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Are you running the Nvidia drivers or just the standard Mdk install version? That makes a BIG difference in video. Your speed should be reasonably good with the hw you have... granted with more faster cpu and more ram you could do more, but I get good results with a 32mb Nvidia tnt2 which is much older. I run a Athlon 1600 XP here so speed is about the same as your P4. Do a search on the this board for NVIDIA and you'll see several posts on how to install the nvidia drivers. There are many helpful posts on the board and search will help you find answers like this. The new version from nvidia is working fine for me. You do have to edit a file, but if you follow the FAQ and README instructions it is pretty simple to do. If you hit a snag, let us know. We'll all pitch in and help!

From my location in SE Asia there are lots of challenges to getting a good connection at times. To overcome that, I avoid peak usage times and do my updates on early morning (esp. weekends) and times when US users are sleeping! HA! Being 12 hrs ahead has some advantages. Key thing is to be patient. "If at first you don't succeed, try-- try again!" Sometimes the mirrors are too busy to give you a connection so you have to shop around and try again. After a time, you'll find the mirrors that are best for you. One trick I use is to ping the mirror list at http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/ftp.php and find the lowest ping time. NOTE: even with a low ping time the mirror still might time you out if it is busy or has too many connections... but at least you can find the paths that are faster connections.

Have you tried to put in in a usb slot and reboot to see if it is detected? also check out http://www.linux-usb.org/ for some helpful info like this: From the FAQ "How do I get my device..." I was able to see and mount my card reader using this technique on 9.1 In the end, you'll want to edit your /etc/fstab to create the mount point unless it gets done automagically on reboot. HTH

Thanks for the head's up! Good info! :)

If you don't have the manual, you can just pop open the case and check the mobo slots visually. The AGP slot is longer than the others and usually brown colored-- It has two sections of contacts too. http://www.pc-pages.co.uk/motherboard/moth...oard_Help_1.htm will help with visual image. HTH!

Ixthusdan is right on! Better check out whether you have the AGP slot or not. If the mobo is older than say 98, it may not have the slot. Most of the newer boards do have AGP slot and bus. One of my desktops is an older Acer (1998 P2/266)and it does NOT have an AGP slot but does have an Expansion card/Riser that provides AGP slot. Mandrake detected it right off. Some of the new cards won't work in this kind of riser though. Don't worry too much about the tech stuff. Installing a video card is pretty automagic and you'll get a manual that will help you too, so don't worry too much. PC Mag and others have online help with photos to talk you through it too. If it doesn't work, just yank the card and reboot to your old setup. Sure would help to know what motherboard you have to check the specs out so you don't buy a card you cannot use! Do you have a manual for it there? If not, the specs can usually be found on the internet with a bit of searching.

Guess there are some advantages to Asian prices in some areas! I got my Asus TNT2 32MB card for US $35 and it is cheaper in generic versions! Our prices on branded laptops and desktops and other things are higher though! You really have to shop around. I just found out it is cheaper to buy a notebook in Jkt than in Singapore! Pays to check! http://www.bhinneka.com/ Better shop around and stock up before you move back here Dragonmage! :)

I am pretty sure there is no problem with a video card using DDR and the mobo using SDRAM. They are electronically separate and should not interact. The DDR would just give you faster response on video and that is cool! You'll get addicted to games!

In general CDRW and DVD drives are pretty generic so I think you are fine there. Hard drives are also generic except for the latest serial drives. Your video, sound and network devices are all very common and should be no problem at all from what I see.

Welcome to MandrakeUsers! Why not post a list of your hardware and people can comment on specific issues? Probably the Device Manager info is adequate. If you want more, you can get a detailed list from Windows via Programs--Accessories--System Tools--System Information but it is more than most people ever want to know! :roll: Some of the info can be helpful. Mostly just look at the Components section for your basic building blocks. In general, Mandrake 9.1 is pretty good on detecting most hw unless you have really the very latest "cutting edge" things. I think you will be surprised how easy it is to install, and lots of people here are willing to help if you have problems. EDIT: Sorry--- looks like we posted at almost same time and I did not see your latest post... Think most of that hw is going to be OK. Just because it isn't on the list doesn't mean it won't work. The list is badly out of date! Post your list and I'm sure you'll get some feedback. :)

Yes, same results here! I also hoped that I could apply Nvidia to both kernels in case I wanted to run the old kernel under GUI. So far, have not found a way to do that as the installer removes the driver from the other kernel. There must be a way to do it, just not obvious. Oh well.... not essential. I can always install again if I need to run old kernel. The good news is the kernel update seems to work fine! :wink:

Sorry if my pointer to errata wasn't too helpful since it deals with install issues. Steve and SoulSe have lots more experience at troubleshooting than I do. My thought was the memory issue in 9.1 with large amts of RAM. In the past, I've had a few crashes like you described too, and the var/log/messages log showed nothing at all since it crashed so hard the log didn't save any indication of the problem. That is irritating when it happens and makes it hard to find the problem. If that is the case with your crash I suggest this: check your memory I had an intermittent problem with kernel panics due to a bad memory card. My computer worked great in Windows, but had kernel panics like you describe at intermittent times. It was hard to troubleshoot since it did not correlate to particular activity and the logs showed nothing wrong. I ran memtest86 and other software checks and things showed fine. But when I finally removed all the memory cards and only put one memory card in at a time. it narrowed it down to one memory card that Linux did not like. The system would not boot using only that card, but did fine on all the others. You might try removing your memory and reseating the cards just to make sure they are ok. If you continue to have problems, it might be worth doing the memory swap to see if that isolates a card that is the problem. Crucial replaced my card under warranty by the way! Hopefully your log will show something and your memory is OK and you won't need to do this. :)

You might take a look at the 9.1 errata as there is a ref there to this problem. Not sure it applies to you, but worth a look. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3 Also, 9.1 has LOTS of updates so you need to run Mandrake Update and get the bug fixes and patches which may cure your problem. The new kernel may be the ticket too. I think your hw is OK, it is probably a bug that needs fixed.

yes, bvc is correct. The Nvidia installer removed all the old driver connections to all kernels so I will have to reinstall specifically for the old/non-running kernel if I want to be able to boot to GUI using that kernel. I don't think it is necessary, but am curious to test it to see if my understanding is correct. :wink: Right now am doing Mdk update on my wife's desktop and that takes about all my bandwidth. So maybe after the housework is done, Ill get back to this. It is Father's Day, you know? 8) bvc, if you try it I'll be interested in the results.

Glad I got good advice from this board and boot to level 3. I rebooted to the OLD kernel just to make sure all was well in case I needed it later for access if problems arise. Boots fine to level 3 but when I did startx it crashed the Xserver so no GUI yet under my old kernel. When you run the Nvidia installer, it removes any previous versions it detects and I guess it removed the version(4349) that was associated with the old kernel. Haven't studied it out yet, but wonder if I can run the NVIDIA installer with options as noted above for the OLD kernel... Hmmm... I will sleep on that. I can live without GUI but am curious if it will work. I'm going to bed first though. :roll:

Got the new kernel installed and running. Too early to tell if all is well, but so far so good despite a bonehead mistake. I urpmi'ed the kernel and decided to get the kernel source too since I would need it. I was in Konsole. Not thinking, I shutdown my GUI while downloading. Amazing thing was urpmi kept right on running but of course I lost my Konsole so could not see what the download status was... could only watch the lights blink on my router and wait to see the HD spin up when it installed. i used #ps -A to see if urpmi was still going too. :) After all that fun, I decided I better try to edit /etc/lilo.cfg and to not try to do the NVIDIA reinstall at the same time. I figured it would be easier to troubleshoot if I dealt with one install item at a time. On reboot, no X available... it crashed. Not to worry... :wink: Then I ran the NVIDIA driver that I downloaded last night and had to compile the kernel mod since the NVIDIA installer didn't recognize such a new kernel. But all went well and after I rebooted, I have NVIDIA working and X starts just fine! So I learned a bit more and was sure glad it worked. :lol: p.s. btw I used the new 4363 Nvidia installer.

Thanks for the input! Think I'm going to give NVIDIA method a spin just so I can learn from it. I can always go backwards if needed. :wink: If I don't crash things, I'll write up what I did. Might take some time to download things depending on connect speed and interruptions here too. :) p.s. / update: Too slow to download today... standing by for early Sun AM when traffic is lighter to try again. Downloading 150+MB at 2.2kbps is not an option. :)

This sort of relates to a previous post but decided to start new thread as it is different: Nvidia driver update needed for 2.4.21-0.18 kernel update? http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=5779 According to Nvidia readme FAQ section: Has anyone tried this method yet? Do you have to uninstall the old Nvidia first? I want to download the new kernel and kernel-source tomorrow and give it a spin. Would appreciate any comments or experience you have had using the Nvidia method above. Concerns I have: 1) The Mdk urpmi method installs the new kernel parallel to the old. Is the Nvidia installer smart enough to only deal with the active kernel? --Looks like the command tells it to install/compile to the named non-running kernel so that is pretty slick. 2) If you use the recommended Mdk urpmi method to install the new kernel, does the new kernel become active upon completion of install? ...Or does it only activate after the lilo command is given? Hmmm... I'll be sleeping on this one. Bedtime here!!! :wink:

Haven't tried this myself, but looks like it might point you toward a solution. http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/focus...5/msg00016.html here is another idea: http://www.fentun.com/ or http://freshmeat.net/projects/tnefclean/?t...opic_id=28%2C29 google with kmail attachments winmail.dat did the work for me. Hope it helps! :)

I am able to connect to port 21. I used both Kbear and gFTP and no problems at all. Tried it 12 hrs ago and it worked too, albeit slow. Wonder if there is a limit to number of connections at work here that is causing timeouts/no connection for some? btw: to get in I used plain old mandrakeusers.com and NOT ftp.mandrakeusers.com but not sure if that made a difference.

That might be why the script author put the warning into the mix when you use the -m option to make a Mozilla bookmark readable file. Maybe the Firebird needs html 4.01 version which this script breaks? I had same experience as you did. Opera exports bookmarks to html, but Mozilla cannot read them except for the first few. Think it is due to the spaces and indentation Opera uses. Seems it worked ok on my 6.12 version bookmark conversion, but I have over 100 bookmarks so haven't checked each one. :) Guess I could have tried the Konqueror route and imported Opera bookmarks then exported to Mozilla format. Wonder how that works? Anyone tried it?

Yahoo! Got it! Took a bit of trying, but helped me learn a bit in the process. :lol: Problem was the file names and syntax things. I'll try to recap Steps 1 & 2 are Ok... might need to explain the downloaded is .tgz and needs to be uncompressed twice. Step 3: I am still not sure why, but I moved the whole directory since the sym link suggested in step 4 refers to it. QUESTION: couldn't you just move the operahotlist2html script file rather than the directory? or is there a safety/convenience reason for this? Step 4: I followed it as per above. The last step though I changed and followed the instructions on the author's webpage. Instead of I did [kelly@localhost opera2html]$ opera2html -i $HOME/.opera/opera6.adr -o htmlfile.html --mozilla --include-dates and got an error message (no problem just info) Warning: -m or --mozilla option breaks HTML 4.01 compliance. Then I used Bookmark Manager in Mozilla to import the htmlfile.html into Mozilla. Seemed to work fine after I made these minor changes. This works for the 2.7 version of operahotlist2html and might be different for earlier versions. Author says this one also works on Opera 7. HTH someone else that wants to do the same. Thanks for the point in the right direction Cannonfodder. One of these days I'll be able to do it aru's way! :)

DUH... getting closer. Just realized the file name is NOT opera2html after all so going to eat dinner and try to redo this with the right filename. Guess I was just being too literal. :)

Tried to follow Cannonfodder's steps above but so far no joy. Can someone please help me learn what I am doing wrong? I want to import my Opera 6.12 bookmarks to Mozilla. I made a temp directory opera2html and expanded the file. Then I think my problems began with following steps 3 & 4 Does this mean I should move the newly created directory opera2html or just the file opera2html? I copied the directory because step 4 makes it look like a directory is involved since opera2html is doubled in the first part... Is that an error or do I need to transfer the directory? This is where I am a bit confused . :? I tried to run the command from within the /home/kelly/opera directory but get the error "no such command" as both root and user... I figured out the Opera6.adr is a typo as the file is opera6.adr (no cap) but get same error after correcting that. What am I missing? :)

First, I am not an expert, but have learned a few things about using Mdk Update through the school of hard knocks in the past 9 months of using Mdk. Depending on your connect speed, it can take several minutes to resolve the hdlist, especially the first time you use it. Be patient and don't abort it before it is done unless you absolutely have to do so. Sometimes it is merely the server timing you out due to too many users at the moment. I find the off-peak hours are best on a slow connection. A trick I use is to check the ping time to the base server BEFORE I try Update. If it is slowish (above 800ms) or too many dropped packets, then I pass on using that server as it will take forever to connect/download. Then I shop around to find a faster connection. (Helps if you get to know how to remove the update source via Software Sources Manager GUI or via cmd line and urpmi) This has saved me a lot of aborted downloads due to timeouts and too many dropped packets causing the update to hang or to never start in the first place. Second, I would think twice about using cooker sources if you are new to Linux. Not recommended. It is hard to be that patient, but it sure does help eliminate problems. :)