Re: [newbie] New to the list
Aaron West wrote: Hey gang, I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is to have the Linux box become my main desktop system. The current hard drive I use with Windows is a bit small at 15GB. I am in the market for a higher capacity drive - anything from 80GB up - and wanted to get some advice before I buy anything. Are there any drives I should stay away from or is just getting any IDE drive (like a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 7200rpm IDE) going to work. I'd like to get the new hard drive in, install 9.1 on it, and then hook up my current 15GB drive as a slave for possibly holding all my music data. This sound fine? Also, is there a list of supported peripherals for 9.1 anywhere? I'd like to check my current system setup (network card, router, video card, sound card) etc.. to make sure they are supported. Thanks all, --- | Aaron West | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.trajiklyhip.com Hi Aaron, Greg has already directed you to the TWiki pages for the hardware. As for software, as you haven't already installed 9.1 I suggest you wait a couple of weeks and get 9.2 instead - best to have the most recent version available. Good luck! Margot Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list
Margot wrote: Aaron West wrote: Hey gang, I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is to have the Linux box become my main desktop system. The current hard drive I use with Windows is a bit small at 15GB. I am in the market for a higher capacity drive - anything from 80GB up - and wanted to get some advice before I buy anything. Are there any drives I should stay away from or is just getting any IDE drive (like a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 7200rpm IDE) going to work. I'd like to get the new hard drive in, install 9.1 on it, and then hook up my current 15GB drive as a slave for possibly holding all my music data. This sound fine? Also, is there a list of supported peripherals for 9.1 anywhere? I'd like to check my current system setup (network card, router, video card, sound card) etc.. to make sure they are supported. Thanks all, --- | Aaron West | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.trajiklyhip.com Hi Aaron, Greg has already directed you to the TWiki pages for the hardware. As for software, as you haven't already installed 9.1 I suggest you wait a couple of weeks and get 9.2 instead - best to have the most recent version available. Good luck! Margot FRANKI: Also, I would add that for the hard drive, as long as you avoid Western Digital drives, you should be fine with any of them, in fact many people use WD drives here with no issues, but better safe then sorry. Maxtor are probably the best drives around nowdays, so they should be a good choice. rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 5:13 am, Aaron West wrote: I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is to have the Linux box become my main desktop system. The current hard drive I use with Windows is a bit small at 15GB. I am in the market for a higher capacity drive - anything from 80GB up - and wanted to get some advice before I buy anything. Are there any drives I should stay away from or is just getting any IDE drive (like a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 7200rpm IDE) going to work. I'd like to get the new hard drive in, install 9.1 on it, and then hook up my current 15GB drive as a slave for possibly holding all my music data. Hi, Aaron. The Maxtor drive is the one I installed a couple of months ago, so yes, it's fine. There won't be any problem in using the second drive for your music data - just don't have it ntfs. If you want to make it available to both systems, use Mandrake Control Centre to make it vfat - both Mandrake and windows will read and write. This sound fine? Also, is there a list of supported peripherals for 9.1 anywhere? There is no definitive list. You will find a lot of information on our TWiki pages http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility Other links that will help you can be found on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/NewbieFriendly One tip when using the TWiki site. If you can't spot what you want in the Index page (link on the blue bar), use the Quick Search on the right-hand side below the side-panel entries. That does a complete text search to find likely entries for you, whereas the Go panel at the top needs you to know the TWikiWord for the required entry. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 5:47 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Anything but Western Digital. Well documented problems with shortcuts for crc error checking. The problems don't show up in Windows, but Linux can stress the drive more causing the problems to come out. Lot's of people, including me, have run Linux on a WD drive without problem, but if you are buying new, I'd steer clear and go to Maxtor or Seagate. If the existing drive is WD, don't panic. I understand that more modern WD drives don't have the problem, and while I wouldn't buy one, just in case, I would happily try out an existing one. Back up any existing data before you start, and you should have no problem. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list
On Sunday 05 October 2003 05:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 5:47 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Anything but Western Digital. Well documented problems with shortcuts for crc error checking. The problems don't show up in Windows, but Linux can stress the drive more causing the problems to come out. Lot's of people, including me, have run Linux on a WD drive without problem, but if you are buying new, I'd steer clear and go to Maxtor or Seagate. If the existing drive is WD, don't panic. I understand that more modern WD drives don't have the problem, and while I wouldn't buy one, just in case, I would happily try out an existing one. Back up any existing data before you start, and you should have no problem. Thanks for clarifying Anne. You much more eloquently said what I meant. -- Regards /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list
On Sunday October 5 2003 04:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: If the existing drive is WD, don't panic. I understand that more modern WD drives don't have the problem, and while I wouldn't buy one, just in case, I would happily try out an existing one. Back up any existing data before you start, and you should have no problem. Anne It's the new drives that do have the CRC checking shortcuts. Prior to August 1998, WD's did proper CRC checks, were some of the best drives. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 2:05 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 05 October 2003 05:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 5:47 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Anything but Western Digital. Well documented problems with shortcuts for crc error checking. The problems don't show up in Windows, but Linux can stress the drive more causing the problems to come out. Lot's of people, including me, have run Linux on a WD drive without problem, but if you are buying new, I'd steer clear and go to Maxtor or Seagate. If the existing drive is WD, don't panic. I understand that more modern WD drives don't have the problem, and while I wouldn't buy one, just in case, I would happily try out an existing one. Back up any existing data before you start, and you should have no problem. Thanks for clarifying Anne. You much more eloquently said what I meant. Greg, looking again, I don't think it needed clarifying g. Sorry - I was just trying to avoid that panic feeling that you get when you're a total newbie. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 2:16 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday October 5 2003 04:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: If the existing drive is WD, don't panic. I understand that more modern WD drives don't have the problem, and while I wouldn't buy one, just in case, I would happily try out an existing one. Back up any existing data before you start, and you should have no problem. Anne It's the new drives that do have the CRC checking shortcuts. Prior to August 1998, WD's did proper CRC checks, were some of the best drives. Now you've really confused me, Tom. I posted Civileme explanation to another list and they said that it was old hat - no longer a problem. I guess the answer is if you've got one try it, if you haven't, steer clear, to be safe. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list
On Sunday October 5 2003 09:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: It's the new drives that do have the CRC checking shortcuts. Prior to August 1998, WD's did proper CRC checks, were some of the best drives. Now you've really confused me, Tom. I posted Civileme explanation to another list and they said that it was old hat - no longer a problem. I guess the answer is if you've got one try it, if you haven't, steer clear, to be safe. Anne Here's the whole story. Overclockers long favored WD, Quantum, and IBM IDE drives, particularly WD's. Mainly because they did much better on off-spec PCI buses (anything SCSI has problems on an off-spec bus). Often necessary to overclock Intel cpu's of the era. In the fall of '98, many started complaining of problems and failures of WD IDE drives. Research by the more knowledgable overclocking gurus, soon revealed that WD had lowered their drive specs (8/98). AFAIK their current specs are the same or even lower. OTOH, many HDD manufacturers have lowered their specs over the last several years, and consequently, their warranty periods. While Civileme was/is certainly an authoritative source, an even better source, the final answer for the WD-CRC checking situation is the linux kernel mailing list. It was the kernel hackers that discovered the WD problem, and AFAIK, the improper CRC checking is still the situation with WD drives. Your research may vary, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel I've just avoided WD since '98, but maybe the kernel gurus have found a work around for WD's. I doubt it tho (I lurk on lkml), since the problem was WD drives depend on (Windoze) software for CRC checking rather than including the needed hardware and firmware on their drives. It made their drives slightly cheaper and a little faster than their competitors drives. For windoze users (and system OEM's), this was seen as a Good Thing (and probly why WD did it). IMO tho, I'd worry more about tainting a Linux system with closed source software and drivers, or other forms of win-hardware, before I'd replace a perfectly good working WD drive. IOW's, for those with WD drives and no problems with them, or traceable to them, I wouldn't give this WD-CRC deal another thought. Bottom line is, keep backups, all drives today are lesser quality than they use to be. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 5:14 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday October 5 2003 09:18 am, Anne Wilson wrote: It's the new drives that do have the CRC checking shortcuts. Prior to August 1998, WD's did proper CRC checks, were some of the best drives. Now you've really confused me, Tom. I posted Civileme explanation to another list and they said that it was old hat - no longer a problem. I guess the answer is if you've got one try it, if you haven't, steer clear, to be safe. Anne Here's the whole story. Overclockers long favored WD, Quantum, and IBM IDE drives, particularly WD's. Mainly because they did much better on off-spec PCI buses (anything SCSI has problems on an off-spec bus). Often necessary to overclock Intel cpu's of the era. In the fall of '98, many started complaining of problems and failures of WD IDE drives. Research by the more knowledgable overclocking gurus, soon revealed that WD had lowered their drive specs (8/98). AFAIK their current specs are the same or even lower. OTOH, many HDD manufacturers have lowered their specs over the last several years, and consequently, their warranty periods. While Civileme was/is certainly an authoritative source, an even better source, the final answer for the WD-CRC checking situation is the linux kernel mailing list. It was the kernel hackers that discovered the WD problem, and AFAIK, the improper CRC checking is still the situation with WD drives. Your research may vary, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel I've just avoided WD since '98, but maybe the kernel gurus have found a work around for WD's. I doubt it tho (I lurk on lkml), since the problem was WD drives depend on (Windoze) software for CRC checking rather than including the needed hardware and firmware on their drives. It made their drives slightly cheaper and a little faster than their competitors drives. For windoze users (and system OEM's), this was seen as a Good Thing (and probly why WD did it). IMO tho, I'd worry more about tainting a Linux system with closed source software and drivers, or other forms of win-hardware, before I'd replace a perfectly good working WD drive. IOW's, for those with WD drives and no problems with them, or traceable to them, I wouldn't give this WD-CRC deal another thought. Bottom line is, keep backups, all drives today are lesser quality than they use to be. Thanks, Tom. Filed for future reference. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list
- Original Message - From: Aaron West [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New to the list Thanks for everyones comments and suggestions. I'm still doing some more research on whether my system can support the ATA-133 interface, but I should be ordering a drive soon. Last night I queued up an FTP download of all the 9.1 images. It all appears to have downloaded correctly, but I'd like to do the checksum. Can I verify these files on Windows? Many thanks, BTW, I'm using a Web based e-Mail client for this list and cannot disable the reply-to information. Sorry! --- | Aaron West | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.trajiklyhip.com ** Hi Aaron, yes you can get a little program called MD5summer for windows here: http://www.md5summer.org/download.html With this you can verify md5sums from windows. I have used it and found it very easy. Should meet your needs. HTH. --Angus Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -- James Thurber *** ~Linux Powered by Mandrake 9.1~ *** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *** -- ___ OperaMail free e-mail - http://www.operamail.com OperaMail Premium - 28MB, POP3, more! US$29.99/year Powered by Outblaze Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] New to the list
Hey gang, I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is to have the Linux box become my main desktop system. The current hard drive I use with Windows is a bit small at 15GB. I am in the market for a higher capacity drive - anything from 80GB up - and wanted to get some advice before I buy anything. Are there any drives I should stay away from or is just getting any IDE drive (like a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 7200rpm IDE) going to work. I'd like to get the new hard drive in, install 9.1 on it, and then hook up my current 15GB drive as a slave for possibly holding all my music data. This sound fine? Also, is there a list of supported peripherals for 9.1 anywhere? I'd like to check my current system setup (network card, router, video card, sound card) etc.. to make sure they are supported. Thanks all, --- | Aaron West | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.trajiklyhip.com Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list
On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:13 am, Aaron West wrote: Hey gang, I'm new to this list and wanted to ask a few questions. I'm planning on trashing my Windows2000 machine in favor of a dual boot Windows2000 / Mandrake 9.1 system. My idea is to have the Linux box become my main desktop system. The current hard drive I use with Windows is a bit small at 15GB. I am in the market for a higher capacity drive - anything from 80GB up - and wanted to get some advice before I buy anything. Are there any drives I should stay away from or is just getting any IDE drive (like a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 7200rpm IDE) going to work. I'd like to get the new hard drive in, install 9.1 on it, and then hook up my current 15GB drive as a slave for possibly holding all my music data. Anything but Western Digital. Well documented problems with shortcuts for crc error checking. The problems don't show up in Windows, but Linux can stress the drive more causing the problems to come out. Lot's of people, including me, have run Linux on a WD drive without problem, but if you are buying new, I'd steer clear and go to Maxtor or Seagate. If I were in your shoes, I'd get a high capacity drive and partition it so that you had about 6-8GB for the OS (that's all you need) with the balance split out into two partitions, one of which is 15GB (the size of your other drive) Then I would use the 15GB partition and the original drive to create a RAID 1 mirror for storing all of my can't bear to lose if the drive fails data. This sound fine? Also, is there a list of supported peripherals for 9.1 anywhere? I'd like to check my current system setup (network card, router, video card, sound card) etc.. to make sure they are supported. Router should be no problem if it is configured through a browser interface. Here's some user notes from the Community TWiki http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility Also, since you're new around these parts, unset your reply-to in your mail client. If your from address is the same as your reply-to, there is no need to set it. It screws up list posting. When I hit reply, it goes to you instead of to the list. (Of course, if you have not ditched Windows yet and you are posting from OE, I don't think you can change this behavior because MS, as always, knows what is best for you) -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] New to the list.
Hi all, my name is Lorenzo, I live in Italy. I just subscribed to your mailing list because: 1) Being a long time Mac-user I discovered that Linux wouldn't need an $2000+ system in order to run flawlessly. So I got me a pc. 2) Amongst all the distros I have had the occasion to try in my limited experience (I started using Linux a few months ago), Mandrake seems so far to be the one that suits me better. To cut a long story short I have installed Mandrake 8.1 on this old Siemens Scenic desktop (P233 MMX, 96mb ram, 4gb disk, Cirrus Logic 1mb vram video chip) and so far everything is ok EXCEPT for the fact that I get 640x480 video resolution and, that the desktop (Gnome), windows etc. will not be entirely visible inside the screen area, as they go way behiond its borders. I have been trying to change the resolution to 800x600 to no avail. Mandrake will alternatively not keep the new resolution thus shifting back to 640x480 or, if I can convince it to go for a higher refresh rate, the video will start doing weird things to the point that I can't even see where the cursor is. I have also been trying to change monitor and video card settings under the expert mode on the Mandrake Control Center but, I can't seem to be able to solve the problem. Fiddling around with the server options seemed to make things better but, again, I can't seem to be able to convince Mandrake to keep the settings that work for my monitor and card (monitor is an Acer 15). Any hint/comment will be welcome! Thanks in advance Lorenzo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] New to the list.
Well, this may or may not help... you have one mb of video ram.. at higher resolutions, you will have to lose color depth because you don't have the ram for it.. (thats not a linux issue, its a hardware issue.) so as a test, set your color depth to 256 colors and 800x600, see if that works, if it does, then it indeed means you don't have enough video ram. if it works, try 16bit color depth, see where that gets you... Last suggestion of all, get a better vid card from ebay, you could get one for 20 bucks that leaves the one you have for dead. rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of l.biagiotti Sent: Thursday, 3 October 2002 4:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] New to the list. Hi all, my name is Lorenzo, I live in Italy. I just subscribed to your mailing list because: 1) Being a long time Mac-user I discovered that Linux wouldn't need an $2000+ system in order to run flawlessly. So I got me a pc. 2) Amongst all the distros I have had the occasion to try in my limited experience (I started using Linux a few months ago), Mandrake seems so far to be the one that suits me better. To cut a long story short I have installed Mandrake 8.1 on this old Siemens Scenic desktop (P233 MMX, 96mb ram, 4gb disk, Cirrus Logic 1mb vram video chip) and so far everything is ok EXCEPT for the fact that I get 640x480 video resolution and, that the desktop (Gnome), windows etc. will not be entirely visible inside the screen area, as they go way behiond its borders. I have been trying to change the resolution to 800x600 to no avail. Mandrake will alternatively not keep the new resolution thus shifting back to 640x480 or, if I can convince it to go for a higher refresh rate, the video will start doing weird things to the point that I can't even see where the cursor is. I have also been trying to change monitor and video card settings under the expert mode on the Mandrake Control Center but, I can't seem to be able to solve the problem. Fiddling around with the server options seemed to make things better but, again, I can't seem to be able to convince Mandrake to keep the settings that work for my monitor and card (monitor is an Acer 15). Any hint/comment will be welcome! Thanks in advance Lorenzo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list.
l.biagiotti wrote: Hi all, my name is Lorenzo, I live in Italy. I just subscribed to your mailing list because: 1) Being a long time Mac-user I discovered that Linux wouldn't need an $2000+ system in order to run flawlessly. So I got me a pc. 2) Amongst all the distros I have had the occasion to try in my limited experience (I started using Linux a few months ago), Mandrake seems so far to be the one that suits me better. To cut a long story short I have installed Mandrake 8.1 on this old Siemens Scenic desktop (P233 MMX, 96mb ram, 4gb disk, Cirrus Logic 1mb vram video chip) and so far everything is ok EXCEPT for the fact that I get 640x480 video resolution and, that the desktop (Gnome), windows etc. will not be entirely visible inside the screen area, as they go way behiond its borders. I have been trying to change the resolution to 800x600 to no avail. Mandrake will alternatively not keep the new resolution thus shifting back to 640x480 or, if I can convince it to go for a higher refresh rate, the video will start doing weird things to the point that I can't even see where the cursor is. I have also been trying to change monitor and video card settings under the expert mode on the Mandrake Control Center but, I can't seem to be able to solve the problem. Fiddling around with the server options seemed to make things better but, again, I can't seem to be able to convince Mandrake to keep the settings that work for my monitor and card (monitor is an Acer 15). Any hint/comment will be welcome! Thanks in advance Lorenzo Don't know about the other things but the screen resolution problem sounds like the order inwhich you do things. It has to be, screen resolution, driver resolution, test, logout login. If you follow the logic of the window presentation you do it wrong. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Don't now why, but I had the same problem with a Phillips Brilliance 15A monitor - only with that monitor type ! Ronny -Original Message- From: l.biagiotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: donderdag 3 oktober 2002 13:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] New to the list. Thanks for the ad Franki, but unfortunately the first thing I tried was the test you're suggesting so: 800x600 - 256 does not work (or does weird things), while changing some settings in the server options (under expert mode) such as linear - Fifo conservative etc. did the trick but Mandrake won't keep these settings. Finally: What I'm talking about here is not just the fact that I can't get any res higher than 640x480, but also that THIS res. is acting wildly. My desktop goes OUT of the screen area, and so do any window that I open ... so I'm pretty sure that this is not a problem related to the video card but rather some strange driver-related (?) problem ... or isn't it? Lorenzo - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:09 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] New to the list. Well, this may or may not help... you have one mb of video ram.. at higher resolutions, you will have to lose color depth because you don't have the ram for it.. (thats not a linux issue, its a hardware issue.) so as a test, set your color depth to 256 colors and 800x600, see if that works, if it does, then it indeed means you don't have enough video ram. if it works, try 16bit color depth, see where that gets you... Last suggestion of all, get a better vid card from ebay, you could get one for 20 bucks that leaves the one you have for dead. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list.
Thanks for the ad Franki, but unfortunately the first thing I tried was the test you're suggesting so: 800x600 - 256 does not work (or does weird things), while changing some settings in the server options (under expert mode) such as linear - Fifo conservative etc. did the trick but Mandrake won't keep these settings. Finally: What I'm talking about here is not just the fact that I can't get any res higher than 640x480, but also that THIS res. is acting wildly. My desktop goes OUT of the screen area, and so do any window that I open ... so I'm pretty sure that this is not a problem related to the video card but rather some strange driver-related (?) problem ... or isn't it? Lorenzo - Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:09 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] New to the list. Well, this may or may not help... you have one mb of video ram.. at higher resolutions, you will have to lose color depth because you don't have the ram for it.. (thats not a linux issue, its a hardware issue.) so as a test, set your color depth to 256 colors and 800x600, see if that works, if it does, then it indeed means you don't have enough video ram. if it works, try 16bit color depth, see where that gets you... Last suggestion of all, get a better vid card from ebay, you could get one for 20 bucks that leaves the one you have for dead. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] New to the list.
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:11:25 +0200 l.biagiotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the ad Franki, but unfortunately the first thing I tried was the test you're suggesting so: 800x600 - 256 does not work (or does weird things), while changing some settings in the server options (under expert mode) such as linear - Fifo conservative etc. did the trick but Mandrake won't keep these settings. Finally: What I'm talking about here is not just the fact that I can't get any res higher than 640x480, but also that THIS res. is acting wildly. My desktop goes OUT of the screen area, and so do any window that I open ... so I'm pretty sure that this is not a problem related to the video card but rather some strange driver-related (?) problem ... or isn't it? yes, i've seen this happening on a 2MB Trident video card, too. i tried to switch it to 1024x768 (which was the res it could do in windows, so i knew it was possible) and it worked ok.. until the next time the X server started. then the effect was like when the actual resolution is set at 800x600 but you are 'zoomed in' with Ctrl+Alt++ ... the desktop size exceeds the screen and you can 'scroll' it by taking the mouse pointer to the edges... Unfortunately, this seems to be a bug of the Xserver. i've seen no way of fixing this.. so yes, i would recommend you to but another card (i've had computers working great under Mandrake 7.1 with video cards of 4MB) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Damian G wrote: On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:11:25 +0200 l.biagiotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the ad Franki, but unfortunately the first thing I tried was the test you're suggesting so: 800x600 - 256 does not work (or does weird things), while changing some settings in the server options (under expert mode) such as linear - Fifo conservative etc. did the trick but Mandrake won't keep these settings. Finally: What I'm talking about here is not just the fact that I can't get any res higher than 640x480, but also that THIS res. is acting wildly. My desktop goes OUT of the screen area, and so do any window that I open ... so I'm pretty sure that this is not a problem related to the video card but rather some strange driver-related (?) problem ... or isn't it? yes, i've seen this happening on a 2MB Trident video card, too. i tried to switch it to 1024x768 (which was the res it could do in windows, so i knew it was possible) and it worked ok.. until the next time the X server started. then the effect was like when the actual resolution is set at 800x600 but you are 'zoomed in' with Ctrl+Alt++ ... the desktop size exceeds the screen and you can 'scroll' it by taking the mouse pointer to the edges... Unfortunately, this seems to be a bug of the Xserver. i've seen no way of fixing this.. so yes, i would recommend you to but another card (i've had computers working great under Mandrake 7.1 with video cards of 4MB) Try editing the XFree86 configuration file by hand. Sir Robin -- We do not imprison ourselves with laws, or impoverish ourselves with money - Iain Banks Robin Tunrer IDMYO Bilkent Universitesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/8/00 4:28:36 PM Central Standard Time, SpartanTJedi6746 writes: hi, i'm new to the list and Linux and I have a AMD K62 350 and I have two hardrives and i'm running windows 98 and Linux. I want to mount my other harddrive so linux can read it how do you do it? I'm having trouble setting up my sound blaster 16 sound card, one more thing how do you set up the modem. it's a zoom 33.6. -andrew ps. can someone help me setup my harddrive. how do you mount it? Look at your /etc/fstab file (cat /etc/fstab) and see if your other partition is included. If so, then you would mount it with something like: mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 (if this is a fat32 partition) The SB16 is supported, so you might have some type of conflict. In windows, go into the control panel - system - sound - SB16 and click on properties. Check the resource tab to find out the addresses for io and the IRQ being used. Then set the card up in linux with the same parameters. Use "sndconfig" or "soundconfig" depending on the version of Mandrake you have. You need to know what irq your modem is assigned to, and that it's not conflicting with another com port. At the console, try using minicom and configuring it to use the com port your modem is on. See if it can talk to the modem.
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hi, i'm new to the list and Linux and I have a AMD K62 350 and I have two hardrives and i'm running windows 98 and Linux. I want to mount my other harddrive so linux can read it how do you do it? I'm having trouble setting up my sound blaster 16 sound card, one more thing how do you set up the modem. it's a zoom 33.6. -andrew
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In a message dated 2/8/00 4:28:36 PM Central Standard Time, SpartanTJedi6746 writes: hi, i'm new to the list and Linux and I have a AMD K62 350 and I have two hardrives and i'm running windows 98 and Linux. I want to mount my other harddrive so linux can read it how do you do it? I'm having trouble setting up my sound blaster 16 sound card, one more thing how do you set up the modem. it's a zoom 33.6. -andrew ps. can someone help me setup my harddrive. how do you mount it?
