On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:53 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> Roland Hughes wrote:
I have a nvidia pcie card. When you say a clean install was that re-formatting
the home partition?
Roly
> > Just to give some feed back:
> > Will not set up a dual boot properly;
> > Tried this on a Dell270 at work a few times, I could boot into linux but
> > when I tried to boot into windows I would get a message about starting
> > windows 95 and then drop into a "a" prompt. I put 2006 back on and it
> > dual boots fine.
> >
> > Desktop messed up (no icons etc.);
> > On a install over 2006 but not formatting the home partition using kde
> > the desktop and menus were all messed up and when I rebooted I had no
> > task bar or desktop icons. I put 2006 back on it and when had that going
> > smooth I renamed the .kde folder before rebooting and doing the 2007
> > install again. Seemed to work OK but had to do a lot of tweaking on the
> > desktop settings. This was on a amd athelon with a nevidia gforce 128
> > video card.
> >
> > Still running 2007 on the test box but am real nerves about putting it
> > on, 64 bit, my main box, a x86_64 opteron.
> >
> > Roly
> >
> >
> > Cannot get java or flash to work;
> > Still working on this but it seems like the path is messed up.
>
> I installed on a x86-64 sempron and it installed fine. Only, the tv card
> would not work no matter what I did. On the 32bit version the card works
> on the first boot. So, I think there are some files missing, like, a
> v4l2 file of some sort. Anyway if you don't have a tv card and you do
> have an ati video card such as mine, Radeon 9550, then it seems like it
> works dandy. Oh, it was a clean install by the way, with the old .kde
> saved on a flash drive and migrated in after install. HTH
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