DragonMage

On the subject of Rsync.. is mandrakeusers.com ftp site rsync-able?

Well, check the site.. You will find out that way :) http://www.frozen-bubble.org (BTW, the answer is yes).

Wait, hold on.. I think there is a limit of how old a distro that can be supported by NVidia's own driver. Since NVidia's driver can only work on Xfree 4.xx instead of 3.xx, only Mandrake 7.2 up and RedHat 7.1 up can be used. I am not sure how good a support Xfree 3.xx's own driver with NVidia chipset, but I have a feeling it will not be as good as NVidia's own driver. So you need to check whether the distro fulfill the requirements that NVidia specified. Other than that, I agree with MottS, installing Nvidia driver should be cake as long as you have kernel-sources installed and you downloaded the .src rpm or the tarballs.

WHOOHOOOO!!!! It should be out in time of me receiving that GeForce 4 Ti4200..

Yup... there is no such thing as too little memory. When I lowered my memory from 512 MB to 256 MB (because of a problematic MB), I can feel it.. I think I'll wait until DDR Prices drop some more before upgrading my memory again since I just spend a few hundred dollars updating my computer to speed.

There should be a hidden directory in your /home/<username> directory called .zsnes. Try deleting that directory, then rerun zsnes.

I have an Epox 8RDA+, which is also an NForce2 MB, so it should be similar to yours. Right now I am experimenting with it and having similar problems with yours initially, but mandrake installation in an NForce2 can be done, just hard. Everything right now is working, not perfectly, but working. This is what I did so far: 1. I downloaded the necessary drivers and software, which are the newest stable kernel, kernel-sources, kernel-doc, NVidia GLX and kernel driver (both source rpms) and NVidia Nforce source rpm 2. I upgraded my kernel to the newest stable one, kernel-2.4.19.24mdk-1-1mdk . I also installed the the kernel sources and kernel doc rpms. There are threads about how to upgrade your kernel in this board.. I suggest you read it carefully. 3. Reboot and boot using linux acpi=off noapic option. To do that, press <Esc> when the lilo boot screen is on, then type linux acpi=off noapic in the prompt screen 4. Rebuild the NVidia rpms. rpmbuild --rebuild NVidia-blah-blah-blah.src.rpm 5. I edited my /etc/modules.conf and make sure I commented out all the ALSA stuffs and have these lines in there alias sound-slot-0 nvaudio alias /dev/nvidia* NVdriver alias eth0 nvnet 6. When everything is done, I edited my /etc/lilo.conf and add the "acpi=off noapic" in the "append" line. Then I rerun /sbin/lilo -v 7. Reboot again. Then check whether everything works. Me, I actually goes beyond these steps because I actually downloaded cooker kernels and cooker rpms.. and lemme tell you.. rebuilding nvidia source rpms in cooker is a hell and a half. But so far after a grueling struggle, everything works.. If you want to do cooker instead.. just tell me. I'll try to remember what I did to make cooker work in Nforce2.

Johnnyv, regarding the backward @ and " key, check whether you are accidentally using a keyboard scheme for other languages. I found out earlier today that Spanish keyboard scheme puts its keys differently than the English QWERTY keyboard scheme.

Well.. depending on whether you installed texstar's urpmi repository in your urpmi database or not. Texstar's gkrellm is version 2.x while the ones in the mandrake disks are version 1.x. Gkrellm is so useful, it's almost like a wallpaper in my desktop :)

External & Optional CD/DVD? Blah.. that makes it not worth it.. of course you can install mandrake via ethernet, but you probably need a boot disk or iso image to do so.

That one is solved in one of the forums located at http://www.pclinuxonline.com I think all you have to do is 1. Right click on desktop and choose configure desktop 2. Pick on Behavior 3. Uncheck all the previews. 4. Press Apply then OK After that.. everything should be in order, i.e. not snapping back to the top left side whenever you reenter X.

It could be your ATI Radeon 7500. I remembered installing mandrake for a friend who has that vidcard, it took me an hour and a half trying to find the driver and compile it so it supports 3d. Even when it works, it is still not as smooth as my old GEForce2MX (and my cpu is even older than his, too).

Thanks for the screenshot motts, it's nice to know that mandrake can resize ntfs partition now. Anyway, I tried the galaxy theme both in kde and gnome. In gnome there is a galaxy windows decoration but not in kde. Oh well.. it is only version .4, maybe the next version will have it. My impression of that theme is that it's incredibly "boxy" and "sharp", I guess I am just too used to the curves of keramik and liquid. I am surprised that nimbus sans is not included in 9.1 though.. I think it should be in the urw-fonts rpm, do you have it installed?

The link doesn't work anymore. I guess because of version change or something. But galaxy should be available in the SRPMS directory in any cooker mirror.

Do you think this version will make it into Mandrake 9.1? Let's hope so.. even though I don't play this game but this one can be a draw for linux users right after tuxracer.

Hmm.. I was waiting for a new ISO after beta 3. I guess RC1 is next.. I am surprised mandrake doesn't do one more beta... oh well..

Actually, texstar still have that realplayer rpm.. just located in different directory. Here it is http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...0-2tex.i586.rpm

Hmmm.. runs fine with me with my KDE 3.1 konqueror.. What version of KDE are you using?

Yeah.. I figured out some errors in your post and I adjusted it until it works. There is also another error in your post should be shell> ./configure --enable-verbose-printk --with-debug=full --with-sequencer=yes --with-oss=yes --with-cards=intel8x0 --with-isapnp=no It seems that starting from rc5 or something they remove the "snd" part from --with-cards option in configure, otherwise they cannot find the module to compile. In any case, I think I just buy a SB Live! value instead.. It seems that the ECS K7S5A v3.x and above used a CMedia 9738 instead of the old SIS 7012 for the old K7S5A. The module still works, but not as well. Oh well.. at least I got sound. I am still having stability problems though.. not to mention that the cooler I bought sounds like a jet engine. It's weird that it's actually more stable in linux than windows (in windows it hangs after a few minutes of 100% cpu activity unless I max out the fan speed, in linux.. it can go for hours).

I tried your suggestion (downloading the newest alsa driver and compiling it), and I still have the same problem. Anyway, it seems that driver supportwise, SIS 7012 is very basic.. I also find out that unlike my old mb's trident module, it seems to be only able to load one channel of sound at a time, so I cannot play 2 sound files together. Oh well.. I think I am going to refund this mb anyway, it's much more unstable than my old athlon.. and maybe wait until my friend arrives with my aureal card (with the yamaha XG daughtercard in it). Anyway, thanks for the help guys..

The trident module is the leftover from my old motherboard (MS21N) with SIS 7018 sound, so it's basically useless in my current MB (which is K7S5A with SIS 7012 sound). I tried all other combination (using i810_audio and snd-intel8x0) but both have the same problem..

That's nothing.. a few days later I found this deal from www.outpost.com (the online arm of Fry's in anycase). K75SA Pro with XP2000+ for 89 bux plus shipping.. I don't know what's the difference between the Pro version and the regular 3.x version of K7s5A, but it's basically cheaper. Too bad the deal is dead now.

Here it is.. if I use the alsa module [root@spitfire dmage]# cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 735 Host (rev 1). Master Capable. Latency=32. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd1ffffff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP (rev 0). Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=10. Bus 0, device 2, function 0: ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 0). Bus 0, device 2, function 3: USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#2) (rev 7). IRQ 3. Master Capable. Latency=64. Max Lat=80. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcffff000 [0xcfffffff]. Bus 0, device 2, function 2: USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 7). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Max Lat=80. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcfffe000 [0xcfffefff]. Bus 0, device 2, function 5: IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev 208). Master Capable. Latency=128. I/O at 0xff00 [0xff0f]. Bus 0, device 2, function 7: Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 160). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdcff]. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd83f]. Bus 0, device 3, function 0: Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 144). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=52.Max Lat=11. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd4ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcffdd000 [0xcffddfff]. Bus 0, device 15, function 0: Communication controller: Conexant HCF 56k Data/Fax/Voice/Spkp Modem (rev 8). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xcffe0000 [0xcffeffff]. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd007]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 (GeForce2 MX) (rev 161). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=248. Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xce000000 [0xceffffff]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xc0000000 [0xc7ffffff]. [root@spitfire dmage]# cat /etc/modules.conf alias char-major-89 i2c-dev options it87 temp_type=0x31 # probeall scsi_hostadapter ppa ide-scsi alias eth0 sis900 # above snd-trident snd-pcm-oss # alias sound-slot-0 trident # alias sound i810_audio probeall usb-interface usb-ohci # I2C module options # alias char-major-89 i2c-dev alias /dev/nvidia* NVdriver # alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi # above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 above snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm-oss [root@spitfire dmage]# cat /proc/modules isofs 25652 1 (autoclean) inflate_fs 17892 0 (autoclean) [isofs] udf 85536 0 (autoclean) agpgart 31840 3 (autoclean) NVdriver 1065920 10 (autoclean) sd_mod 11788 0 (autoclean) (unused) sr_mod 15096 2 (autoclean) floppy 49340 0 (autoclean) parport_pc 21672 1 (autoclean) lp 6720 0 (autoclean) parport 23936 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] snd-seq-oss 26176 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 3208 0 [snd-seq-oss] snd-seq 33264 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event] snd-pcm-oss 36932 1 snd-mixer-oss 9016 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-intel8x0 10880 1 snd-pcm 55808 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0] snd-timer 9964 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-ac97-codec 25508 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-mpu401-uart 2752 0 [snd-intel8x0] snd-rawmidi 12864 0 [snd-mpu401-uart] snd-seq-device 3836 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd 24804 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device] soundcore 3780 0 [snd] af_packet 13000 0 (autoclean) i2c-isa 1224 0 (unused) it87 6852 0 i2c-proc 7088 0 [it87] i2c-core 15332 0 [i2c-isa it87 i2c-proc] sis900 13388 1 (autoclean) ntfs 72908 1 (autoclean) supermount 12360 2 (autoclean) nls_iso8859-1 2844 3 (autoclean) nls_cp850 3580 2 (autoclean) vfat 9588 2 (autoclean) fat 31832 0 (autoclean) [vfat] ide-cd 28712 0 cdrom 26912 0 [sr_mod ide-cd] ide-scsi 8212 1 scsi_mod 90404 3 [sd_mod sr_mod ide-scsi] adi 6232 0 (unused) ns558 2252 0 (unused) gameport 1660 0 [adi ns558] joydev 5632 0 (unused) input 3456 0 [adi joydev] usb-ohci 18216 0 (unused) usbcore 58304 1 [usb-ohci] rtc 6560 0 (autoclean) reiserfs 169776 2 If there is anything more, please say so.

Well.. I know that ECS has very poor quality control, but I figure for a $100 combo (US) with the motherboard and XP2000+ it's pretty good. The only problem is just that if both SDRAM (not DDR) slots are filled, it experience stability problems (after a minute or so, it will hang, even in just bios screen). I should shell out some money for DDR anyway to take full advantage of this MB. Oh well.. 512 mb of pc2700 should be about 100 bux or so. Oh, btw.. there is one more problem. The built in sound for this mb? It works, but with a quirk. The PCM section in any kind of mixer (aumix, kmix, the volume changer in xmms) doesn't change the volume at all. So to change the volume I have to change the master volume section only. Both this happen with the alsa and the OSS driver. Any solution?

Well.. I just installed my mb.. Just to make sure I installed hardrake2. Well.. during boot, it prompt me to reconfigure my network card and the mouse. I have to do the sound by hand.. If after this reboot everything keeps.. I will just let it go.. The bad news.. this stupid motherboard seems to loathe having both of its SDRAM slot filled. It basically cut down my memory from 512 to 256 meg.. sigh.. I guess time to save money to buy DDR now.