On Tuesday 14 February 2006 11:28, Anthony Hart wrote: > I am a new Linux user (Mandriva LE 2005) with a couple > of boot problems that I would appreciate some > assistance with. Rik Tindall suggested posting the > details on the CLUG list and bringing my PC to > tonight's meeting. > > The problems are: > 1. Boot does not complete (no GUI just a blank screen) > unless the ethernet cable is connected to the > Surfboard cable modem. System seems to be running. Odd to say the least. btw. How important to you is that your run Mandriva?
> 2. Firestarter firewall fails to initialize at boot > > There are other issues e.g. audio card works fine but > I cannot get the microphone working. Fiddled with > Kmix but no joy... It would be a great help if you could tell us _exactly_ what the audio card is? please run the command lspci -v as root and post the parts of the output which refer to the sound card. > How much hardware/software do I need to bring - > monitor?? You need to bring everything except network cables or a mains board, don't forget to bring your mains cables. -- CS
