaaaay!

A few teething problems remain - firstly my ethernet card appears to refuse to be reattached, but that's no big problem as I don't currently need the thing. I mysteriously lost audio for a while too, but that seems to have reappeared now. More importantly, I'm lacking graphics drivers in linux for the new card. X is reverting to a generic driver allowing an appalling 320x200 screen resolution, which is unworkable. The card is a Sis 305 AGP - I'm hoping the latest Xfree86 has drivers for it and am considering the download, but it may be unfeasible over my slow modem. Eeeep. Any advice on downloading and installing graphics card drivers for linux would be much appreciated.

Comments

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of the first time I tried to install Linux. Some version of Red Hat, that only let me run in 320x200.

Though that was due to it being a fucked up wrongly compiled version according to someone more knowledgable than me on these matters, so probably totally unrelated to your problem.

Yes, this post is completely unhelpful, but I just thought I would say:/

[fluffymark]

The biggest problem with Linux is finding drivers. Looking at Lemmings similar problem below, the 320x200 problem seems to appear if your new shiny video card is too recent, and therefore unsupported. But maybe occurs at other times too.

However Linux is nice in many other ways, and getting a lot better and much more friendly. Do try Linux again, but make sure you install from the most up to date distribution you can find - this is vital if you've got any new hardware.