video card not new enough

[bower]

i am using an on board graphics and i have been using mandriva but i was wanting to change to ubuntu but my video is scrambled. it is also now scrambled on the newest mandriva. would this most likely be i need a new video card or monitor?

I have the older vga connector and not the newest (not sure what it is called) connector. if i need that type of connector can i get an adapter for this connection from my monitor. sorry i am not up to date like i should be. also my monitor is an acer AL1706

what would be a good card that pci express would work? i dont have a whole lot of money but maybe 80 to 100 dollar range?

thank you so much.

Bower

[Segfault]

What card you have now, some Intel?

[bower]

it is a via chrome9-based card. on board the mother board.

Bower

[Segfault]

VIA Linux Portal

This card of yours can work fine, even supports high-definition video and such.

[devils casper]

Post the output of this :

lspci | grep -i vga

[bower]

[travis@localhost ~]$ lspci | grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M890CE/K8N890CE [Chrome 9] (rev 11)
[travis@localhost ~]$

Here is the output.

Bower

[bower]

ok so i went to the driver page but how do i install the driver for ubuntu when i cant get it to work to even install it? it doesn't have one for mandriva to start there. not sure what to do with this. thank you for answering all my posts.

do you think it could be the monitor now instead of the card?

Bower

[devils casper]

Try Ubuntu Alternate Installation CD. It has text based installer and works fine with all Graphics Cards. You can Graphics Driver easily after Ubuntu Installation.

There isn't any difference in Alternate and Regular Installation CD except Installer's Interface.