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I installed Mandriva on my other laptop (for non-dual boot). I was switching from openSUSE. I got to the whole restart phase but when my computer restarted, the graphics started looking very jagged and faded and eventually, before getting to any significant screen, my screen turns into a faded light blue-green screen with nothing on it. My computer stays like that. My first instinct (i’m a linux newbie) was to panic and force the computer to be turned off by holding the on/off button. Once I tried to turn it on again, not even the BIOS screen appears. THe screens starts out all black then turns into the light-blue green screen. At no point do I see any sort of text. Pressing any key buttons (such as Delete, f8, etc) that BIOSes recognize the computer just makes beeping sounds but still nothing on the screen. I don’t know what to do. Please help!!!

The laptop is an HP Pentium 4, 3 ghz, 1GB of RAM, Ati video card *I forget the model*.

i have Mandriva Linux and before i don’t remember what i did or clicked or what but all four programs i had opened automatically resized and fit all onto the same screen so my screen was split into four mini screens…….it also did it with two

please please please tell me what i did cause i REALLY want to do it again
it doesn’t work and it just randomly did it again but once again idk what i did to do that
then why does it only randomly do it?

isn’t it supposed to work instantly?

I have a Centos server setup at home and use dyndns.org through my Linksys wrt-54gl to access my server through tunneling VNC over SSH when I’m away from home. From my server desktop screen I do a command rdesktop (internal IP of computers) to get to my PC, Mac, etc and view their screens. Then I copy files to and from the server using its samba shares internally then I SSH files to and from my server using SSH file transfer wherever I’m at. The problem is my Mac Pro is connected through wlan and after a few hours it drops connection and the only way to wake it is to open safari from the Mac Pro at home. I have set the power saving features to tell it to never go to sleep but only sleep the monitor after 15 min. So my options are: find a utility that keeps the Wlan active, write a script file that keeps it active, run a cable from my wireless router to the Mac Pro (not what I want to do) or find a program to send a Wake On Lan packet to the Mac Pro card (I enabled that feature in settings already. The problem is I don’t know of any utilities and I have never used Wake On Lan. Wake On Lan is probably the best choice if it worked. I could run a Linux only or a windows program under wine to do that. if I knew the port I could forward the Mac port for Wake On Lan out from my router then send it a Wake On Lan packet from a website since I know there are websites like that but I’d rather not expose the max externally and I really would like to wake it internally is possible.
Yea I’m There with you Jeffrey, Im a network systems administrator for a small private college and i have my lan at home with various features just haven’t had much time to research a fix and wanted to get some suggestions. thanks

Hi. I’m using gentoo linux, have two monitors(1280×1024)(1024×768), and am using an NVIDIA GeForce 6600. I use twinview, and it works pretty well, for the most part. The only thing I can’t get it to understand is the split between screens. It has this annoying habit of starting things split accross both monitors. I’ve googled on this subject, and no one seems to have the same problem. I was wondering if there is maybe a line of code that will get the X window system to understand that I want the snap to function between monitors, and don’t want things to start there. The thing that really baffles me is that I’m using the same xorg.conf file that I did when I ran slackware, and it got it then. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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