Guest SpaceCadet Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Ok, so I finally have linux installed but the mandrake 9.X cd1 wouldn't load the setup for some weird reason, but mandrake 8 went right in there. Now all my hardware works great except my video card. I went to the manufacturer's website to download the driver for my "S3 pro Savage DDR" video card. The file I have is called "xf43sav-27t.tgz". Can anyone tell me where to put this file so my system will recognize my card? Any input is greatly appreciated, thanks :) As soon as I get this comp working good I will update this version of mandrake to 9.0. Oh, and another thing, is that the iso's for the 3 installation CD's are 'Cd1 mandrake 9.2 cooker' and then CD2 & 3 are 9.1 distros. Just wondering if that has anything to do with me having troubles getting the installer to load. Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SpaceCadet Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Sorry and one more thing, I guess inside of that .tgz file is another file called 'savage_drv.o'. What do I do with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emh Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Generally, you want to use CD's from the same version of the distro. I doubt you will get the install to work with one 9.2 CD and 2 9.1 CD's. You can go to http://www.linuxiso.org and download CD1 of Mandrake 9.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezroller Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Generally, you want to use CD's from the same version of the distro. I doubt you will get the install to work with one 9.2 CD and 2 9.1 CD's. You can go to http://www.linuxiso.org and download CD1 of Mandrake 9.1 exactly what he said! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 :lol: :lol: Ok, go get the correct cd1, and load all of mandrake 9.1. See if your video card works with 9.1 :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Did ya get all 3 from here? ftp://213.232.94.69/pub/Mandrake/stable Could be a bad burn on cd1, did you check the md5sums? Or, try to re-burn cd1 and try the install again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SpaceCadet Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 ok, I see. I think I was in the wrong link the first time, because the file structure was different. I could see a file in there called "mandrake security MND" or something like that. Anyway, thanks for the update, downloading the proper CD1 now and still anxios to try it all out! I was really very disappointed to have to install 8.0 so I'm looking forwards very much to 9.1 :) Another 3 hours 45 mins to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 /stable = current version=safe /cooker = beta= experimental=scary!! You must be on dial-up, i see you only have d-loaded 2% @ 44kb/s Don't forget to d-load the md5sum to check your d-load is OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SpaceCadet Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 LOL dialup :) That pretty much sums it up, or as we call it here in BC, telus DSL. What do I do with the MD5SUM once it's downloaded? ============ update edit: ahh I see that it's a text file, OK.. no idea what to do with it though ============ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SpaceCadet Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 lol I like your avatar pic btw 8) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 LOL dialup :) What do I do with the MD5SUM once it's downloaded? Read this: http://mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?p=32853#32853 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SpaceCadet Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Burning the proper iso to disk now. Checked the downloads with md5sum and everything checks out perfectly. Will let u know how things go in a bit :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SpaceCadet Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 Nope same thing happens that happened with the 9.2 disk. In the GUI loader it goes through the loader bar right after I press enter for the first time, then the screen changes and it freezes. So I go to F1 at the start for advanced options and choose text install, and the last three lines before it hangs are: Posix conformance testing by Unifix Enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000002 Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SpaceCadet Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 maybe things will work better if I try a boot disk. Is that possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SpaceCadet Posted August 7, 2003 Report Share Posted August 7, 2003 ok figured out the boot disk, still nothing. I went into cmos and reconfigured a bunch of settings and it is still freezing up at that point. I think it's my video card it doesn't like or something. It's really finnicky I hate that piece 'o. Anyway, I am gonna reflash Windows back to that machine and load it onto a machine I'm pretty sure will work. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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