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thnx a lot ffi. But i can't try it out today, quite late here :-(. But i'll surely try out n note down the necessary conf results n post back. Thankx again.

well i just ran starx and a screen full of details about X.org problem came up. I don't know why it's not working, when it went fine with my pc. Does it have anything to do with 64 bit or the nvidia graphic?

k thnx ffi, will try out and come back with the result nways how do i install kdm/gdm from the cd thru the command prompt?

Yea i know easy-urpmi but my fren doesn't have a net connection. But i can dwld it for him if you tell me wat to do.

I just installed Mandriva 2006 32-bit on my fren's pc with AMD 64 3000+, Gigabyte K8N51GMF (NVIDIA Geforce on-board) motherboard and SATA HDD. It installed fine without any prob but after rebooting it displayed a command line interface with the following lines: ----------- Mandriva Linux release 2006.0 (Official) for i586 Kernel 2.6.12-12mdksmp on an i686 / tty1 localhost login: ----------- I had opted for both GNOME as well as KDE but there is no graphics interface. Please help as to how i can go to the Graphics Windowed environment.

K thanx guys, i get the message :-)

I got kernel update files from a magazine cd. The files are 1) linux-2.6.17.6.tar.bz2 (39.4 mb) 2)patch-2.6.17.6.bz2 (7.9 kb) 3) patch-2.6.17.5-6.bz2 (489 b ) Pls tell whether i can use these files to update my kernal. If so, how? [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Is there any way we can install Knoppix 5.0.1 from the Live DVD?

Thnx again ian, problem solved.

"Kernel Panic-Not syncing:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (3,9)" I get this error while booting Mandriva 2006 after trying to change the Grub Splash Image. Please tell me how to revert back to the default splash image, or solve it in other way.

thnx a million ian, problem solved.

ianw1974 does this mean i can't do it through explorer, n only through terminal?

Here is the output of /etc/fstab. Please check it if it helps. /dev/hda9 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_f vfat umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 A fren asked me to change the umask values to 0000 to solve my problem, but everytime i try to save it says "This document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to file :///etc/fstab. Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk space is available". Please help if there is any other solution, like tweaking the control centre. Thnx again.

Q1. I'm running amarok with Mandriva Linux 2006. The prob is that the equalizer button is not active (not highlighted). I have updated amarok to 1.3.8 through urpmi but still the same problem. There is no prob with the sound though, just that i can't use the equalizer. Q2. How do i update alsa driver through urpmi, as a matter of fact any application? Q3. I can copy files from my windows partitions (fat32) but i can't write on them. It says "Access Denied" when i try to change the permission. Please help n thnx n advance