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Hi there,

 

I am trying to install Mandrake 10 Official (3 CD's) on a desktop PC, with the following features: Dell XPS 400 MHz, Pentium II, 384 MB RAM, video card Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro (8 MB RAM), monitor Dell Ultrascan 1600HS (D1626H).

 

When I start the installation process from Installation CD 1, only a TEXT mode is loaded into memory (even if I press F1 and choose 'linux'); the installer doesn't seem to recognize, in this machine, its graphical resources (video card?). How shoul I proceed to have it working, right during the installation process and afterwards?

 

The weird thing is that I have already used the same CD's to install Mandrake on two other machines (another desktop and a laptop) and everything worked fine. Also, in this very same machine I am having this trouble, I previously had installed SuSE 8.1 with no problems.

 

If I insist trying the text installation (despite being too cumbersome), when I reach the X server or graphic configuration, I notice that, instead of having autodetected my Diamond Fire GL Pro 1000 card, it displays, if I am remember correctly, a card called Gloria (?).

 

Any specific information in plain English or links are much appreciated.

 

Thanks!

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The command 'linux splash=quiet vga=normal', on the boot prompt during installation, still led to a pure text mode....

 

What I have been able to do was, by using CTRL+ALT+F1 through F5, to check the issuing of the following messages:

 

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* getFile Mandrake/base/patch-oem.pl

* errorOpeningFile Mandrake/base/patch-oem.pl

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* trying to load i810fb module with xres <800> (vga was <788>)

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* Trying with server Driver:fbdev

* Server died

* Starting step 'selectLanguage'

 

and then the text mode is in forever....

 

Have you got any suggestions?

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When you press F! check out the options.

try;

linux vgalo

 

Yes, the problem is your vid-card. It may be fine after install, but you have to get through that first to find out. So if your have to, do a text install. At minimum maybe X will work with one of the vegs/vga drivers.

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Hi

 

I did a basic installation in pure text mode, though that's far from funny; anyhow, as always with Linux, I was able to learn a few interesting things...

 

Now, the situation is:

 

1) during boot, there are several initialization messages, reading: too many fs mounted, or wrong file system, or bad superblock on some partition

2) there is no graphical splash for lilo

3) I chose to boot in runlevel 3 (pure text), just in case. When I run startx, there are some flashing messages, indicating, I guess, some problems; the same happens when I log ou of X: these ones seem to be related to the kbeyboard mapping (?)

4) when I login as root, there are no icons on the lower status bar of the deskop...

 

Apart from this, everything seems to be working fine

 

Cheers

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When I run startx, there are some flashing messages, indicating, I guess, some problems; the same happens when I log ou of X

can you post the messages in here? maybe we find the buggy thing.

 

there is no graphical splash for lilo

it just came into my mind: do you have a virus scanner enabled in your bios? this can cause a graphical "conflict" with lilo. i myself experienced lilo starting without graphical display and constantly sending error messages until i deactivated the bios-virusguard. since that day, everything works fine.

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Hi there,

 

My first problem mentioned before (1) wrong fs type, or... was solved via another topic which I posted here (entitled windows 98 partiions unaccessible). I had to delete an option 'code=437' from the lines relative to the windows partitions in my /etc/fstab file.

 

I still remain with the other problems: starting X generates some flashing messages, which I will try somehow to discover what they read, and quitting it, generates other messages, which read something wrong with kbmap (or the like): it seems my keyboard keys are would be somehow confused, but I did not detect anything strange at all, up until now, at least....

The other annoying thing is that the status bar, when logged in as root, presents no icons...

 

Cheers!

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As a root user in a gui you'll get very few if any of the fun stuff as icons. Linux (Mandrake ) assumes you know that you are the admin and should only be doing admin things.

 

Its recomended to always make a user for yourself and just switch user(su) to root when you need to do the big stuff.

 

 

Since you have a basic system you can now add anything you want from the three disks you downloaded.

 

The install option is in the MCC. And this can all be done as a user.

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