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Well - adding this line does not work. However - you pointed me in de right direction. Alfer inspecting the file i found the section "dri devices" herein. I changed the permissons in the four lines in this section from 0660 to 0666 and the problem was solved. Great!!!

Allright - i officially delclare myself to be an idiot. I sould not do "chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia*" But: "chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia*" "chown root /dev/nvidia*" That did the trick. Still there is only one problem left. After a restart of Mandrake both settings seem to be vanished. How do i keep this settings "locked"? Any suggestions?

I am using an FX9500 card in Mandrake 10.1 CE. After downloading the NVIDIA drivers (66.29) the installation went without any problem. Starting X works fine and "glxgears" shows hardware acceleration works as expected. That is - as long as you are logged in as root. Logged in as normal user starting X also went good, but when i try to start "glxgears" it gives the error: Error: Could not open /dev/nvidiactl because the permissions are too restrictive. Please see the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS section of /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for steps to correct. After reading the doc, i made the suggested change the /etc/security/console.perms file by outcommenting the lines that contains references to "<dri>". The doc also suggests to do the following command: chmod 0666 /dev/nvidia* chown root /dev/nvidia* And thats where i got in trouble. This command gives the error: Unknown file "chown", Unknown file "root". So - i am without any clues what to do next. Only commenting out those lines does not work. And change te permissions in the bottom line in console.perms does not seems to be the answer. How do i resolve this problem? I am still a newbe with Linux, so any suggestion here would be very welcome.

I have installed Kylix3 and the Pascal IDE is working fine. However, when i try to start the C++ IDE it tries to start up (i see the name on the taskbar with a hour-glass), but after a wile the hour-glass dissapears and nothing happens. It just wont start up. No errors are given - it just dissapears without giving a splash screen or something. I have installed Kylix as a normal user and everything went fine. No errors where given, and registration worked good also. As i said, the pascal IDE is working perfectly without any problems. Compiling also works good. It all worked fine on my earlier Mandrake installation (8.x) but i have installed Mandrake 10 a little time ago (works great), and i run into this problem. Has anyone tried an Kylix3 installation on Mandrake 10 - and so, how do you got the C++ IDE part working?

The S3-Trio 32/64 card is a real problem with Mandrake (and other Linux versions as well). As far as i heared, the problem is that the manufacturer of this card won't disclose anything about the inner workings of it. They also refused to make antything else than windows drivers. There are some (very buggy) drivers made for this card, but better to avoid these. I have never got a system to work with a card of this type. I have also encountered the strange problems you describe. Until now i don't have a workaround for it - sorry. It is better to upgrade with another cheap card. There are some very cheap second-hand TNT2, GeForce2, Radeon 7000 etc. around. One of those will also improve performance under windows, because they are faster, and give the full color palette - which the S3 does not. Sorry - i can't give a solution to this problem. Maybe someone else around here will?

You created a Ext2 ánd a Ext3? Is there some reason for that? No offence on my part, but i'm just curious. In my opinon you better stick with only a swap and a Ext3 partition. Ext3 is a more advanced version of Ext2 and has better recovery feautures. Notice - a swap partition is nót the same as an Ext2 partition. Now for the booting problem. I have noticed that on older machines (i have a P1 - 233MHz running with Mandrake 9.2), you have to use a boot floppy with Mandrake 10 and Fedora. I have no idea wat is wrong, but it must be something to do with hardware that's not working as expected by those distro's. I also won't delve deeper in it, because the floppy solution works well. Maybe in the near future - when i have some more time available - i will take a closer look at this problem. For now - it would be nice to hear if the installation has succeeded.

Those files are indeed in a folder. That's normal and no mistake. By the way - my impression was you can't boot from ány Mandrake version. If this assumption is wrong, i have a little question now: can you boot from the installation cdrom of Mandrake 9.2? If so - you encountered the Mandrake 10 community boot problem. If this is the case there is a workaround to get Mandrake 10 setup booting. As far as i know there is a problem with the first CD of the Mandrake 10 community set. To solve this problem you have to boot from CD2 and then - when the installation asks what medium to use - swap CD2 with CD1 and choose Cdrom. This problem is solved (as far as my computer concerns) with the Mandrake 10 official version. Now for your partitions. More experienced users use more partitions to store a selection of folders. But for now you better keep it simple. Linux only uses two partitions in the most basic form. The first partition you have to create is the swap partition. It's rather small in size. I use 512Mb for that but 128Mb also will do fine. I use Partition Magic (version 8) to do this (i will call this program PM from now on). The second partition is where the actual installation will reside. You can make it as big as you like. If you plan to store lots of data (like big games as Ureal Tournament 2003 or so) just make it big. The best partition type here is Ext3. This type of partition is much better to repair if you by accident shut down your computer without bringing it down. Both partitions are supported by PM. My preference is to make both partitions as primary, but that's not absolutely required. If you plan to use a dual boot system (XP/NT and Linux) you can also make a little FAT32 partition as a medium between the two operating systems to exchange files. Linux can read from NTFS but writing to it, is not recommended. So using a FAT32 inbetween is a safe bet. Well - that's it! Happy installing!!! ;)

During install in one of the last screens you get a oversight of all the installed hardware (like mouse, keyboard, network etc.). In this screen you van choose to set up your boot-loader. Just click on thet button an choose as install medium not the default (most-times hda1), but fd0. In that case Lilo is placed on a floppy and not on the MBR of your hard disk. Most times the boot loader is allready installed on your harddisk and you are left with two identical boot-loaders (one on the floppy and one on your HD). You can - in that case - just remove the boot-loader from your harddisk in the same manner as i described in my posting above. I strongly reccomend to use the method (making partitions with Partin Magic etc.) as described in the same posting. N.B. Forgive my not-so-great engish. My native language is dutch, so mistakes are easy to make.

Well - if booting from your cd does not work, it is better to make a Linux bootfloppy. On CD1 of the Mandrake installation cd-set, there is a directory called "dosutils". In this directory is a little program called rawrite. There is also a directory called "images" in this diretory there is a floppy-image called cdrom.img. With the rawrite program you can put the image on a blank floppy. The most easy manner is to use the rawwrite (notice the extra "w") program under windows. Just doubleclick and have a blank floppy ready. When the program starts up you have to give a image file. Just push the button on the left and choose /images/cdrom.img, after that choose write and your boot-floppy will be made. Dont forget to set the floppy as first boot device in your BIOS and boot your computer. The installation will go fine, starting from a floppy. Now for the dual boot problem. When you try to make partitions from the Mandrake partition manager during install, in some cases it will go wrong if you have XP installled allready. The best solution is to use a parition manager like Partition Magic to create the swap and ext3 partitions on the forehand. During the Mandrake install choose to use the "manual" instal and just give a mount point on the ext3 partition (thus using the existing partitions you made before) and say ok. In this case there is no partitioning and no damaging your partition table. Note: In fact Mandrake is not damaging your partition table - it's XP that is using an non-standard table to start up. If Mandrake is writing an table that is a standard norm, XP get a hickup and refuses to boot. XP needs an non-standard table, so in most cases whn using a Linux distribution it will be bad for XP. If for some reason you want to stop using Mandrake, you only have to do two simple things - removing LiLo and reclaiming the Linux partitions. If you want to remove LiLo from a drive (if you used the above setup), just insert a DOS or Windows98 startup floppy disk, reboot your computer and wait until you see the prompt. Type in FDISK /MBR , remove the floppy an reboot your computer. It will start up in XP as it did before the installation. To reclaim the Linux partitions you can use the same partition manager as you used before.

Indeed you can see your windows partitions (NTFS and also FAT) in /mnt/. It will be named windows_c or something like that. Now for LiLo. You can easy change the location of this boot-program by going into the Mandrake control center. You can change the location by "installing" (in fact re-installing) the boot loader. Just give as location "fd0" in stead of "hda1". In some cases the bootloader is not removed from your MBR. When you have this problem, just start up your computer with a DOS startup floppy disk (installation disk windows 98 also will work well). After starting up give the command FDISK /MBR and your bootsector will be clean again. Only do this afer you have verified Mandrake boots correctly from your floppy of course!

Well - it all seems to boil down to a crappy RPM. I noticed the RPM on disk 1 was: speedtouch-1.2-2.beta3.2mdk.i586.rpm. On the comunnity disk the RPM was: speedtouch-1.2-1mdk.i586.rpm. After removing the first package with rpm -e and installing the second package everything just worked fine. I'm on line again. I got these disks to play with for a few days, just to see if Mandrake 10 is suitable enough to buy the powerpack edition. I hope this version i'm using now is not the final version and these mistakes are corrected in the "powerpack". Has anyone such a package and is willing to look wat's the version number of the RPM on it? If i do not encounter any problems with my other divices, my impression is moderated positive. It's just a bit dissapointing there are problems with the NVIDIA and Speedtouch devices. Also the default sound drivers are wrong, but that's easy corrected during install. Altough i have found a workaround for both first problems, it was a struggele to get them working without any clue wat was wrong. Anyway - i am still pleased with Mandrake 10. :D

Does anyone how to get my Alcatel speedtouch USB modem to work under Mandrake 10 Official? It worked fine under 9.2 and sill worked fine when i upgraded to the community version. After that i decided to do a fresh install with the latest version. After a lot of pain to get the NVIDA drivers to work (noapic in LiLo params solved that problem) i was faced with a new problem. When i try to install the USB modem i get a warning "Sorry we don't support kernels lower than 2.4". Hey - this is a Mandrake 10 distro, the used kernel is in fact higer than 2.4!!!! Well - i proceeded with the rest of the setup and copied the mgmnt.o code to the right place, as i was used to do with 9.2. After manually starting up the connection (/usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouch.sh start) all i got is a failed status. I removed the connection and re-installed again. No luck Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong? I used the same procedure as under 9.2 and (i think) the community version. Is this a error in the Official version of Mandrake 10? I would like to be able to use my internet-connection (and no - i have no money at this moment to buy a ethernet DSL modem).