I did help you. You just didn't want to help yourself. Good luck.

Very mature response. After searching for hours to try and solve the problem myself, I hit a dead end after dead end and I tried EVERYTHING I could think of! I would not have asked for help if I could have helped myself. Like I ...

The only way to install skype under a 64bit system is to install multilib. It's not the easiest task and it will not get easier. If you really want skype (or wine for that matter) the easiest thing to do is just install a 32bit system. Since you don't provide any details on what went wrong with ...

Hey guys

I am in a situation, I decided to install Salix on my laptop for work. I could not install the 32 bit version? It only picked up the 64 bit version and proceeded to the installation process. No matter what i did, my laptop refused to boot into the 32 bit version but I know the cd is ok ...

Thenktor, THANK YOU!!!!!!

Wow! It works perfectly now! No issues at all :mrgreen: Running extremely smoothly!!

After your suggestion, I scouted the net a little more and added another 3 lines to your solution (not sure if it makes a heck of a difference?) by seeing another thread by somebody ...

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
Searching the internet for this device reveals that there obviously are driver bugs. E.g. see this thread: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26345#c126

And here a ...

Hey Thenktor

Thank you for the advice! I learnt something new :)

Ok mate, here is the output from lspci on the problem machine.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation ...

Hey Gapan

Wow, lighting response! Thank you :)

I'm sorry, you are a 100% right. I will get the specs for you and post this later to this thread so that I don't waste any more of your time.

And the Salix release versions I downloaded were the Salix LXDE 13.37RC1 and Salix KDE 13.37 CD ISO

Thanks ...

Hey Gapan

Thanks for the response! Sorry, I should have been more clearer :oops:

I don't have any graphics card, only using the onboard graphics and my cpu is 2.8 ghz (P4)

When I said "latest" kernel, I meant the default kernel it installs with, 2.6.(something)

Sorry for being so ignorant, I'm ...

Hey Guys

I am having a few issues with my old P4 at home which I have installed Salix on, first off I think its hardware related and definitely not a fault with Salix as I have Salix running on my works laptop in a VBox environment without any issues. Secondly I can't give you exact details as to ...

Hey Akuna!

Thanks for the welcome I'm starting to feel very at home here! LOVING this distro!!!