Installation FX 5200 Video Card

[Russell]

W/Fx5200 AGP, starts out Frequency out of range. Tried compatibility mode 1st, no go. Remove FX5200, go to setup and choose onboard video, will boot. Won't ALWAYS complete installation after choosing partition (Mint 13). Install Mint 11, 12, 13, lower resolution, reinsert FX5200 and system is flakey. Try to change Resolution again, complete lock up. Have made it as far as installing drivers for vid card (mint 13). Still locks up on Resolution change. Another message I received more than once. Can not create ext 4 partition. then locks up. That was Mint 13. 13 calls my FX5200 and CRT a Laptop Display. No way to change it. I will keep trying on my end, but I think Mint still needs some work. Just from all of the Bug Reports that I have seen. I really Like Linux Mint, keep up the Awsome work guys ! Me wanting/needing my 128mb vid card, I guess I am just stuck with windozs for now. As far as command line, forget it. out of ink and all of those long commands just aren't going to help right now.
12 Lisa Really want Mint 13. 12 may not work after installing FX card.
Gnome 32 Bit
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
Memory 961MB (405MB used)
Operating System Linux Mint 12 Lisa
Display
Resolution 832x624 pixels (I lowered it, prep for FX Card)
OpenGL Renderer Mesa DRI UniChrome (KM400) x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Multimedia
Audio Adapter VIA8233 - VIA 8235
SCSI Disks
ATA WDC WD5000AAKB-0
SONY DVD RW DRU-700A
HP Photosmart C4380
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-XD10
eMach Media Rdr CF
eMach Media Rdr MS
eMach Media Rdr MMC/SD
eMach Media Rdr SM
Version
Kernel Linux 3.0.0-12-generic (i686)
Compiled #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011
C Library Unknown
Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)
Distribution Linux Mint 12 Lisa
Mounted File Systems
/dev/sda3 / 7.46 % (146.3 GiB of 158.1 GiB)
udev /dev 0.00 % (462.6 MiB of 462.6 MiB)
tmpfs /run 0.55 % (186.7 MiB of 187.8 MiB)
none /run/lock 0.00 % (5.0 MiB of 5.0 MiB)
Display
Resolution 832x624 pixels
Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version 1.10.4
Monitors
Monitor 0 832x624 pixels
OpenGL
Vendor VIA Technology
Renderer Mesa DRI UniChrome (KM400) x86/MMX+/3DNow!+/SSE
Version 1.2 Mesa 7.11
Direct Rendering Yes
Features
FDIV Bug no
HLT Bug no
F00F Bug no
Coma Bug no
Has FPU yes
Cache
Level 1 (Data) 2-way set-associative, 512 sets, 64KB size
Level 1 (Instruction) 2-way set-associative, 512 sets, 64KB size
Level 2 (Unified) 16-way set-associative, 256 sets, 256KB size
none /run/shm 0.03 % (469.3 MiB of 469.4 MiB)

[Russell (russkev)]

 Why is it that PCLinuxOS, is the only Linux that I can find, that will play nice with my FX 5200 AGP video card? And God knows that I've tried a lot of linux Distro's. I just needed to know that it is POSSIBLE to run Linux on my FX 5200 card. I'm not smart enough to fix the problem with Mint. Maybe someone, at some point, will deal with this issue. By then, I may be hooked on PCLinuxOS. lol ! It's not bad.
Russell Hall
Off to continue testing...........