-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 19:07, h k ball wrote: > ... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place
Hi, hk, and welcome! > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--------------------------------- so far I have: > > (1) made a 2.5 meg Linux Ext2 partition and a .5 meg Linux SWAP partition > with Partition Magic ... > > (2) Using the Mandrake installation disks, got to "Congratulations > installation is complete!" ... installed about 400 meg of files, including > KDE, GNOME and associated graphics stuff ... > > (3) have successfully logged on into what I call the "dos-like" mode, > been able to use > > ls /bin -al |less, |more > linuxconf > man man > cd, su, exit > Xconfigurator (struggle picking a comparable video card, finally found > one) > > (4) can reboot back and forth between Windows 2000, XP and Linux on same > machine with no problem, everything still works just fine ... > > (5) have not been able to get out of the "dos" mode and into the > "windows" mode, namely KDE ... how do I do that ?????? > The most common cause is video driver problems. Try running XFDrake to see if that helps. > (6) 700 mHz, 256meg ram, 20 gig hd, Nvidia Vanta video card, Intel ... > Without the proprietary NVidia drivers you will not get hardware acceleration, but looking at the rest of your spec you are probably not wanting to play the latest games <g> so it probably doesn't matter. Let us know what happens when you type XFDrake > hk ball > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Feb 14, 2005 6:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Welcome on list newbie > > Welcome to the newbie List. > ======================== > > You have just subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read this e-mail, and keep it for a future reference. This indicates that you have 'hi-jacked' a thread. To better understand why this (and several other things) is a problem, read http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Let us know how you get on. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEk45kFAvMr/nNX8RAs30AJ9Zb29zu4viTB5NU4ViDapR7+r8KgCdGNmz RGTDiNJnU6X9mZTQ5/XSVEk= =3ucp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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