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<p>DrakX has a very comprehensive database of video cards and will
usually correctly identify your video device.
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<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>then the make of your 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
<span class="emphasis"><em>Xorg</em></span> category, which provides more than 40 generic and
open source video card drivers. If you still can't find a specific 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 <span class="emphasis"><em>Command Line Interface</em></span></p>
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<p>Some video card manufacturers provide proprietary drivers for Linux
which may only be available in the <span class="emphasis"><em>Nonfree</em></span> repository
and in some cases only from the card manufacturers' websites. The
<span class="emphasis"><em>Nonfree</em></span> repository needs to be explicitly enabled to
access them. If you didn't enable it previously, you should do this after
your first reboot.
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