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Hi all! I have a SONY VAIO PCG-GRT816M Notebook, P4 2.8 Ghz, nVidia GeForce FX Go5600 videocard. I have real difficulties installing Mandrake 10.0 on it. KDE and GNOME fail to start properly with constant crash messages for various applications: mandrakegalaxy.real, kcminit, ksplash, knotify. They all cause the signal 11 (SIGSEGV) to be sent. As I don't know what the problem is related to, let me resume the different obstacles I encountered and how I solved them. I may have performed bad operations... First I had to boot typing "linux noapic" at the boot prompt or the default kernel would hang just after checking the hard disk. Then I would proceed through the installation procedure just fine, and reboot the machine. There, problem with the Xserver that fails to start, and no graphical interface would show up. I installed the driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1 (frankly I ignore the real meaning of this syntax) and modified the "Device" Section of the XF86config file for the following option: Identifier "VESADevice" Driver "vesa" I have actually no idea if this is the good option of driver but I managed to make it work anyway. So finally I could get the graphical interface, but KDE keeps on crashing at every userlogin, for applications kcminit, ksplash, knotify, mandrakegalaxy.real... And then freezes after closing all messages! Does anyone have a brilliant idea to propose me? Thanks in advance, mdlc

I have a sony VAIO desktop PCG-GRT816M, 2.8 P4, 512 MB RAM, 60 GB (IDE), nVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600 Video card and 16.1" TFT SXGA+ 1400x1050 monitor. I want to install Mandrake 10.0 but the graphical interface won't show up. I can go through the whole installation process, but once rebooted, and passed the prompt of the bootloader for linux, the command line "localhost login:" appear without no graphical interface. Somebody knows how I can superate the problem? Thank you for your help micheledelac@yahoo.ca