Sarissi

I have only had HP DeskJet series printers for my inkjets, as far as HP products go. Excellent products. Too bad they only put Linux on Corporate systems and leave us home linux users out in the arctic cold in the dead of winter. Of course, this is typical with the OEM stranglehold that Microsoft still has. At least it is better than it used to be.

Bobaloo;

Thanks for the positive answer to my mdk 10.0 CE and enterprise kernel question! In earlier versions, you are stuck with the standard kernel. The reason I asked, is that I had to get another mobo cause my Chaintech mobo did not like my NEC ND-2500A all in one DVD/CD burner. It refused to post. The new mobo I had to get was nforce2, cause the shop didn't have any other type for Athlon XP in stock.

Now I need to check a few things in win98se and this mobo, regarding 1 GB ram (stability). If that works out, I am good to go for 10.0. (After I burn the community CDs, that is.)

10.0 CE is at the state of the actual releases of 9.2 and under. I read Mandrake's statement about the Community and Official releases and it was Crystal Clear to ME. I NO trouble understanding the difference. The 9.2 release Fiasco is what prompted the change.

Please remember that before the change, what was released to download after the final RC, was what was sent for CD duplication for the boxed sets!

Mandrakesoft doesn't want THAT to happen again. So everyone that downloads and runs the CE is doing everyone else a HUGE favor by helping work out as many remaining issues as possible.

Nice one aRTee. Nice and clearly written.

I think drive manufacturers insist on using base 10 so they can hype drive capacity: looks much better in advertising, than have to tell what your fdisk will see. :D

Oh, computers use Base 2, not base 16. Hex is used to make things more understandable to humans (in theory).

This is Mandrake 9.1 Powerpack Edition, and with the nforce2 mandrake binary 9.1 RPM installed. Printer is HP DeskJet 3820 USB/Parallel. I had this on USB, since I have an old but excellent condition Panasonic KX-P1123 DMP on the parallel port. Win98SE detected the Hp on usb with no problem.

This printer is detected on usb even with the printer turned off by Windows, and was by Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1 until I got this Gigabyte GA-7N400-L nforce2 chipset motherboard.

Since I do need the printer to be functional in Mandrake, I had to remove the usb cable and put the parallel cable on it (and the computer). This got it detected and setup in 9.1.

Since this could happen with any usb printer and the nforce2 chipset, note this as a workaround. At least if your priinter also has parallel interface.

I did have some sort of error message at boot in lilo, but it went by too fast to see it totally. Something about IRQs or something. Maybe the usb is not being detected properly.

People read about the release policies and don't pay attention to the wording. Then they end up at what they ASSUME is the Final release!!!!!

Looks like an OOPS! to me. This will likely be fixed in the Official (I hope). No scsi subsystem here.

The usual beta testers are fewer than a wider community of users. Thus, fewer bugs and issues are caught. The community release should catch a much wider variety of hardware for testing, at least in theory. The idea is to reduce the number of bugs and issues as much as possible, before having it go 'Gold' aka released for CD/DVD duplication for boxed sets.

I never got 9.2 and am not a Mandrake Club member. So I can't get the community release for testing. Besides, I am a Powerpack user. :D Nothing but Powerpacks for me.

I will skip 9.2 totally and get a Powerpack Subscription again, beginning with 10.0 Official.

Has anyone tried mandrake 10.0 Enterprise kernel with Nforce2 chipset????? This is very important to me.

Update:

I am back In Mandrake 9.1 Powerpack Edition on the Gigabyte GA-7N400-L Nforce2 motherboard. All I did was install the binary RPM provided by NVidia. I didn't do anything else.

I didn't think getting back on the internet was going to be this easy.

Now, if I install Win4lin, am I going to in for or what??

Tyme,

This only happens with this DVD Burner. Well, Win98SE gives me fits with the nvidia geforce card and my HP DeskJet 3820: out of memory in refernce to one of HP's printer files. So I went back to my ATI card for now. I was hoping for an 8X AGP nvidia and ended up with a 4X with OpenGL 1.3, when I wanted 1.4. I do better shopping on eBay.....

Oh, I do hope that nforce chipset support in kernel 2.6.x allows more than the standard kernel, since I want at least 2 GB ram.

I am in windows at the moment and will likely go back to the other mobo (chaintech) so that I can happily run in mandrake 9.1, and just wait for mandy 10.0 official (powerpack) before I work with this mobo in mandrake. Alternate is to run a dedicated mandy box (chaintech) and keep the 61 GB hdds for another box. All I need is a cpu and a case.

Oh well..... The worst I can do is screwup the mandrake install via an attempt to install nforce2 support.

I shall make an attempt. (never done this sort of thing before.)

This month I bought an NEC ND-2500A all in one DVD/CD burner. I installed into my computer and quickly learned that I had:

No Video

No Post Beep

No Post

and

No Boot

Needless to say, I was ticked and ranting. Well, I had a friend of mine bring over a computer to check the DVD Burner on that computer, and it WORKS!!

That narrowed the source of the problem down to one of two things

Chaintech 7VJL Deluxe Apogee Motherboard

ATI Xpert 2000 Pro AGP

Hmmmm.... What to do? I talked with my mom and she agreed to pay for a new mobo and video card (due to my income source and the fact that the purchase of the DVD burner, 25 pack spindle of DVD+RW, and 4 port manual KVM switchbox w/cables took me out of spendable cash this month)

So I got an NVidia GeForce4 MX440-SE Dual VGA card and a Gigabyte GA-7N400-L nforce2 mobo. The shop only had nforce socket A mobos.

I just recently got done with the first test: Nvidia card on current mobo (chaintech) with NEC DVD burner connected. Result: Same Symptoms. Grrrrrr Problem narrowed down to Motherboard.

Tech support from the place I bought the burner from assured me that this Burner works with all Gigabyte mobos.

Now I got a bunch of 'fun': Nvidia card + Nforce2 + DVD burner + Mandrake Linux 9.1 Powerpack.

I will be using Win98SE to check in until I feel confident enough to do the installing and compiling and all that.

Any advice and/or help in terms for someone who has never compiled anything in linux would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

aRTee,

I have no desire to copy DVD movies. I am more interested in DVD+RW and DVD + or - R for making DVDROMS. I am like a fish trying to learn to breath AIR: just trying to learning single frame 3D CGI. Not even considering multi-frame at the moment.

This is for fun, not job or anything. Lord help me (NOT!) if I ever decide to try motion picture animation. My usage for DVD writables are more for data and program backup than anything else.

Back to 10.0:

If I can use DVD+RW (better write speed than -RW) in Mandrake, so much the better, and I do mean AS RW. :D

I am perfectly happy to wait for the Official version of the Powerpack Edition. So long as the subscription would include Official for 10.1 and 10.2, I would get another Powerpack Subscription. Maybe even on DVDROM this time.

I just bought an 8X NEC all in one DVD burner from internetishop.com, a 25 pack spindle of DVD+RWs, and a 4 port manual KVM switch with cables. All via eBay and three different sellers, and that was yesterday. Everything has been shipped.

At least I should be able to use it as a DVDROM drive in linux. :D

Powerpack gets a commercial CD and another, plus 2 install sources CDs, for a total of 7 CDs. oddly, The most I have used for install, is 4: install 1 and 2, International, and Contribs.

As far as Mandrake is concerned, I have never bought anything BUT the Powerpack Edition.

Much is what the kernel supports. I am not sure if there is IDE RAID support yet in mandrake. For SATA, I think kernel 2.6.x supports it. As far as the lastest Via chipsets and Nforce3 0r 4, You may have to wait for 2.6.x

Others around here can fill you in better than I can.

Maarten, if you have an ata100 (ultra100) controller on your motherboard, or ata66, it will probably work fine.

Some motherboards + promise pci controllers + Mandrake do NOT mix: Mandrake likes to SWAP the order of the Mobo and PCI card IDE controller.

I have had this particular problem with the ASRock K7VT2 and Chaintech 7VJL Deluxe Apogee mobos. Both have ata133 controllers on the motherboard.

It is very annoying when HDA shows up as HDE in Mandrake install: Install and you won't be able to boot.

Thank you all! This sort of thing of working through a problem here, lets everyone see a possible solution, and know that the Zip 750 works in Linux (which I was wondering about).

Michel, I find it extremely difficult to believe that VB-Pro is or will be available for Linux, given that it is a Microsoft Product.

I would be extremely HAPPY if IBM ported Lotus SmartSuite to Linux. I would GLADLY pay the price! Lotus is SO superior to MS CRAP.

Lotus database actually has a check register that works properly, UNLIKE GNUCASH.

Lotus is one of the reasons that I have Win4lin. Other reasons include:

VB 6 Pro

Poser 4.03 (3d CGI app)

Astrolabe Solar Fire 5 (Professional Astrology suite) (written in VB, Btw)

Don't forget Borland Kylix!!!!!!! Open edition is free and a nice way to get your feet wet. BIG download though.

If you can connect it via ethernet, do so. Mandrake handles THAT method extremely well. I have Roadrunner Cable and a Toshiba PCX-1100U. There is no support for it under USB (for Linux), so I went with ethernet and haven't had any problems since.

The LAST mobo I had where the mobo IDE controller and the PCI Promise Ultra100 controller were CORRECTLY listed in Mandrake INSTALL, was a GigaByte GA-7IXEH. Since then, the ASRock (made by Asus) and this Chaintech, ALWAYS swapped the controllers, not only for Mandrake Install, but also for Mandrake BOOT.

This makes for alot of wasted space in this Full Tower Case.

For some reason Mandrake does not place nice with the extra IDE controller.

Oh, and that was with Mandrake 8.2 and the GA-7IXEH. Never did try it with the 9.x, since I gave the mobo, cpu and PSU to a friend (who is now using it, and the ultra100 controller).

Mandrake 9.x is not being nice, at least with certain mobo makes. My last 2 mobos have ata133 controllers.

I use Mandrake almost exclusively. I do have Win98SE installed, but, I rarely boot to it. If I want to do something that has to be done in Windows native boot, then and only then do I boot to it. Otherwise it is Mandrake native and Win4lin. It is getting to the point that I have to think "How do I do this?" in Windows.

I have one of THOSE FA311 nics and I could not get a driver recognized in Win98SE!! Didn't try it in Linux. I would much rather have a DLink DFE-530TX+, since I had absolutely NO trouble with Windoze drivers and not a bit of problem in Linux. Unfortunately, I gave that one to a friend, and had to get this thing, when I thought my onboard the mobo nic was damaged (thankfully it was only the cable).