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                         your Graphic Card)
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         <p>DrakX has a very comprehensive database of video cards and will usually correctly identify your video device.</p>
           
           
         <p>If the installer has not correctly detected your graphic card and you know which one you have, you can select it from the
            tree by:
                
              
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                  <p>vendor</p>
                        
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                  <p>then the name of your card</p>
                        
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                  <p>and the type of card</p>
                        
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         <p>If you cannot find your card in the vendor lists (because it's not yet in the database
                    or it's an older card) you may find a suitable driver in the Xorg category
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         <p>The Xorg listing provides more than 40 generic and open source video card drivers.
                    If you still can't find a named driver for your card there is the option of using
            	the vesa driver which provides basic capabilities.
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         <p>Be aware that if you select an incompatible driver you may only have access
            	to the Commandline Interface.
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         <p>Some video card manufacturers provide proprietary drivers for Linux which may only
                    be available in the Non-free or Tainted repositories and in some cases only from the
            	card manufacturers' websites 
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         <p>The Non-free and Tainted repositories need to be explicitly enabled to access them,
                    you should do this after your first reboot.
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