Re: [Cooker] nvidia woes
I'm sorry, i forgot to mention i'm using mdk 9.1beta3. I know official rpms will be out when 9.1 comes out, but perhaps mandrake could add a script to download and compile the modules, and automatically edit the XF86Config file? That would simplify things, even if there are rpms available. What furthers my problem is that I had to download and compile a separate kernel in order for the nvidia drivers to want to compile. Somehow I doubt that. # urpmi kernel-source Doesn't work. The only kernels i could get from rpms in 9.1beta3 are smp kernels. This of course messes up a lot of mandrake's features such as supermount and various modules. This is enough of a pain to drive off even a veteran linux user. I do not know how you guys should go about remedying this, because I know your stance on closed-source drivers. Anybody have some ideas? If you're running a stable release: 1)choose another list for your next post 2)Get your card running: # urpmi lynx # lynx -source http://ranger.dnsalias.com/nvidia_me|sh That's a nice script.. something like that would be good in the control center. like a Got Nvidia? button per say. -- Preston Cody V.P. PSU Linux Users Group Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM: ppcodeman
[Cooker] nvidia woes
Hi. I've been switching distros for a long time now, and I really like the mandrake look. My Problem: I have an Nvidia TNT2, so I need to get the nvidia drivers from their website, compile them, and manually edit my XF86Config-4 file. The average user shouldn't have to do this. What furthers my problem is that I had to download and compile a separate kernel in order for the nvidia drivers to want to compile. This of course messes up a lot of mandrake's features such as supermount and various modules. This is enough of a pain to drive off even a veteran linux user. I do not know how you guys should go about remedying this, because I know your stance on closed-source drivers. Anybody have some ideas? -- Preston Cody V.P. PSU Linux Users Group Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM: ppcodeman
[Cooker] 9.0 laptop eraser not working
Hi, I was just helping a friend install 9.0 on his laptop (Dell Inspiron 4000). In winblows both the touchpad and the eraser (also called touchpoint i think) worked, and you could use either one. However in mandrake only the touchpad works. My questions: Is mandrake supposed to be able to configure both to work at the same time? If not, can it be done? most laptops seem to use the same drivers. Suppose I plugged in a mouse, shoudldn't it work with the touchpad automatically? -Preston Cody
Re: [Cooker] plz add hptraid to drivers list
Pixel wrote: it should be somewhat easy to fix, if you give me some info: - the output of lspcidrake -v - doesn't it work if you modprobe hptraid on console 2 at the beginning of install (say, the language selection step) - what are the names for these devices, sda ? what do you get in /proc/scsi/scsi (this is with beta2) First of all, if I ctrl+alt+f2 at language part, even if I do nothing, I can't get back to the install. glib-WARNING**: getpwuid_r(): failed due to No such user 0 Entering step 'Choose Your Language' before i modprobe hpt raid the partitions i get are hde: [PTBL] hde1 hde2 hde5 hde3 hde4 hdg: unkown partition table after I modprobe sd_mod | modprobe hptraid dmesg shows list of partitions such as ataraid/d0 ataraid/d0p1 ataraid/d0p2 ataraid/d0p5 and then HPT software raid driver for Linux version 0.01 or something like that and lists Drive0: 38GB Drive1: 38GB Raid array of 2 Drives cat /proc/scsi/scsi gives me: Attatched devices: none lspci -v gives me: hptraid: Triones|HPT366 Subvendor:0x1103 Subdevice: 0x0001 I read somewhere that you need to use the hpt372 driver for 372 and above, not the old 366 linux drivers, So I put them on disk and tried to use expert mode, but then it boots from the floppy image (to get rid of that weird 20 second blank screen delay in beta2) but then cant recognize the floppy drive (no access lights) when i put in the driver disk and try to load it before setup. hard drives show up in dmesg as hde and hdg yet nothing (not even raid) is in /dev from console 2. regardless, diskdrake pops up a notice that there is an invalid partition table and suggests deleting it, but that doesn't work. I realize this is a rather weird configuration, and that the LILO/grub setup for such a thing is probably unheard of, but it should be possible. -Preston Cody
[Cooker] plz add hptraid to drivers list
Hello, I have just spent many hours trying to make mandrake work w/ an hpt372 raid controller. I even made a driver disk with custom-compiled drivers to load up in expert mode, but the insmod failed. I know you can modprobe hptraid from the console, but in order to install mandrake it needs to be in the list of available drivers to load. (Incidently gentoo worked flawlessly after modprobe sd_mod and modprobe hptraid, it found the raid.) If there's some step I'm missing here that'll make it work, please let me know. Thanks. -Preston Cody
