Yesterday I tried installing PCQuest Linux 8.0 on my new Athlon XP 1800Mhz system, with A7N266VM Asus mobo.(Thanks to some of you who advised me to use Athlon over Celeron!).

Now... When the installer(anaconda) starts, it probes the hardware..it displays "unable to probe monitor" & after emitting a couple of lines the system hangs.

Using the options "Linux noprobe" or linux skipddc" as suggested doesnt skip the probe, & the same problem repeats again. I also trie the "linux rescue" option . Some of you have installed the PCQuest Linux 8.0. Maybe you can advise me...

Does'nt the installer have a text-installation routine? Try that....at the boot prompt, you can type install text or something similar, check out the detailed docs on the boot screen when yuo start the install from the CD. A text install,is not only faster than anaconda, but you actualyl learn some things...and when you are done with the install, select text login instead of a GUI login. You can choose whatever window manager/desktop environent you want to load when X starts using startx

On 28/04/03 16:11 +0530, Royce & Sharal Pereira wrote:

Hi,

Yesterday I tried installing PCQuest Linux 8.0 on my new Athlon XP 1800Mhz system, with A7N266VM Asus mobo.(Thanks to some of you who advised me to use Athlon over Celeron!).

I believe that motherboard has the nvidia graphics card. You will need to download nvidia drivers from http://www.nvidia.com/ You have to install in text mode, then install the nividia drivers (instructions on the site), then configure X manually.

Devdas Bhagat

Hi, This problem is because RH8 does not support Nvidia chipset. RH9 has added the support for A7N226VM. Well although I haven't tried it, but RH9's release notes claims that. I still have to download RH9 from the net. I'll do that in last week of may when I'm free. We have 1mbps net connection in office. Till then you can try RH9 if you have access to it. Bye Rahul

-----Original Message----- From: linuxers-admin@mm.ilug-bom.org.in [mailto:linuxers-admin@mm.ilug-bom.org.in] On Behalf Of rolla Sent: 28 April 2003 17:10 To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] PCQuest Linux 8.0

Royce & Sharal Pereira wrote:

Hi,

Yesterday I tried installing PCQuest Linux 8.0 on my new Athlon XP

1800Mhz

system, with A7N266VM Asus mobo.(Thanks to some of you who advised me

to use

Athlon over Celeron!).

Get Knoppix 3.1 dear!

regards,

ah