I'm a newbie, need help

Jason Brown vafudar@earthlink.net
Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:54:36 MST


mandrake 7.1 gives you the choice between 3.3.6 and 4.0

jason

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, joel@silverw.com (Joel Dudley) wrote:
> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:00:52 -0700
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> From: joel@silverw.com (Joel Dudley)
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: I'm a newbie, need help
> 
> What video card??  Mandrake 7.1 uses Xfree86 4 and that can be hell for a
> newbie.  Try using the last version of Xfree86.
> 
> - Joel
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tyrone" <csandova@ix.netcom.com>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 11:41 AM
> Subject: I'm a newbie, need help
> 
> 
> > I've recently installed Mandrake-Linux 7.1(my first time using
> > Linux).  I've followed all of the instructions and everything, but it
> > doesn't seem to be working correctly.  When I start it up there seems
> to
> be
> > errors and then when I use the startx command to get to my desktop,
> there
> > arent any icons and i cant run any programs.  Is there anyone I can
> contact
> > to get some help with this?  I tried contacting Mandrake, but they
> didn't
> > reply back.
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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