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Try Wine, never use Transgaming's software.... they hurt more than they help.   And paying them money is hurting you twice

Well, on some levels I agree with you , but here's the deal. Tribes 2 is a direct X game. It does not work under wine and that's all there is to it. The companythat made the linux port is bankrupt and gone. There are no coppies left anywhere, and if I could find a used one, it wouldn't do me any good because you can only have one account per CD key. So I only have 3 options.

1. Use software from a company who's practices I don't like.

2. Give up one of my all time favorite games for ever.

3. Go back to windows and use software who's creaters I like even less.

Seems pretty simple, no offense.

I just installed the lates subscription binary of WineX and while several games that did not work in the past are now working, I have absolutely no sound in any winex program.

Suggestion?

First, before anybody gets mad at me for running a game with a linux purt under WineX, there are no copies of T2 for linux available ANYWHERE, I've searched.

Anyway, today, just for grins and gigles, I decided to try the latest commercial version of winex. I laid out my 15 bones and what do you know, I can actulay play tribes2. The game works great but I have no sound for the moment. However, several other people have said that the sound works for them, so, we'll see.

I didn't actualy vote because it seems unclear axaclty what you are after. Obviouly, harware compatability because standards were followed is always a good thing, without exception. And, manufacturers not listing the fact that their devices are linux compatible is OBVIOUSLY bad, so I'm notrealy sure where the question lies. Also, why on earth would we pay $10 more?? THat makes no sense. The cost of printing a box would not change by adding the line, 'linux compatible'

Maybe you could aska straight question??

It would put you a litle closer to your $400, but you should look at a soyo mobo. I've built a number of systems now on soyo motherboards and I've had great experiences with all of them in both Windows and Linux. Soyo says right on their site that their boards fully support linux. I'm particularly fond of the Soyo "k7vDragon Plus!." If you want an athlon XP, they of course have other boards in the dragon line for other CPU's, all fully supported under linux. I have not had to do a single thing to get it all working.

THanks everyone, and I understand what you mean ix, it's just that I'm originaly froma windows world and I just can't get used to having to unmount a drive before I can open it. Just seems un-natural, and I've been lucky. supermount has never cause me a problem. Of course it's all sworking now just the way I want it. much appreciated to all, especialy Ix

thanks and I'm on my way. :D

As I noticed in my last posting, it was in fact still recognizing my CDrom as an ide device. It turns out that it should have been hdd instead of hdc, so a quick edit to the lilo.conf and I'm on my way.

I would however still REALY appreciate it if somebody would explain exactly where to enter 'supermount' for me though.....

okayt, that's all fixed now, (except the supermount) but k3b STILL won't let me choose my CDROM as a reader. What is up??? Here is my newly revised fstab, whitch is how k3b made it.

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2



#none /mnt/cdrecord supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,defaults 0 0

#none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0





/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd	/mnt/CDROM	auto	ro,noauto,user,exec	0 0

/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd	/mnt/cdrecorder	auto	ro,noauto,user,exec	0 0

I noticed that my CDrom is still listed as IDE, even though I changed the append l;ine in lilo.conf to

	append="quiet devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"

If this is wrong, what do I need to put there to enable scsi????

okay, now it's getting interesting.

I did like you said and my default mandrake icons for my drives went 'poof' as I exected and I manualy set up a link for my CD burner by right clicking my kde desktop and selecting new> CDrom drive.

Only problem is, I was able to select the CDburner but not the reader. something is screwy....

Any ideas??

physicaly, the reader is set up as my secondary master while the writer is set up as the primary slave. I did that on purpose so they would not be shareing a cable.

at the risk of sounding less than gratefull, could you tell me the syntax for enableing supermount? I hate manulay mounting drives with a passion.

Okay, I have scsi enabled on BOTH of my drives (or at least I think I do), and k3b setup reccognizes both drives correctly. I let it write it's own fstab entries and then I launched k3b. While the program works fine, I can not select my regular CDROM as a reader. I am forced to read and write out of the same drive whitch of course takes twice as long.

What am I doing wrong??

Here is my fstab, notice that there are the mandrake entries as well as the k3b entries so my drives are listed twice. If this is the problem, fine, but I need to know exactly wher eto pu the word supermount to have supermount ability on the fstab entries made by k3b:

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

#these are the original mandrake entries, only the mount points have been changed

none /mnt/cdrecord supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,defaults 0 0

none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0



#these are the k3b entries

/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd	/mnt/cdrom	auto	ro,noauto,user,exec	0 0

/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd	/mnt/cdrecorder	auto	ro,noauto,user,exec	0 0

okay, nevermind my problem with /dev/modem, it's fixed.

New problem: Could somebody post a link to basic configuration of wvdial??? I've searched all over the place and found all sorts of cool things it can do but they all assume you already have the bas9ic config down and you want dial on demand or to run silently without a terminal open or whatever else.

None of them say how to enter a number, name and pass.

Is there any other way to deal with the password issue?? I REALY don't want to use a password for root OR myself. It REALY makes like more difficult and security is an absolute NON-issue on my system.

Also, for whatever reason, when mandrake set up my system, it never set up /dev/modem and I don't know how. I've just been manualy selcting ttys1 (my second serial port) when setting up connections and as far as I've seen, wvdial depends on /dev/modem to work.

Thanks

My printer stopped printing, so I was looking around and realized that every time I tried to print any thing, I could watch kjob viewer and it would say 'proccessing' then switch to 'queued' and add 1 t the number of pages. Then a few seconds later, it would do it again. I watched as long as 11 pages and it never printed. For the record I was trying to print a plain text file that weas only 5 lines long.

The same thing happens globaly and with all document and image types.

What on earth could cause this??????

It's a HP psc1210 with hpijs 1.4.1 and the CVS of hpoj connected USB and set up as ptal:mlc:usb:PSC1210

It was working yesterday.

Also, the remote machine DOES NOT run X, so it must be done through terminal.

I have my mandrake box set up as the internet gateway for all the computers in my house, but when I want to get online, I have to go into my office, open kppp and dial-up manualy. What I want to do is be able to logg onto my computer via ssh and establish my connection that way.

This posses 2 big problems for me.

1. when I try to log on, I am prompted for a password, but I have my mandrake box set up without passwords and simply pressing enter without a password does not work. How do I do this?

2. I have no idea how to establish a dial-up (ppp) conection from a terminal.

So, any help would be appreciated.

p.s. The remote system is also a linux box, but just not mandrake.

In that case, I'd agree. Avoid the 6 in 1, get a single card reader

mobo: Soyo K7v Dragon, used, mostly stable. A friend has a new one that's very stable. On board sound and eth (on board eth is dead, that's why I got it free)

AMD Athlon Thuynderbird 1.2ghz

256mb generic DDR2100 ram

Western Digital 'caviare' 14GB hard drive. old and soon to be replaced.

external 56k modem (serial)

LG 48x CDrom

generic floppy

nVidia GeForce4 128mb w/ TV out (I don't use the TV out)

generic keyboard and mouse

Wacom Graphire2 tablet for design work.

Linksys eth card, my box is set up as the gateway for the rest of my house so it's conected to the WAN port on a WiFi router. I'm actaly typing this on my sharp zaurus (linux PDA) over WiFi.

And of course, the zauru connects via USB cradle whitch acts as a USB networking device. The only thing I still want to do is set up an r-sync or something similar between a directory on the desktop ond the one on theZ

HP psc 1210 multifunction

I think that's it.

I actually use SuSE 8.2 Pro now,... but thanks. This is the kind of info I was looking for. So,... to make a long story short, I should look for a card reader that only has the slot for the card size I use (i my case the postage stamp sized ones),... right!?!?!???

Yes and no. If you want to be able to plug it in and use it without doing anything hard, then yes, get a single card reader. But, if like me, you use several different types of cards for various devices, a 6 in 1 is a great way to go, you just have to compile a custom kernel with some very specific options. And like I said, if you decide to go that route, let me know and I will try to help.

Yeah, I'm glad to hear it to. I have an HP psc1210 wich is another printer/scanner/coppier/ but it takes a good half hour to set up IF you know exactlywhat to do. The first time took me about 2 weeks.

Okay, first things first. The type of card you're talking about is called Secure Digital NOT SanDisk. SanDisk is a brand, and unfortunately for you, one of the worst (though most popular) brands on the market.

As for what card reader will work, any of them, sort of.

USB card readers are handled by linux a SCSI hard drives, whitch work out pretty well, but it has it's limitations.

The biggest limitation is that if it is a multi card reader i.e. on one with multiple slots and not just a single slot, you may only be able to access the first slot with the default mandrake kernel.

Example: I have a Lexar media 6 in 1 card reader. It is the size and shape of a cassette tape and connects via USB. With the default mandrake kernel, I only have access to the Smart Medeia card slot. Of course, this is the one and only slot I never use.

What I had to do to get it working was compile a custom kernel, and at the xconfig stage, under the scsi options, I selected Probe multiple LUN's on each scsi device. The reason for this is that your computer, will read the card reader as a single scsi device with multiple LUN's (Logical Unit Numbers) In some very old out-dated and seldom used hardware, probing for more than one LUN on each device will cause a crash, so the default kernels for most distros don't use this option, but it is mandatory for a multi card reader.

You can avoid all this by getting a single card reader. One that can only use SD or MMC (they use the same slot)

**note: I have heard of several wor-a-rounds that are supposed to work without a custom kernel, but I've never gotten one of them to work for me. If you decide to go with a multi slot, I'll try to help.

Good luck

Well, it's working now, though I still don't know why it wasn't working before. I redid everything but this time I selected Dynamic IP on my router so it is using the DHCP broadcast from my mandrake box.

Even though It's still working I'd like to know why it suddenly stopped working with static IP's. Oh well, at least all I use it for is internet

By firewall do you mean the Mandrake one ???

 

If you disable it then it disables routing as well

 

try just typing

route

as  

root

and see if it picks up the default gw

Yes, I mean the mandrake one, and either you are mistaken or we are not clearly understanding eachother, as I have always done this in the past, and it has always worked.

I have a new netcard and I have re-installed mandrake from scratch. I set up my dial-up connection as default, and set my eth0 to 192.168.1.2

Then I used drakGW to set up sharing.

I then went to mcc>Security>drakFirewall, and chose the first option whitch says "everything. No firewall"

Steve, My router is a relatively expensive one and it IS set up for automatic DHCP, NAT and has a built in firewall. I have it's firewall as un-restriced as possible and set it up as though It's WAN port connected to a Static IP ISP. I told it the IP assigned by the service provider (in this case, my mandrake box) is 192.168.1.3, so, my mandrake box see's it as 192.168.1.3, and it uses it's built in NAT and DHCP functions to broadcast IP's from 192.168.2.100 to 192.168.2.199 to the computers it serves and then translates the addresses back and forth so my mandrake box only sees one device with an IP of 192.168.1.3 Set up in this way, I don't atualy need my mandrake box to broadcast dhcp, it just broadcasts and my router just ignores it.

Everything I have listed is exactly what I have done in the past and it has always worked. There is something else, some other bit of info I'm missing that is somehow differnt. ANy help would be appreciated.

roland, I will try your commands but I don't think they apply from your description. It sounds like your set up doesn't have anything in common with mine at all, except that you connect to the internet.

Here is my set-up again.

My mandrake box connects directly to the internet through a DIAL-UP 56K MODEM connected to serial port ttyS1

It has ONLY 1 nic. That nic is connected to an SMC WiFi router's WAN port. The router thinks my Mandrake box is a dedicated internet gateway. I have other computers in my house connected to the SMC router via WiFi

Well, I am not using dhcp. I entered 192.168.1.1 for my IP and it always worked fine in the past, as I already said, but somehow it is 'forgetting' it's own IP, thaat was all in my original post.