On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 02:07, Owens, Blaine C wrote:
> Last night I bit the bullet and installed Mandrake 7.2 dual boot
> with Windows 98. I've got a couple of problems and a question .
>
> 1) Xwindows comes up with horizontal lines across the screen. You
> cannot even read some apps because of these horizontal lines. I've
> tried several different resolutions and generic settings to no
> avail. I think it picked up the correct hardware for my card:
> - Windows Device Manager = Trident 9685/9680/9682/9385/9382/9385-1
> PCI - Linux = Trident Microsystems TCUI9660 (generic) TCUI
> 9660/968x/968x
>
> 2) I have a cable modem Internet connection. On bootup it stalls
> bringing up eth0 and then fails with a DHCP failure message. I have
> configured my ISP's name server in /etc/resolv.conf. Again, I think
> the hardware in Linux is correct:
> - Windows Device Manager = 3Com EtherLink III ISA (3C509b-TP) in PnP
> mode - Linux = 3Com EtherLink III ISA (3C509-TP)
>
> Any suggestions for resolving either of these problems would be
> appreciated.
>
> Finally, I would like for the default bootup to be Windows 98 (at
> least for now) but it is not obvious to me how to modify GRUB to
> accomplish this. I assume I need to modify the config file in
> /boot/grub, but how? Thanks.
>
> Blaine Owens
> Eastman Chemical Company
> Phone - (423)-229-3579
> Cell Phone - (423)-817-0704
> Fax - (423)-229-1188
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For all of these, have you tried looking at the configuration tools in
DrakConf?
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
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