[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recently bought some new hardware intended to take me into the next few years and I am having problems getting Mandrake installed. I have a Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra Platinum MB with 1024 megs ram, Nvidia GE4 Ti4600 graphics card. I had to patch the installation kernel in order to install

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread kjc
The first thing to do is. Download the most recent X drivers from the nvidia site. And follow the appropriate instructions for installing the driver into the kernel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently bought some new hardware intended to take me into the next few years and I am having

Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have previously tried the most recent drivers. Makes absolutely no difference which is why I stuck with the Mandrake supplied drivers this time around. I wanted to make sure that there was no issue with using something that hadn't been proven to work and I am pretty sure that the stock

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 12:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently bought some new hardware intended to take me into the next few years and I am having problems getting Mandrake installed. I have a Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra Platinum MB with 1024 megs ram, Nvidia GE4 Ti4600 graphics card. I

Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Derek Jennings wrote: Well apart from a warning about not being able to read your monitors capabilities from the hardware which could lead to not having many screen resolutions available your log shows that it all came up and ought to be working. Is this a twin head card? could the display be

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:17:13 -0400 (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: big huge snipperama Please set your line wrap at 72 characters or less, many people's mail clients cannot handle such huge paragraphs. In your mail apps prefs, there should be something to set this. -- + Joe

Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joe Hill wrote: Please set your line wrap at 72 characters or less, many people's mail clients cannot handle such huge paragraphs. In your mail apps prefs, there should be something to set this. Sorry, there is not. I am using a webmail client currently since my Mandrake installation is down

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 2:23 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:17:13 -0400 (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: big huge snipperama Please set your line wrap at 72 characters or less, many people's mail clients cannot handle such huge paragraphs. In your mail apps

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 17 Jun 2003 5:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Hill wrote: Please set your line wrap at 72 characters or less, many people's mail clients cannot handle such huge paragraphs. In your mail apps prefs, there should be something to set this. Sorry, there is not. I am using a

Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom Brinkman wrote: Short. Suggestion tho, if you have an email composer others object to, make a sig with the last character in it at 72 chars. Then you've got a guide to use CR's while typing. I appreciate the tip. I would rather get my MDK working and go back to a real email client

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-17 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 12:26:33 -0400 (GMT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Sorry, there is not. I am using a webmail client currently since my Mandrake installation is down while I try to figure out the problem with X. According to the Nvidia forums, I am not the only person

Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You would either need to use the Enterprise kernel, or limit the mem usage to I believe less than 800MB. This from the OT list and Tom Brinkman, the absolute authority on these issues around here: I believe your video problems are E-kernel related. If you've got a lot of ram use mem=860M

Re: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-16 Thread FemmeFatale
At 07:41 AM 6/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: SNIP Anyone with any suggestions would be appreciated. As it is, as much as I HATE to do it, I am going to try to download Redhat ISO's in the hopes that they support higher end hardware a little better. I don't know what else to do after 2 days of trying

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-16 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:01:56 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: after a week of Leather Gay Pride events Those are always a heap of fun. We have a pretty big one in Toronto every year. Ever been? -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net +

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-16 Thread FemmeFatale
At 07:42 PM 6/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 16:01:56 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: after a week of Leather Gay Pride events Those are always a heap of fun. We have a pretty big one in Toronto every year. Ever been? -- Unfortunately in all the years I lived there,

[newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just bought a new system and am trying to install Mandrake 9.1 on it. Soyo KT400 Dragon Platinum MB with 1 Gig of RAM, Nvidia GE4 Ti4600 graphics card. When I try to boot the installation CD or DVD, I get a hard lock with a blank screen and Scroll and Caps Lock flashing. I read on the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-15 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:04:48 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I read on the support board that there are issues with machines with more than 1 gig of RAM and possibly Nvidia graphics cards, so I specified text install. You would either need to use the Enterprise

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.1 Installation problems

2003-06-15 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 15 June 2003 12:04 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a new system and am trying to install Mandrake 9.1 on it. Soyo KT400 Dragon Platinum MB with 1 Gig of RAM, Nvidia GE4 Ti4600 graphics card. When I try to boot the installation CD or DVD, I get a hard lock with a blank