No Distro will work with my ATi card HD5830 xtreme

[voorhees1979]

Hi Guys

I upgraded my ati 9200 with the HD5830. It was brand new from overclockers.

On windows 7 it runs great, playing games for hours without any issues at all.

But I cannot get it to work with any Distro at all. All I get is garbled graphics from the live cd's, mouse is garbled to.

I have Tried 64bit Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Opensuse/Mepis and 686 version of antiX.

I will attach a screenshot of what a screen looks like from the live CD. The card is new and works in win 7 so the card is not faulty, but why can I not use any live CD with it? If I manage to work out the garbled graphics and install a distro its the same. Sometimes if I add "nomodeset" to the boot line I can see the screen perfect. But then trying to install ati drivers boots me to a command line.

Thanks for any help.

EDIT: PC specs

Q6600 @3.0ghz
4gb DDR2 @833
HD5830 xtreme 1GB GDDR5

[rabinnh]

I used to use all ATI cards, and then last year I upgraded one of our workstations and ATI dropped driver support. Ever since then every workstation gets an NVidia card and their Linux support is outstanding.

I don't know if ATI distributes proprietary drivers for that card, but my suggestion would be to download them if they do, boot into single user mode and install them. If that works, you can install a distro, install the drivers, and be on your way.

[dE_logics]

ATI was horrible, is horrible and will be horrible.

Their product support is the worst of the lot, once the product is a bit outdated, they drop it's drivers development.

[Rubberman]

This is a new card. Have you looked on the ATI web site for a Linux driver? Also, you can at least tell your system to use the vesa driver temporarily until there is one available. You won't get resolution past 1600x1200 and forget full-motion video, but everything else should work OK.