On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 7:31 am, Pete Stean wrote: > Hi folks, my first experience with linux isnt going very well... > > Installing Mandrake from CD-ROM - it detects all my hardware ok (apart > from my usb Epson C42 printer but let's worry about that later) > including my Geforce4 card and here's the problem. Hitting the test > button on the graphics card selection screen at any resolution or colour > depth just gives me a black screen.... > > I continued with the installation anyway and after another hour or so it > booted fine - hit the return key to run linux and it does all the xxxxxx > [OK] lines until it gets to "xinextd....." at which point I get a black > screen. I'm thinking maybe its actually loaded the gui at this point but > I can't see it cos of the above problem.... > > Any ideas folks? BTW plug and play aware OS is SWITCHED OFF in my BIOS > at the moment but Windoze XP explicitly says it should be and I am > running (well hopefully) a dual boot system - plug and play aware os is > important in linux right?? > > Thanks in advance - please nothing too technical cos I am a complete > noob - please let me know if I can provide further info to help diagnose > this > > Cheers > > Peter
Is your video card dual head? If so the GUI may be appearing on the 'other' output. You might also try Ctrl+Alt+F1 to see if you get a text based console ( Ctl + Alt +F7 puts you back to the GUI ) derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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