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Installation issues / had black screen, hit 5, then 7 to fix, now can't get past resolution settings

« on: February 15, 2008, 10:49:29 pm »

There it is in the subject line.  So from what I gather if I've read correctly is that I've chosen svideo at a resolution of 1024x768 to be able to see anything in AVWizard.  That brings me to a screen that wants me to choose my video settings, but no matter what I choose from the svideo list (or any of the others for that matter) it doesn't display correctly and has to go back on its own after the 15 second countdown.  I have a NTSC television, but neither of the NTSC options work correctly.  It seems odd that I can choose options by randomly hitting a few keys on the keyboard until it works, but not only do I have to reinput those same settings again after finding one that works, but I can't choose resolution for svideo.  Is there any way I can force these settings or is there any other sort of workaround?

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Installation issues / no icon on desktop to install

« on: February 12, 2008, 02:23:03 am »

Well, I managed to finally get around to dusting off my old PC and get Kubuntu on it so I could still dual boot Windows MCE (darn you netflix!).

I downloaded the iso images, burnt them to CDs, dropped the first one in and clicked on the deb package.  It opens up, there's a lot of hard drive activity, then it closes.  That's it.  According to the instructions I'm supposed to have an icon on my desktop and go from there, but I'm not getting anything.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.