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Probably something like that. I'm not a "hardware guy", so it's probably just something I'm not seeing. Although, both systems (live / install) seem to be identifying the card properly and appear to be using the same ATI driver. I did get some more information from one of the Mandriva dev. team. My problems with my Nvidia card is with the legacy driver, which I imagine my older card is using. This makes sense. However, this requirement should be included in the Mandriva 2007 specifications at some point. Stating that you need a 3D accelerated card to rung AIGLX/XGL is not enough information and technically incorrect. And I don't recall reading any specifciations that state you need at least an ATI brand/model X or Nvidia brand/model Y. Of course, it could be that I just haven't looked in the right place. Anyway, at least the installed version works with the ATI card, so I at least have that option.

Ah, yes, I believe that you are correct. However, I thought 2007 decides upon using AIGLX or XGL based on the hardware configuration. A side note to this is, as mentioned, I also tried it with an ATI card. It would configure properly with the install CDs but not with the live One CD. So, taking Nvidia out of the equation still ended with the same results. I got AIGLX/XGL "out of the box" by installing it and got "3D acceleration unsupported" with the live CD.

Was there any particular reason why you couldn't download and install Ndiswrapper via Mandriva's MCC (ie. URPMI)? I'm asking because I recently had to get a wireless LAN USB device installed for a friend. I simply installed Ndiswrapper via MCC, got his MS-Windows driver CD, plugged in the wireless device and used MCC to use Ndiswrapper to install the driver from the CD. I had to reboot the PC (for some strange reason), but after that all was working just fine. I never had to deal with ./configure at all.

I've come across the strangest problem with the recent beta and RC releases of Mandriva 2007. I'm running a 1.2GHz system with 256MB of RAM and an Nvidia GeForce 2MX graphics card (and have been testing this with an ATI Radeon 9250, just in case it was an Nvidia-only thing). Theoretically, this system should run a AIGLX desktop just fine... and it does, as long as I install 2007 from the 3 CD install set and not run it from the One live CDs. If I boot up with the One live CDs (any of them, as I've downloaded many of the different builds available) Mandriva tells me that my hardware does not support 3D acceleration. But, if I do an install, I get AIGLX running "out of the box." It's a very odd bug. I've filed it with Bugzilla, but nothing seems to have been done about it yet. Hopefully it will be taken care of before the final release. I hope that Mandriva's management doesn't rush 2007's release. I'd rather it be late and working well than on-time and running poorly.

You may want to visit http://www.linuxgamepublishing.com/ I'm anxiously awaiting a racing game from them called Ballistics. Majesty is a pretty good strategy/sim game... well, I like it anyway.

I live in Saskatoon, the sun shine capital of the country, smack dab in the middle of the prairies. The city's growing and the real estate business is a buyers market right now. Just think how far the Euro would go up here! Okay, it gets a bit cold here a couple months out of the year, but computers work better in the cold anyway. Just think of the energy savings on air conditioning alone! :D

A solution to recent patent disaster: Mandrake, move your head office to Canada. Under Canadian law, one cannot patent computer software. Just think how far the Euro could get you in our current market! Let's turn Canada into the Open Source and GNU development capital of the world! Oh, and you'd even have a right to share MP3s! :D

WindowMaker is my favorite DT environment. I've tried the others (KDE, Gnome, IceFm, Enlight., Fluxbox). And even though those are good, I still come back to WindowMaker. I like the simplicity of it. The menus are completely customizable, with just a little bit of code from the command prompt and the preferences file is easy to decipher and therefore easy to customize as well. I like the fact that WindowMaker does not "get in the way" between me and my applications. The people who develop the ALT Linux distro. have a great WindowMaker build, with transparent menus and great anti-alias font support. I vote for "Other" and the WindowMaker environment, if I can call it that.

No, I'm not putting all the blame of the incident on Mandrake. Could be something with KDE too... or just something unique to me and my PC. I did try the CTRL-ALT-Backspace after several minutes of looking at a black screen when I tried to log out the first time.... nothing happened. I did kill the Konqueror process (or at least I thought I did) before logging out. I also tried to log in as root on another virtual terminal, but the terminals were not responding to keyboard entries. I do understand the danger in re-booting via the reset button and only do so when I feel I've done everything I can software and OS wise. As I said, it may not be MDK 10's fault or KDE's, however, I've been using ALT Linux for quite some time in the same manner and this problem has never happened. MDK 10.0 is the first Mandrake distro. I've used since 8.2 so I cannot say if 9.x had the same issues. Anyway, I just thought users of the 10.0 Community distro. should be aware of this problem I've recently encountered.

Well, after a few weeks of Mandrake 10.0 I'm sorry to say that I have to go back to my previous distro., ALT Linux.... at least until the final release of 10.0. On Friday I was going about my business with Konqueror and wanted to check a photo I had on my compact flash card. So, as I've done several times before, I typed "/mnt/memory_card" in the URL location bar. Konqueror hung up. After about 3 or 4 minutes, I killed the app. and logged out (being done for the evening). Mandrake would not log me out cleanly. For about 7 to 10 minutes of looking at a black screen I re-booted the PC (yes, I did check the other terminal windows F1 and F12 for activity, but saw none). The PC was hung up good. When I rebooted I found out that the contents of my /usr directory was gone, nowhere to be found. I knew something like this could happen when logged in as SU, but as a regular user? Something went terribly wrong. I just don't have the time available for these kinds of problems. Hopefully, what ever the problem was, Mandrake will have it taken care of down the road. Right now, I'm back using my tried and true ALT Linux Copact 2.3. No use messing with a good thing.

Well, if it was me and installing the firewall files were giving me a problem, I wouldn't install them (at least at this point) just to see if the rest of the install goes okay. When it comes to selecting what software you want Mandrake to install, don't check off the firewall option. Just from what you've told us already, I'd question the integrity of the CD and the files it contains. If you've burned the CDs yourself (and used a MS-Window system to do it) you could have a faulty CD. Try burning another CD with that ISO and do a md5sum check on the ISO file you downloaded (as Pzatch suggested). If you try installing graphically, press ESC to go to verbose mode.... see if you can tell what file is giving you problems.

Well, I feel kind of silly. Can it get any simpler than that? Thanks everyone for the help.... un-installing the kernel source and re-installing the updated version worked perfectly! I may get to know the ins and outs of Linux yet! We're back up and running. I'm really glad to be part of the Linux community.

Hey, thanks for all of your help. This time, though, I couldn't make any progress. The same message comes up every time I try to upgrade my kernel source. I even tried moving the entire /hsr/src directory to a /usr/src.old. Same message each and every time.... "file /usr/src/linux from install of kernel-source-2.6.3-7mdk conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.3-4mdk" Drat!

Okay, well, I've had some success but a few problems came about while I upgraded the kernel. First of all, my HP printer now works perfectly! :D Now, I have to try and get my Nvidia 3Dsupport going again. When I go up upgrade to the new kernel source (using the commands mentioned above), I get an error that says... "file /usr/src/linux from install of kernel-source-2.6.3-7mdk conflicts with file from package kernel-2.6.3-4mdk" Is there somesort of un-install I have to do first? Do I need to remove the /usr/src/linux sub-directory? The only other problem I seem to have is with my Zip Drive. Seems as though "supermount" doesn't know how to read the media type anymore. I did notice that, during boot-up, there is a message now (that wasn't present before) that says... "Mounting local filesystems: mount: you must specify the filesystem type" Any advice?

Thanks for the replies. So, am I right in concluding that downloading the rpms (including the source file) I've found, and running the commands.... # urpmi kernel-2.6.3.7mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm -and- # urpmi kernel-source-2.6.3-7mdk.i586.rpm ....will successfully get the latest kernel up and running on my Mandrake 10.0 box? I'm also guessing that I'll have to re-install (or re-compile) my Nvidia 3D driver, correct? I've seen other instructions, I've found by searching Google, that mention something about altering my /etc/lilo.conf file. Would this still be required? If so, what kind of alterations to the file would I have to do?