[SATLUG] Getting frustrated with my new machine

[FIRESTORM_v1]

I think you might need to install the latest Nvidia driver first.  I
know that with the default mv driver, my card would lock up.

Try booting in text mode and see if it lcks up there too just to rule
a possible OS issue.


FIRESTORM_v1

On 8/3/05, REYNOLDS, JEREMY (SBCSI) <jr7958 at sbc.com> wrote:
> I've been out of the linux for a couple of years.  I just built myself a
> new machine and I have tried installing numerous distributions and they
> all seem to lock up after the install.  I'm not sure but I'm thinking
> that my video card and or monitor might be causing the problems.  I have
> a Chaintech Nvidia GeForce 6200 PCI Express video card and a Dell
> 2005FPW monitor.  My machine also has an AMD 64 bit processor.
> 
> I've tried the latest version of SUSE and it loaded fine but whenever I
> tried to scroll in any program it would take about 30 seconds for it to
> scroll.  I tried to update the video driver but the installation kept
> failing and saying that I didn't have the source code for my kernel.
> 
> Next I tried Mandrake 10.2.  Again it installed fine but when it goes to
> the graphical logon screen is freezes.
> 
> Next I tried Fedora Core 4.  The graphical install program just goes to
> a white screen and freezes.  I did a text install that appeared to work.
> When I rebooted my machine after the install the bootloader was corrupt
> and just threw a bunch of 9s out to my screen and then locked up.
> 
> Does anybody have any ideas?  I'm not real picky about distributions
> other than I like KDE and tend to do a lot of mutilimedia and web
> browsing.
> 
> JR
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