Sorry, I should have been a bit more descriptive.. >> I tried hitting the escape key when the lilo screen came up, and entering >> linux mem=247M but that did not work.
>You mean it did not boot, or it did not fix your problem? I typed in linux mem=247M at the prompt which said boot: however it did not fix my problem. >> I have managed to save the ddebug.log install.log and report.bug files and >> am wondering if there is somewhere/someone to contact in order to find out >> any pertinent info in any of those logs in order to debug my install? >How are you seeing these files if you only get a blank screen? Are you >logging in on COM1 or something? I was able to use the failsafe boot mode and eventually get to a login screen using runlevel 3, then I saved those logs to /mnt/win_c >I am still guessing wildly here, but if your onboard video cannot be >disabled, then there is probably an entry for that device in your >/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, and Mandrake may be directing output to that >device instead of your Radeon. >Have you tried attaching a monitor to the onboard video socket? I am contemplating doing just that if I can find the room to have a second monitor. Now here is the weird part, after using XFdrake and 1. letting Mandrake configure both heads (video cards) and 2. choosing XFree86 4.1.0 without acceleration and 16 colors I was able to get X up and running and can use Gnome, KDE or other desktops. However I found that it is directing the output thru the onboard video adapter, but this monitor is connected to the Radeon card NOT the onboard video socket (which makes me think it was working before and so I was just not seeing the display... it was being sent to the monitor which wasn't there ;-) ) I would still like to be able to use the Radeon card even if it is without 3D acceleration - can I change which video card it is using somehow? >Does anything happen when you do Ctl+Alt+F1 through to F10 ? Not before using XFdrake and was attempting to use X, I did try that also to see if I could bring up a terminal window to at least do a shutdown -r now. Instead I had to do a power down and reboot - which bites when it has to check the drive each time. At least X is up and running. Mandrake looks great compared to RH! When I get home tonite I will look into switching which video card it uses and/or bring in a second monitor and see what's happening on it. Thanks for the input Derek
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