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paul: Yep, but AFAIK not simultaneously, that's the reason why I can't burn CDs on-the-fly: my CD burner and my CD-ROM drive are both on the same IDE channel. Maybe the IDE standard has changed a lot these years (my PC has ages) , but better have both drives on different IDE channels, just in case... heather1113: Your partitioning scheme is totally ok. swap and / on hda, the 7200 rpm one, then /home on hdb, just what I meant (I notice you did mean that at first... sorry then!). The fastest would be having all of the partitions on hda, but you want to use both drives with linux, right? Well, you could do that, make hdb mount on a dummy mount point like, say, /mydata, then you would be able to use hdb only to store files... Good for your sister! Supertux is addictive... have her try Scorched 3d... or Xbill LoL. Tell her she's welcome ;-)

Erm... thanks, Dexter, but you're wrong. The 7174 drivers do support "ancient" cards like mine, they removed support from 7664 and above, so I can't install any newer than 7174 ones. I tried downgrading drivers all the way down to 6111 (which gave me no problems on MDK 10.0), but them and 6629 won't install with this kernel. 7167 does install ok, but works the same for me, graphical annoyances included, so I'll stick to 7174 for now. The good news is I've found that going to runlevel 3 and starting X with the -nosilk option the cursor doesn't disappear on blender at least. But the rest of graphical glitches like the trail on menus and buttons is still there. Well, it's almost usable now. Hope nVIDIA releases those legacy drivers... sometime. FX 5200's aren't that expensive, now I think of... Regards

Different speeds? It shouldn't be a problem. Just be sure to make your swap partition on the faster one (hda in this case)... and /, /boot if you make it, too. It will load and work faster this way, however, the opposite would work too As a side note, if the drives are on the same IDE channel, maybe you won't be able to transfer files from one to another. It's because of the IDE limitation, you can't read and write simultaneously on the same IDE bus channel. I say maybe because I don't know if it's possible via a buffer or... whatever. Anyways, if they are on different channels, the better.

Hello Well, I had no problems during drivers installation, the 7174 version one was a breeze. In fact, I've had no problem at all with previous versions of Mandrake linuces (I've used 9.0, 10.0 and now 10.2/2005LE) and nVIDIA propietary drivers to date. But now, I've got a minor but disturbing one. Everything works ok in X... except openGL programs that use X11 cursors (such as blender and Mahjongg 3d Solitaire) for mouse cursor. In those programs the mouse cursor leaves a trail or even worse... in blender it dissapears and leaves no trail when I click, then it appears when I click again and leaves a trail on buttons... kind of an on/off switch. Annoying . Maybe it's because my good ol' geforce... I think as I didn't have those fancy, animated KDE 3.3 cursors (or are they Xorg's?) back in previos versions of Mandrake maybe it has something to do with this. How could I have the good ol' X11 black & white cursors back? Choosing the default theme in KDE Control Center won't help. I tried IceWM but it has the very same cursors, so... I've tried downgrading drivers to 7167 too but it's the same. The drivers I didn't have this issue with on 10.0, 6111 version, won't even install properly (they don't support the way newer kernel, I guess). I can't upgrade to any latest than 7174 either because nVIDIA dropped support for "legacy cards" like mine. Tried also xorg.conf Options for the nVIDIA driver like HWCursor 1, then 0, SWCursor, NoFlip... no joy Well, I write the most relevant hardware & software data below. Thanks in advance for any help Hard: AMD K7 600 MHz 320 Mb RAM PC133 nVIDIA geForce DDR 32 Mb Soft: Mandriva 2005 LE Xorg 6.8.2 (updated) KDE 3.3.2 (updated too) kernel 2.6.11-12mdk (not the out-of-the-box one, it is an update too) matching kernel-source 2.6.11-12, of course gcc 3.4.3

I know it may not be the BEST solution, in fact I didn't claim that. I find mine is just easy and I wanted it to work out-of-the-box. Upgrading the kernel hasn't helped me a single bit. Keep reading I upgraded to 2.6.3-14 and my tablet worked the same as in 2.6.3-7. Then I tried to download the 2.6.3-14 kernel-source to compile the nVIDIA drivers and rmpdrake told me: package not found. I updated RPM sources and found the 2.6.3-15 kernel was out... ok it may be stupid, but for once I decided to not upgrade the kernel anymore, as I saw it wouldn't help me but making me lose time instead. Maybe I'm downloading the 2.6.3-16 kernel and sources as I'm sticking to 10.0 until the 10.2 Official comes out, though. I searched all these forums long and wide for topics related to "wacom" and "mandrake 10.0" Yes, there were a few, but I didn't find a solution that actually worked for me, maybe I didn't search well . BTW, weren't you who stated that the Official 2.6.3-7 kernel worked fine for your tablet? You've got just the same tablet as I and it works for you. Well then, I'm glad :) Yeah, you're right to this one... except the package I downloaded was from 10.1 Community... bah, it's beta software after all, till the Official one comes ;).

Well, well, just as I write this, I've read that the 10.1 Community edition of Mandrake is out... so I know this is now deprecated, but they're the most annoying problems I've found on Mandrake 10.0 and finally managed to fix. These tips apply to Mandrake 10.0 Official About wacom tablets working I found a big trouble with Mandrake 10.0 Official and my graphire 2 USB tablet getting to work under kernel 2.6.3-7. During installation it worked fine (no wheel support on mouse, the only glitch), but when I rebooted I noticed the cursor goes to the left side of the screen and only moving up and down responding to left and right move on the tablet. This is because the usbmouse module conflicts with the wacom one. The best solution is going to /etc/hotplug as root and adding usbmouse to the blacklist file (remember to sudo root before)(thanks x4nder). Next time you reboot, your tablet will be quite usable, but the mouse moves in absolute coordinates and worst of all, if you fire up GIMP you'll notice there is no pressure sensitivity support. Well, I found the solution to this easiest, and you won't have to compile ANYTHING! Just go to Linux wacom project and download the most recent stable package (I used ver 0.6.4). Untar the archive, then go to linuxwacom-x.y.z/prebuilt, sudo root, copy the driver for XWindow that suits your system (for me is wacom_drv.o_4.3k2.6) to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/, then switch it with the original like this: >mv wacom_drv.o wacom_drv.old (or whatever you want to rename it to) >mv wacom_drv.o_4.xk2.y wacom_drv.o. I don't remember how the stock /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 was exactly, I think it was ok, but if you have more InputDevices thant the usual cursor, eraser ans stylus, then comment with # or delete the line Mouse1 in ServerLayout. Also set your cursor device as "CorePointer" in this section and you're done. Then, restart X by issueing telinit 3, then telinit 5 as root, or, if you like brute force, press CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to kill the X server, then at the console type startx. You should have your tablet fully working right now. See your mouse move on relative coordinates and your mouse wheel works? Alright. Pressure Sentivity should work too. Test it in GIMP. Set the stylus and eraser input mode as "screen" in File>Dialogs>Input Devices if you haven't already, then draw some lines. BTW, the jitter effect I saw in GIMP 1.2.3 under mandrake 9.0 is gone. It draws crystal clear right now! NOTE: Tested with out-of-the-box kernel 2.6.3-7, XFree86 4.3-30 and GIMP 1.2.5. Haven't done it with GIMP 2.0 but I will do it sometime soon :lol: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SDL Floating Point Exception Issue Well, if you try to run some SDL applications that autodetect joysticks or gamepads (like i.e. ZSNES, VisualBoy Advance or Tux Racer) and you have an USB one plugged in (like in my case), you'll see that the program drops down to the console and shows a message like this: Floating Point Exception (SDL Parachute Deployed) It's a bug in the SDL version that ships with Mandrake 10.0 (and other distros as I have seen)(1.2.7-2). I've just downloaded and installed the SDL 1.2.7-7 rpm (libSDL1.2-1.2.7-7mdk.i586.rpm) from the cooker/10.1 version and the problem is gone . This one depends on libgg, libggi and libdirectfb, that 1.2.7-2 didn't, so install them if you don't have them installed already (The ones in 10.0 work fine). Hope you did find this helpful

Joy! Thanks a lot, that made the trick :D. I haven't pressure sensitivity yet, but I'll try compiling the wacom drivers... I have to download the kernel sources to install the nVIDIA ones after all... Thanks again

Have you tried the Mandrake Installation rescue mode? Boot from Installation CD 1, press F1 at the splash screen, then type "rescue" at the boot: prompt. You'll enter a menu with some options, one is loading a root environment to fix things around manually. Good luck with your "repair" ;)

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I'm sorry, I had to figured that out :P. Well, I have googled a bit and think that this answers your question. The 5900XT is better and only slightly more expensive. LoL. That's the worst site to find anything ;).

You should check i.e. this, but I wouldn't buy any of them right now cause the geForce 6800 ones are coming up soon, and FX ones will get much cheaper after that ;).

It does work with ALSA on Mandrake 10.0 Official. I can tell you because I have just the same card as you do(and it didn't work very well with ALSA on mdk 9.0 :)). The only problem I see is that I don't get any sound output to my rear speakers in a 4.1 analog setup. I have tried everything... even switching to the OSS driver. Please, if you get any better than 2.1 sound, tell me how, ok ;)?

Hi. I have a problem with my wacom Graphire 2 tablet, it seems a very common one, but I haven't found a full solution yet. When I boot into linux and move the mouse or the stylus on the tablet, the cursor goes to the left side of the screen and keeps there, moving only vertically, upwards when I move to the left and downwards when I move to the right. I found a workaround for this, it seems that usbmouse and wacom modules conflict, so I enter as root in a console: modprobe -r usbmouse modprobe -r wacom modprobe wacom (hey VeeDubb thanks for the info, I read it from you) and that's it, the cursor moves from then on as it should... but the mouse works in absolute mode and I don't have pressure input in The GIMP. Yes, if you wondered, my XF86Config-4 file has the wacom input devices in and all that. And everytime I boot into linux, it's the same annoying thing over and over I read that with kernel 2.6.7 this problem was gone, but I have used the 10.0 OE out-of-the-box kernel 2.6.3-7 and the very latest 2.6.3-14 and it is the same :unsure:. Have lost the "cool" splash screen at startup tough :P Any way to prevent the kernel from loading the usbmouse module? Thanks in advance

Same here, I mean, my monitor is an Aoc FT720 CRT monitor and is not in the 10.0 list, but the installation detected it as a plugplay() monitor and works just fine. Try plugplay(), and if that fails, I remember a trick that I used on Mandrake 9.0 when my old monitor died and I switched to this one and may be useful to you: Reading the manual of my new monitor I noticed there was another monitor model of the same brand that had exactly the same specifications and refresh rates my monitor model has, and that was on the Mandrake 9.0 Control Center monitors' database, so I selected it, run the test and everything worked like a champ from then on :lol:. Look for specs of your monitor and other Syncmaster ones, maybe you are lucky like me :) If that doesn't work for you, you can always set your monitor as a generic/standard one (flatpanel in your case) or manually enter the horizontal and vertical refresh rates. Be careful if you are going to do that last one!

To run drakfloppy, type drakfloppy in a console as root. But anyways, the 2.6.x kernels won't fit on a floppy, so your best bet is to write LILO to a floppy MBR. Haven't tried it myself, but it should work. If you do have the 10.0 installation CD 1, you can boot from it, press F1 at the splash screen, then type "rescue" at the boot: prompt too