i opened up the comp to take the NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 card out and replace it with an NVIDIA GeFORCE2 MX200. now that i'm in linux, i can see a noticible difference in the clarity and crispness of things on the screen, and i havn't even tried playing DVDs yet.
but the key words in the above sentence.....'now that i'm in linux'..... upon firing the computer back up, i went chose linux at the lilo screen. it detected new hardware and the removal of hardware, and i went and configured it right there. i guess that was my mistake. i let it test itself, it eventually put me to a black screen at the command line asking for a log-in. once i halted the system, i booted back in again, chose linux again, and after a it booted up, it went back to the same black screen. linun-nonfb does this too. i am only able to get into the graphical desktop by using 'failsafe' and i have to choose that i want to enter in a graphical mode and enter the root password so the INIT runlevel will go from 3 to 5 to let me into the system (at least that's what i notice it does while things are scrolling up the screen). so anyway.... how do i fix this? i'd like to be able to get into the system normally when the computer sees a reboot every week or so, for whatever reason it may be, gotta love it, full week w/out reboot and even then it's not because of problems...i'll never be a regular ms-windows user again. ok, that's getting off topic.... so yeah, how do i fix this? help greatly appreciated. thanks. Mike
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