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On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:58:14 +0000 Simon Robert wrote: > I'm in Mid Devon, near Tiverton, but would be willing to travel. > > Actually I've had a bit of progress, though it's all rather weird. > From the external DVD/CD drive some live distros will install, though > no ethernet/sound. Graphics is just a matter of installing the nvidia > driver. > > From the "internal" CD/DVD drive *.iso based distros will at least > start to install. Zenwalk for example will let me choose keyboard > layout and partition the disc. However when it trys to detect a CD > with an installable zenwalk on it it fails. > > Very weirdly minimal distros, like Vector, will install from this > drive. PClinuxOS MiniMe (the new one) also installs as a live disc. > It can see the audio, but not the ethernet. > > The big breakthrough is that the alternate ubuntu disk, i.e. the > *.iso non livecd version, does install and does see the LAN. It does > not however see the audio. I have downloaded the drivers from Realtek > and installed all the kernel headers, alsa apps and dev packages I > think could possibly be relevant, but no joy. The graphics are OK > after installing all the nvidia stuff. > > I've even got ubuntu, with kaffeine installed, to recognise my DVB > card. However though it does a channel scan it isn't able to show > anything as it does not have suitable resources. There's no audio > anyhow.... > > So that's how it currently stands. If I could mix all this stuff > together it'd be great. As it is I have a workable PC, but far from > ideal. > > All very strange.... > > Simon Do you have a nForce chipset? A couple of years ago a student of mine had such a board and things would install (maybe) but not detect any Ethernet, etc. Adding the nForce drivers sorted it out, but it was a P.I.T.A. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html