Thanks a lot Brian. I will have to look in a hardware USENET group to hopefully get help about the DVD contrivances.
Teilhard. > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 07:44, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > First, I would like to thank all those who answered my post "Sound and > > Video" > > > > On the video side, I have downloaded the NVIDIA package, but I have not > > installed it because I do not know how to switch off KDE. Could you tell me > > how? And also how to start it again? > > In a console window, type: > > init 3 > > X will shut down and you can log in as root, do your nvidia install, > then type: > > startx > > to get X started again. > > > > > On the sound side, I seem to have a hardware problem. For those who didn't > > read my first post, I have a DVD drive, a CD-RW, and a DVD+RW. Both WinXP > > and Mandrake (9.2) have problems even displaying the contents of the DVD > > drive and the DVD+RW. The CD-RW works fine. This happened after installing > > Mandrake, but I do not know how this can give problems in WinXP. The two > > OS's live in their own partitions, and as far as I know, they do not fiddle > > with each other. I feel this is not a Mandrake issue, but in case you can > > offer me a hand, I'll be grateful. > > It's tough to see how mdk could be responsible as you say. No clue > here. Sorry > > > > > Teilhard > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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