On Sun, 02 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> I have 3 large issues with Mandrake 7.1 I need help with...
>
> First, how do I enable XF86 4? I selected to install it (yes, with
> expert installation) when it asked, but it seems that I'm running 3.3.6
> (at least, rpm -q XFree86 reports so). I need XF86 4 for my NVidia
> drivers.
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /etc/X11/X
> Second, how do I configure PPP? I do NOT use KDE, and never will, so
> please don't tell me what everyone else has: use KPPP. The Gnome-PPP
> that shipped with Mandrake 7.1 doesn't work (pppd dies), and the PPP
> configuration option in Linuxconf is gone. I had to manually edit some
> files, which isn't something I would expect of a distro known for
> simplicity.
Give ezppp a try.
> Finally, this is more of a warning, the version of the emu10k1 driver
> that shipped with Mandrake 7.1 had a very serious bug in it that causes
> an NMI Error to be generated about twice a second on certain
> hardware-configurations, and logged by syslog. How something like that
> gets past quality control, I don't know... anyways, you very well may
> want to post a patch for Mandrake 7.1 right away (for Mandrake Update or
> what not).
Try a more up-to-date driver. (Sorry, no URL).
-- Stephen
