Apoc

k3b sometimes detects a blank DVD-R in my drive sometimes it doesn't, which is the first wierd occurance. Secondly on a burn of copying a DVD is reports completed successfully but is at 4325/4330. (but an ls -l in the mnt dir proves all is ok so thats fine). I have burnt several images of dvd's and have had varying success. Tried last night one on server and one on my main computer and both failed. One got about 2GB through the other about 3.6GB of 4.3GB. Which is wierd. I have put this down to me reading the same image from the same computer over the network, and am trying it again with just my main computer burning the image. Anyone else had the same problems? Apoc

Looks good will try this out tonight.. anything to make my life easier is good :D

All, thanks for help an suggestions. I eventually used the: [esc] linux 3 [enter] method to get to the command prompt. From here i did the following (after a bit of googling for drivers and help): login as root, change to tmp directory: wget http://www2.ati.com/drivers/firegl/fglrx-g...-3.2.8.i586.rpm rpm -Uhi --force fglrx-glc22-4.3.0-3.2.8.i586.rpm (now i had errors here due to source which i can sort out easier now i don't have to use command line as much) fglrxconfig most were the defaults apart from the horizontal sync being 30-132 and vertical being 50-200 then i could select the 1600*1200 resolution. Cross fingers and: startx hey presto it worked. probably more of a fudge than a fix but i can progress from here now i hope.. Cheers guys APOC

nope still same.. I will chek out some of the other posts on this site see if i can get a solution.. Was looking forward to running my main box on linux too....

As the title suggests. Synopsis: I have successfully installed Mandrake 10 on my old Athlon 1800, which has only crashed once when i removed the CPU fan while running and overheating.. hehe. I decided to replace windows on my main box (cos its never been properly stable since XP SP2 Beta... pah. System: iiayama 754 master pro thingy monitor 1GB Ram 500GB HD's (120, 160, 80, 80, 60 ) but after problems only the 1st 120 is plugged in. DVD-RW (pioneer) 128 or 256 Radeon 9600 GFX TV Tuner card Skystar 2 PCI Satellite card (Firewire / usb / ethernet / audio blaster gold thingy sound card etc etc) Right install sorks fine. No errors. Lilo installs fine and gives me lots of boot options and selects the >64GB one as default. None of the GUI modes will boot at all. they seem to work and (on selecting interactive) get to the SSHD section that completes ok then black screen. Its as though the monitor can't get signal info from PC (but it doesn't turn off.. so its as though it can't display the signal it is getting.) That was with the resolution at 1600*1200 (same as when i ran XP) in the test screen on install this was fine. Tried again on a new install at 1200*whatever and the same.. seems to be a GFX thing (as this is the monitor i use on the other Mandrake box i have). Any ideas all the other solutions tend towards nvidia, any help pointers etc. The other solution i found was for memory, but the install works sweetly all 4 times i've done it on this box now (2 were due to user error doh). Cheers Apoc