Re: [Cooker] 2.4.18-8mdk Nvidia 2802 failure
On Wednesday 03 April 2002 05:37 am, you wrote: On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 19:20, Murray J. Root wrote: Did you edit /etc/modules.conf and change /dev/nvidia/* to /dev/nvidia* ? (Notice the number of /s ) Can you go into a little more detail what is required here? I didnot edit modules.conf however I have the following line in my modules.conf: alias char-major-195 NVdriver Somehow this line does not seem right. At any rate, more detail on what you're discuessing would be greatly apprecaited, or rather a link to where I can obtain this information myself. Thanks, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] that line looks ok. just checked it on my system with NVidia driver, GeForce2 Ultra card, and it shows the same thing. Mine works fine
Re: [Cooker] can't log in as root?
On Thursday 21 March 2002 07:35, you wrote: wyrmzr wrote: On Wednesday 20 March 2002 08:19 pm, you wrote: What security level did you choose? On Wednesday 20 March 2002 08:01 pm, you wrote: Strange behavior from 8.2 full... I can't log in as root, have to log in as my regular user then su root. When I try to log in as root, the system tells me that authentication failed, but when I su root, it takes my password fine. Anyone explain this? Higher security level. It would help if it warned somewhere that you can log in as root only in low security level. see /etc/securetty in another mail yeah, it worked to set my security level to high, although I may put it back to higher, if it will allow me to ssh in as regular user at the higher setting. That's all I allow into my system at this point, anyway, so if it keeps root from directly logging into my system remotely, but lets my regular user(s) in, that's fine by me.
Re: [Cooker] 8.2 Comments
On Thursday 21 March 2002 08:13, you wrote: On Thursday 21 March 2002 06:08 am, you wrote: I have tested Cooker for awhile now and I downloaded the release 8.2 ISO's and they went in without any problems. I kind of find it a bit sluggish at times but then again what do you expect with a K62-300 and 256 MB ram. I'm really satisfied with the product and I will bring it into my shop to resell it as soon as its avilable in boxed format. The only _minor_ glitch that I found was when installing it on a system that has onboard Built-in AC97 Digital Audio (by VT82C686B) (Epox 8KTA3+Pro board). The sound would come out kind of low and I would get like (sounds funny) *puff* sounds out of my speakers. Well thats the best I can explain the sound. Maybe it could be some kind of static or the sounddriver sends out some kind of signal every so often. I didn't try the Release version on a board like this, maybe the gotten better with the newer kernel. Also when installing a Realtek 10/100 network card in the PCI slot next to the AGP card seem to slow the system down when running Linux . Probobly cause they both use the same IRQ. I guess its something to do with the IRQ sharing (Windows doesn't have this problem with sharing IRQ's). Windows may not exibit the problem but that doesn't mean it isn't there. I'm sure civilme could expound more but this is a common misconception. All in not well in the windows world it just hides problems better. /MattB I actually get the impression that windows will install on systems with hardware problems, where Linux will hard lock during the install process. I've seen at least 2 systems where Linux won't install, like it's probing hardware and finds a problem, but windows installs just fine. So far, this is just a theory, but I know windows can do strange things as far as recognizing hardware, and then when it misidentifies it, it uses it as something else.
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake way of life
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 10:39, you wrote: Kmail and evolution are very good email agents , but for me when I use outlook it doesn't hang with 1 mail big problem of windows are stability and viruses ... big problem of linux have no good acceleration for video and is not yet stable, I think also that for laptop is very not at the level of windows since suspend , irda , incorporated mouse does not work well to not say at all... (Warning:I like a lot linux , and I saying this only for pointing on problems that I do not like to see in the future) Thanks for the very great disribution you've made , Meir Faraj - Original Message - snip I'd have to agree that laptop support is lacking yet in several areas, but 3d acceleration depends a lot on what card you have, and whether the manufacturer is willing to write drivers for Linux. My NVidia GeForce2 Ultra works great, I can watch dvds in Linux, and many apps, including OpenGL, run much smoother than win2k. Personally, even when I use win2k, I don't use outlook because of the huge security issues. And I stay behind a hardware firewall to keep the hackers out. Not that win2k is used much by me anymore, since I can now play many of my games in Linux with winex(thanks to transgaming). And as far as stability goes, I have had no problem running RC1 on my work system, running several days straight without a reboot is not a problem. No such luck with win2k, something eventually bogs it down and forces me to reboot. All in all, I can't wait for Linux to get a stronger hold on the desktop market. For my purposes, it's already there.
[Cooker] can't log in as root?
Strange behavior from 8.2 full... I can't log in as root, have to log in as my regular user then su root. When I try to log in as root, the system tells me that authentication failed, but when I su root, it takes my password fine. Anyone explain this?
Re: [Cooker] can't log in as root?
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 08:19 pm, you wrote: What security level did you choose? On Wednesday 20 March 2002 08:01 pm, you wrote: Strange behavior from 8.2 full... I can't log in as root, have to log in as my regular user then su root. When I try to log in as root, the system tells me that authentication failed, but when I su root, it takes my password fine. Anyone explain this? Higher security level.
[Cooker] problems with NVidia drivers in 8.2?
Has anyone noticed a problem with NVidia's drivers in 8.2? They compile and install fine on my system, but X refuses to start, says there is no such driver I also have gotten a warning about them tainting the kernel, not being GPL, when inserting the module manually.
Re: [Cooker] drakxtv still not finding my tv channels
On Thursday 14 March 2002 10:38, you wrote: what is labelled as ntsc/france ? the signal codage is selected by you, must be ntsc for usa. when scanning all channels, i passed france as frequency table to simplify code but -a overide it; so all known frequencies are tested. all channels are labelled as ntsc/france. I tested all known frequencies, and that's what it gave me. Didn't set a country.
Re: [Cooker] drakxtv still not finding my tv channels
On Thursday 14 March 2002 11:29, you wrote: wyrmzr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what is labelled as ntsc/france ? the signal codage is selected by you, must be ntsc for usa. when scanning all channels, i passed france as frequency table to simplify code but -a overide it; so all known frequencies are tested. all channels are labelled labelled WHERE ? in xawtv ? in zapping ? they both extract channels name from teletext information ! as ntsc/france. I tested all known frequencies, and that's what it gave me. Didn't set a country. set the country to usa ! in xawtv. If I set the country to usa, it won't find any channels.
