I am installing Mandrake 9.0 on my Dell 4500. I am dual booting with Windows XP, but installing mandrake 9.0 on my 2nd HD.

I am having 2 problems. The first is during the install when I am selecting my display. I can only select 800x600. Anything higher and I get a black screen stating that I am "Out of Frequency Range." I am not sure how to rectify this error. I have selected the appropriate monitor and video card for my computer, but still 800x600 is the highest resolution that I can select.

My other problem is after the install has finished and it boots into KDE. My mouse is performing kind of funny. It is as if the actual cursor isn't bound to my mouse. The arrow is just stuck in the upper left hand corner of the screen. There is mouse activity going on, I can see portions of the screen highlight when I just move the mouse. But the actual cursor isnt attached to the movement. Both the buttons work as well. I do get a menu if I click the right mouse button, and the left works if I can manage to blindly navigate to a button or something.

All assitence would be greatly appeciated!

I think both can be solved by using newer graphic card driver. Not sure which card you have in your machine, unfortunatelly.

I have an Nvidia GeForce4 in my computer. Do you know where I can download it from?

Well,

I, and a lot of people have had trouble with this mouse - i'm one of them - you can look at another thread all about it here - http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e&pagenumber=2 - or i'll list the steps below.


Well, first you will have to log in a console.
Under Linux you can switch from the XWindows screen to several console screens by using the CTRL-ALT-FX combination of keys (where X can vary from 1 to 12 as FX means the Function keys).

So you have to switch to console 1 : press CTRL-ALT-F1

Then enter "root" as the login (root is the super user : the administrator that as all power on the system).
and the password you entered during the installation process.

Ok, now you must have a shell prompt (something like root@localhost# )

Type :
modprobe -r usbmouse
modprobe hid

Go back to the XWindows display with the CTRL-ALT-F7 keys (F7 is traditionally used as the Windowed Display under linux)

Your mouse should work fine.

Open a text editor as root by clicking on the appropriate icon - it depends on your favorite Windows Manager that is usually KDE or Gnome under Mandrake (you need to have root priviledges to modify the configuration files).

Open the /etc/modules.conf file and had the hid key word at the end of the appropriate line (every line containing something that looks like uhci-usb)
save (need root priviledges BEFORE launching the text editor - you could logoff your curent unpriviledge user and logon as root to do it simply) and quit.

After a reboot, the mouse should be OK.

Sorry about the simple language but that's how i asked to get it explained to me.

The graphics, well, I just selected a VGA monitor and put it at 1024X720@32bpp and it worked.

Hope your mouse works, it should!

Paddy.
www.spudmurf2k.com

My problem is fixed. It was just a matter of updating the video drivers.

I downloaded the 2 necessary files:

NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.mdk90up.i586rpm and
NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm

After installing them, everything is working great! The only problem I am having now is that I cant figure out where to change my screen resolution! I am stuck in 800x600 and dont know my way around Mandrake. I have been working with Sun Solaris 8 for a couple months now, but mandrake is much different! Any help in this would be greatly appreciated!

ctrl+alt+'+' should work (if higher resolutions are configured)

You may need to add a line in your XF86Config or XF86Config-4 for your desired resolution. Those files are located in /etc/X11. To edit them, view them as root. If you are not login as root. Typing su is fine.

Before typing any lines or mode lines in XF86Config or XF86Config-4, find XFree86 modeline generator calculators on the internet. Then type in your monitor's specs. You may need to speak to an technician if you can not find the manual or the specs about your monitor.

I know a good mode line generator but I don't have the link with me. I think I found it at sourceforge.net .

After you are done you can hit either CTRL + ALT + BACKSPACE or reboot LINUX for the changes to take place.