Carol....do you purposely state things in a obfuscatory
manner. In your original post you talked about fiddling
around instead of telling us what it was you actually
attempted to do. In both posts you've never said what
/size/brand/model of monitor you have or what you see (black
screen, fuzzy image, white but no visible image) when it
doesn't work. In this post you tell us you've got a tiny
drive, but not what size it actually is. It's as if you don't
really want help, just a place to tell people about your linux
adventure.
How about some facts and/or some detailed descriptions of your
actions in the next post.
Alan
WolfRyder wrote:
>
> My plan is to get a larger HD and put both SuSE and Mandrake on it. The HD
> I'm using is a very tiny one (spare part from my husband) because I didn't
> want to put Linux on the HD with my win98 system. I wanted to become
> familiar with Linux in general and learn the language a little. The SuSE
> was "easy" because I have a SuSE guru as a husband and his puter is next to
> mine in the puter room.
>
> I'm still determined to use Mandrake. There are so many things I want to
> learn how to do. Webserver, small mail server, things like that. I want to
> know which is easier to administer and that's why I want both.
>
> What I don't understand is, why could SuSE see my video/monitor settings
> and Mandrake couldn't. I tried manually setting the sync rates, but without
> knowing what they are, I was up the creek.
>
> Carol
>
> At 10:18 AM 5/8/00 -0700, you wrote:
> >Carol....you haven't given us (the folks who try to help here)
> >a chance to assist you in fixing your problem. You just
> >dashed in here and announced that you were switching to SuSE,
> >because Mandrake doesn't support your video card (which is
> >totally untrue). How about a better (more detailed)
> >description of your problem with your x configuration, so we
> >can help you to get Mandrake running?
> >
> >I for one am not here to read about how happy you are with
> >SuSE. If you "gave up" then why are you still here? If you
> >haven't given up then let's see if we can fix the problem.
> >You've seen KDE now, so you can uninstall SuSE and reinstall
> >Mandrake, so we can get on with it :-)
> >
> >Alan
> >
> >P.S. A wild guess might be that you have a monitor that
> >doesn't have correct synch figures in the data base and we
> >might need to use another monitor selection (or enter the
> >synch rates manually) to get things working for you.
> >
> >
> >WolfRyder wrote:
> > >
> > > I installed SuSE 6.4 yesterday and finally got to see KDE! I know Mandrake
> > > has the driver Mach64, but no matter what I did or how I fiddled, Mandrake
> > > wouldn't configure with my video card and I gave up. LILO also installed
> > > perfectly and I can boot in either Windows or SuSE and there is no hanging
> > > in the password screen of Win98.
> > >
> > > I suspect when I become more comfortable with Linux, I will learn to
> > > manually tweak things and will try the Mandrake again.
> > >
> > > Next step is to get a larger HD and install SuSE on that one, as well as
> > > Mandrake.
> > >
> > > Thanks for everyone's help!!
> > >
> > > Carol
