Hi!
here
just got Mandrake 9.2 (finally!)
Oh btw, specs:
P4 1.70 GHz
256 MB paired RDRAM
Geforce2MX 400
40 GB Win32, has Windows in it. /dev/hda, I think... Primary master
120 GB NTFS, file storage. Connected through IDE card
120 GB NTFS, file storage. Primary slave.
120 GB, file storage. 70 GB NTFS, the rest for MDK. Secondary slave.
CD-ROM Connected through IDE card
DVD-RW Connected through IDE card
CD-RW Secondary master.
USB mouse and keyboard.
Problems:
1. Cannot modify BIOS. When i press F2 to get into BIOS, it gets into it, but it doesn't respond to my keyboard, even when i tried a PS/2 one. At one time it worked, I don't know how or why. Begun MDK installation anyway.
2. Installation always goes smoothly, except it freezes if I leave it for too long when it's waiting for input or the next CD. A few tens of minutes usually freezes it. After smooth installation, I can get in only with linux-nonfb, maybe the VGA doesn't have framebuffer support.
After learning things inside, I rebooted back to Win. When I rebooted back to linux, after choosing in bootloader, it gave me 1 of 2 errors on N tries (off memory)
a. CRC error, system halted.
b. Invalid compression type (error=1), system halted.
The Nth try, I got in. Next time I tried, couldn't get in anymore.
Deleted the linux partitions and NTFSed them then surface-scandisked it in Win. Reinstalled MDK. No more of the above 2 errors, could use it for a whole day, purposely rebooting multiple times to check if it happens again. It didn't. Satisfied, I used Win again for a day. Today I missed MDK and rebooted. Got another error (long one), forgot what it said (forgive me!!) >_<
Desperate, reinstalled MDK again.
3. This time the "terminals" menu in K menu had a lot of other consoles other than Konsole. It has CRXvt (Big5), GBRXvt (GB2312), JRXvt (JIS), KRXvt (KSCS601), Konsole and Kterm. Is this because other than the English (American) language, this time I chose the Japanese language too?
4. I thought the messups were caused by me going into Win, so after the install I went back to Win then back to MDK. Still worked. That's where I am now. I tried both Lilo and Grub, currently using Grub. I thought I got a text GRUB or something like that back then, did stuff with the rescue feature in CD1 and got the usual GUI GRUB back. But now there's old-linux and old-windows there O_o
Can anyone read what's going on? Anything at all that can help?
Thank you
5. POSSIBLE BUG REPORT!
Almost forgot :P I was trying to move windows from one virtual desktop to another (abbreviated VD? I don't know :P) here's what I pressed:
Alt+F3 --> d --> right arrow button
That crashes the KWin, weird stuff. Restore it with
$ kwin
btw, Alt+F3 --> d --> <no of destination VD> works
Thanks in advance for the help, and I hope my bugreport helps! ^___^