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Yip, what you're experiencing is completely normal. You are using an operating system that fully utilises your systems' resources.

Gnome is also known to be slightly more demanding on memory than other windows managers, but it is my favourite to. Check out gkrellm for keeping an eye on those resources!

Well, obviously your swap space was on a disc you removed and Linux won't be able to do too much without swap space. The mounting of additional file systems shouldn't prevent you from starting up.

So boot off your Mandrake cds and reconfigure your disc partitions.

Evil things always look attractive. Since everyone is sharing about themselves :? I'll tell you about me: I believe in using the right tool for the right job.

Windoze games were designed for windoze systems (for those of you who haven't heard of it: Windows is another name for a very serious boot sector virus and also the only virus with a copyright).

I haven't been infected with windoze, so I don't play windoze games.

Winex has achieved some pretty impressive things, but until people start buying Linux games, we are not going to convince gaming companies to produce for Linux. What game is better then quake anyway? what the &$(# is going on? It's been fun sharing with y'all anyway...

On the supermount: Theoretically you should be able to use supermount for hard drives by specyfying it in your fstab file (/etc/fstab), but why would you want to? Supermount is intended for drives with removeable media so that you don't have to re-mount every time the media changes?

Are you going to be useing removeable hard drives? just curious....

As soon as I get back to my computer I will check how big a minimal install of Mandrake 9 with XFree is and post it.... but I think 16MB won't cut it.

Have you considered bootable-disc distributions of Linux (like BBC or LOAF?) you might be able to move one of them into your 16MB as they have already been hectically scaled down... or use them to boot into Linux from a CD-Rom drive. Check out www.linux.org for a list of distributions, the best bet with Linux is to find a distribution that does what you need it to instead of scaling down another distro...

Ok, check this out: http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/02q2/02..._gaming-01.html

After reading the full article you might find that you were very lucky with your performance.

Play a few Linux games and you just might pack up those windows games for good, but don't listen to me, read the article...

hmmm... you don't usually get a user _to_ the palm, but you get one _from_ the palm.

I remember the first time I turned on my Handspring, it asked me for a user name... hold on, let me grab my visor...

Ok, try this: turn on your palm, then tap on "prefs" after that, use the scroll down menu to get to "owner"

The palm should then say "This handheld computer is owned by:" and give you space to type > fill in your new username and after that you should have a user set on the palm, now try setting it up in Mandrake...

The user is established by your palm device, not the desktop.

Xine is my favourite and is pretty much the standard.

It is on your mandrake cds, just make sure your display card is up and running properly....

Dude, if you're going to be playing Warcraft 3 through winex, I hope you have a serious system, it performs only half as well as it does under windows.

Winex generally damages games' performance quite seriously...

Buy some Linux games!!!

This might be a stupid question, but were you using 700MB discs?

The first disk for mandrake 9.0 requires a 700MB disc, using a 650MB might have caused your problem...

I'm also hanging on for some Linux portage. It's been a serious wait as well and I've had to listen to all my friends with microsnot machines carrying on about how flippin' great it is :roll: whatever.

Luckily I know there are many other Linux users out there who have had to wait as well and I'm sure that it will have been worth the wait as this will be a milestone in porting games to Linux...

Hey! That is a very good work around.

I actually thought of doing something similar, but I was used to .bat files from my windoze days, so I spent all day trying to figure out how to make a batch file in Linux, so now I know, make a .sh file - !important lesson for newbies!

Ok, so now I can play my favourite 1st person again, with gl support and mouse look, which is rad.

What I learnt from this thread: use the binaries in 83mercedes' link(awesome posts man!) unless you want to play quakeworld (doesn't work for that).

You might have to create a .sh file which will cd into your quake directory before running "glquake."

That's that then!

Hey! That is a very good work around.

I actually thought of doing something similar, but I was used to .bat files from my windoze days, so I spent all day trying to figure out how to make a batch file in Linux, so now I know, make a .sh file - !important lesson for newbies!

Ok, so now I can play my favourite 1st person again, which is rad.

What I learnt from this thread: use the binaries in 83mercedes' link(awesome posts man!) unless you want to play quakeworld (doesn't work for that).

You might have to create a .sh file which will cd into your quake directory before running "glquake."

That's that then!

Sorry man, I don't know what to tell you. Everyone I know got it going first time.

It must be something small that has been overlooked, the most common of these is specyfying the kind of cradle you have, serial port is selected by default, so you must change it to USB (assuming you have a USB cradle).

There is also a small program you can use (I think it's called usbreg, sorry - not at my puter now) which lists all the devices on your USB ports, once you know it is being detected, you can take it from there. I must mention that all the people who get it going first time have USB cradles which are generally easier to setup.

Don't give up, there must be a way!

Ok, I got it working, but it is acting weird.

What I did was copy glquake into my /usr/bin directory and after that I could execute it, but it only works if I cd into my /usr/local/games/quake directory and then execute it! So I can't make a launcher for it on my desktop.

I'm a newbie, so I don't understand too much about symbolic linking and stuff (btw: I also tried making a symbolic link in /usr/bin with the same results).

Any suggestions?

I can't get it working! I followed the directions in 83mercedez' link to the T.

I unpack the binaries, but I can't execute glquake, here's what I did:

created /usr/games/quake

created /usr/games/quake/id1

copied the pak files into id1.

unpacked the binaries into the quake directory, I unzipped them all, but I can't execute glquake, as if it isn't there. Am I unpacking it correclty (# tar xzf glxquake.tar.gz)?

For some or other reason syncing always seems to run better with Gnome, but concerning your question about evolution:

Mandrake does not install Evolution conduits for your palm by default, so you need to install them from your mandrake cds (search for evolution and the conduits will pop up).

After you install the conduits, you need to open up evolution, click on "tools" and then on "pilot settings" set the e-conduits (ecalendar, etc) to "enabled" and then sync your palm (sometimes only works on the second sync).

Remember that you first have to have run the wizard to set up a user from your palm.

I also recommend trying J-Pilot, open it up and press your sync button on the cradle and then click on "sync" in J-Pilot. This program is very robust and if you can sync on it, then you won't sync anywhere...

You can take out that thread if you want, the thing is that here in South Africa hardware is really expensive cus of the dollar exchange and it peeves me when people get dissed because of their *limited* choices...

I found the best way to tackle this problem (for me) was to edit my fstab file.

# gedit /etc/fstab

Look for the line concerning your CD-Rom and delete "supermount" then save your fstab (might be a good idea to back it up somewhere first).

Then restart your computer (doh! there goes the up time!)

After that you have to mount your cd every time, which I find is better, because the supermount that came with MDK 9 has given me big troubles.

Well Done!

What a good open source citizen.....

Sorry, I'm just having a bad day.....

lha is a compression program like tar or zip. It was developed by Sun.

I found it on www.rpmfind.net

Useage: # lha e <archive>

Oi! I also got "suckered" into buying an MX. Did it ever occur to you that not everyone can afford a better display card?

When I bought my MX, a shop was running a special on 'em and it was the best card I could buy with the little money that I had to spend on it! And I'm proud of it!

Don't be a f**king hardware snob, this forum is for helping people, not telling them how crap their hardware is!

I had severe problems building from the RPMs, I recommend using the tarballs instead, worked first time for me.

Did you try to perform an upgrade from 8.1 to 9.0 or install 9.0 fresh? Just curious....

I'm assuming you tried a standard Plug & Play monitor? Be carefull of manually changing your monitor's refresh rate as this can cause severe damage to your monitor.

The problem is most likely the monitor and not card.

The official release date is 30 November, 2002.

Go to www.tuxgames.com for more info and ordering.