On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 16:31, Pete Stean wrote: > Hi folks, my first experience with linux isnt going very well... > > Installing Mandrake from CD-ROM - it detects all my hardware ok (apart > from my usb Epson C42 printer but let's worry about that later) > including my Geforce4 card and here's the problem. Hitting the test > button on the graphics card selection screen at any resolution or colour > depth just gives me a black screen....
Ok - then there's definitely a prob...can you just choose a GF2 generic driver during the installation and get IT to at least show a "test" XWindows desktop? If so, then I'd highly recommend using that until you can actually get logged in and download the current NVidia driver for linux... The new machines I sell all have NVidia cards in 'em - what I do to bypass the BS during the installation (both with MDK and with RH) is to choose the generic driver and a generic resolution I can live with (generally it's 1280x1024 at 24-bit) - then once the system actually comes up nicely, I then install the proper NVidia driver and tweak the monitor res for the particular customer... HTH mate... stephen kuhn - owner ============================== illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents ------------------------------------------------------------------ They wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius, The man said "We got all that we can use", So I've got those steadily-depressin', low-down, mind-messin', Working-at-the-car-wash blues. -- Jim Croce
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