liquidzoo

You sure that's a flux theme? That doesn't look like flux or rox to me. Looks almost like the nautilus that comes with 2.6, but I could be wrong.

Strange that it's not working. Did you allow diskdrake to format them to begin with? I don't have a lot of experience creating windows partitions with diskdrake, so I'm not entirely sure

If you want to share data, set up a fat32 partition to do so.

I would say to create the partitions as fat32 in diskdrake (I don't think diskdrake can create ntfs yet) and convert one of them to ntfs if you so desire in the XP setup.

If you still have the 10.0 cd's, it will be easy.

Install Windows as you normally would, then pop cd1 of 10.0 in your drive. When you get to the "Press Enter to install or Press F1 for more options", press F1.

Once you get a prompt (almost immediately) type rescue, then choose the option to reinstall the bootloader and all will be well.

Do you have the nvidia/ati drivers installed?

If not, glx won't work.

If you do, check your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file for a line that says

Load "GLX"

or

Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so"

It will be in the Module section. If the drivers are installed, and that line isn't there, add it to that section.

I'm aware of that, but trust me; it has been fixed in 2.6.8.1-8mdk (for Mandrake, anyway) and should be fixed for all others in 2.6.9

I haven't tried the --add-this-kernel option yet. Maybe I'll do that next.

What I've tried was installing the drivers on the 2.6.8.1-8mdk kernel (cd burning fixed, not sure about harddrake) and having the nvidia installer tell me that the module couldn't be built. It's a pain. I've rolled back to 2.6.8.1-2mdk for now. cd burning is still an issue (k3b will burn if you run it as root, though) but at least the nvidia drivers (and hence my games/screensaver/etc) work.

I guess I was wrong. I thought there was.

However, there is a version of 10.1 for ppc. It's alpha right now, so it's not entirely stable and I wouldn't recommend it until it becomes final, or RC2 at the very earliest.

I believe there is a 10.0 ppc version...why not use that?

And for the base install of most MandrakeLinux releases, you only need cd1. The other 2 contain extra packages that you may want, but a working system can come from just a 1 cd install.

Ok, I know there are a couple of RC1 users out there. I need some input here.

I recently had an issue where I couldn't install the nvidia drivers using the same kernel (and source, I think) that RC1 uses (2.6.8.1-8mdk).

Have any of you run into strangeness while trying to install the nvidia drivers? Is it just me and my cooker-clouded system ()? Tell me your stories if you've had issues (I know Ix had issues with the kernels themselves, but that's different).

Ok, I found that for some reason I had the kernel source from 2.6.8.1.2mdk downloaded. I'm not sure why, but I installed it (rpm -ivh), booted back into that kernel and everything's fine now...

But this brings me to an interesting point and I'll make a post in Everything Linux about it.

devries - tried that, still nothing

thinkliberty - it's an AGP card, why would a pci patch make a difference?

Why not libgnome-vfs2_0-devel?

Ok, I upgraded to kernel-2.6.8.1-8mdk recently. This is the kernel that comes with 10.1 RC1 for those that don't know. Now I have a problem....The nvidia drivers won't install. Not only that, but when I boot into my older kernel (source is still installed) the drivers won't install there either (and they seem to have been uninstalled) due to a supposedly missing kernel.h file.

Ok, on to the nitty-gritty, so to speak. Here's the last few lines from my /var/log/nvidia-installer.log:

/root/tmp/selfgz7502/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c: In func

   tion `nv_acpi_event':

   /root/tmp/selfgz7502/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:3697: er

   ror: `PM_SAVE_STATE' undeclared (first use in this function)

   /root/tmp/selfgz7502/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:3697: er

   ror: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once

   /root/tmp/selfgz7502/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/nv.c:3697: er

   ror: for each function it appears in.)

   make[4]: *** [/root/tmp/selfgz7502/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv

   /nv.o] Error 1

   make[3]: *** [_module_/root/tmp/selfgz7502/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/us

   r/src/nv] Error 2

   make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2

   NVIDIA: left KBUILD.

   nvidia.ko failed to build!

   make[1]: *** [module] Error 1

   make: *** [module] Error 2

-> Error.

Can anyone help? These are the 6111 drivers, but it's the same message with the 6106 drivers.

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

I should have checked this before...

[ nwn ]# rpm -qa | grep gnome-vfs
libgnome-vfs2_0-devel-2.6.2-3mdk
gnome-vfs2-2.6.2-3mdk
libgnome-vfs2_0-2.6.2-3mdk
[ nwn ]#

It's the libgnome-vfs2_0 files you want. Version numbers will not be the same, but the file names will be.

Try this:

urpmi gnome-vfs-module-2.0

That's what you're getting the error on. See if that file exists.

Assuming KDE

K > System > Configuration > Packaging > Software Sources Manager

Remove the checkbox from CD 4, apply/save/ok and you're done.

Remove your cd4 source for starters (software sources manager) and add a main source to urpmi at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org Then grab your files from that source.

urpmi gnome-vfs

No, popt and popt-devel are 2 separate packages in Mandrake's eyes. If you try to install the -devel, it will install the normal version as well; but that doesn't work the other way around.

That's strange.

Try urpmi popt-devel

urpmi libpopt

Might be just popt, though

Assuming KDE

K > System > Configuration > Configure My Computer

Perhaps the easiest way would be to re-run the X server setup utility. You can find that in MCC > Hardware > Graphical Server (I think). Choose your monitor from the list and you should be able to access the resolutions you need.

Ok, let's tackle one issue at a time. I'll grab the easiest one first: Timezone. If you're using KDE (Gnome too, I think) right click on the clock, go to Adjust date/time. I think that's the right option. It will ask for your root password. You can adjust the timezone there.

Now, for your second issue.

How big is your monitor? Does it go to resolutions above 1024x768? These are things I would need to know before I continue. I can tell you how to access those resolutions, but it might break your system in doing so if your hardware won't support the higher resolutions.

Can you post the contents of /etc/fstab? That might give us a clue about what is going on.

You say you can boot to XP just fine, right? Have you made any hardware changes since you installed Mandrake? Even the smallest change might be it.