Dustpuppy

Cheers people. I've set seta r_mode to 6, and I now have something other than a blank screen. However... it's not rendering properly. The menu and setup screens are fine, but when I go into an arena it's distorted, like the blocks aren't being rendered well. When I escape to the menu it's unreadable, like blocks of red rather than letters. Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but the initialising of the graphics bit goes like this:

I don't know how to solve this, but a workaround might be to install using the KDE configuration ("configure your desktop > peripherals") rather than MCC. This is how I installed a HP on my parent's computer that wasn't playing ball.

This is what /var/log/Xorg.0.log says when I run and then exit Quake:

Tried that, just got the black screen treatment. :sad:

I've looked and looked online but can't see anything on this, so here you go! I can't get 640x480 resolution. At all. I've tried editing my xorg.conf file and I've tried changing resolution using KDE, but I just get a blank screen when I restart X. Now, this normally wouldn't be a problem except that Quake 3 runs under 640x480 and so I can't play it The weird thing is that Quake is loading fine, I can hear the noises and move down the menu using the keys, I just can't see anything but a blank screen! I have the latest Nvidia drivers and they installed fine, and the latest version of xorg (from my updates source). My xorg.conf file is [moved from Software by spinynorman]

There aren't any updates for 10.1CE - you need to update to 10.1OE and then add and "updates" source. To do this, just go to easyurmpi and say that your system is 10.1OE. Add all three sources and then run an update. This will update your entire system to 10.1OE, and from then on you'll be able to get security updates. A couple of people have found this borks their systems, but I had no probs...

The flickering is normally when X is trying different types of screens to see if they work. Your log will tell you why they didn't (lines beginning "not using...").

There's certainly something in Slashdot that breaks a normal firefox install, don't know about the other browsers, though. Try adding the "slashfix" extension to firefox and see how that goes.

Yeah, well, I wasn't going to do all the work for him/her

Read the FAQ! :deal: (it's under the "hardware, drivers..." heading)

I've just booted into my Suse 9.1 partition, and Cube plays fine , so it's not a hardware thing. I've done: re-install latest drivers changed x.org as above added nvidia to modules.preload What else should I do? Cube is looking like there's no 3-d support, but I don't know where to find logs that would help me see what's happening...

I'm having problems with 3d from my graphics card. I'm running 10.1OE with a Geforce4 MX440 graphics card. The latest NVIDIA drivers installed fine and glx gears work OK, and I've altered xorg.conf to have "load glx" and use "nvidia" rather than "nv". All seemed fine until I tried to play a 3d game - both Quake 3 and Cube will start and play, but the graphics are wavy and so distorted that I can't see a thing properly, including any settings to change! Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

Got it a couple of hours ago. Took ages to get the page, and download painful at 18kps. Still can't get near the themes page Overall - funky and fast! And I do like that big green button (well, it is in Noia...). And did I mention fast?

:D

Should be /usr/bin/realplay. I don't think it automatically goes onto the KDE menu, but you can add it yourself in menudrake.

Just do it. Stick the .iso file in Nero and tell it to burn the image. It will. Then reboot with the CD in the drive and Mandrake will appear. It's magic :D A .iso file is an image. Telling Nero to "burn image" is telling it to burn that image onto the CD.

Go and grab yourself a free Nero demo version, then chose recorders>burn image. Burn away, and enjoy Mandrake

Thankyou! I've finally got it working by changing the Mandrake boot thingie to grub, and then adding the Suse entry to that. Hurrah! Of course, it's all going to go horribly wrong when I update to Mandrake 10.1 and Suse 9.2 :D

kdesu konqueror

... alternatively, how do I add Suse to lilo?

I've just installed Suse on my second harddrive (first harddrive has Mandrake 10OE dual booted with XP), and although grub found XP perfectly fine, I can't now boot into Mandrake. What should I add to the grub bootloader for it to find Mandy? My partitions are: /dev/hda 57.2GB /dev/hda1 34.2GC windows /dev/hda2 23.0GB extended /dev/hda5 5.8GB linux native /dev/hda6 500MB linux swap /dev/hda7 16.6GB linux native .dev.hdb 38.1GB /dev/hdb1 1011MB linux swap /dev/hdb2 37GB linux native / hda is the Mandrake/XP harddrive, hdb the suse one.

<bump> Any ideas?

Isn't it just Recorders > burn image?

It does on the other hand free up your computer to do other bandwidthy things (not to mention not being able to boot into XP to play the Sims for the duration!). You pays your money and makes your choice... :P

The easy way :D