[newbie] Registering as a Linux User?
How or Where do you register as a Linux user? James Boeck _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Quantum hard drives
I work in a company that has about 25-35 computers with quantum 3.0 gigs and I have owned both a 4.3 and 3.0 gig drives without problems myself. I can not say that about other companys... James Boeck From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Quantum hard drives Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:35:37 -0500 On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, you wrote: That's funny... My 12GB Bigfoot TX drive has failed on me *twice* this year, taking a lot of data with it (although I was more prepared the second time round). Fortunately, I am under warranty until June 2001. On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:18, Jeff wrote: On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, you wrote: Hello list Has anyone had any trouble with their large (mine is 10Gb) Quantum ide drives with Mandrake 7.1 and above? Iv'e been using a Quantum bigfoot 12.7 gig hd since Slackware 3.5 till Mandrake 7.2 (now). Never had any problems. At one point it booted Win98, BeOS, Slack 7, and Mandrake 7.0. Besides being a tight fit it all worked well for me. Now it's just running 7.2 beta (a few package revisions short of official) and all is well. Hope this helps you. When you say failed do you mean the drive just quit working? I havent had anything like that happen to me (same drive) and my drive is around 2 years old. I dont think it would make a difference but this drive came factory with an hp pc. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] 3D Prophet II GTS 32 MB
The List does have a driver for Nvidia Generic I think but It would not work. When it tried to test it I say the monitor or Video were wrong and asked to be reconfigured. James Boeck From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 3D Prophet II GTS 32 MB Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 06:52:43 -0400 (EDT) James, Have you checked the list of cards on your system at all? The last time I was in the display setup there were so many listed there that I was becoming a bit annoyed having to wade through them all. Actually a "good" problem to have. -- Mark ** =/\= No Penguins were harmed | ICQ#27816299 ** _||_ in the making of this| ** =\/= message... | Registered Linux user #182496 On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, James Boeck wrote: I just bought a new graphics card the 3D Prophet II GTS 32 MB, does anyone know of any drivers or way to get this card to install in Mandrake Linux 7.1. I currently have a Matrox Millenium II in the machine so it will still operate but it would be nice to use a decent graphics card. Nvidia's drivers only cover Geforce One's and they mention the 2nd edition but does not give instructions on how to install them? Any help would be appreciated. James Boeck _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] 3D Prophet II GTS 32 MB
Mine is a Prophet II and it tries to detect it and then tries to test it and says that no configurations will work with this card. Everything I try fails and then when I try X it always gives me failed attempt or a bunch of wierd stuff on the screen. James From: "markOpoleO" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 3D Prophet II GTS 32 MB Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:21:51 -0500 I have a 3d Prophet Geforce 1 DDR, it should detect it automaticlly during install. markOpoleO - Original Message ----- From: "James Boeck" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 4:02 PM Subject: [newbie] 3D Prophet II GTS 32 MB I just bought a new graphics card the 3D Prophet II GTS 32 MB, does anyone know of any drivers or way to get this card to install in Mandrake Linux 7.1. I currently have a Matrox Millenium II in the machine so it will still operate but it would be nice to use a decent graphics card. Nvidia's drivers only cover Geforce One's and they mention the 2nd edition but does not give instructions on how to install them? Any help would be appreciated. James Boeck _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver
Larry, I just joined this mail list two days ago I have not been on long enough to hear previous posts. My card is a Geforce 2 I just got it a week ago. It says Geforce 2 on the box. I will try what you said. What sights did you say you pointed to that would help? Nvidia's site says they support Geforce one where do you get the drivers for the Geforce 2? Thanx for the help, James Boeck From: Larry Hignight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 17:22:54 -0700 Maybe because you have a Gforce 1 and not a 2 (as the original poster asked about). Duh! Why don't you read some of the faq's I pointed out in the previous post. It might help you out a bit. I'm also going to assume that your XF86Config file refers to a 'nv' driver and not the newer 'nvidia' driver. Larry markOpoleO wrote: Ok so explain to me why MD 7.1 detected my video card a Geforce 1...duh. LOL markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Larry Hignight" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 9:57 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver MarkO, Well that's kind of funny. Because if you go to the supported hardware section of the linux-mandrake web site there is a link to instructions that are awfully similar to the ones I posted below. But just to be sure. I ran over and checked the Linux Drivers page ... funny thing. Requirement 2.1 says that Nvidia drivers require XFree4.01 to work. Directly above that it says that the Riva and NV1 chips are supported under XFree4.0 ... not Gforce 1 and 2. Which would probably explains some of the threads we get around here about once or twice a month bitching about installing XFree4.01. If you don't believe me go to irc.openprojects.net channel #loki and ask jlundy if nvidia drivers are supported by Mandrake 7.1 he works in the driver dept. at Nvidia so I think he should know. Larry markOpoleO wrote: What are you talking about?! MD 7.1 Supports Geforce 2 and 1 cards right during install. You can allways upgrade to 4.1.0 if you want.. markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Larry Hignight" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver Dominus Paparum wrote: quick question before I install LM, does it come with drivers for the geforce2? i can download them from nvidia how do i install these drivers? the file extention is .rpm what do i do with it? Get Email, News, Links and The Best Selection at http://AnimeNation.com Dominus, First, do us all a favor and set your email client to wrap outgoing messages at 72 characters or less. Thanks. If your new to Linux and not comfortable working from a command line then forget about it for right now. I don't think any distro currently has support for Nvidia "built in". That may have already changed with the release Red Hat 7 though. I'm sure Mandrake 7.2 will also support Nvidia cards out of the box. If you still feel up for a project here is what I did in a nutshell to get my Gforce working. A. Your gonna have to upgrade to XFree4.01 .5 Almost forgot ... mv /etx/X11 and /usr/X11 to /etc/X11-old and /usr/X11-old 1. goto www.xfree86.org and download Xinstall.sh and extract 2. take a look at the readme files while your there 3. run 'sh Xinstall.sh' then download the correct binaries 4. install the binaries 5. run /usr/X11/bin/xf86config ... be sure to have your monitor manual handy B. Install the Nvidia drivers 1. Install the both rpm's ... no sweat here. I had to --nodeps one of them. C. Tweak XF86Config 1. Refer to the faq at Nvidia under linux drivers 2. I recall having to uncomment the glx line under modules 3. Had to change the driver from nv to nvidia voila ... your done for now. I'm just leaving my machine on inittab 3 for now. Whenever I want to play a game I simply 'startx' and run the game from inside of twm which seems to be more stable then before I had a Nvidia card. Incedently, I'm also getting fairly significantly higher frame rates under this setting then under WinME. -- Larry Hignight Descent 3 Beta tester Caldera Linux 2.4 12:45am up 1 day, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00 -- Larry Hignight
Re: [newbie] HP DeskJet 930
I have installed Mandrake with that printer I used the 870 Driver and it works... the only color that does not come though perfect is purple which comes out pink. Overall the printer works ok in Linux but It really, really, really sucks in Windoze. James Boeck From: Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] HP DeskJet 930 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:03:52 +0200 Hey all, When responding to this topic, please email me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since I am not subscribed to the list. TIA. For the question - I am planning on buying a HP DeskJet 930 but I checked the hardware list on Mandrake and its support is listed as partial (second out of four possible levels of support, four being the best). So I'd like to ask - has anyone had any experience with this printer ? If yes, how is it doing under Linux ? If it uses the PPA architecture, you can get drivers at pnm2ppa.sourceforge.netother than that proprietary architecture, most HP printers are supported by linux. If it's on the list of printers in the mandrake print config, then it's probably supported. I've seen it under http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi Specifically http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=175232 It is "partially" supported. On other sites like http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3#print http://pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net http://users.bart.nl/~patrickr/hardware-howto/Hardware-HOWTO-21.html there is no word about it. How do I find out if it's not a win-printer ? It is using HP PCL 3. Is that OK ? And, finally, will I be able to print graphics using quality comparable to PhotoRet III ? (I've seen it, it's really awesome.) TIA Roman _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver
Adam, I wish mine had just installed 2D at install. It would not work with the card otherwise I would not ask the question. It Tries the Geforce driver in the install and then tries to test it and fails to work. I dont know why. That is why I was asking for help. I am not involved in their pissing contest. I joined after all that stuff was going on aparently. James From: "Adam Koch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:58:26 -0400 - Original Message - From: "markOpoleO" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver Mandrake 7.1 uses the same drivers for Geforce 1 and 2...it is just the same Nvidea drivers..DUH. markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Larry Hignight" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Geforce 2 driver Maybe because you have a Gforce 1 and not a 2 (as the original poster asked about). Duh! Why don't you read some of the faq's I pointed out in the previous post. It might help you out a bit. I'm also going to assume that your XF86Config file refers to a 'nv' driver and not the newer 'nvidia' driver. Larry Okay, Can you two carry out your pissing match some place else? The card is detected at install, but the 3D capability of the card is not enabled unless you download nvidia's binaries and install them, and then modify your XF86Config file. That said, if you don't want/need 3D capabilities from your card, then go with the default as set up during install, it works fine. If you do want 3D RTFM, and RTFFAQ's. Adam _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
