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sam:
ok, graphics card - what do you have? you may have found a hardware incompatiblity. Linux just doesnt have the huge database that windows does as standard. You will have to install the exact configuration. Find out what you have got and I'll see if I can find out if there are any known problems.

It might be worth reinstalling it and making sure that you had the exact configuration of the graphics card. Out of interest does it boot straight to the graphical?

Flanjeuk:
I have a "Leadtek WinFast A6200TD 128MB AGP"

I chose the NVIDIA Display drivers on the update page at the end of the installation.

Im not sure what you mean when you say does it boot straight to graphical,
if you mean into the GUI rather than a screen of writing, then yes it does. but i still have the option to go to that other DOS type screen but it means nothing to me.

sam:
will you can go into the "dos" screen. Its just a command line interface. At least then you know if the installation works, try something like xedit at the command line and see if you get a basic command line text editor up. To close it i think it is control-x and then control-c.. but to halt the taksk use control-z.

you can leave the command line by typing kde or gnome...see if this gives you the GUI. If not or you get the same error then its bound to be the graphics card.

By specifiying the Nvidia ones you might well have chosen the wrong ones. This is crucial, its not like windows which will just give you a crap screen res. Though I guess it uses the nvidia chipset...and probably should have work.

If the above method doesnt work, I'd suggest you reisntall it. Should be the same procedure as before but asking you to remove the linux partitions and don't use the update.nvidia chipsets are normally very good with linux machines.

Flanjeuk:
didn't work, tried reinstalling without choosing any graphics drivers, and it did the same again. i think i'll just try a different Linux, I hear Mandrake is another very good version, do you know where i could download it?

sam:
dont use mandrake. i used to use it and its not one for the newbie.

You need to choose the graphics driver, did u choose one and then not to download the update. thats the situation I'd go with.

Other alternatives I'd recommend: Ubuntu, Fedora.

Fedora is the free version (essentially) of RedHat which is excellent. Just type in google and you should get it.

It might be worth you trying the live version of ubuntu - check if all the devices work before installing it, if you go that way.

I'd suggest the two most "windows-user" friendly ones would be Suse, Fedora and then probably Linspire, which you will find more info in the other Linux boards.

U don't have nothing to lose really, its always good to get the experience with installing these operating systems.

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