Jump to content

Padma

Members
  • Posts

    123
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Padma

  1. Drake: For what it's worth, I have done the upgrade from 10.1CE to 10.1 Official, using urpmi, and it worked fine. Of course, I installed a clean 10.1 CE, then updated my urpmi sources, and did the upgrade, all without adding any additional software or tweaking any other settings. Basically, make sure your urpmi mirrors are for 10.1 Official. The next thing I did was run "urpmi urpmi" to make sure I had the latest & greates urpmi. (Probably not necessary, but what the heck. :) ) Then I just did "urpmi --auto-select", and let it run. When it was done, I had a 10.1 Official system. :)
  2. If you know you got the RPM from an official mirror, you can probably feel reasonably safe about going ahead with installing it (like you did). My understanding (and I am sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong) is that invalid signature errors can be remedied by updating your urpmi sources before downloading any updates. I think the command line is "urpmi.update"? (I usually just go to MCC and click the "Update Souorces" button. ;) )
  3. I'm having exactly the same problem, contemplativery. :sad: I have a thread about it here. I have added the "VISOR_SWAP=true", also, but still no go.
  4. Just defrag your WIndows first. Left to itself, Mandrake will simply grab free space at the end of the existing partition. If you select custom partitioning, you will get a bit more control over what partitions you use, and their sizes. I have never had a problem with Mandrake screwing up my Windows partition, but backup never hurts. ;) (Better safe than sorry. :) )
  5. Urza: I have a Radeon 9000 Pro, running 10.1, and I have excellent results from the default install. I tried installing the ATI patch when I first installed 10.0, but ran into problems, and had good enough frame rates with the default DRM (?) drivers, so I left it alone. I did a clean install of 10.1 last month, and still have excellent results with the default. I'm not a big gamer, and all I really play are 2D, anyway. So you should be fine. FWIW, I installed 10.1 Official Powerpack on a separate partition this weekend, and my framerate using the standard glxgears is actually slightly *worse* on the patched kernal!
  6. AussieJohn: While I don't doubt your experience with upgrading, I thought I would share mine. I was wanting to get more room for Linux on my machine, as I was working in just the space that Mandrake normally partitions off from an existing Windows partition. I had over 30 Gig available in my Windows partition, so I tried to repartition things to get some of that space available. But Windows had apparantly messed with the partition table, because no matter what tool I tried, both in Linux and in Windows, I kept getting errors. Most errors were of the generic type : "<tool> has run into a problem, and will now exit." Partition Magic at least gave me an error number, but it was not documented in my manual, or on the net! :lol: So I decided to heck with it, backed everything up on CDs, and wiped the entire system. I formatted about 10Gig up front for Windows, which left 70 Gig for any Linux partitions I want. 10.1 Official was not out yet for the general public, but it *was* available via urpmi. So I installed 10.1 Community, and then immediately set my urpmi sources to 10.1 Official mirrors, and did a "urpmi --auto-select". Everything came off without a hitch, and it is the best-running system I have ever had. I even installed 10.1 Official Powerpack on a separate partition this weekend, and it doesn't run as well as my Download/upgraded version. :D (One thing I found hilarious is that the ATI-patched kernel I installed with Powerpack gives me a worse FPS rate than my unpatched Download kernel on my Radeon-9000 Pro card! 1640 fps patched, 1800 fps unpatched! ) Anyway, I will admit it might have gone so smoothly because it was a fresh install, with no tweaking or software additions until after I had Official up and running, but I would recommend anyone try upgrading. Then again, I would also recommend they be ready for a complete fresh install, in case things don't go well, like in your case. Now if I could only figure out why 10.1 (any flavor) doesn't like my Palm USB cradle ....
  7. It's been a month, so I'm bumping this. I am running 10.1 Official. I rebooted, and unplugged my Palm cradle from the USB port before I booted up. Once it was up, I plugged in my cradle, and tried to connect via kpilot/hotsync. Here is the relevent portion of dmesg output: Kpilot never saw it to connect. I never saw /dev/ttyUSBx in /dev. I think it would be stupid to have to reinstall Windows just to be able to hotsync my Palm. Anybody have any ideas?
  8. Use easyurpmi to select another mirror, and try it again. :)
  9. A few weeks ago, I installed 10.1CE from CD, then immediately went online and pointed my urpmi to the 10.1 Official mirrors and did a "urpmi --auto-select". I am now running 10.1 OE, and life is beautiful. :) (But "Use at your own risk" and "Your milage may vary". ;) )
  10. Just a little. A couple years ago I dabbled with RedHat & Suse, just to experience a little more of what was available. I also keep a Knoppix CD handy for emergencies. ;) And I am currenlty playing a bit with Gentoo. But mostly, I stick with Mandrake. Ever since 10.0 CE came out, and I made "the switch". Heck, last month I had to reformat my HD (Windows had screwed the partition table, and I couldn't access over 30Gig of wasted space in the Windows partition), and I couldn't even get Windows to install properly. So rather than waste time trying to solve the problem, I just did a clean install of MDK 10.1. Happy, happy, joy, joy. (Of course, now I have a 10Gig NTFS partition sitting empty, but I'll take care of that someday....)
  11. Can you just mount the Xandros partition containing the download to your Mandrake system? Then you could read it directly.
  12. Interesting. It doesn't (normally) happen in Mandrake, either. ;) Did you install and re-use an existing /home partition? If the user/group ID numbers don't coincide, that could explain it.
  13. I'm also very much interested in this (I have a Palm Tungsten T3). Unfortunately, it looks like I blew my power supply this weekend, so I can't test it until that is replaced.
  14. Yeah, I don't really mind "breaking" my system, anymore. I just accidently killed it this afternoon, by nor paying attention and reformatting my '/' partition as 'swap'. It took about 10 minuted to figure out *why* things weren't working right, but then it was only about half-an-hour before I had a clean 10.1 system up and running again. :)
  15. Just to give you a laugh -- I tried your script, and accidentally gave it the wrong partition for 'swap'. I ended up destroying my Mandrake '/' partition. :lol: It could have been worse - it forced me to reinstall 10.1, and this time it is cleaner and better. ;)
  16. I haven't heard a *firm* date, but just download the 10.1 Community Edition, and install it. Set up your update sources using easyurpmi to point to the 10.1 Official sources, and do an update. Voila!
  17. And there is the hub of my problem - under 10.0, I had a ttyUSB0 that it connected through. Now, in 10.1, I can't find what it is using. (I'll have to try doing a 'tail -f dmesg'.)
  18. Thanks, Gowator. :) Unfortunately, it didn't work. (And I swear! I did a 'modprobe visor' earlier. But I had to do it again.) I have a 'tail -f /var/log/messages' running, but I don't see any sign that it is trying to work. :confused:
  19. Okay. I had this working in MDK 10.0. I needed to re-partion/reformat my HD due to a Windows problem, so I figured I would install a clean 10.1 system rather than upgrade, while I was at it. I installed 10.1 CE, pointed urpmi to the 10.1 OE mirrors, and went to town. Everything works! :D Except my Palm. I no longer have a "/dev/pilot" file, and I haven't been able to figure out which device it is really using (USB cradle). WHen I start KPilot, and press the Hotsync button on the cradle, I get the following in /var/log/messages: Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Nov 11 16:33:07 2004 ... localhost kernel: Disabling IRQ #21 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: irq 21: nobody cared! Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [dump_stack+30/32] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [<c0107bfe>] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [__report_bad_irq+43/144] __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0x90 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [<c01090ab>] __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0x90 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [note_interrupt+144/176] note_interrupt+0x90/0xb0 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [<c01091c0>] note_interrupt+0x90/0xb0 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [do_IRQ+224/256] do_IRQ+0xe0/0x100 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [<c0109430>] do_IRQ+0xe0/0x100 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [common_interrupt+24/32] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [<c010778c>] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [cpu_idle+45/64] cpu_idle+0x2d/0x40 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [<c01050ed>] cpu_idle+0x2d/0x40 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [start_kernel+388/448] start_kernel+0x184/0x1c0 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [<c0364824>] start_kernel+0x184/0x1c0 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [L6+0/2] 0xc010019f Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [<c010019f>] 0xc010019f Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: handlers: Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [pg0+543649664/1069613056] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x70 [usbcore]) Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [<e0a64f80>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x70 [usbcore]) Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [pg0+543649664/1069613056] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x70 [usbcore]) Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [<e0a64f80>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x70 [usbcore]) Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [pg0+543649664/1069613056] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x70 [usbcore]) Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: [<e0a64f80>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x70 [usbcore]) Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: Disabling IRQ #21 Nov 11 16:33:07 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using address 2 Nov 11 16:33:12 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: control timeout on ep0out Nov 11 16:33:17 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: control timeout on ep0out Nov 11 16:33:18 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: device not accepting address 2, error -110 Nov 11 16:33:18 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using address 3 Nov 11 16:33:23 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: control timeout on ep0out Nov 11 16:33:28 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: control timeout on ep0out Nov 11 16:33:28 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: device not accepting address 3, error -110 Nov 11 16:34:24 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using address 4 Nov 11 16:34:29 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: control timeout on ep0out ANybody have any ideas? [moved from Hardware by spinynorman]
  20. I have seen similar. ;) In fact, the *worst* case I can recall, I had something like "56/13" packages installed. (Of course, I had asked for 13 packages to be installed, and then accepted the other 43 dependencies....)
  21. 10.0 Official is the stable build. 10.1 Community is "stable" but it is really waiting one last round of bug-fixes before it is released as "Official".
  22. Another point is some game companies are NOT going to make (or allow) Linux ports. Period. My favorite game is Civilization III. When pressed about ports, the developers (Firaxis) explicitly stated that ALL their development would be using DirectX, and they had no intention of changing. The *did* allow a company to make a Mac port of the basic game, but the expansion packs haven't even had *that* done. (It was the Mac users who asked about making the game using a more open graphics system instead of DirectX, BTW.) Bu that means the only way to play my favorite game, in my favorite OS, is by using Cedega. I haven't bought *any* non-native games since I made the switch to Linux, but when Civ4 comes out next year, I will buy it. Prefereably a Linux port (though I doubt it :sad: ), but if I must, I will buy the Windows version, even if it won't run in Cedega. I guess I'm just not hardcore enough. ;) Then again, while I find Windows to be *acceptable* as a game machine, I do all my important stuff in Linux. ;)
  23. Padma

    Long bootup

    I have several boxes hooked together with a router, and tied to the internet via a cable modem. My Win2K takes forever to boot, hanging on the "configuring network" (?) stage. My MDK boots up in just a couple of minutes, total, from bios to logged-in, ready to work.
  24. Yeah, that was one thing I noticed about all these articles: they're all dated some years ago. *Lately* I've been reading more about how Linux has been making inroads. I will admit, that in the headquarters where I work, the push still seems to be for M$. But that is appearing more and more to be a "familiarity" issue. ;) Everything that is very complex, and/ore seriously "important" seems to be run on UNIX boxes (mostly Suns). And of course, the critical stuff isn't connected to the internet, even indirectly. I have 2 computers on my desk: one for doing my work on the classified side, and this one, for email (and web surfing ;) ). The only connection between the two (even between the two networks) is "sneaker-net", i.e., copy a file to floppy/CD on one system, and hand-carry it over to the other system. A 100% "air gap" between them. Plus, this network that is connected to the "wild" has a *serious* firewall, running at the "paranoia" level.
  25. The "normal" method used when running Mandrake Update is to just get the source, in this case, 2.6.3-16MDK. To update your actual running kernel, you can go to the console and type "urpmi kernel". It should give you the new kernel as an option to install. However, I reecently updated my source to 2.6.3-16, but I can't find the -16 kernel itself. (I *AM* running the -15 kernel, but the -16 supposedly has some security fixes.) I suppose we could just compile and install it? (But then, I want some pointers, or at least a link to the correct procedure. I'm a little leery about compiling my own kernel. ;) )
×
×
  • Create New...