Guest zoktor Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 HELLO!! I have problem with starting (booting) mandrake 10.0 after clean installation. After mdk 10.0 installation complited, after reboot, the lilo is starting and when finished his job, when kde should start suddenly black screen appear,with horizontal blue lines in bottom of the screen ( where windows taskbar is located ),so that's the end. I would very appreciate if somebody could help me to solve this problem. The motherboard is ASUS P4S8X-X with VIA SIS 648 chipset on it. (NOTE : i have no problem with mandrake 9.2 version, only with 10.0) My hdd is 80 GB with 4 seperate partitions,first for win 98, then for xp, next is for data and the last one is for linux. Please, if somebody have some suggestions freely write me back to my address: zoran-d@yunord.net THANK'S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 What video card do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest onlds Posted October 4, 2004 Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 I've had the same problem. I've got a Radeon 7500 video card. This is really drivin me nuts! I installed Suse 9.1 and it booted just fine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zoktor Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 What video card do you have? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> HELLO ! My video card is : GeForce4 MX440 AGP8x Please, if somebody know something then write me back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 At lilo boot splash, hit esc, and type "linux 3", press enter. Log in to the command prompt. Type "startx", press enter. Report back the error it gives you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zoktor Posted October 16, 2004 Report Share Posted October 16, 2004 HELLO! When i type "linux 3" then i got this: Mandrake Linux relase 10.0 ( Official ) for i 586 Kernel 2.6.3-7 mdk on an i 686 / tty1 localhost login: So then i log in as root and then type startx and the result is black screen when kde should start, with blue horizontal lines at bottom of the screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Sorry, I know it's frustrating, but x thinks it's actually running, so no errors! Boot to command line again, and instead of starting x, type "mc" and navigate to /etc/X11/XF86Config. Toward the bottom of the file, where it has the driver to load (should be after a description of your video card) change "nv" to "vesa" and see if that will give you a better x. Or, if it is not using "nv" try that driver. Once we are in x, you can use a gui to make changes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zoktor Posted October 25, 2004 Report Share Posted October 25, 2004 HELLO! I successful chainged "nvidia" driver with "nv" in "mc", and i got x and gui ,so now i should make those suggested changes , but i don't know how to do this ( sorry, i 'm just newbie ) . Please can somebody tell me step by step how to make changes so i could normally boot in linux through lilo "linux" option rather then again go thru "failsafe" option and "mc". THANK'S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 25, 2004 Report Share Posted October 25, 2004 First, go to www.nvidia.com and download the latest driver. It is "A32" I think in their terminology. Find the Howto on this sight and follow the instructions on installing the driver. Then, try x again with "nvidia". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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