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Doom3, UT series... CRT looks like a TV, panel is just that, a flat panel monitor with an LCD screen. Yes :P Here's what I suggest for you. Using the Easy urpmi link at the top of the page, get the code for at least an Updates source. Write it down, as I know you dual boot. Then, boot into linux (Esc then linux 3 at the lilo screen), log in as root, and type in exactly what you got from easy urpmi. After that, type the following command into your command prompt: urpmi --update --auto-select That should present you with a large list, press y for yes and wait till all of the updates are installed. After that, go back into your xorg.conf file (vim /etc/X11/xorg.conf) and change the Driver "nv" back to Driver "nvidia", save and exit vim (Esc :wq ), then type modprobe nvidia If you get another command prompt, that's good. From there, logout of root and log in to your regular user account and try startx and see if it now works. If there is an update for xorg available, updating to it might fix your issues.

My guess is that /boot is a separate partition on your Mandrake install, right? So, knowing that, it makes sense that using /mnt/hdb5/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk would work. Either way, I'm glad you got it working.

If you could post your /etc/lilo.conf file it might help track down the problem. I think the entry would look like this, at the end of the image line for Mandriva: append="noapic nolapic" There might be other things in there too. I'm not sure.

Glad to see you solved it, and thanks for giving us the update as to what the solution was. Might help someone else in the future.

Mandriva makes it really easy to set up an SSH server. You should be able to do it from the control center with no issues. From the command line, urpmi opensshd (I think), then service sshd start and you should be set. All users on your computer can now connect via ssh and use anything that they could normally use via command line.

I'm not so sure the extra / is necessary image=/mnt/hdb7//boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk label="MANDRAKE" root=/dev/hdb7 initrd=/mnt/hdb7//boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk.img If you remove it, everything should be fine. Just to verify, you say /mnt/hdb7 is mounted, have you verified that the boot/ folder is there and the filenames are correct as well? Just a thought to make sure all bases are covered. If everything is right in terms of paths and filenames, this should work for your Mandrake entry: image=/mnt/hdb7/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk label="MANDRAKE" root=/dev/hdb7 initrd=/mnt/hdb7/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb6" read-only Edit I also notice that you have default="linux" In there, but no entry labeled "linux". You also have boot=/dev/fd0, which tells me that this is booting from a floppy, right?

You can set up lilo, or grub for that matter, to boot any distro you wish. It doesn't matter if there is a /boot partition or if boot is a directory in the root partition. As long as whichever distro is your primary (ie, the distro that lilo is loading from when you boot) has the other /boot partition(s) or root partitions if /boot is a directory and not a separate partition loaded and mounted on-boot in the fstab. I have done it with gentoo, mandrake(pre and post name change) and red hat all booting from the same lilo. Unless, of course, I misunderstood your statement.

Only thing I see on the official site is this, but it's only current till 10.1, which was a while ago. Maybe it's a Club thing, or maybe it's something that's on the cd. I'm not entirely sure.

You should be able to shrink that C drive down with no issues. Ignore what PM 8 tells you, right click on that large C drive and choose resize. That should work. You can create any partitions you want to, as long as you keep that recovery partition (if you ever want to reinstall Windows, that is)

Everything you ever wanted to know about Smart Package Manager, even if you don't know what it is. There is currently a call going out for users to try and break Smart. Feel free to participate if you want to. http://wiki.suselinuxsupport.de/wikka.php?...tPackageManager Link reposted with permission from the author.

I only have Windows boxes right now (*shock*), but I keep a Mandriva Cooker (though horribly out of date, for other reasons) session running via vmware at all times. I would put Linux back on my main box, but I game on it too much. My fiancee uses my laptop all the time so putting it there is out of the question. So yes, I do boot to Windows for games, though I don't really have a choice. When I get some cash to throw together a new box I will reclaim one of them for Linux. I'd still have linux on my desktop without vmware if I hadn't recently lost a hard drive (shortly after smoking a psu, quite literally), but I will again at some point.

I took a look at the source tree for 2006.0, and it appears that the kernel source for kernel -12 is available there (main urpmi mirror). The naming convention seems a bit awkward, though. kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-12mdk.i586.rpm ftp://ftp.proxad.net/mirrors1/ftp.mandriv...586/media/main/ Strange, though, that even cooker's repo's only go up to -13, especially since you have found an rpm for a -14 kernel. If you got it working, that's great. I just thought I would chime in.

If you're comfortable in the command line, you could disable X at boot before you swap out the cards, then install the new nvidia drivers after you boot up. At that point, you could modprobe nvidia and startx and everything should work great. Ix's suggestion is a good one, and probably a bit easier to do. Just suggesting an alternative. Also, as Ix said, the RAM should not be an issue at all.

IMO, this is dumb. World of Warcraft, Anarchy Online, EQ, and many other games have downloads or updates that are available exclusively by torrent. The reasons of doing this, to combat piracy, are noble; but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. Related to the topic: mysti, have you tried another bittorrent client? btdownloadcurses is good, and the one that I always used in linux, even though it is a command line client. It's available in plf, I think. Might give you a better indication as to whether the port is blocked or there are other errors that are specific to Azureus.

Ok...the desktop info in the screenshot script is wrong. I'll fix that sometime soon e17 on gentoo

Welcome to the board! Why Linux...that's could spark quite a debate :P For me, I was curious. A friend of mine had it, and I asked for a copy. It was old (Mandrake 6.2 or 7.0, but this was a number of years ago). I got into it, tinkered around for a bit, then went back to Windows; but the curiosity and experience stuck. I have since installed almost every version of Mandrake, ran cooker (testing) for about 2 years, then branched off to other distros (running gentoo currently). I love it linux. It offers a flexibility that you don't see in Windows. Everyone can have their own tastes and their own style (check the Show off your Desktop threads (might have to look back a few pages for some of them) in the Art and Design forum) In general, Linux is more secure than Windows. There are some who may argue this point and say that both have faults in security, but I'm simply speaking in general terms here. Mostly what I was after was the interest factor and the customization that Linux offered me.

xmms is actually pretty easy to change Open a terminal, su to root and urpmi xmms-alsa Then right click on it, go to Options > Preferences (or the other way around), then go to output and there should be a section near the bottom there to choose which driver to use. Change it to the alsa driver and you should be all set. Not sure about AIM You didn't ask avout this, but here's how to change cedega to use alsa: Open up the ~/.transgaming/config file (as your user) using any text editor. Scroll down to this section: [WinMM] "Drivers" = "wineoss.drv" And change it to [WinMM] "Drivers" = "winealsa.drv" If there's anything below that in the same section, just leave it as is

I've moved this topic into the Laptops section since it is referring to a laptop installation

They could, if you wanted them to. It's LOTS easier to do if one of the distros isn't mandriva. You just have to make sure that your uid's are the same. Easy to do if you're running a distro that only has 1 user and root. Most of the time they will set your uid to 1000. Seems to be standard on the non-mandr* distros I've used.

'Bleeding Edge' is all in how you set up your packages. Mandriva wouldn't necessarily be considered Bleeding Edge, unless you compared it to a distro that is behind it (Debian Woody, perhaps). Arch is more current than the release versions of Mandriva, but less current than others. Even cooker is behind some things. If you're looking to be the most current (that your distro of choice allows), you just need to set up the repositories to the correct spots.

Since CD drives differ from machine, I would still try burning them at a slower speed, just in case. Alsom when you get to the disk partitioning part of the install, choose custom disk partitioning. Click on all of the Linux formatted partitions (red for file system, green for swap) and delete them. WARNING: Do NOT delete your Windows partition(s). Bad things will happen (unless you want to get rid of windows, that is) Once that is done, you can either set up partitions yourself, or click on the Auto-Allocate button to have it done for you.

Since I didn't see it mentioned anywhere else... Ark, as of the last time I used it, was basically a Mandrake clone. The installer still had Mandrake's name and logo on it (did have tetris that you could play while it was installing...that's kinda cool), but it was very limited. There was no disk partitioning (was broken in the installer), so you were stuck with 1 partition and swap, I couldn't get X to resize at all (had the same problem the last time I tried RedHat. I'm sure I could now). Granted I have not used Ark in a few years, so I'm sure it's better now, but it was (and most likely still is) heavily based off of Mandrake.

Depends on what I'm in. kbear or gftp (whichever I get to first) in Linux, usually LeapFTP in Windows. Those are the ones I know and am used to, so they're very easy for me.

Well, if you have a dvd burner and the space, grab the dvd version. 1 disk is always better than 3. If not, grab the 3 disk version. What are you using to download it? I recommend using an ftp program to grab it from the site(s). I have always had good luck downloading from the french servers. They've always been the fastest for me.

If you are using Mandriva, open a terminal, su to root and: urpmi kernel-source-2.6 And that should do it