Desire

My vote would also go with the Nvidia cards. I've used and have GF2 MX400 and GF4 MX440 and no problems with them in Linux. I even recommend them for people in the Windoze world.

It is a matter of taste

I started using Gnome but now almost entirely use KDE. Again it's just changing tastes.

pmpatrick-

I've almost come to the conclusion that it may be a faulty drive. The reason I think it might be this is because I downloaded Mandrake 10 Official with the kernel 2.6.3 mdk13, I tried previously with 2.6.3mdk7. Wiht the updated version it recgnizes the controller and drive perfectly fine. So I'll have to test the drive with another system/OS and if that doesn't work I'll take it in for testing from where I bought it.

Next I'll get a Maxtor and see how that works (which is my favorite brand)

I should also head over to the Seagate website and see if I can dig anthing up there.

Anyone out there have Mandrake 10 Official installed on a SATA drive?

I just built a system not too long ago

MSI KT6V-LS

AMD Athlon 2500+ (Barton)

Seagate 80GB SATA drive

Trying to install Mandrake 10 Official on this drive but it almost appears Mandrake isn't quite sure how to deal with it.

When booting up it recognizes the VIA controller (VT 8237) and looks like it wants to set up the drive as hda.

When I get to the partition part of the installation it gives me this message

lost interupt

lost interupt

lost interupt

(a really long time transpires between the lost interupt messages)

If anyone could give me some pointers on what I'm doing or not doing I'd really appreciate it. Also it's not too big of a deal I have a spare 40GB Maxtor IDE that I installed in the system and have Mandrake 10 OE installed on it and it's perfectly fine, would just like to get the SATA drvie going one of these days.

Interesting note is MDK recognized Maxtor drive as "hde".

Thanks

internet.com also runs JustLinux. Which was previously www.linuxnewbie.com. I used to post on that forum years ago but kinda lost my enthuasism when interent.com after buying the site from the creator gave him the boot and they also show MS ads there and now I simply refuse to go there.

It would be possible...but two things would have to happen.

1) You would have to get a USB key stick of 1GB, Reason: MandrakeMove ISO is 616MB and I've noticed that USB keys size increments are doubled (i.e. they go from 64MB>128MB>256MB>512MB>1024MB).

2) Your host computers would have to have the ability to boot up from USB, I'm not sure how long ago BIOSes came out with that ability (I could be wrong but I think laptops have been able to do it for a while now. as for a desktop I would think you would need a fairly new system to that or a BIOS update)

As the saying goes "Anything is possible" but for practicallity I would just stick with a CD.

USB keys aren't terribly cheap 1GB sells for $199CDN and 512MB is around $140CDN.

Another option would to do a "remaster" of a live CD and bring down the size but you would have to cut out apps and so on.

Got 8 out of 10. :D Got stumped on the mono question and the Apache question.

AMD...AMD.....AMD.....AMD!

More bang for the buck, as Pain999 mentioned XP2500 you can get one for about $75 ($100 CDN)

and if you want overclock it or it performs great even if you don't want to overclock it.

I've used AMD's for years now and happily.

Ahead down the road or even now AMD Athlon64 is the one to get.

Is my name on the shirts?

I realize I'm new here

ah ......I'll get one anyway

This is a definition from the book "Mandrake 9.2 - The Definitive Guide"

"kernel

- the guts of the operating system. The kernel is responsible for allocating resources and separating processes from each other. It handles all of the low-level operations which allow programs to talk directly to the hardware on your computer, manages buffer cache and so on"

This definition is from the book " Install, Configure and Customize Slackware Linux" by Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier.

"What is the Kernel?

Technically the name Linux refers only to the kernel. Everything else is your system is a utility, library, or application that has been written or ported to the Linux kernel. The kernel is the heart of the system, providing the tasking mechanisms and determining which process is to run next. It also maintains the network connections between other computers. It is the entity that manages the hardware and interfaces to the applications. The kernel manages memory gets data to and from the hard drive and controls your sound card. It knows how to do this via special pieces of software called device drivers."

My definition-

The kernel is the core of the operating system on which programs and applications access system resources. Essentially it acts a system controller and a "go between" for the hardware and applications. Example functions of the kernel are memory management, allocating memory for system functions, programs and apps, other functions of the kernel include hardware access. Another example function of the kernel is the swap, the kernel determines (by usage) what data to retain in memory and which data to send to or retrieve from the swap partition.

A real life example of a kernel function is right now I'm listening to mp3's on XMMS from a cdrom. XMMS is the program that I use to access the mp3's. I choose which mp3's I want through XMMS and XMMS in turn accesses the cdrom drive through the kernel which in turn loads them into memory. The output of the mp3's from XMMS (which decodes the mp3's) is sent to the kernel which in turn passes it through the sound card (which converts the signal from digital to analog) on through to my stereo which I love to crank into my kickin studio headphones.

Hi Zero-fill,

Welcome to the board, to Mandrake and Linux in general.

I'll try to help you as much as possible

First of all I would like to say it is never a good thing to reset the computer when it is running and should be done as a last resort. In the future if it locks up try pressing Alt+Ctrl+Baskspace at the same time, this should get you into the terminal (command prompt) and from there you can either reload the GUI or reboot. If you want to reboot from the command prompt just type "shutdown -r now" and the system will reboot and the command should look like this (we'll pretend that you are user "user" and the name of you machine is "localhost")

to reboot

[user@localhost user]$ shutdown -r now

"2. Is there a command which can get you back into the GUI from the terminal. I've tried exit and logout which dont work"

Yes there is. From the prompt there are actually 2 ways to do this, type in "startx" which should bring you to the graphical login and from there you can load KDE, if you wish to go into KDE just type "startkde" and it should load KDE.

[user@localhost user]$ startx

[user@localhost user]$ startkde

From a graphical point of view once you get into KDE go to "Control Center > XFDrake> Options You will be given an option to "automatically start the graphical interface (XFree) upon booting. Would you like to start Xfree when you reboot?" Just click "Yes" Shutdown and reboot and it should be ok.

"3.Where can I locate the hardware drivers for my laptop. The manufacturer only has the windows driver as far as I can see, ATI Mobility, Wireless LAN"

If it's the wireless LAN I'm sorry but that is totally unfamiliar territory for me.

I do know ATI can be a problem, but nonetheless there should be drivers out there

I did find some info at the ATI site go to

ATI/ Linux/faqs

As for the reason it won't boot into KDE, I'll find out for you. I'm fairly sure I know why but just have to do some checking.

So I hope this has been some help to you

Sincerely,

Desire

I agree with Ixthusdan, go with Nvidia. I have the GF2-MX400 and the GF4-MX440, both are great cards. Both have worked like a dream in Linux but then again I'm not running any games or anything that requires a highend video card. Right now I'm eyeing a GF-FX5600 256MB for my AMD64 system that I'll be building soon, even though I don't need the video horsepower nonetheless I would love to try it out.

Since I live in Toronto this is really close to home. The article is about a university student that tried

out Linux at home, 0 experience and tried to set it up to dual-boot on his dad's computer with Windoze.

Read the article and see what you make of it. Is The Star going to get a feedback letter you ask? You bet!!

Anyway here is the link from Linux.org if you would like to read it

Link

Desire

Banjo- nice tutorial

While reading your how-to I noticed the comment about the mke2fs command and the -c flag.

What the -c flag does is a scan of the physical surface of the device (i.e. hard drive) to check for bad sectors (You can do the same in Windows Scandisk "thorough"). Also years ago I saw some of the older bioses that had a utility to also do that. IMHO if a person has the time then even new drives it is not a bad thing, if you don't have the time and it's a new drive or one that you are certain has no bad sectors then I wouldn't worry about it too much.

I run a printout of man pages for mke2fs and here is how it describes the -c flag.

OPTIONS

-c Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system.

If this option is specified twice, then a slower, destructive,

read-write test is used instead of a fast read-only test.

Then I ran a printout of man pages for badblocks and here is the description of it

DESCRIPTION

badblocks is used to search for bad blocks on a device (usually a disk partition). device is the

special file corresponding to the device (e.g. /dev/hdc1).

Important Note: If the output of badblocks is going to be fed to the e2fsck or mke2fs

programs, it is important that the block size is properly specified, since the block numbers

which are generated is very dependent on the block size in use. For this reason, it is strongly

recommended that users not run badblocks directly, but rather use the -c option of the e2fsck

and mke2fs programs.

So I hope this info has been of some help or interest. If you want to read the complete man page on the subject just enter the command

user@localmachine$ man mke2fs

user@localmachine$ man badblocks

and if one wants to run a printout then enter the command

user@localmachine$ man mke2fs |lp

user@localmachine$ man badblocks |lp (or where-ever your printer is located ...in my case it's |lpr

Desire

Started out in 2000 with Mandrake 7.2 (it was Mandrake that got me into Linux)

Since then tried

Icepack, Storm, Corel, Redhat (2 versions), Caldera, Gentoo, Libranet, Debian, Slackware (2 versions), Yoper, TurboLinux, Suse, Knoppix, Gnoppix, Fedora and for other Unices OpenBSD, QNX

Presently running Mandrake 9.1 on my main machine and Slackware 9.1 on my test machine (although I'm going to install Mandrake 10.0 on the second drive of the test system when I get around to it) and waiting to get OpenBSD 3.5 and install it on a third machine.

BUT for the forseeable future Mandrake will remain my main OS, Mandy 9.1 has worked flawlessly for me (I feel like I must be dreaming, right now my "uptime" is 29 days)

When I get around to building a AMD Athlon64 system the first thing on it will be Mandrake for AMD64.

My very first computer was a 286 with PC-DOS 5.0 and a nifty little GUI called "GeoWorks" anyone out there remember that one?

Actually just found an HP 5L for $110 and a 6L for $124. I also checked out prices for toners and the remanufactured ones are $64 (Staples own brand). As for the paper jams on the 5L it is a common problem with them, I have a buddy that repairs printers and copiers and told me why that happens. Anyway I'll either go with the 5P or 6P. I was also considering a Samsung 1710. Anyone out there have a Samsung printer working with Mandrake?I love to hear back if you do. If not then maybe I'll try one out just to see how it works and if Mandrake don't like it then I can just sell it off and get an HP. hmmm what to do?

Cheers,

Desire

I'm glad I read this thread. I'm fed up with my inkjet printer acting up and because I do alot reading on the web and ebooks I decided to go and buy a laser printer and wanted to make sure I get something that will work with Linux. A local store has an "offlease" HP LJ 5P for $149 CDN and I need something that I can do a printout and read it on the subway on my way to and from work.

BTW I'm running Mandrake 9.1 and loving it. :D