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Hmmmm... thanks for the tips. Yes I tried nv and svga, I just get a scrambled screen. Vesa is the worst, as I get this really intense white pattern starting from the edges that starts to consume my screen. Looks really nasty and damaging. I just tried drakconf, thanks for telling me about it. One good thing about this is I'm learning the command line, hehehe. I tried various resolutions at various colour depths, and the only thing that changed was the width of the scattered blue lines along the bottom of the screen. And to think, I was quite impressed when I managed to talk the normally anal sales staff into letting me boot a knoppix 3.3 CDR on the display model. I thought I'd picked a decent laptop that wouldn't give me many problems in Mandrake since it booted knoppix so flawlessly.

ARG!!!! Case sensitivity will be the death of me yet, hehehe. OK, successfully edited /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 , but when I type startx, I get I black screen with a few scattered blue lines along the bottom of the screen. I'm stumped. Possibly I need to pick a specific disply type? I've been letting the installer pick it's default of "flat panel 1024x768", my laptops native resolution. Unfortunatly, I don't know who makes the screen on my laptop, and the manufactuter's website appears useless for any specifics. Any ideas, or should I just give in and settle for WinXP home? If it helps, my laptop is a Medion md 40566.

hmmmm.... Going to have to try again tomorrow, it's still giving me hell. Installed 9.2, configured the video to what it left as default (vesa), skipped the test, set it to boot to the command line, finished the install and rebooted. I then installed the kernel source, installed the nvidia driver, and went to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, but it opened a new blank file. I checked, and there doesn't appear to be an /etc/x11 directory. "-bash: cd: /etc/x11: no such file or directory" Maybe I messed something in my rush to try it out, it was my 6th attempt and I was getting impatient. I'll let you know how my next attempt tomorrow fares.

I'll try that, and get back to you with the results. Thank you for your help.

I'm trying to install 9.2 on my laptop, but am having problems on the summery screen. When I try to configure my video card, I can't seem to pick the correct settings. I pick what I figure is correct and allow it to test the configuration, and then I get a scrambled display. It then stays there, as if there's no timeout on the settings test. Is there a key-combo I can hit to force it to cancel the test and allow me to choose again? So far I've had to turn off the machine when I get to this point, and then reinstall since I'm not familiar enough with the command line it will boot to after this. The graphics card is a 64mb Nvidia G-force FX 5200go, and have tried the following card settings: Geforce FX, nv, vesa, and vga. Thanks.