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One thing to note with NVIDIA cards that have BOTH a DVI and a VGA output... The NVIDIA driver TREATS the DVI port as the first VGA port.. so if you need to, attach a DVI to VGA dongle to it, and connect your VGA connector there.

You are a genius! Using a DVI-VGA adaptor, I can now see AND hear that Sara bird! Thanks very much!!

 :D :D :D

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Really? I tried that actually, but just got the old no-signal-from-the-graphics-card thing again? I assumed that it hadn't quite finished with the "nv" settings...

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do this:
On boot press ESC to get access to GRUB boot option -> chose recovery
wait until it is done -> type: sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf     press Enter (Capital X)
find the spot where it says NVIDIA and change it to NV -> press CTRL-o press enter CTRL-x and write sudo reboot

thats it -> but remeber to set it back to NVIDIA after the setup!

HA! That worked! Got me through to the setup wizard at any rate! The downside is that I selected the medium graphics option (full screen images with no alpha blending), which I think my graphics card didn't like as after LMCE had finished building things it told me that it couldn't start OpenGL. I'll try the lowest setting :'( tonight (ran out of lunch-break time!).

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Installation issues / Re: Install experience/Problems from DVD
« on: September 24, 2007, 10:54:57 am »
Hi - could you post the link of how to change the xorg.conf file? I think I may be having the same problem - did the signal disappear after the Kubuntu loading screen?

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Hmmm... I might try it again later and leave it going for an hour or so. The problem is that the machine isn't outputting anything at all - my monitor just turns itself to stand by as if theres nothing getting to it? I had left it for quite a while in the numerous times I've been trying to get it working, but I'll give it even longer if thats what you suggest.

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Hi there,

I am a complete Linux beginner - this is literally the first time I have ever tried to install Linux in any guise on any machine, so I apologise if I'm being completely dense here!

Using the DVD install disc for Linux MCE, everything seemed to install correctly. However when the machine boots up I get the Kubuntu screen with the blue loading bar, which gets halfway full before the pc speaker plays a little downward scale of notes. The bar then continues to 100%, then there is briefly a console screen that says something about the "mdadm.conf" file and gives me a prompt to login to the dcerouter. Maybe a second later it changes to another console screen that says something about a helper script, then the pc speaker plays 4 notes that go low-high-low-high and the screen goes blank and I have to do a hard reset.

Any ideas? I'm using an old PC to install this on, which is a AMD Athlon 1.4 and has 512Mb RAM and a 120 Gb HDD. Its also got a Nvidia 4800 Ti SE graphics card and 2 network cards as suggested. I took any excess hardware out after the first couple of tries to install LMCE thinking that it could have been my old SCSI card that was messing things up, but I'm still getting the same problem. I know that the hardware all works as the machine was running Windows XP fine up until I installed LMCE instead.

Like I say - I have no Linux experience at all, so please make any suggestions baby-proof! Thanks very much!

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