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Hi, I have a Compaq Armada E500, PIII-650, 12 GB HDD, 192 MB Ram (128 Added), DVD driver, 14.1 " TFT Panel (1024x768), Lucent Winmodem, Intel Ethernet etc. From Mdk 9.0 to Mdk 10.0 Official (Current) works fine. Just now I am using this computer. Allthough this is an old one speed is sufficient. As for your screen problem, only set screen type to LCD panel 1024x768 when installing Mandrake. Ati rage mobility automaticalliy comes selected. For Lucent modem and Synaptics touuchpad you have to do some small adjustments. And everything goes fine. Here is my document about installing Mandrake 10.0 Official PowerPack on this computer. http://www.elektronist.com/linux/kurulum/e500/e500.html (Sorry in Turkish. But anyway take a look. Pictures tell much. You may understand changes in configuration files too.)

İs it possible or legal to buy Mandrake Linux Boxed version and share copied CD's in a group?

Hi, I have a Compaq Armada E500 laptop with Mandrake 9.1, every part working fine. I want to install Mdk10CE on this laptop. Please sorry, since this is my main computer, I have to think twice. This laptop has a Lucent winmodem which works fine with Mdk9.1. I could not find a precompiled driver for 2.6, and have to install from source. Can this modem be used with kernel 2.6?

Hi, I installed Mdk10CE with default kernel 2.6. Pretty nice. Every part but Creative Modem Blaster USB recognized automatically. This modem is an ACM modem and allways recognized by previous versions of Mdk (8.2 .. 9.2) automatically. Module acm.o loaded and /dev/usb/acm/0 created. I can not found acm.o, obviously kernel 2.6 uses a different one. What is the replacement of acm.o in kernel 2.6? And, how can I install it?

Hi, after a long time... Success!!! How beautifull to use my touchpad with all features. No blinking keyboard leds any more. XFree86 mouse driver is bad for my laptop. I used synaptics driver with a hack, 'Reset' function bypassed. As fallows... Use synaptics-0.12.0.tar.bz2. This package can be compiled easly. Edit ps2comm.c and add this line. .... /* * reset the touchpad */ Bool synaptics_reset(int fd) { return Success; /* Allways Success - Bypass reset function - ADD THIS LINE */ byte r[2]; xf86FlushInput(fd); ... Compile and install. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ... #Section "InputDevice" # Identifier "Mouse1" # Driver "mouse" # Option "Protocol" "PS/2" # Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" # Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" #EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "synaptics" Identifier "Mouse2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "LeftEdge" "1900" Option "RightEdge" "5400" Option "TopEdge" "1900" Option "BottomEdge" "4000" Option "FingerLow" "25" Option "FingerHigh" "30" Option "MaxTapTime" "180" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" Option "MinSpeed" "0.02" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18" Option "AccelFactor" "0.0010" Option "SHMConfig" "on" Option "Repeater" "/dev/psaux" EndSection ... Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse2" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection ... And use your Compaq Armada E500 happily. With full featured touchpad, scrolling, edge functions, 2 finger, 3 finger taps and more... Bonus, good suspend-resume, no weird blinking keyboard leds...

Thanks for all replies. Adrianovaroli, where can we find the images?

Hi, How can I get screenshots, while installing Mandrake Linux?

Hi, Mdk 9.0 was all ok on my Armada E500. After a few unsuccessfull attempts, I installed Mdk9.1 on my Armada E500. Everything eems Ok. But.... when switching from text screen to graphics screen even after startup messages in console all three keyboard leds begins blinking. After some time, from e few seconds to 15 or so seconds, switches to graphics window. This happens also when I switch from a console window to graphics window by Ctrl-Alt-F7. I tried everything I can. Changed resolution etc.. nothing changed. I will be happy if anyone answers, before I go back to 9.0. Thanks in advance.

Hi wim, if you queried modem in kppp and result is ok, but you get modem busy message when you click on connect please check on Show Log Window in kppp before click connect. When you click connect button, a log window should be opened. If not, click Log button on this connection window. Strange but works. :) Good luck!

Hi, My modem is also Creative Modem Blaster USB and working fine. Please make a searck in this forum with USB and ACM and MODEM keywords. You will find what you need. Be happy with Linux.

Hi eisi, as root make this link ln -s /dev/usb/acm/0 /dev/modem chmod 755 /dev/modem and use /dev/modem in kppp.

Thanks SoulSe, I meant burned CD's. And I found cat /mnt/cdrom | md5sum > CDchecksum Actually I remembered. Because I had seen this somewhere.

Hi, How can we authenticate Mdk CD's if we don't have ISO's?

If your modem is ACM USB modem you do not need a driver for your modem. You can not use /dev/modem because it does not exists. Just do a symbolc link to your real device and name it /dev/modem and use that for your modem. First be root and use fallowing code ln -s /dev/usb/acm/0 /dev/modem /dev/usb/acm/0 is my Creative Modem Blaster USB device, please check for your device's real name. Do not forget to set permissions for this link to use it. Good luck!