On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:45:54 +1300 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > 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.
not true, you should bring a network cable as well (straight through, any length, but if everyone who wants to attend brings a 1m cable we are in trouble.) BTW I have purchased an 8 port switch for the CLUG locker. It was $49.00. If CLUG is prepared to give me $49 then it can keep it, otherwise CLUG can borrow it until I want it back. I will bring it tonight. I also have an interesting video of a demo of the OpenGL X desktop. Whatebver that is, it looks very cool. cooler evem than MacOSX (dare I say it). > > -- > CS -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
