On Tuesday 14 February 2006 11:55, Nick Rout wrote: > 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.) There are at least half a dozen CAT5 cables in the CLUG 'toy-box', or at least there was when I put them there last year.
> 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). Similarly, I have a couple of video clips. A lightning demo of Ruby-on-Rails. The clip from TV3 about Lunux.conf.au -- CS
