KimiKiri

System Specs: AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 256 MB Kingston PC 2100 RAM ASUS NVIDIA nForce MoBo I just installed Mandrake 9.2 last night and I must say I am very impressed so far. I am a total linux noob and I do have a few quick questions I hope you can help me with. My first obstacle was that linux would not boot... It kept freezing at: Starting up APM daemon I did interactive startup which gave me the choice to skip loading the APM daemon, but I saw on a post somewhere here that you can later fix this problem from the console... Any idea on how I can do this? My next obstacle was getting the Nforce drivers to work with 9.2 luckily there is a great post in this very forum that got me setup in no time flat. I notice there is a great deal of "lag" between the mandrake 9.2 setup and my windows XP PC... is this because of the APM damon failing to load... or is there some sort of optimization I need to do...? (ie: load specific drivers) Could someone please direct me to a site/download that displays and defines all of the console commands? I used DOS back in the day, I also have experience with c++ code. I am trying to fumble my way through this, but the Mandrake user manual seems geared towards the GUI interfaces... Is there a way to switch from GNOME to KDE once you configure a user to use GNOME? Sorry for all the questions, but I am very noobified. Like I mentioned before I am very happy with the results I have achieved so far(Getting 9.2 to run on a dreaded Nforce board with lan and sound support). This board has been a great help to me and I hope to be seeing a lot more of everyone here. I can however offer up some great linux humor for those of you who have never seen this before, check this out... I laugh everytime I watch it: http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/

Wow, You people are awesome... Linux noob here and after reading the first few posts I thought I was going to have to find another version of linux... but with your easy instructions I was up and running in no time at all THANK YOU!