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  1. I will have two weird suggestions that may work. 1. Is your BIOS configured to see this HDD as LBA? If not, change it to LBA (Not AUTO) and try a reboot. 2. Under certain conditions, corrupted partitions can be rescued if you moumt them as an NFS drive from Linux. Good Luck
  2. I have had a similiar problem with the USB 2.0 NEC card and an asonic USB 2.0 hub hooked on this USB port. I think the Mandrake 10.1 kernel has a problem there. Go back to Kernel 2.6.3 that comes with the Mandrake 10 boxed set and your USB setup will be working properly. I have not yet been able to pinpoint the error. Sincerely
  3. Gear Colleague, Let me try to explain the situation technically. I think the Windows equivalent of LBA is enable large disk support. For some archaic reason, there are limits on the numbers of cylinders and sectors when the real mode bios starts. Modern disks have overshot these limits, so the actual geography of the disk and what BIOS thinks it is may not be the same. A remapping is done to keep these numbers within limits. Linux overrides the bios. If you repartition your disk using Mandrake's or Suse's graphical installer, it calls a graphical partitioning tool, cfdisk. Unfortunately cfdisk's settings will reflect the actual disk geography and may conflict with the BIOS remapped settings unless LBA is enabled. Slackware can use fdisk for disk partitioning, which respects the BIOS settings better so that it is less likely that such a problem arizes. Also third party tool such as Partition Magic may be safer repartitioning tools. It may be good to start from a Slackware installation disk, repartition and then bail out. Restart Windows and see to it that everything is OK. Then start the Mandrake or SuSe installation on the prepared partitions. In your case, reinstalling Windows on a broken partition may tempt Windows to reformat your HDD, so that you will lose all data. Try to boot from a Windows diskette or Norton rescue disk and get your Windows partition in order first using fdisk /mbr. Once Windows is running, you can proceed with the Linux installation using your prepared swap and root partitions. Good luck
  4. If you are sufficiently experienced change to Slackware 10. Be sure to format your partitions using the reiserfs file system. Your system will run significantly faster than Windows or Mandrake and it will be very stable. Plus you do not have to join a club to get the latest KDE software, it is freely available.
  5. Dear colleague, This looks like a mis-configured or mis-installed Lilo. Here are some steps that you can take: 1. Go to your BIOS and make sure that LBA is marked for your boot HDD. 2. If you have made a Linux boot diskette, boot into your Linux system from it, check your /etc/lilo.conf file as root. Issue the command lilo, watch error messages. If there is no error shutdown, remove your boot floppy and try to reboot. 3. Boot from the Mandrake installation CD, when the graphical menu comes quickly type the proper key sequence (either F1 or escape) to drop to the manual lilo prompt and type linux rescue at that prompt. Try the reconfigure boot loader menu option. If this fails try the restore the Windows boot loader menu option. YOu may also go to a root console to fix your system manually. 4. Boot from your Windows boot disk type fdisk /mbr. This should restore your Windows boot loader so that you can boot Windows. Now you are unable to boot into Linux. Once the Windows partition is OK, you can "upgrade" to the same version of Mandrake. 5. Booting from a Knoppix or Slax bootable CD may help you to correct errors in your configuration files. Use this if and only if you have experience in Lİnux. Good Luck
  6. I had downloaded a set of CVS drop in replacement modules from XFree.org in May, before they also modified the XFree binary. They seem to work with my Mandrake 9.2 setup and produce glxgears scores around 480 using a Radeon 7000. They replace the modules in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules. The more recent ones that also replace the XFree86 binary and pci libraries unfortunately conflict with non-American keyboard setups. Another point is that unfortunately the Mandrake XFdrake does not correctly detect all monitor/graphic card settings and can yield a XF86Config-4 file that causes a "no screens found" or "screens found but none have a usable resolution" message and crashes X. Therefore hand tweaking of XF86Config-4, or using settings generated by a SuSe 9 or Knoppix 3.3 setup will help (They may use vesa driver as standard but can be tweaked to use radeon). Other points: Please be sure that agpgart is enabled (if necessary kernel must be recompiled). If you have a Via based mainboard, please move pci cards around so that your graphics card does not share an irq with a sound card or modem. Sincerely,
  7. If you have one of the affected LG drives and a firmware update is not available, do NOT switch to that drive until you have upgraded your kernel (including all related apps such has kernel boot) to the newest kernel available (2.4.22-21mdk). Another alternetive would presumably be recompiling your kernel with all CD packet writing frills disabled. Read the Mandrake errata page to find out what needs to be disabled. Sincerely
  8. For the PCTEL modem, you will have to go to the URL http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pctel-linux/ and load the Linux driver for pctel modems. You also need to install kernel sources and the development packages since installing the driver means compiling a kernel module. Once your modem is set up, install and fire up minicom as root minicom -c on -s and see if you can dial out. If you can dial out, then fire up kppp or wvdial to set up your ppp network. Sincerely,
  9. The radeon deriver in Mandrake 9.1 or 9.2 XFree setup does not work. Vesa is one solution. Here are some other solutions that I have devised. Ther are extracted from a post to other users: Go to the URL www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ and replace your XFree setup with the latest CVS (Do a file by file replacement, I recommend that you back up your old configuration just in case). I think there is a bug in the register usage which affects radeon cards manufactured by HIS, particularly if you have a VIA or SIS chipset based mainboard, this is addressed by a patch in the CVS branch. Go to the URL http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ and replace your XFree radeon driver by the Gatos radeon driver as per the instructions on that website. I think there is also a HOWTO. You will need kernel sources package for this. Sadly, the Mandrake CD lacks this important package, you must download this. (They are trying to become Windows!) The Mandrake X configurator, as well as the Red Hat X configurator or xf86config in Slackware may not correctly identify all of your monitor settings. Try to enter all modes manually. Alternatively, the Knoppix 3.3 and SuSe 9.0 X configurator software can do a better job. You may be able to boot with the Knoppix or SuSe Live Eval CD, if X starts there copy the appropriate stanzas of the XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file that they create to your Mandrake setup and this may get you going. Be sure that agpgart is enabled in your kernel or is loaded as a module. Please double check this point. A mistake here will prevent you from using any driver other than framebuffer. Are you sharing an IRQ between your graphics card and mouse or other hardware (modem)? Via chipsets are particularly fussy about this. Via issues Windows patches for this but as far as I know, no specific Linux patches are available. I have had colleagues changing from a PS/2 mouse to a port mouse to circumvent this. Good luck
  10. Although I have comparatively older hardware, I have also had problems loading the Radeon drivers, so perhaps these comments from a post that I made to another user might be of help: 1. Go to the URL www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ and replace your XFree setup with the latest CVS (Do a file by file replacement, I recommend that you back up your old configuration just in case). I think there is a bug in the register usage which affects radeon cards manufactured by HIS, particularly if you have a VIA or SIS chipset based mainboard, this is addressed by a patch in the CVS branch. 2. Go to the URL http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ and replace your XFree radeon driver by the Gatos radeon driver as per the instructions on that website. I think there is also a HOWTO. Another word of caution: Unfortunately the Mandrake X configurator, as well as the Red Hat 9.0 X configurator or xf86config in Slackware may not correctly identify all of your monitor settings. Try to enter all modes manually. Alternatively, the Knoppix 3.3 and SuSe 9.0 X configurator software can do a better job. You may be able to boot with the Knoppix or SuSe Live Eval CD, if X starts there copy the appropriate stanzas of the XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file that they create to your Mandrake setup and this may get you going. Please double check all XFree settings since improper settings may lead to harware damage. Finally: 1. Are you sure that agpgart is enabled in your kernel or is loaded as a module. Please double check this point. A mistake here will prevent you from using any driver other than framebuffer. 2. Are you sharing an IRQ between your graphics card and mouse or other hardware (modem)? Via chipsets are particularly fussy about this. Via issues Windows patches but as far as I know, no specific Linux patches are available. Good luck
  11. I have successfully used TV out on an ATI radeon, using the vesa driver.
  12. Dear Radeon user, I have experienced a lot of problems with ATI Radeon 7000 and XFree 4.3, I know a number of tweaks, I will list options available to you: If you are not a power user and want to use your TV out, use the vesa driver raher than the radeon driver. The simplest way to arrange this is to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 so that the driver line reads "vesa" rather than "radeon". Other suggestions along these conservative lines that may get you going are the fbdev framebuffer driver or the SVGA server in XFree 3.3.6. If you are a power user, there are a number of possibilities: 1. Go to the URL www.xfree86.org/~alanh/drivers/x86/ and replace your XFree setup with the latest CVS (Do a file by file replacement, I recommend that you back up your old configuration just in case). I think there is a bug in the register usage which affects radeon cards manufactured by HIS, particularly if you have a VIA or SIS chipset based mainboard, this is addressed by a patch in the CVS branch. 2. Go to the URL http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ and replace your XFree radeon driver by the Gatos radeon driver as per the instructions on that website. I think there is also a HOWTO. 3. Go the the ATI Website: They have Linux drivers for some of their cards that even includes a version of Catalyst. I have fears that the driver may not fully support cards made by third party manufacturers using ATI chips. 4. There is a commercially available driver that replaces XFree, I do not remember the website, but I am sure you can track it from altavista or google. Another word of caution: Unfortunately the Mandrake X configurator, as well as the Red Hat X configurator or xf86config in Slackware may not correctly identify all of your monitor settings. Try to enter all modes manually. Alternatively, the Knoppix 3.3 and SuSe 9.0 X configurator software can do a better job. You may be able to boot with the Knoppix or SuSe Live Eval CD, if X starts there copy the appropriate stanzas of the XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file that they create to your Mandrake setup and this may get you going. Finally: 1. Are you sure that agpgart is enabled in your kernel or is loaded as a module. Please double check this point. A mistake here will prevent you from using any driver other than framebuffer. 2. Are you sharing an IRQ between your graphics card and mouse or other hardware (modem)? Via chipsets are particularly fussy about this. Via issues Windows patches for this but as far as I know, no specific Linux patches are available. I have had colleagues changing from a PS/2 mouse to a port mouse to circumvent this. Good luck
  13. Do you have an LG CD ROM? If so, they are not supported by Mandrake 9.2. There is an advisory to the effect that Mandrake 9.2 installation may cause hardware damage to LG Cdroms. You can safely install (I did)Slackware 9.1 though, if you wish to run Kernel 2.4.22. Please wait until Mandrake clarifies this issue. Sincerely, A. Hacinliyan
  14. Dear Sir/Madam, To use the NVıdıa driver, you must also load the NVIDIA kernel. Does your /etc/modules.conf file have the stanza that does it? Otherwise please read the README that comes with the NVidia driver package and add the appropriate line to the file. I do not remember what the line is except for a major device number of 195 for my old TNT 2, since I upgraded to an ATI card. Perhaps in the new driver, this number is different. SDincerely, A. Hacinliyan
  15. From the point of view of linux drivers, Nvidia has much better support since there is a choice of the XFree nv driver and the proprietary nvidia drivers. If one doesn't work, the other will. Although, in my view ATI is a more versatile chip, I have been unable to get the radeon driver in linux to work properly. I am obliged to use the vesa driver. I think there is a bug in the kernel agp routine and XFree 4.3. I also suspect that the Sis chipset in my MB could also be the cause. Please follow the forums and get the card which reportedly works best with your hardware, since your mileage can vary depending of the combination of hardware (MB chipset + VGA driver + Monitor) that you have. Sincerely avadis
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