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I appreciate the reply. However. I have the most recent NVIDIA driver installed. The problem happens when trying to select

the proper video card in XFdrak. None of the NViDIA selections will work with my 7300GT card.

The only selection that will work is the XOrg vesa selection.

I just purchased a new Biostar GeForce 7300GT video card with 256MB on board.

I run XFdrake, selecting the appropriate vendor->nvidia->7 series driver.

Select my appropriate montior. Then select the test option to test my configuration.

When I do, the monitor shows all static and it the displays the "Invalid Scan Frequency" message.

After several failed attempts. I give up on the Nvidia driver and select the Xorg Vesa driver.

It works. But, Is VERY slow.

Does anyone know what the appropriate NVidia driver is for this card ??

Thanks in advance.

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I have successfully installed my 2007.0 X86_64 powerpack on my AMD Opteron 165 system. Works beautfully.

However, I have noticed that the kernel starts using swap space when the the amount of memory in usage

approaches 500K. I have 1GB installed.

What can I do to enable the usage of the entire 1GB ram.

CPU: AMD Opteron 165.

MB: BIOSTAR TForce6100-939 Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6100

Memory: 1GB Corsair DDRI

Thanks in advance.

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The regular stock Mandriva kernels (incl. the smp one) do not utilize the full one gig of RAM you have, but "only" 890MB.

To fix that, you either have to use a 4GB enabled kernel, or apply the 1GB patch (afaik present in the Con Kolivas patchset) and rebuild the kernel. Not 653 MB though- where did you get that info from?

Some distros, like PCLInuxOS, come with a stock kernel already patched to use your one gig of RAM fully.

I do have to warn you though that some apps, like VMWare, will fail to build the necessary modules with the 1GB patch applied, and some application-specific footwork is needed to bypass this issue.

Thanks for the reply. I came up with the 653MB. By observiing the GNOME system monitor values during the course of running my apps. It gets to 653MB. Then. Starts swapping.

Unfortunetely. I can't use the 4GB kernel. As. I have a 940 dual core cpu. This I use an SMP kernel.

Unless of course the is a SMP kernel built to use 4GB's.

Mandrake 2006

Kernel 2612-22SMP

Looking at the gnome system monitor. It looks as though. User memory is only utilized to 653MB of 1009.8MB before

the system starts swapping.

Is there a kernel parameter which lets me increase the amount of user memory used. I would like to use

as much of my 1GB of memory for using swap space.

Thanks in advance.

Looking for opinions on best hard manufacturer for Mandriva. And. Should I buy SATA or IDE.

SCSI is not an option.

Thanks in advance.

I solved the problem purely by empirical efforts.

Configure Your Computer ->Boot->Set up how your system boots->

Check Enable ACPI.

Rebooted 2.6.12.18SMP

That fixed the problem

All is good now.

If you press ESC you can see the boot progress and where it's failing? What error message do you get?

Thanks for the reply.

I tried pressing the ESC key to watch the boot progress. However.

It appears that the KB has been locked out. As nothing happens when I

press the escape key. And, there aren't any errors that show up.

It just freezes. And. I have to do a hard reset.

Thanks again.

System runs fine using a non SMP kernel. However. A little hot.

But. I only see one CPU when monitoring with Gnome monitor.

I already posted that I can't boot using an SMP kernel.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Just installed Intel 820 Dual Core CPU/ASRock 775Dual -880Pro MB combo.

1 GB Geil DDR ram.

When booting with kenerl 2.6.12-18. Everything works fine.

I Installed the SMP kernel kernel-smp-2.6.12.18mdksmp.

Now I just get the penguin boot screen. But.. the progress bar shows no progress.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Patrick. Thanks for the input.

Another question. How do I enable SMP support in my kernel.

Does anyone have experiences. Opinions about using Dual Core Intel chips with Mandriva Linux.

Are dual core system really "All That". It's too late now. Because I have already puchased form newegg.com.

But. I wanted to get a heads up.

Thanks again.

Everything that you said worked.

I greatly appreciate the help.

I would make sure you have all updates, and the latest Mandriva 2006 kernel which is 2.6.12.18mdk. This will help for additional hardware detection and having newer modules, etc.

 

Plus the kernel-source if you have it on your system as well, but the updates should take care of this if it exists.

Question. Where do I obtain the 2.6.12.18mdk kernel package.

Thanks. You guys rock.

I have a perfectly good system running Mandriva Linux 2006. I have just purchased an

ASUS P5VD1-X Socket T (LGA 775) VIA PT880 Ultra ATX Intel Motherboard, and a 3.00GZ dual Pentium 4.

My question is. Can I just take all the peripherals (HD,DVD+RW,AGP Card etc..). Plug them into the new MB, turn on the switch

and go ??

If not. What are the recommended steps to take.

Thanks in advance.