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Dressler:
Help!
Amd 1.333Ghz Thunderbird
512mb RAM
ms-6340 kt133 mobo
nVidia Geforce-2 MX 64mb RAM
I kinda suck at linux, so please try and make it....easy.
When I boot up my computer (dual boot with...Windows XP I KNOW I KNOW but assignments require me to have it). I chooase Linux and I get tot he login screen. And the computer freezes.
Help? I tried reinstalling it. EDIT: I think I am using Grub....
EDIT: How many of you have tried Security Linux from www.NSA.gov?
[ December 05, 2002: Message edited by: Dressler ]
voidmain:
I have a very similar system and do not have that problem. I have seen a few others here complain of the exact same problem you are experiencing. It would seem to me that it is a video card issue. I also have a GeForce2 card but mine is of the GTS variety. The first thing I would try is installing the driver from nVidia. The question is, how difficult of a task would that be to do without the graphical environment for someone who is new to Linux. For me it is easy but for someone new it could be quite a job.
In fact I just did a google search for "redhat freezes geforce" and find that many people have this problem with the GeForce2 MX card. It looks like it may be a problem with the particular version of XFree86 that is shipped with RedHat.
I'll do some more research and do some thinking and see if I can come up with an easy solution for your problem.
[ December 05, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
Dressler:
Thank you, Void Main. I appreciate it.
KernelPanic:
quote:Originally posted by void main:
I have a very similar system and do not have that problem. I have seen a few others here complain of the exact same problem you are experiencing. It would seem to me that it is a video card issue. I also have a GeForce2 card but mine is of the GTS variety. The first thing I would try is installing the driver from nVidia. The question is, how difficult of a task would that be to do without the graphical environment for someone who is new to Linux. For me it is easy but for someone new it could be quite a job.
In fact I just did a google search for "redhat freezes geforce" and find that many people have this problem with the GeForce2 MX card. It looks like it may be a problem with the particular version of XFree86 that is shipped with RedHat.
I'll do some more research and do some thinking and see if I can come up with an easy solution for your problem.
[ December 05, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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Surely it would be failry simple if you give each command to enter and he follows them. The most difficult bit would probably be using vim, but thats hardly brain surgery.
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Tux:
Surely it would be failry simple if you give each command to enter and he follows them. The most difficult bit would probably be using vim, but thats hardly brain surgery.
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Yes, but I wanted to be fairly confident that installing the nVidia drivers would in fact solve the problem before giving any instructions. Might save some time and confusion.. In fact it might be as simple as turning off the accel options in the X configuration using the existing drivers (or turning off some other option) but I haven't verified any of that yet.
[ December 05, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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