evilmrt

*whew* I'm glad I stopped updating cooker so often after a blowout with Xserver a couple weeks ago..... Thanks BVC for making more more cautious...I missed out on this mess for once! Question though....when I installed MDK it was 10RC1...so I've been using cooker sources all the while. Should I change to sources for version 10 or is it too late? Obviously nothing can be done now, I mean when this is all straightened out. Topdog: There is an RPM for AMSN 0.90 that worked great for me in MDK 10. CLICK Its on the amsn page...guess you missed it ;)

Ok, so x.org released X11 R6.7 the other day...which is basically XFree86 4.4 without all the nasty issues. It seems fully compatible with just about everything we use (if not everything in xfree). So why aren't we using it yet, and will MDK be dumping XFree86 in favor of it? I see no reason why, X.org are the maintainers of the X standard, lets just dump XFree (they're growing irrelevant now), be done with it, and wait for fd.o to be released. Maybe someone can explain it to me and everyone else. edit: on a side note, Dropline Gnome for Slackware has dumped XFree and gone with X.org, while official Slack has been the only major distro to support XFree86. :lol:

It would be amazing if someone could put together a HOW-TO for this seemingly difficult program... synce.sourceforge.net/synce I haven't seen another MDK user (or linux user) who has installed it successfully. I have to keep booting into winblows to use my pocketpc :P

ok, maybe you've heard about this: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ Its a NTFS read/write! driver for linux that is safe (?), but a bit slow as it uses wine emulation. Has anyone here tried this with MDK? How did it go?

tightwad ;) I'm fairly new to linux...still learning, and the mdk club really doesn't seem to offer me anything I want, that I can't get elsewhere. Also, while MDK is my distro of choice, 2004 seems it could be the Year of Linux (possibly 2005 maybe?) when you look at up and coming distros like Sun JDS with Looking Glass, Novell's Suse/Ximian KDE/GNOME crossover thing, and of course the one IBM is developing and using at this very moment for company use, and later for public release. Poor MDK seems like it will be left behind once these 3 big dogs release their distros.

fixed :D thanks alot bro!

http://www003.portalis.it/115/winexx.html this guy seems to have made some legal RPMs of winex (minus the non-GPL content) for mdk. I got mine to install just fine, but couldn't get the setup program to run. Let me know if it works for you.

great stuff...although the videos of Looking Glass really show what its like...if you didnt view them, you should...screenshots don't do Glass justice at all. Great that Sun is really pushing for some innovation like this in linuxland...makes me wonder what IBM has in store for us with the rumored "Blue Linux" distro they're working on! With Sun and IBM putting this stuff out, I really don't think Longhorn stands a chance.

bvc! Thanks so much! installing XFree86-server-4.3-30mdk was all I needed! works great like before now....couple more questions though. If you don't recommend updating XFree86 via urpmi, how should I upgrade? Also, it looks like I lost all of my MDK specific tools, like the MCC control center. What packages do I need there? And how can I avoid this crap next time? Thanks!

XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 Release Date: 15 August 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.0-1mdkenterprise i686 [ELF] Build Date: 01 March 2004 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Wed Mar 24 16:03:06 2004 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" (==) ServerLayout "layout1" (**) |-->Screen "screen1" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "monitor1" (**) | |-->Device "device1" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1" (**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105" (**) XKB: model: "pc105" (**) Option "XkbLayout" "en_US" (**) XKB: layout: "en_US" (WW) Option "XkbOptions" requires an string value (==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1" (**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1" (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" (**) Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" Using vt 7 (--) using VT number 7 (II) Open APM successful (II) Module ABI versions: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6 XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4 XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2 XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a (II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1 (II) PCI: Config type is 1 (II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x8000502c, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1106,0391 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1106,8391 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:07:0: chip 1106,0686 card 1106,0000 rev 21 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:07:1: chip 1106,0571 card 0000,0000 rev 10 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:2: chip 1106,3038 card 0925,1234 rev 10 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:07:4: chip 1106,3057 card 0000,0000 rev 30 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:09:0: chip 1317,0985 card 1317,0570 rev 11 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0a:0: chip 1102,0002 card 1102,8065 rev 0a class 04,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0a:1: chip 1102,7002 card 1102,0020 rev 0a class 09,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 10de,0253 card 1462,8700 rev a3 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x000c (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe1ffffff (0x2000000) MX[B] (II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x10000000) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:7:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:7:4), (-1,-1,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus -1 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus -1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus -1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200] rev 163, Mem @ 0xe0000000/24, 0xd0000000/27, 0xd8000000/19 (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xc0000000 from 0xcfffffff to 0xbfffffff (II) Active PCI resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe30003ff (0x400) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xc0000000 - 0xbfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [2] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [3] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [4] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [5] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e407 (0x8) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e01f (0x20) IX[B] [7] -1 0 0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dcff (0x100) IX[B] [8] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [9] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d00f (0x10) IX[B] (II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps: [0] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe30003ff (0x400) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xc0000000 - 0xbfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [2] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [3] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [4] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [5] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e407 (0x8) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e01f (0x20) IX[B] [7] -1 0 0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dcff (0x100) IX[B] [8] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [9] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d00f (0x10) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) All system resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe30003ff (0x400) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xc0000000 - 0xbfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [7] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [8] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [9] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [10] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [11] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e407 (0x8) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e01f (0x20) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dcff (0x100) IX[B] [15] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d00f (0x10) IX[B] (II) LoadModule: "dbe" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a (II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: "v4l" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/linux/v4l_drv.o (II) Module v4l: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 0.0.1 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) LoadModule: "extmod" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a (II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2 (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension FontCache (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: "type1" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a (II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.2 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Type1 (II) Loading font CID (II) LoadModule: "freetype" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a (II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 2.0.2 Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font FreeType (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.5328 Module class: XFree86 Server Extension ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.5328 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o (II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.4 (II) v4l driver for Video4Linux (II) NVIDIA XFree86 Driver 1.0-5328 Wed Dec 17 13:56:09 PST 2003 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all NVIDIA GPUs (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (--) Assigning device section with no busID to primary device (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe30003ff (0x400) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xc0000000 - 0xbfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [7] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [8] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [9] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [10] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [11] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e407 (0x8) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e01f (0x20) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dcff (0x100) IX[B] [15] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d00f (0x10) IX[B] (II) resource ranges after probing: [0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe30003ff (0x400) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xc0000000 - 0xbfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [7] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [8] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [9] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [10] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B] [11] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B] [12] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B] [13] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [15] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e407 (0x8) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e01f (0x20) IX[B] [17] -1 0 0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dcff (0x100) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [19] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d00f (0x10) IX[B] [20] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B] [21] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B] (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Loading sub module "vgahw" (II) LoadModule: "vgahw" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a (II) Module vgahw: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Linear framebuffer at 0xD0000000 (--) NVIDIA(0): MMIO registers at 0xE0000000 (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU detected as: GeForce4 Ti 4200 (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.25.00.29.10 (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 65536 kBytes (II) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s): CRT-1 (--) NVIDIA(0): Detected TV Encoder: Philips 7104 (--) NVIDIA(0): Display device CRT-1: maximum pixel clock at 8 bpp: 350 MHz (--) NVIDIA(0): Display device CRT-1: maximum pixel clock at 16 bpp: 350 MHz (--) NVIDIA(0): Display device CRT-1: maximum pixel clock at 32 bpp: 350 MHz (II) Loading sub module "ddc" (II) LoadModule: "ddc" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a (II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) NVIDIA(0): monitor1: Using hsync range of 31.50-57.00 kHz (II) NVIDIA(0): monitor1: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-70.00 Hz (II) NVIDIA(0): Clock range: 12.00 to 350.00 MHz (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "1024x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "768x576" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "768x576" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x350" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "320x175" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x400" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "320x200" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "720x400" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "360x200" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "320x240" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "400x300" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "512x384" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1152x864" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "576x432" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x960" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x960" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x480" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "640x512" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x600" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "896x672" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "896x672" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "928x696" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "928x696" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "832x624" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "416x312" (vrefresh out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1152x768" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "700x525" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1600x1024" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "800x512" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "960x720" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (width too large for virtual size) (II) NVIDIA(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range) (WW) NVIDIA(0): Not using mode "576x384": (WW) NVIDIA(0): horizontal sync start (589) not a multiple of 8 (**) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes for display device CRT-1: (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1024x768": 75.0 MHz, 56.5 kHz, 70.1 Hz (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "1024x768": 65.0 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "800x600": 40.0 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 60.3 Hz (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "800x600": 36.0 MHz, 35.2 kHz, 56.2 Hz (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "640x480": 25.2 MHz, 31.5 kHz, 60.0 Hz (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "512x384": 37.5 MHz, 56.5 kHz, 70.1 Hz (D) (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "512x384": 32.5 MHz, 48.4 kHz, 60.0 Hz (D) (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "400x300": 20.0 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 60.3 Hz (D) (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "400x300": 18.0 MHz, 35.2 kHz, 56.3 Hz (D) (**) NVIDIA(0): Default mode "320x240": 12.6 MHz, 31.5 kHz, 60.1 Hz (D) (--) NVIDIA(0): Display dimensions: (300, 230) mm (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (86, 84) (II) Loading sub module "fb" (II) LoadModule: "fb" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libfb.a (II) Module fb: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 ANSI C Emulation, version 0.2 (II) Loading sub module "ramdac" (II) LoadModule: "ramdac" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libramdac.a (II) Module ramdac: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp (II) do I need RAC? No, I don't. (II) resource ranges after preInit: [0] 0 0 0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B] [1] 0 0 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B] [2] 0 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [4] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [5] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [8] -1 0 0xe3000000 - 0xe30003ff (0x400) MX[B] [9] -1 0 0xc0000000 - 0xbfffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [10] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xd807ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [12] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xe0ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [13] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B](OprD) [14] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B](OprD) [15] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B](OprD) [16] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [17] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x0000e400 - 0x0000e407 (0x8) IX[B] [19] -1 0 0x0000e000 - 0x0000e01f (0x20) IX[B] [20] -1 0 0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dcff (0x100) IX[B] [21] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [22] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d00f (0x10) IX[B] [23] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B](OprU) [24] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B](OprU) (II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 4X successfully initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768" (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled (**) Option "dpms" (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled (II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension (II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST (II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD (II) Initializing built-in extension LBX (II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP (II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY (II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA (II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont (II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER (II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR (II) Initializing extension GLX (II) Keyboard "Keyboard1" handled by legacy driver (**) Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" (**) Mouse1: Protocol: "ExplorerPS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse1: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" (**) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" (**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 6 and 7 (**) Mouse1: Buttons: 7 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "NVIDIA Event Handler" (type: Other) (II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded SetClientVersion: 0 7 SetClientVersion: 0 7 SetGrabKeysState - disabled SetGrabKeysState - enabled SetClientVersion: 0 7 SetGrabKeysState - disabled SetGrabKeysState - enabled SetClientVersion: 0 7 SetGrabKeysState - disabled SetGrabKeysState - enabled (II) Open APM successful (II) NVIDIA(0): AGP 4X successfully initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768" (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized (II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled (==) RandR enabled (II) Initializing extension GLX (II) Mouse1: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Why isnt that log updated? It looks like the last log was written on my last good boot. lists: XFree86-xfs-4.3-30mdk XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3-30mdk XFree86-4.3-30mdk yeah, 15 or so RPMS are in there...nothing to do with X though. some bootloader utils and some kde libs...kopete... also, XFdrake produced this message when I ran the TEST command with it "error: Try to change some parameters" thanks guys (gals? nah...can't be any?)

Hey, after updating with urpmi (cooker) I get this....(after typing STARTX as root). execue failed for /ect/x11/x (errno 2) giving up. xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error Any ideas? Can't use the GUI at all...

ok fine. reinstallation it is :D thanks anyway

ok, fdisk -l gives me this output: Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 232581 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 116041 58484601 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 116042 232581 58736160 5 Extended /dev/hda5 116042 231525 58203904+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 231526 232581 532192+ 82 Linux swap hda2 and hda5 overlap? is this the problem? and if so, how do I change this (I know you can, just not HOW)

AH HA!!!!! I think I've had a breakthrough! I wasn't able to try out qtparted as urpmi was messed up....fixed that finally....ran qtparted....and: [root@localhost jt]# qtparted Warning: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders. No Implementation: Support for opening ntfs file systems is not implemented yet. Error: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted! You should e2fsck. Modifying an unclean filesystem could cause severe corruption. Now I can't run e2fsck on the NTFS partition. What do I use for that? And I can't unmount my linux partition that I'm using to fix that....knoppix? "may cause fixable problems with bootloaders :D " woohoo! now how do we fix fix fix?

damn, I don't want to reformat. Can't I just...hmm... How about reformatting the second drive and reinstalling windows...and using the map commands from before in lilo for that? And then I could move the files I wanted off the lost partition, and delete it...and resize my linux partition? Will this work? :deal: