[Herefordshire] - Reclaiming Partition Space

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi Chris,

>     Am still a bit stuck in getting the display right. The best I have
> managed is to get a few scattered icons, some on top of each other,
> some that are draggable leaving a trail of ghost images, others
> inactive, lots of grey blue mish/mash which we saw last night but now
> with a readable message "KDE is up and running"in amongst it - a small
> advance but LINUX is still not usable from a graphic interface.


>     I think I need a path from the grub prompt to the root command
> line and then a way to get into changing the resolution and monitor
> settings in Drakx rather as Mark was doing at the end of the evening.
> This would save having to re-install Mandrake 10.0 from scratch in
> order to get to the post install 'Configuration Screen'  where I have
> to date been trying to get the right settings. Would I be right and
> does anyone have any ideas.   In summary it looks as though everything
> has installed OK but I can't get access to a usable interface to
> change the display settings so that the whole becomes viewable.

Could you find out what the make and model of the laptop is please. 
>From that we should be able to find the correct settings without going
through to much trial and error.

Thanks
Mark