Re: [newbie] monitor and LILO woes

2000-05-06 Thread Alan Shoemaker
vickyit's probably an illusion since you're more than likely used to windows method of echoing an asterisk for each keystroke at a password prompt. Unlike windows, Linux echos nothing, so it may appear to you that it is not accepting your keystrokes, but it is. Just type your password and

Re: [newbie] monitor and LILO woes

2000-05-05 Thread Bob
Carol, I found and have used the program provided at http://www.belarc.com. It appears to identify all component, hardware and software, that is on my box it takes three or four minutes to download and run. Well worth the time. On Thu, 04 May 2000, WolfRyder wrote: I've installed

Re: [[newbie] monitor and LILO woes]

2000-05-05 Thread Jaguar
When I use "xf86setup" or one of the other text based X configuration proggies, I usually choose GENERIC MONITOR, and 50-90 MHz for the monitor refresh, I have a Sceptre 14" monitor that is not listed. HTH Jaguar WolfRyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed mandrake 7 twice trying to get

Re: [newbie] monitor and LILO woes

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Philp
WolfRyder wrote: I've installed mandrake 7 twice trying to get LILO to work right. Right now, I boot from the rescue floppy because LILO, which worked the 2nd time, would hang up my login screen in Win98. I have multiple users on my puter and where the user name and password goes, the whole

Re: [newbie] monitor and LILO woes

2000-05-05 Thread vicky catrambone
I have been reading these posts with interest. I installed mandrake 7.0 yesterday. I have 2 hdd's , linux is on the first one and I installed windows on the 2nd one. The dual boot is working fine, But !!! when it boots into linux I cant log in. I can type in root or my username and tab or use the