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Does anyone know if this scanner is compatible in Mandrake 10? I picked it up from a yard sale and I don't have the software for it. If anyone can help that would be appreciated.

From what I understand as long as the voltages are ok then yes you can. It will only run at 4x though.

I am new to Linux and have a problem. I installed the NVidia driver as instructed from there site. Also edited the inittab file as instructed. Here is the problem. When I start the computer and try to load Linux I get sent to the command line because there was an error with the screen (no screen found) I found a way around this. Here is how. Fail Safe-->telinit 3-->logon-->startx This works without a problem. When I edited the inittab file I had to change the 5 to a 3 and then back again. I am pretty sure this is where the problem is. Can anyone provide some in sight to this? Thank you for your help.

Well, I replaced my XFree file with the original and replaced my inittab file with the original. Installed the driver exactly as the instructions said and edited the XFree file by changing ONLY "nv" to "nvidia" and now I am booting into init5 properly with the GUI and NVidia splash screen. Everything is working the way it should. THANKYOU EVERYONE!!!!!! YOU HAVE ALL BEEN VERY HELPFULL!!!!!!!!!!! I hope that I will be able to return the courtesy by helping another user in need at some point in time.

I have to agree that something went wrong in installation. I downloaded the text file for the nvidia driver and printed it out for reference before I first tryed all this. I am reasonably sure that I did everything correctly but will try again. The XFree settings were to change "nv" to "nvidia" Load "glx" and remove Load "dri and remove Load "GLcore" I was unable to find dri and glcore but did everything else. Anyway, I am going to try and do a reinstall. See you all after I get done with that.

By the way, the installation asked me to install the source code from the Mandrake installation cd's which I did.

I installed the video driver from root. Not sure about the init level. I am reasonably sure it was 3. If I edit the X file to nvidia instead of nv, it fails to boot and throws me to a command prompt. I am going to try the solutions you have provided and will post the results. Thank you

Thank you everyone for your help. Dapper Dan, your solution worked. I no longer get the boot error like I was. I had to change the driver for my video card to XFree nv though. I was unable to get a clean test with any configuration under XFdrake with the NVIDIA section. I also notice now that the NVIDIA splash screen is no longer showing up on boot. So if anyone has any ideas???? I suppose it's not that big of a deal. I just like knowing that everything is installed and working correctly. It's not like I will be doing any real gaming on it since everything seems to be for Windows. Or is it? If anyone could point me in the right direction for gaming that would be nice. Once again, Thankyou everyone!!!!!!!!

I think I have it narrowed down to the monitor as being the problem. I don't know what the specs are on this monitor though. All I know is that it is a logisys 17 inch. I don't know what modes it supports or anything like that. I have heard that if you input the wrong settings you can fry your monitor and I sure can't afford to do that. Here is some information I get when trying to start Linux normally. logfile/var/log/XFree86Config-4 using vt 7 (ee)NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernal module (ee)NVIDIA(0): ***Aborting*** (ee)Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration Fatal server error no screens found Once again I thank everyone for your help.

Mandrake 10 2.6 I believe is the version. Like I said, I am very new to linux but so far I really like it. I got the driver from NVidia here it is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-5336-pkg1.mun I edited the file and changed the nv to nvidia I dont know what else to do at this point. It would seem that maybe I should change the inittab setiing to 3 instead of 5 and it probally would boot since in order to boot i have to telinit 3 anyway. The edit instructions said to change from 5 to 3 and then back again though. Here is the xf86config-4 file Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "1024x768 @ 70 Hz" HorizSync 31.5-57.0 VertRefresh 50-70 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "NVidia" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection EndSection