On Tuesday 08 June 2004 08:51 pm, Ragone_Andrew wrote: > I have just installed Mandrake over the Fedora Core 2 distro that I had > intended to install. Installation went fine but I figureed I would try this > distro as FC2 kept randomly freezing and giving me blank screens (not > sending data to the monitor so that it goes into a sleep mode). > > I booted up Mandrake today and it froze so I restarted as FC2 once did. > Then when I was in it again and trying to configure my Network, it put me > into this blank screen where I cannot user anything...My keyboard locks up > (no Caps Lock lights, etc work). > > This happened before on FC2 as i mentioned and am starting to wonder if it > is hardware specific. Does anyone know of any problems related to having 2 > CD/DVD RW drives attached to the computer, ATI AIW Radeon PCI Video Card > Issues, or 2+ hard drive issues? Andrew: Tough to say without some more information. Which kernel? Which version of Mandrake? (There's been a bunch of those lately.) What about the rest of your hardware? Have you been successful with any earlier/other Linux? -- cmg
