I was having the exact same problem. Whenever I tried to turn on DMA using
hdparm the drive would just hang on me.
I don't know what kind of controller you have, but in order to get my AMD
Viper to work with DMA I had to turn on USE_DMA_BY_DEFAULT and recompile the
kernel. Works great now...
It is the most user friendly Linux distro.
But. who cares if netatalk isn't included? Hell, I've never used it. I consider
myself a power user and, for myself anyways, the lack of it hasn't hampered me
in the slightest. For that matter I don't know what the hell it is. Obviously
has no relevence
e heck out of the things you
used to have to do in DOS! hehe
- Original Message -----
From: Necrotica [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 10:33 PM
Subject: [Cooker] Very nice
Kudos to the Mandrake developers.
Until tonight I had been using an Aureal
Kudos to the Mandrake developers.
Until tonight I had been using an Aureal 8830 sound card. Tonight I broke down
and picked up an SB Live!. I removed the old card, inserted the new one, Kudzu
caught it, configured it, and it was done. First boot - there was sound. It
took longer and was
You need to create a new XFree 4.0 configurartion file. You can do this by
typing in XFree86 -configure, which will create a bare bones XF86Config-4
file in your home directory.
I've had a little luck renaming /etc/X11/XF86Config to
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 as well. You can try that too. Good
Turn on "Use DMA by default when available" and then recompile the kernel.
Thats what worked for me...
-Chris
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Nicholas Webb wrote:
Hi:
I was running ultra66 just fine on 7.0, then I formatted and
upgraded to 7.1. On 7.1 the drives are detected great, but I only
I don't know if this was by design but...
I just installed Mandrake 7.1 last night. I have an AMD Athlon system based on
the Viper chipset. I turned on hard drive optimizations during the install and
when the system booted for the first time it hung hard while trying to turn on
the
You can get the Glide SDK from www.3dfx.com...
-Chris
On Fri, 19 May 2000, you wrote:
I like to rebuild XFree-4.0 by my self.
When I do a rpm --rebuild on the XFree86-4.0-6mdk.src.rpm I get
error: failed build dependencies:
Glide_SDK is needed by XFree86-4.0-6mdk
I can't find Gide_SDK
