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I just recently picked up an iiyama ProLite E380, 15" display, good repsonse time, nice color. I just set it up as a generic flat panel 1024x768 in Mdk 10, I would imagine you could do the same. Check out this review, which is pretty accurate. Got my for $300 U.S. at Newegg and I believe this model is available globally. Hope this helps.

After making these changes I started to see other errors... :unsure: Set NVAgp to "2", and the nVidia driver LOADED YES!! You guys RULE!!!! BTW: Strange thing UT'04 works just fine....ET has no sound. Great somethiing else to look into -SP <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Glad it worked, what's the word on your sound in ET?

I haven't tried any of the Fedora releases yet, but I have read more than once that Mandrake is fast, specifically on older hardware, but again, I haven't tried it so it's just hearsay.

There are many options from the command line and we could talk about grep all day, but try this link for a good place to start, * is a valid wild card, and don't forget you can take any command and look at it's man page by typing man commandname i.e. man grep And many keyboard shortcuts from Win work in KDE (although not always in the console window) such as Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, etc.... More to come, have to go to work for a few hours, later...

I've seen in several other messages that 2.6 sees the KT600 as part of the KT400 family so that shouldn't be the issue, and it looks like it's finding your AGP stuff just fine. Have you tried setting NVAgp to any of the other values?

Nope, I have a KM266 chipset with no active support either, which is why I knew about the NVAgp "2" thing. Hang in there, we'll find you a solution. Did you go over that readme, it's here, check out the appendix.

try this, open a terminal and type whereis programname i.e. whereis firefox your new best friend until you get really comfortable in the file system. Hope this helps. B)

I installed the driver without the kernel source, and it installed without a hitch. Remembered I had to install the kernel source for this install, so i figured it can't hurt. I urpm'd the kernel source 2.6.3-7 (matching whatever my kernel is, not the 2.4.ish) and reinstalled the driver. I also installed Mesa thinkin maybe that would install some lib that I'm missing. but still no luck. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. -SP <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's kind of a slog but if you got to Appendix C of the nVIdia driver readme file it gives you a breakdown of what files "should" be present on your system and locations of a couple trouble makers. It's a tedious process, but at least it would let you rule out a bad driver install? Anyone else?

Chris is correct about that, I had a mess going until I tried setting it up via urpmi, then do the plugger install if you want to watch/listen to clips in your browser window.

As usual you are spot on, that worked perfectly. I don't know why I kept missing it, the first time I installed 10 on this machine it picked Grub as the bootloader and even though this time I know it used Lilo I kept looking at Grub (perhaps I should start sleeping at night?). I hate to do it, but I have to...that did it for boot up, what abuot shut down, can I force it to use the blue background instead of the black one? Thanks bvc, you always have solid answers.

Bumped out of curiosity...

Do you have the Kernel Source installed? Not sure it really matters but at least it would be something to rule out.

urpmi plugger It defaults to Mozilla's plug in folder but if you use FireFox you can just copy the plug in files to FFs plugins folder.

From the tutorial in the FAQ section I know it's a pain but worh the effort, the best way to learn Linux concepts is to figure out (even the hard way) to set up stufff you use every day.

There is nothing to be afraid of and virtually nothing you could do permanent damage to. Why don't you try to explain your issues more clearly and specifically, and give us a run down of your hardware and I'm sure there are lots of people willing to help. I've only been around a few days and this is one of the most friendly and useful boards I have ever experienced.

ahhh, that annoying little star is gone, thanks...

I got the FAILED hardware message on my first install of Mdk10. I don't have a floppy drive, have it disabled in BIOS, etc... no problems. Did a BIOS flash, which by defualt loads "optimzed defaults" which re-enables the floppy controller. So Linux would boot, find a new hardware entry in BIOS, not find the drive and FAIL. I had some other issues I created with excessive sessions of "what does this do" so I did a clean install and fixed it that way, but I would go with arctic, do some digging and you might find a failing hot plug device.

I might have to finally download ET again, too funny...

The KT600 chipset isn't actively support by the nVidia driver, try adding ... Option "NVAgp" "2" to the device section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, this forces the driver to use native Linux AGP/Gart drivers and ignore the nVidia AGP driver. Works for me. If that doesn't do it we can take it further and check to see what device code/PnP I.D. that the driver is pickingup, but the card should be supported by the latest driver release.

I'll check that out John, thanks for the tip, that actually sounds promising (have to try later I'm stuck on a conference call with work to plan how we are going to respond to a big batch of MS patches being released over the next few days, man I love my Linux box).

Might be an easier install but does it create the links to your browsers? That was the most tedious part to me.

Also agree, I'm not fond of the linking on the windows partiton, so I think investing in even a small hard drive is a smart move, you can pick up 40 gigs for about $50 at Newegg if you are in the U.S. And listen to bvc, he has been a big help to me on some obscure stuff, he knows the 'Drake.

No problem, I find the Kmenu Editor to be a little cumbersome so I only go there when I have a handful of changes to make.

Oh yes, sound works on everything but XMMS, and MP3 playback works in several other players. KMix is tweaked pretty well and my sounds play for system events and games, and I'm actually impressed how good the sound on Quake III is. I don't have the Alsa option in XMMS, and I have done RPMs and source, tried the soundwrapper stuff, etc... I don't think XMMS is broken because "I can't get it working" but because many people are havnig the same problem, and because it seems to only effect this one application performing one function I would have to call that a bug. I'm open to more suggestions, but it could just be a bug between my hardware and this one player. And I should state again, I have no mad love for WinAmp, which is clearly the joy of XMMS for some people, so it's not overly traumatic for me. But if you have any ideas, I love to tinker....

Simplesy way, right click on the KDE/Mandrake kicker button and choose menu editor, create a new entry where you want it and save it. The default icon for FF is saved as an .XPM so if you want to change it either find one (KDE-Look.org has some) or do what I did and convert the current one with the Gimp. Good luck. And if you get over-zealous and screw up your menu with too many tweaks you can restore the default menus as well.