Well, I was loading Mepis 6.0 with the default options and that is what was 
messing things up. The default options are:

	root=dev/hda1 nomce quiet vga=normal acpi=off apm=power_off noacpi

I loaded it from the CD as as SMALL (older computer) and those options are 	

	init=/etc/init apm=power_off vga=normal nomce acpi=off pnpbios=off 
	ide=nodma quiet xdrvr=vesa xres=800x600

I figure that the init line has to do with it being a live cd and now I know 
why it thinks my video card isn't a nvidiea. That got me to thinking about 
how I don't know what the options are really and that there are probably 
others to optimize my system. So that is what I am asking you all about.

One final point: what would happen if I change pnpbios to on?  And how would I 
put a final resolution into my boot up so I do not have to type all off the 
options in?
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