On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 08:54, The Other wrote: > 10/13/03 > > Hello All, from The Other > > A few of you may remember I've been trying to get a stable installation of > Mandrake 9.1 since May. > > Thanks to my niece for sending me a Debian distro 3.x with documentation. I > may have figured out what was going wrong all this time. > > The Debian documentation on installing the system was something like 120 > pages, of which the 10 or so about setting up before the installation begins > was the gem I needed. Explaining that the Linux kernel wants full control > of your computer and to disable just about everything the computer was > trying to manage led me to the following: > > Disable ALL Shadow RAM > > Sure enough, my BIOS was set to shadow some of the video RAM. I disabled > that and got a flawless, Gnome desktop only, installation of 9.1. > > Then I went into Mandrake Control Center and started loading in the other > packages I wanted. > > Here's where it gets a little worrying. > > On two separate occasions last night I got a frozen system when Logging Out > so I could immediately Log back In to see the newly installed programs show > up on the menus. this is wasted effort, the items will show up in the menu really soon anyway, without login and out.
> When Logging back In, the left half of the CRT screen was > black and the right half was scrolling black/white pixels. Powering down > the system, restarting, and following the recovery prompts, got me back to a > working Bamboo system. > > Anyone know why the freeze-up? Is my system unstable? I'm still seeing > the beginning message during boot-up: BIOS Data Check Unsuccessful. > That continues to worry me a bit. > > Thanks All, it's nice to be back. > "The Other" Stephen Stubbs > Champaign, IL USA > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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