> If you were to turn up with your machine, and all the extra things like > power-cords, monitor, keyboard and mice etc. and $10 in your hot little > hand you'd have a pretty good chance of getting one of the better Linux > systems installed. You will need a network card or be happy for one of us > to open your machine and fit one.
I'd suggest sticking with Mandrake. But if you head along to the installfest someone should be able to help you set it up while waiting for Gentoo to compile! Anybody? Jason are you going your'd probably be able to help? By the way which of the commands did you try that stuffed up? Can you try from the command line. cd /proc/ dir If it lists stuff see if you can do cat pci | less that will list all the add on cards in your system should be able to tell you what the Graphics card is. (press q to close it). Also try cd /etc/X11/ dir if it lists some stuff. One thing that would really help could you try the command startx or startkde and send us the error messages that it prints out on the screen? Copies of Copies could be the problem though if you managed to install with out errors it seems unlikely to be the problem. More likely from the sounds the X (Graphical) Sever configuration was not done or Stuffed up. How many CD's did you have by the way? Chad
