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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I just recently installed Fedora 11 on my PC to duel boot. Everything installed just fine and I attempted to updated the video drivers to check out some of the enhanced workspace visuals. Upon installing the drivers I attempted to reboot and can not get the screen to load instead it displays random colors and lines and the screen is all jumbled. I'm rather new to linux and understand that the "drivers" are actually considered modules in the linux world. Can anybody tell me how to remove the defunct module and does anybody know a driver for the ATI 4800 series that will work with the fedora 11 kernal. If it helps the video card I'm running is a 4870 Asus Dark Knight with 1GB of DDR5 (HowTos)

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Submitted by dalinux on 10/03/2009 – Made popular on 10/03/2009

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