Steve; Here's a few things to try. I haven't been following your thread
(conversation topic) enough to know everything you've tried, but here goes.
If we look at the basics, your problem may be video-related. Assuming that
this is the case, check your video card itself, and see if it has jumpers on
it to enable/disable IRQ. Having done that, check your BIOS to confirm that
the setting in the BIOS is the same as the jumper on your video card. If
your card doesn't have a jumper for the IRQ, try assigning one in the BIOS.
If it's already assigned in the BIOS, disable it. In other words, try a few
different combinations. Also, check to see if "Plu 'n' Play is enabled in
your BIOS (PnP/PCI Configuration). If so, disable it. That can make a big
difference by itself. If possible could you please send me a list of your
hardware? Video card, Monitor, mouse, motherboard, ram and CPU? That would
help a lot. One last thing, Have you considered upgrading to Linux-Mandrake
7.2? You can download it for free from their web-site, but a high-speed
connection is reccommended. Get back to me on this.
Dan LaBine
Registered Linux User #190712
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Maytum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 5:20 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] I'm completely lost
> Ralph , can't help right now , but i'll try to e-mail tonight (17/01/01)
> with help. Meantime send info on your system. Regards
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ralph Avery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:29 AM
> Subject: [newbie] I'm completely lost
>
>
> > I've been tinkering with this Linux for some time, but I still don't
> > understand it at all. I've read the posts on this message board (All
> 150+)
> > every day, but everyone's completely out of my league with their
> responses.
> >
> > I have Mandrake Linux (I think 6.2). I managed to get it up and running
,
> I
> > can even connect to the internet. I have no idea how I did it. I am
> trying
> > to get my sound card and NIC card to work. I downloaded some files that
> are
> > supposed to be the drivers. They're in tar.gz format. I've gunzipped
> them,
> > and even tarred them. I have a bunch of files now, and I have no idea
> what
> > to do with them. There's an Adobe PDF with one of them. I downloaded
the
> > latest version of Acrobat to read it. It makes no sense.
> >
> > When I log out of KDE (Or any other GUI) I often lose my mouse. The
> cursor
> > goes to the extreme upper right corner, and I can't do squat after that.
> > All I can do is hit Reset. The computer's not locked up, but it won't
let
> > me do anything when I return to the GUI. I would imagine there was a
> > command that could be executed which would activate the mouse again.
> >
> > Is there anyone out there willing to do some one-on-one tutoring, and
help
> > someone who's really really trying?
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
