New setup of Mandrake.

[starchild]

I am a veerryy new Linux user and I am trying to setup my first linux system. I am using Mandrake 9.2 and it is being installed on a homebuilt pc that is an: Intel 2.4G pc, on an ASUS board with 256M ram. I have (2) two hd in the system and already have XP installed on the first hd. I installed linux on the second hd. The problem I'm having is the gui screen doen't seem to be working or set correctly. During the setup of the video card-a GForce4/64m- ok, I set it at 800 x 600 and 16 colors it didn't seem to find it or recognize it. I tried using differnt settings but none seemed to work.
Any ideas?

[serz]

I would suggest you to download the nVidia's linux driver and install it.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-4496

[Choozo]

Selecting the "vesa" driver should also fix your immediate problem until you get the nVidia driver installed.

If you're not going to do any HW accellerated 3D gaming/apps, the vesa driver are sufficient.

Cheers :)

[starchild]

I went to the link for downloading the Nvidia driver, but when I click on it it shows me text instead of down loading anything. I don't think I have the wrong link, as it takes me to the download page on Nvidia, but I don't know why it shows as text, is this normal and am I supposed to use this info. Remember I'm new to this.

[deathadder]

have you tried to right click on 'NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run' and select the 'save' option?