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WOOOHOOOO!!!! I'm now using the mandrake gui or I guess otherwise known as X! Well I figured out that the second time that I tried to install Mandrake i didn't configure the monitor hence I didn't install x. It said that you've opted to not install x do you want to do this i said yes. Hey I didn't know what x was at that time. :D So I felt like i was going around in circles and decided to just format the whole thing and start over since i knew exactly what i had to do. So i did but then decided to install the boot record on the beginning of the partition instead of the mbr. Well when i rebooted all i got was a bunch of 9's along the screen so I then started over for the fourth time and formatted then reinstall. Well this time everything went exactly as my tutorial said it would. Now x is installed and i have to now configure it to the way i like it. Thanks for all your help and i'm sure i'll be asking for more of it. Oh by the way how do you install windows programs on this? Thanks again for all your help!!!

Also like i said in the previous reply i went into the dir and typed in dir and there's no file named XF86Config-4. I just went in and did ls and the same thing no file.

correct me if i'm wrong but isn't dir and ls the same thing?

Yes i've figured that if you want to do any editing you must be in root. But no matter how you look at it I logged back into linux and went to the etc/X11 dir and there's not a file called XF86Config-4. That's why there's nothing to edit because it's not there. Would reinstalling the nvidia drivers work?

I thank everyone for their help and i'm so so close. Well with your help i've got the kernel installed, as well as, the nVidia drivers. When I go to check the xf86config-4 file there's nothing there and it's blank. I know that i'm supposed to just go in and edit the driver name from nv to nvidia but there's nothing there to edit. Am i supposed to manually type all of this in? Maybe: Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 DDR (generic)" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" Endsection Now like i said there's nothing there and if i have to type it in please tell me if there's anything wrong with what i wrote. I'm a little uncertain about the boardname if that's correct. Again I have a geforce 3 64meg ddr mem.

does it matter that at the top of the screen when you first login it says kernel 2.4.22-10mdkenterprise on an i686/ tty1. I see that the link in which you gave me is for a i586 and i'm just wondering if that'll make a difference before I do this. Thank you for the link I did the same in yahoo and got this http://kitty.plala.jp/Asumi/kernel/2.4.22-10/ as the first link and dled it. I'll stick with you version if it's compatible.

Ok i was pretty sure what my kernel was but i went into linux and double-checked it. The version is 2.4.22-10mdk. You have to understand that I'm totally new to linux and don't know anything about it except for what i've been learning about in the last couple of days. You say I need to get an rpm and matches my kernel version well that's fine but where do I dl this rpm from? Again, thanks for you help.

ok i'm getting frustrated now... after linux starts loading everything up i'm at the "command prompt" i guess you can call it. It asks me for user name and from my understanding i type in root. that logs me in and then i'm supposed to type in su which does nothing as far as chaning directories or anything in general. Then i typed in urpmi binutils <enter> and it says that it's already installed. Next i type in urpmi kernel-source <enter> and it says package not found. I also messed with urpmi kernel- source as well as urpmi kernel - source which (from my understanding) gives me different kernels. I then pick a kernel and type in urpmi kernel-(name of kernel that i picked) and it says that it's already installed so i'm thinking great i can then go and type in sh nvidia-whatever....run -a and i still get the same error. Please help me i'd like to get into the gui and HOPEFULLY that'll be a little bit easier to use than the command prompt. Thanks for your help!!!

Thanks for everyone and all their efforts! I'm slowly but surely getting my way into the linux gui. I've figured out how to copy and paste the nvidia drivers from my windows c drive into the root directory and when i tried to install i get this error nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Wed Dec 31 20:27:18 2003 option status: license pre-accepted : false update : false force update : false expert : false uninstall : false driver info : false no precompiled interface: false no ncurses color : false query latest driver ver : false OpenGL header files : false no questions : false silent : false XFree86 install prefix : /usr/X11R6 OpenGL install prefix : /usr Installer install prefix: /usr kernel include path : (not specified) kernel install path : (not specified) proc mount point : /proc ui : (not specified) tmpdir : /root/tmp ftp site : ftp://download.nvidia.com Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface -> License accepted. -> No precompiled kernel interface was found to match your kernel; would you li ke the installer to attempt to download a kernel interface for your kernel f rom the NVIDIA ftp site (ftp://download.nvidia.com)? (Answer: Yes) -> No matching precompiled kernel interface was found on the NVIDIA ftp site; this means that the installer will need to compile a kernel interface for your kernel. ERROR: Unable to find the kernel header files for the currently running kernel. Please make sure you have installed the kernel header files for your kernel; on Red Hat Linux systems, for example, be sure you have the 'kernel-source' rpm installed. If you know the correct kernel header files are installed, you may specify the kernel include path with the '--kernel-include-path' commandline option. ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. If anyone could help me get past this problem i think that i would have a successful install of the nvidia drivers and well into the gui. By the way i'm using a geforce 3 64 meg ddr with a linux mandrake kernel of 2.4.22-10mdkenterprise on an i686/ ttyl. Thank you for any further assistance you may be. P.S. I also asked if you can run windows components such as adobe photoshop 8.0, office 2003, nero, etc.... on linux. These are my main concerns!

Hello i'm trying to explore the world of linux so yesterday i dled mandrake 9.2. Well during install everything was going fine until the very end when you configure everything. Mandrake was fine with everything except my video. I don't know how it can't display everything when i get a perfect display during the install. So i tried everything to configure it but with no avail. I'm using a nvidia geforce 3 64meg ddr card. I've read several people have problems with the nvidia card and they say that you have to dl the drivers and install them. The problem is that i'm currently using windows xp pro which doesn't see the linux partition and i've dled the nvidia drivers to the c: root dir. I've logged into linux and can't figure out how to see all the other partitions so that i can try to go ahead and install the drivers. Any help that you can provide me should bring me one further step away from using windows. Also can you run regular windows programs in linux such as photoshop 8, nero, office, etc.?