On Monday 19 Sep 2005 15:12, Christopher Taylor wrote: > I am trying to install 2006 RC2 on an older PC. I goal is to run IceWm > or another lightweight wm that will allow the PC to become usable again. > It is an older Gateway with a 500 MHz And K6-2 with 256Megs of Ram - * > are shared with a Trident CyberBlade on-board video. The monitor is a > KDS (Wal-Mart cheap) 17 in. I have installed root and one user. The > system locks after boot. When I say locked, a text based login screen > appears, no matter what username I put in it never goes to the password > step. It always goes back to the login. I can boot in fail safe. Running > drakconf - video I get an error whenever I try the test. I have tried > various resolution settings and various monitor settings. It was > suggested on #mandriva that I try knoppix and see if that does better at > setting up the video and capturing those settings. I thought that I > should post this to the group while I am at work so that I can have > something to go with when I get home. Thanks.
When you get the lilo screen to choose linux, failsafe, or whatever, hit F1 to get a text screen. Enter linux noapic nolapic If that does it for you, it can be inserted into lilo.conf for future use. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Mandriva hints & tips: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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