On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 07:30, Joseph Gregory Croes wrote: > And by the way I am a total newbie. I can use mandrake but with GUI. But I > am not > used with command lines. I you guy show me the steps, step by step I can do > it. > > Thanks
Maybe I'm stepping in too late on this, but once the machine APPEARS as to have completed it's bootup process (when the hard drive is no longer spinning or making noise) have you tried hitting CTRL+ALT+F2 ??? You SHOULD see a "console login" when you do that - mind you SHOULD is the key word here. I saw you mentioned something about NVidia, but you didn't list it in your machine's inventory in the previous message - do you, in fact, HAVE an NVidia card? If so, and IF you can get to a console login, you can login as root, then at the prompt type: cd /etc/X11 then type: vi XF86Config-4 ...and once the editor has loaded, locate the section for the video driver - if it lists nv instead of nvidia, you're going to have to change it; so while in the editor, you hit the INSERT key, then navigate to the line you want to change, change it (from nv to nvidia) then hit the ESC key, then hit : then wq => that will save it...then when back at the prompt, type "reboot" and watch. Now, there COULD be an issue with the monitor settings - that could be another reason you're not getting anything at the boot; but try that first and lets see how ya goes. stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!
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