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Thank you :) I'd be grateful if you could :)

Well I'm in my home directory :/ Funny eh ? :?

True :/ It's free afterall :) I meant I have to su to root to check out, otherwise it will give me some "can't make directory wine - no such file or directory" or just sit there doing nothing. The above and this one: it stops at checking out the file wineclipsrv.c every time. It just gets stuck there and doesn't do anything (I left it going overnight once). Yeah :/ This is the first time I used the cvs server thing to check out something from the Net though ^_^

I'm trying to check out winex from the cvs sourceforge server but I have the following problems: - Half of the time it will not connect or not connect properly (ie when I try checking out, it will report some errors like can't make directory or something like that). - I have to check out as root, otherwise it will never do anything :? - After it starts checking out and downloading things, it goes fine for a while then will get stuck everytime at wineclipsrv.c (hope I get the name correct) with no further progress :? How can I fix this ? :? Many thanks :)

Yeah I use KDE... Just found a post not really about UT2003 or Xine but Quake3...and the guy coudln't start the game and had the same error. So I tried the suggestion: artsdsp -m [application] and it worked fine :) Wonder what was causing the problem ? :?

Sometimes when I start some apps, esp Xine and UT2003, /dev/dsp or /dev/[sound]/dsp will be busy and thus I get no sound. I haven't been able to find the fix yet, although if I restart the thing, I may get sound :? What's going on ?

Of course I'm using the Nvidia driver (latest one). Maybe if I played a pure OpenGL game I would have got the same speed...if you read some UT2003/Linux reviews which have benchmarks, you would see what I mean. UT2003 running in D3D is significantly faster than OpenGL. Although it's just me being picky - the numbers (fps) are lower but it's still very playable. Same with other games :) like the emulated PSX games I play.

Gameplay in Linux is a lot slower than in Windows for me, at least with the games I play, like UT2003. Anyway... I found a fix for my problem: which is to use the command line to OC :P The GTK one will cause the lockup described above - I used the GUI because I wanted the tweaks as well (like adjusting the Digital Vibrance or AA/AF etc.). While I can OC now, the max OC I get in Linux (MDK 9.1) is lower than what I get in WinXP, but perhaps it's just because of different drivers and different approaches/algorithms to OC the cards (like driver vs low level HW). Will post more findings soon :)

I used this program (forget which version) to OC my GF3 in Linux (Mandrake) almost 2 years ago, and it worked great. Now I'm trying to get it to work with this GeForce4 TI4200 (Asus V9280 VS AGP 8X 128MB VIVO). Whatever clock speed I set it to, X will lock up completely with lots of fuzzy pink vertical lines. No Ctrl + Alt + ***, I'm forced to do a hard reboot. This really sucks :( I have read the author's site and he said that there's some problem with GF4 OCing, that some certain combos don't work (well for me none of them works), and that he will release version 0.7 soon to fix it. However that promise was made in March this year.... I have been searching forums + Google, but there aren't many threads on nvclock and I have found a few who have the exact same problem. If you know the fix, or another OCing utility for Nvidia cards under Linux (I haven't been able to find anything else), please tell me :) Many thanks :cool:

I'm going to buy a new video card, and I need to find some benchmarks/reviews. I know very well how the cards perform in Windows, but I don't know how they compete in Linux. Can you recommend me some review websites, or game/demo benchmarks ? Also, could you post your average glxgears score here ? Atm with a piss poor Radeon 7000 I'm getting 370fps in glxgears :P Many thanks :)

Use the Mandrake CC to change the default Display Manager to KDM or GDM instead of MDKDM

Update: I have installed the patched XFree86 server and it fixes the problem !!! :) Thanks a lot everyone for helping me :) Now I can sleep well like a baby hehehe (oh shit it's 3:30 am already :P ).

Yes, I think kdm or gdm allows you to do that. Or you can turn off the graphical login, then log in as root from the command line and do a startx. You will get a nice sexy red background that greets you with some message saying how silly you are, logging in as root like this :P

why do you guys keep comparing these new LInux distro's to Win98 ? 98 was designed for very old hardware, doesn't have a sexy interface and crashes a lot and doesn't have many programs + services. Compare the new Linux distro's to Win2K or WinXP. Mandrake 8.2 or 9.1 aren't designed (by default) for an AMD K6 system.

I can say that I'm very good at tweaking Windows, but still a lousy Linux tweaker, and I've found that if you tweak them to the max (max that I can) they all boot at the same speed (esp if you strip them down to basic stuff). Although, as you have observed, Windows always reaches the desktop GUI faster than most Linux distro's. That's why people usually have the wrong impression that Windows boots faster.

If you use ADSL (like I do, well I have both...) you don't need DHCP for your card that connects to the adsl modem (you can make it 192.168.0.1 if you want) and you definitely don't need dhcp for your LAN. Static IPs make things a lot faster in my experience. If you're only using it to share the home Internet connection, you don't really need: dhcpd, named, netfs, nfs, rwhod, sshd, webmin and a few other things. Just switch them off at startup and only turn them on when you need them.

About a month old. Barra V 80GB, 8MB cache. wow thanks heaps pmpatrick ! I'll check that out now :) edit: hmm that bug was supposed to be in the RC's and MDK was supposed to fix that in the final 9.1 :roll: :roll: thumb down for Mandrake.

None of these works. The keyboard and the mouse are all disabled :/ ooooh interesting ! I have a Radeon 7000 (VE). Doens't MDK 9.1 use XFree 4.3 ? As I didn't have this problem in RedHat 9 which uses XF 4.3. Anyway I'll look for that patch. to Gowator: by default it's mdkdm. I've tried kdm and gdm, both have the same problem. Last night, because a keyboard software screwed up my font server and killed harddrake (beats me, I dont know why :/ ) and as this problem still persisted, I decided to reinstall. For half a day (with few reboots and shutdowns) I didn't have that problem at all ! :D However :/ a few hours ago when I rebooted, the same problem came back :/ and the disk checker scared the hell out of me when it asked me to log in as root and repair the filesystem :? I did that then rebooted again, it's all good now. I don't think I will ever use that shutdown box again :P I'll stick to the "shutdown -r / -h now" command until I check out that XFree patch.

You're running a bunch of servers in MDK 9.1 .... do you run the same things on Win98 ? Just disable the uneccessary stuff. I've downgraded from a 2.5GHz AXP + nForce2 + dual channel DDR 220Mhz running WinXP to a 2.13GHz AXP + KT333 + single channel DDR 166MHz running MDK 9.1 (at first I used RedHat 9).... it wasn't really a downgrade as atm it's much faster (and sexier ! ) than it used to be :P Just remember that no OS is fast (although this depends on how one perceives performance) out of the box. You need to do some tweakings. Edit: wrt opening apps, initially it was a bit slow (and much slower when I used RH 9 for some reasons) but after disabling things I don't need, recompiling the kernel and disabling some fancy windows shadowing/animation yadda yadda (my vid card isn't good enough for these), everything loads much faster. Also one thing to consider: if you're using cable internet and use bootp/dhcp to assign an IP addy to your NIC, it will slow down your comp big time. Don't ask me, I don't know why. It happens in all distro's I've tried. Always get a static IP for your NIC that handles the Internet connection.

Oh yeah, that's it :P I always use KDE :P

No, the other Control Center, the one you don't need to enter the root password to open.

You could have some problem with compiling the nForce2 driver. Everything except the onboard LAN is supported by default.

If you happen to be too lazy to touch the keyboard, this is an easy way to install fonts :) Go to Control Center, open System, and use the Font Installer. It works perfectly and much better than DrakFont <- I can't get that one to work at all (the fonts don't get Xft'ed ). It will work straight away, you don't need to restart anything.

An easier solution: Open the Control Center, and use Font Installer in System to do the work (just browse for the TTF's, add to the list then click Apply). DrakeFont is useless for me.

If you want it to be done automatically, after "make modules_install", run "make install". It will do all the initrd stuff then add entries to your existing boot loader (grub or lilo). Works on any distro. I just recompiled the kernel and it booted up with the graphic display just fine :)