greenday86 Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 i just installed mandrake 9.2 on my second hard drive. installation went ok. bootloader works fine. when linux is booting up everything says ok ok ok...but then it turns to a blue screen like it's loading a GUI and the system hangs. once in a while I hear the hard drive chirp, but nothing...HELP!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 How long have you waited at that blue screen? When you first see that blue screen, hit escape and you will see what it is doing. The first time you boot, it can take a long time to build the Mozilla registry and find and compute all the module dependencies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 The next time you boot, at the splash screen, hit esc, type "linux 3". This will boot to the command line. Then type "startx" and tell us what the errors are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenday86 Posted December 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 ok ok i'm a huge IDIOT!!! i forgot to disable my onboard video card. i'm using an nvidia g4ce 4 and it was mirroring the desktop onto that so i was just getting blank desktop space. i plugged my monitor into the onboard card and switched mandrake to use my G4ce as the only card. Is there any way to disable my other video card totally? also...my video seems to be running very slow when i play the tron-like game...do i need to configure it seperately??? thanks to those who responded to my first question Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 - it must be possible to disable the onboard card on the BIOS - there you can download the nVidia driver http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display...y_ia32_1.0-5328 close X before running it: MCC->Hardware->XDrake->option disable X at boot, restart and run the nVidia install roland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenday86 Posted December 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 well i tried running that driver install and it said that it could not find LD and i should make sure it's in my path....i didn't see it in any directories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 (edited) You'll need http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=4567 Oh, and browse nvidia's README. check these out as well. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showforum=29 Edited December 24, 2003 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenday86 Posted December 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 works great...thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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