i just installed mandrake 9.2 on my second hard drive. installation went ok. bootloader works fine. when linux is booting up everything says ok ok ok...but then it turns to a blue screen like it's loading a GUI and the system hangs. once in a while I hear the hard drive chirp, but nothing...HELP!!!

How long have you waited at that blue screen? When you first see that blue screen, hit escape and you will see what it is doing. The first time you boot, it can take a long time to build the Mozilla registry and find and compute all the module dependencies.

The next time you boot, at the splash screen, hit esc, type "linux 3". This will boot to the command line. Then type "startx" and tell us what the errors are.

ok ok i'm a huge IDIOT!!!

i forgot to disable my onboard video card. i'm using an nvidia g4ce 4 and it was mirroring the desktop onto that so i was just getting blank desktop space. i plugged my monitor into the onboard card and switched mandrake to use my G4ce as the only card. Is there any way to disable my other video card totally? also...my video seems to be running very slow when i play the tron-like game...do i need to configure it seperately???

thanks to those who responded to my first question

- it must be possible to disable the onboard card on the BIOS

- there you can download the nVidia driver

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display...y_ia32_1.0-5328

close X before running it: MCC->Hardware->XDrake->option
disable X at boot, restart and run the nVidia install

roland

well i tried running that driver install and it said that it could not find LD and i should make sure it's in my path....i didn't see it in any directories

You'll need
http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=4567
Oh, and browse nvidia's README.

check these out as well.
http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showforum=29

works great...thank you