hanez

Hello, I have the LOKI port of tribes 2. The single player works fine but when I select online play, I login everthing seems fine but then the game freezes on ¨creating warrior¨... Anyone know what my problem is?

Thanks in advance

Hanez

Hi, Im trying to compile a .c file I got from a cedega forum (here) I am trying to get World of Warcraft working (almost there!) Anyways I need to compile this .c file but it requires two .h files... xlib.h and cursorfont.h

These seem like standard XFree86-devel files but I cant find them through urpmi or through google. I tried installing and XFree86-devel rpm but I got a conflict error. Anyone know what I should do?

When I try to install XFree86-devel I need XFree86-libs

Some package requested cannot be installed:

XFree86-devel-4.3-8.2mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied XFree86-libs[== 4.3-8.2mdk])

When I try to install XFree86-libs I get a conflict

Installation failed:

file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of XFree86-libs-4.3-8.2mdk conflicts with file from package libxfree86

I cant uninstall libxfree86 because my entire system depends on it (Id have to uninstall KDE and thats no fun....)

So what do I do?

BTW MERRY CHRISTMAS AND/OR HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Thanks in advance!

Hey all, I just bought quake 2 and doom 3 and got them to work on MDK. Problem is quake is too old for me now and doom 3 is ok 1 player but sucks multiplayer (IMHO)

Then I saw in a Linux magazine a free open source game called Cube. Well I gave it a try and MAN is it good.

It has a single player mode and a multiplayer mode that is just WICKED, much faster then quake 2 and much better looking.

Anyways it is the easiest thing in the world to install (and even has its own gamespy like server finder) I was totally suprised to see such an awesome game done open source.

Anyways give it a try

You can download it at http://cube.sourceforge.net/

PS it works on windblows too!

Hi I get some wacky errors everytime I try to run bittorrent or bittornado. I have installed and uninstalled them a few times, I have installed and uninstalled Python and wxpython through urpmi as well.

I keep get wxpython errors...

*Using BitTornado*

[root@localhost hanes]# btdownloadgui.py MAME.ROMS.torrent

wxPython is either not installed or has not been installed properly.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py", line 23, in ?

sys.exit(1)

NameError: name 'sys' is not defined

*Using Bittorrent*

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/bin/btdownloadgui.py", line 13, in ?

from wxPython.wx import *

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wxPython/__init__.py", line 10, in ?

import _wx

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wxPython/_wx.py", line 3, in ?

from _core import *

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wxPython/_core.py", line 15, in ?

import wx._core

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wx/__init__.py", line 42, in ?

from wx._core import *

File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/wx/_core.py", line 4, in ?

import _core_

ImportError: /usr/lib/wxPython/lib/libwx_gtk2u_core-2.5.so.2: undefined symbol: gdk_display_get_default_cursor_size

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance

Yeah, all I needed to do was run

/usr/games/sdlquake2

instead of

/usr/games/quake2

Mandrake rules.....

THanks all

Ok well, I got it running without sound... all I did was add a few other packages from the PLF in URPMI and it ran!

Now i need sound :(

I take it this error is stopping me from getting sound?

------- sound initialization -------

/dev/dsp: Input/output error

SNDDMA_Init: Could not mmap /dev/dsp.

Anyone know the solution?

Im having problems installing quake 2. I checked older threads in this forum but they don't seem to address my problem.

I use urpmi to get package: Name: quake2 Version: 3.21_r0.15-2plf

I then copy the entire baseq2 directory to /usr/share/games/quake2/baseq2 (including the pak files)

and I execute /usr/games/quake2.bin and I get this error

------- sound initialization -------

/dev/dsp: Input/output error

SNDDMA_Init: Could not mmap /dev/dsp.

------- Loading ref_softx.so -------

LoadLibrary("ref_softx.so") failed: No such file or directory

Refresh failed

recursive shutdown

Error: Couldn't fall back to software refresh

Please help! I have a new computer with a 256 meg NVIDIA card and I just wanna play a couple games on what is otherwise an amazing OS.

Any help would be HUGELY appreciated

Gino

Hello I have an ATI 9200 with MDK10.0. I tried installing the driver from the ATI sight but it has a compatibility problem with another package installed... Am I supposed to install this driver or does mandrkake come with it already installed (and maybe thats why im getting the compatability problem?)

The ATI site says to execute "fglrxconfig" but I dont have that binary... Im trying to enable TV out and I am totally confused with getting this driver to work... any ideas?

DO i have to recompile my kernel or something to get this working? the ATI docs are confusing as hell...

Thank you

I tried using TVCard option in Control Center but, it seems for only TV in... Has anyone got this working with a radeon card? I really have no idea how to continue.

hanez

Hello I have an ATI Radeon 9200 with TV out. I havent installed any drivers for it (just whatever mandrake has installed) and I want to use my TV out feature.

I tried installing the driver from the ATI site but I get this error

Installation failed:

file /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 from install of fglrx-4.3.0-3.14.6 conflicts with file from package libxfree86-4.3-30mdk

Now all I really want is TV out, do I need to install this driver? Or is there an easier way? Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance..

Hanez

My computer

Athlon (2.6ish)

Ati 9200 128 meg

Soundblaster Live

Ive heard a lot about my problems with SATA so I'll explain them a lil more in detail. I installed 10.1 on my SATA drive it was horribly uselessly slow...SLOW....SLOW like really SLOW. But I had no problems on bootup.

So then I installed 10.1 on my IDE drive (the SATA was still atached) it was very fast... but guess what? During bootup Id have psyco weird problems

This problem was weird. When it would look for SWAP space it would complain about not finding my swap space on sda WHEN I NEVER INSTALLED ANY SWAP ON SDA) No kidding, I install on HDA with absolutely nothing on SDA (not even a partition mounted) and it would give some kind of error about not being able to find the swap space on sda. I would still get this error even when I removed the SATA drive.

It would boot and be fast but I would get serious crashes... I installed 10.1 3 times on my IDE and this happened every time... it was clearly a problem with the SATA drive.

I installed 10.1 one more time with the SATA drive uninstalled and... everthing worked FINE.

But I need that drive... so I installed 10.0 with the SATA drive installed and everything works fine (but 10.0 still reads that drive slower then it reads the IDE drive, brutally slower but mp3s dont need to be read that fast.)

This was 10.1CE by the way, the very stupid part of me wants to give 10.1Official a try but after being stuck in OS limbo for a month Im happy with my MDK10 again. Guess Ill wait to;; 10.2 comes out :)

Anyways thanks for all the advice, I do find it weird that I was the only one that had major problems with this.

Hanes

This is an Athlon (2.6 ghz or somewhere like that) with a seagate HD on ATA and a Maxtor on IDE.

I have ext3 on both drives, I have all the mods you mentioned installed.

Welll, I dont know exactly what is going on. I installed 10.1 and it was SLOWER than 10.0. ALOT SLOWER. So I start going crazy right? I think hey maybe MDK is just slow, maybe I should try gentoo and compile everything from scratch, maybe userfriendly is just for windows...

Well instead I install MDK10.1 on an IDE drive I had lying around (on the same box). Well its a speedemon now... 2-3 times faster then MDK (same version) on my sata drive was, maybe more....

Dont you think this means it MUST be a driver issue? I have 256 RAM on a 2.7 Athlon, Radeon 9200 btw.

[root@localhost hanes]# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda

/dev/hda:

Timing buffer-cache reads: 1120 MB in 2.00 seconds = 559.81 MB/sec

Timing buffered disk reads: 146 MB in 3.02 seconds = 48.30 MB/sec

Does that just mean I have to live with speeds 2-3 times slower then xp on the same box? Darn it, I love MDK but it runs very slow on a 2.7 Athlon, oddly enough I was using a server at work (700MHz running Red Hat 9) and they were about the same speed.

Hmmm ok, so you think thats pretty much the final word unless I want to downgrade to 2.4 kernel?

10.1 had MAJOR problems with my SATA drive, like readign at a quarter speed that mdk10 did...

Just so you know

I have MDK 10.0 official and Im trying to install the SATA driver for the HD my mdk is currently booting off of. Its a VIA VT8237 and I downloaded the Linux/Mandrake driver but Im having some problems.

1. Using the precompile binary

I try the precompile but the instructions are for MDK9.2

it says to:

cp viamraid.o /lib/modules/2.4.22-10mdk/misc (dont have this directory so I cp to /lib/modules/2.6.3-7mdk/)

depmod -a

modprobe viamraid

But I get this error:

root@localhost hanes]# modprobe viamraid

FATAL: Module viamraid not found.

2. Compiling the driver

When I try to "make" the driver, i get errors,

[root@localhost driver]# make

gcc -c -DVIA_LINUX -DMULTIPLE_CARD_SUPPORT -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__=1 -O -DMODVERSIONS -I/usr/src/linux/include -I/usr/src/linux/include/asm -I/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi -Wall viapubraid.c

In file included from viapubraid.h:6,

from viapubraid.c:21:

/usr/include/linux/version.h:2:2: #error "======================================================="

/usr/include/linux/version.h:3:2: #error "You should not include /usr/include/{linux,asm}/ header"

/usr/include/linux/version.h:4:2: #error "files directly for the compilation of kernel modules."

/usr/include/linux/version.h:5:2: #error ""

...

...

viapubraid.c:551:25: scsi_module.c: No such file or directory

make: *** [viapubraid.o] Error 1

(it basically prints out the whole file...)

Anyways I've got a driver I cant install (and I think my HD is abnormally slow because of this...)

Anyone have a solution? Thanks in advance.

Gino

PS Attached are the instructions for the driver

via_ml9.2_raid_combo_driver_ver0.8a.pdf

Yeah, well Im back with 10.0 now and everything is fine. Ive noticed this though in 10.0 my ata drive is called HDA. In 10.1 the ATA drive is called SDA. So whatever they changed to treat ATA drives differently slowed the hell out of my computer. Oh well 10.0 works fine for now.

Thanks for the help!

I installed kernel 2.4 from the 10 sources...now when I boot up I get KERNEL PANIC... in ALL my boot options. GREAT :D

Think I will have the same problems with 10,1 Official or does community usually offer the same bugs as official?

what do i look for? kernel.rpm?

i tried to use my floppy, either my floppy drive is broken or the disc i was using was broken... thats really little concern to me because I never use it anyways... (you think its slowing my computer?)

Attached is my whole dmesg output

Yeah I have an ATA drive, i guess that means SATA? I donno it worked fine with 10.0

output.txt

does this mean anything ?

dmesg (prints out a lot of stuff but here looks like a sda error...)

EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal

EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0

and

[root@localhost hanes]# hdparm /dev/sda

/dev/sda:

HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Operation not supported

IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit)

readonly = 0 (off)

readahead = 256 (on)

geometry = 14593/255/63, sectors = 234441648, start = 0

And ideas?

i did the urpmi --auto-select method to 10.1 official...

it broke my box too :) Kde no longer booted.

defintely the wrong direction no problem though...

let me stress Ive HAD MDK 10 installed on this EXACT SAME BOX. The boot up for MDK10.1CE is 2-3 times SLOWER then it was for MDK10 on the SAME BOX and SAME HD.

I pressed escape at boot up... it doesnt seem like its slowing at any particular spot... all the way till kde loads is very slow... the hard drive reading is not a constant grind like it should be; its like... read, pause, read pause. almost like a hiccup I have yet to hear that 1 minute grind that is so common... Then once kde is totally loaded everything seems fine (but I think thats only because I dont do much cpu intensive stuff)

I tried burning a couple cds and it had a buffer problem when before i could burn easily. My swap space is a gig and a half... I really dont know whats going on...

should i just switch back to 10?

OK. I had Mandrake 10 official and it won me over... Simply amazing kudos to the entire mandrake community for making such a powerful OS.

I saw 10.1 and decided to upgrade, 2 weeks of pain later I had to format everything and now I have 10.1 CE running on an AMD 2.1 Athlon with a Radeon 9200 and Soundblaster card.

The problem is my boot up is INCREDIBLY slow, about 5-10 minutes. It will start the booting and it will be like CPU WORKING.... PAUSING.....CPU WORKING.... PAUSING......CPU WORKING.... PAUSING.....CPU WORKING.... PAUSING.....CPU WORKING.... PAUSING...CPU WORKING.... PAUSING All the way till the desktop is loaded its like working at half speed. I had no problems like this with MDK 10.

I have an ATA hard drive and am not sure if that might have something to do with it... It seems that it only reads in short bursts....

I have my partitions set up like this

sda1 (my old MDK 10 partition that I havent mounted)

sda5 (1.3 GIGS of swap space)

sda6 (MDK 10.1 about 30 GIGS)

Anyone know whats going on?

Thanks in advance.