JonEberger

well the difficulty being that i'd gotten flux from those servers for another machine not a week ago. so i was shocked to see that it didn't work. but i waited until tonight and it worked like a champ. i'm running flux as we speak. it's so much easier to do it the urpmi way. it may not be the newest release...but oh well.

urpmi fluxbox To satisfy dependencies, the following 2 packages are going to be installed (3 MB): X11R6-contrib-6.7.0-4.2.101mdk.i586 fluxbox-0.9.10-2mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) Y ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/media/contrib/ fluxbox-0.9.10-2mdk.i586.rpm ...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 6 or signal 0 ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/. /X11R6-contrib-6.7.0-4.2.101mdk.i586.rpm ...retrieving failed: curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'mirrors.secsup.org' installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/fluxbox-0.9.10-2mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed: X11R6-contrib is needed by fluxbox-0.9.10-2mdk Installation failed, some files are missing: ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates/. /X11R6-contrib-6.7.0-4.2.101mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database i don't know what this means. what is curl? i suppose i'm going to have to learn urpmi.removemedia.

does anybody use the mirrors.secsup.org as their urpmi repository? if so, has anyone had difficulties connecting to it? [moved from Software by spinynorman]

the only problem with that is (last i checked, or perhaps cuz of my mirrors) the firefox that got installed as a .9x version. i, using root, copy the .tar.gz file to /usr/local folder. i type tar -zxvf firefox-blahblah.tar.gz and it unzips to a folder firefox-installer. i type mv firefox-installer firefox and then cd into the firefox directory. from here i run the firefox-installer file by typing ./firefox-installer and let it go through the whole install rigamarole. Then cd to /usr/local/bin where i make the link ln -s /usr/local/firefox/firefox firefox . then from command line i can just type firefox and get the application to run. from there you can add the icons or whatever else you need to add. people let me know if there are better ways of doing this from the .tar.gz file.

I chose Power Linux because 1.) i didn't like the other choices 2.) i really don't like mandriva 3.) although I really like mandrake best (still), it doesn't seem very likely 4.) phantom linux (although sounding impressive) sounds like easily losable, or transparent. 5.) power linux does sound neat if one were going to make a new distro.

no one yet?

so i have a this video card from msi. it has video capture and is a wonderful card. the standard video card works great under linux and under windows every function imaginable works. i would love video capture under linux. mdk doesn't recognize the card on install. there are no /dev/video* devices. there are special "wdm" drivers available at a page off of msi's driver pages as well as nvidia's page. but there are no linux drivers (that i've found) for this device. any help?

so css is great. one really fantastic thing about it is that your presentation should be fairly uniform if you write the .html file right. however i've found that the rendering engines in mozilla (i.e., mozilla browser, firefox) render considerably differently than in ie 6.0. so things don't always look the same between. in a professional application this could be a big deal. another big thing to think about is to learn enough php and (using mysql databases) write a chunk of code that drastically reduces your coding time. good luck with that, i'm going to learn that one myself. but css is the way to go.

if you buy hardware that is pretty widely sold but that is so new that it is not supported....wait a while. it'll happen. probably quickly. there are few things right now that aren't supported even by proprietary software.

so first off, i would actually recommend a dfi motherboard or an msi. they're cheaper (from what i've seen) and work so well. i've had tremendous service from both. if you can save by still buying a quality product and allocate money elsewhere, go for it. as far as video cards go, i agree with the idea that you should buy the best you can afford. three years ago i bought a ti4400 geforce 4. on SOME things it still outperforms alot of the newer cards just because of memory and memory bandwidth. regardless, it's still a really well performing card that is very well supported under linux. with just a little kernel-source that matches my kernel i can play ut2004 very well on my comp (and the processor is 3 years old now) after getting the nvidia "driver". for good information what cards to purchase you should check out tomshardware.com. good luck. keep us posted.

i have an 80 GB drive. i have a 10 GB windows ntfs "c:/" partition and then a 30 GB ntfs "d:/" partition followed by all my linux partitions and then another 1 GB fat32 windows "e:/" partition. i always install windows first. then make sure everything boots wonderfully. then i install linux from cd. i always choose LILO (text-mode, although graphical works great too) and install it to the MBR. always. i never have problems with it this way. the installation procedure always sees my windows installations and partitions easily. (since you're in mandrake, ntfs read is built-in too). during the installation you can then choose which os you want to be your default. if you choose to get rid of mdk (gasp!) then you can (from windows), using the administrator tools, reformat all the drives to whatever you want. further you can insert your install cd (assuming you have one) and do the fix install and give the "fixmbr" in win2k, winxp. good luck.

so sgt. when i did the firefox install from rpm, i had already done the easyurpmi. then i typed urpmi mozilla-firefox unfortunately it was an older version. i just always go to mozilla.org and get the tar.gz file. this keeps me up to date. once i've made the pointers in /usr/local/bin all i have to do is get the tar.gz file and if i unpackage and install firefox to the same folder (/usr/local/firefox for me) i never have to change the pointer or menu items that i've created.

so i have this process that launches (kdeinit) and takes up ab out 99 percent of my cpu time. so i do a top or a ps-aux and i get the proc id num and so i do a kill "that number" at commandline. nothing happens. it stays running. so i do a cat proc/5920/cmdline and i get back kdeinit: kded[jon@enterprise jon]$ . what's going on here? any help or suggestions?

i do trust that you edited the xf86config file the way it's supposed to be. under the modules heading you need to load "Glx" and remove "dricore". further you need to change the nvidia driver to nvidia from nv.

so i was having some difficulty with the cpu getting warm and so itook the machine apart and got rid of components i no longer use (modem, etc.). hooked everything back up and considered i'd just give it a shot. syncs perfectly. even through several reboots. don't know what happened, but i'm glad it did.

I gave your advice a try to no avail. I'm going to disable apic and try to the "force local no apic". but i'm not sure how that works.

So something that bothers me is that I don't think that MDK is physically putting an irq or a ttyS* to the serial port. When I do a "cat /proc/interrupts" i get CPU0 0: 74509094 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 16 IO-APIC-edge i8042 9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 14: 62218 IO-APIC-edge ide0 15: 869553 IO-APIC-edge ide1 16: 5549252 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd, nvidia 17: 347 IO-APIC-level EMU10K1 18: 44405 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd, ohci1394, eth0 19: 139315 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd 23: 3 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd NMI: 0 LOC: 74510386 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 there are no irqs set aside for the serial. any ideas? i've thought about using setserial.....but this seems drastic.

I gave it a not bad at all. I didn't like the fact that I had to good around to get the NVidia drivers to work. Othewise I really like it. With firefox and thunderbird, I think it's a superb os.

One big problem is people being afraid. I have a family member who is the tech. coordinator for her elementary school. She's knowledgable and can get around well in Windows. (Very good with MS Office.) She is afraid of Linux. It sounds scarey to MS-comfy folk. On the other hand, Im a grad student at NCSU. Everything is Linux or Solaris (for the Math-sciences, etc. folk) while the office workers remain predominantly on MAC or MS. Why? The expensive is so much higher, but people are afraid. Even my wife (very computer savvy, very good coder) was nervous about it. Now she lives in it. She loves it. But it's still too much for her to do alot that isn't gui based. The learning curve is steep. I think if you could convince the powerful few on a $ basis, then when people came in and they were given a Linux box instead of MS, they'd have to learn it. Then it wouldn't seem so bad.

i had to install the wireless tools for it to work. if i don't know the name of software that i want to load, the gurpmi interface is really great about searching using the documentation for rpms. it'll always find what you're looking for. just do the wireless search.

if you're just liking the tool urpmi for getting applications and not urpmi in particular, most other linux distros have something like it. redhat, fedora core have "yum", others use apt-get (i think, it's been awhile).

i found a similar post earlier like yours. i've got an uber-old ibm thinkpad 600. i did a urpmi alsa-utils as root. Then i used alsaconf and it found it in the isa card section first time. I also disabled the quickboot in the bios. i found that getting the lastest bios updates really improved the performance of the laptop as well.

good call. i never even thought to look at the date or the post count.

likewise. i used ndiswrapper and it works like a pro.

if you're running shorewall (mandrake firewall), then go to /etc/shorewall and vi the interfaces file. you can change the setting on wlan0 from local to net and that has helped me out. also, i just went through the net detection gui in mcc. that never hurts and it perfectly detected my card.