conradwoo

Hi! I just finished installing Mandrake 10.1 and I restarted and typed in 'startx' hoping to see a nice gui startup. Well, that didn't happen. Instead, I got an error like "Fatal Server Error: No screens found". I didn't see the Geforce 6600GT driver in the Mandrake setup, so I just chose the Nvidia generic driver. And as for my monitor, I really don't have a clue as to what the vertical and horizontal refresh rates are since my LCD's manual is total garbage. But its a Norcent LM730. Can anybody help me?

Alright one more question..Thanks for all your help btw. I printed something once, and now everytime I start linux...my printer starts printing it again. Its quite annoying. Is there anyways to stop this or find out what's causing this?

My onboard sound is disabled. So when I goto 'alsamixer' I see card: M Audio Revolution 7.1 CHIP: ICE1724 - multitrack All the levels are up at 80 so I really don't know what the problem is. The only thing I don't understand is the first bar (which says ICE958 under it cannot be adjusted. Maybe this is a meter instead?) As for Kopete, I wouldn't mind at all using the one provided, its installed and everything, however when I tried using it, I couldn't log onto MSN. I kept getting "Wrong password" even though it IS the right one. EDIT: Alright, this is wierd lol...I've tried the alsamixer thing before where I've read on other sites, and nothing ever came of it...and when you told me to do it, it worked perfectly and now I have sound Now...is there a better program for MSN than Gaim, cause I really don't like its interface..particularly its inability to minimize to "systray" when I click on the "x"..

Yup, the system boots directly into the GUI now.. My system is as follows: AthlonXP 2500+ (Barton) Asus A7N8X-X nForce2 1 GB PC-3200 RAM BFG Nvidia 6600GT 128 MB M-Audio Revolution 7.1 My internet connection is working, as I'm using Firefox inside linux right now as I type this. But when the Nvidia installer tries to look for it, it seems like it doesn't even try to look as it only takes it maybe 1 sec to look and say that it couldn't find the driver. I plan to just learn Linux with this installation, and then possibly try some games once I'm a little more comfortable. But I guess for now, it'd just be everyday tasks. The Nvidia driver I downloaded was "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7667-pkg1.mun" I think thats the right one? I also have a few more questions after this, pertaining to getting sound to work (the driver was auto-detected is selected but I can't get sound come out) and also, I've tried installing some themes and also a newer version of Kopete, but when I follow the instructions and do the "./configure", I always end up with an error saying something about X includes and headers? Thanks again for all your help. EDIT: FINALLY! Got the video drivers to work..lol..now...for sound and everything else... [Edited by conradwoo on 2005-08-06 10:32:07]

Alright, so I finally got into X. Some stuff is still slow popping up, but I guess its cause it's not the right driver. So after downloading the Nvidia driver, and doing the "sh NVIDIA-......" stuff that's on their website, but when I do it, I get an error saying it couldn't find my kernel's source tree. How do i fix this? [Edited by conradwoo on 2005-08-05 20:14:32]