Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread N Smethurst
Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 01:26, jokerman64 a écrit : Something to fix or to add to the errata? Well, nothing positive unfortunately except use the Nvidia drivers. The XFree geforce 3 4 ones shouldn't really be shipped IMO. It's just going to look bad for Mandrake when loads of keen

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 N Smethurst wrote: Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 01:26, jokerman64 a écrit : If these useless drivers were not included, the user would have to use VESA. That is the whole point of not including them until they work. After that, it would be up to the

RE: Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread falcaraz
] Fecha: Miércoles, Marzo 5, 2003 11:27 am Asunto: Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems) Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 01:26, jokerman64 a écrit : Something to fix or to add to the errata? Well, nothing positive unfortunately except use the Nvidia drivers. The XFree

RE: Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread falcaraz
Murcia - Mensaje Original - Remitente: Buchan Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Miércoles, Marzo 5, 2003 11:54 am Asunto: Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 N Smethurst wrote: Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 01:26, jokerman64

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread N Smethurst
I guess I should have worded that more clearly. I should have said that the options for geforce 4 (and perhaps geforce 3, although the sucess rate seems to be a little higher with geforce 3 cards) should only include the vesa driver, and perhaps a note discussing installing the nvidia drivers

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:27, N Smethurst wrote: Le Mercredi 5 Mars 2003 01:26, jokerman64 a écrit : Something to fix or to add to the errata? And I suppose it's better for the newbies to look at a blank console and figure out what the hell they're going to do next. I'll doubt

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Trevor Rhodes
If these useless drivers were not included, the user would have to use VESA. That is the whole point of not including them until they work. After that, it would be up to the user whether to install the nvidia binary drivers or not. moment please. Does this problem also exist on geforce2

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday March 4 2003 05:14 pm, N Smethurst wrote: Yep, it's a geoforce 3 Ti200. Will try the tip by Francisco Alcaraz Ariza. Something to fix or to add to the errata? Well, nothing positive unfortunately except use the Nvidia drivers. The XFree geforce 3 4 ones shouldn't really be

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Luca Olivetti
N Smethurst wrote: too. However, I guess this would be politically incorrect so it will never happen, despite the fact that the users want drivers that work. So you should look elsewhere but nvidia (In fact I'm so pissed off at the constant crashes with nvidia binary driver that I'll stay far

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 06:30, Luca Olivetti wrote: N Smethurst wrote: too. However, I guess this would be politically incorrect so it will never happen, despite the fact that the users want drivers that work. So you should look elsewhere but nvidia (In fact I'm so pissed off at the

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread jokerman64
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 11:17 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 06:30, Luca Olivetti wrote: N Smethurst wrote: too. However, I guess this would be politically incorrect so it will never happen, despite the fact that the users want drivers that work. So you should look

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread jokerman64
On Wednesday 05 March 2003 9:30 am, Luca Olivetti wrote: N Smethurst wrote: too. However, I guess this would be politically incorrect so it will never happen, despite the fact that the users want drivers that work. So you should look elsewhere but nvidia (In fact I'm so pissed off at the

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 09:24, jokerman64 wrote: ... Voodoo3s play all GL and SDL games very nicely, Quake and all its variants are fine, Descent3 is great. However, some game authors will write their games specifically for a certain video card. They might say that it's to utilize many

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression (video card problems)

2003-03-05 Thread Luca Olivetti
jokerman64 wrote: If it's always crashing for you you possibly did something wrong when installing. in this case it would be nvidia fault too (I always use the srpms). And, no, it isn't always crashing, it just crashes from time to time (but it's enough to piss me off, since this machine is

[Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread Oden Eriksson
Hi. First I must say I'm impressed by the work done on the installer, cool! But..., why does my desktop look like this: http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/snapshot1.png ? -- Regards // Oden Eriksson, Deserve-IT.com

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
I had a similar problem with rc1 using the XFREE86 4.299 nvidia driver for my geforce4; if you haven't the apropriate rpms from nvidia for the kernel, select as graphic system Vesa and all this stuff will dissapear. El Martes, 4 de Marzo de 2003 22:48, Oden Eriksson escribió: Hi. First I

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread N Smethurst
Do you have a geforce 3 / 4 by any chance? Le Mardi 4 Mars 2003 22:48, Oden Eriksson a écrit : Hi. First I must say I'm impressed by the work done on the installer, cool! But..., why does my desktop look like this: http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/snapshot1.png ?

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread Oden Eriksson
tisdagen den 4 mars 2003 23.20 skrev N Smethurst: Do you have a geforce 3 / 4 by any chance? Le Mardi 4 Mars 2003 22:48, Oden Eriksson a écrit : Hi. First I must say I'm impressed by the work done on the installer, cool! But..., why does my desktop look like this:

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread Oden Eriksson
tisdagen den 4 mars 2003 22.52 skrev Francisco Alcaraz Ariza: I had a similar problem with rc1 using the XFREE86 4.299 nvidia driver for my geforce4; if you haven't the apropriate rpms from nvidia for the kernel, select as graphic system Vesa and all this stuff will dissapear. El Martes, 4 de

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread Oden Eriksson
tisdagen den 4 mars 2003 22.48 skrev Oden Eriksson: Hi. First I must say I'm impressed by the work done on the installer, cool! But..., why does my desktop look like this: http://www.deserve-it.com/Cooker/snapshot1.png ? Replying to myself: Now I got this error:

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread N Smethurst
Yep, it's a geoforce 3 Ti200. Will try the tip by Francisco Alcaraz Ariza. Something to fix or to add to the errata? Well, nothing positive unfortunately except use the Nvidia drivers. The XFree geforce 3 4 ones shouldn't really be shipped IMO. It's just going to look bad for Mandrake when

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
You are true, better for the final release don't include those ugly drivers. El Miércoles, 5 de Marzo de 2003 00:14, N Smethurst escribió: Yep, it's a geoforce 3 Ti200. Will try the tip by Francisco Alcaraz Ariza. Something to fix or to add to the errata? Well, nothing positive

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread jokerman64
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 6:14 pm, N Smethurst wrote: Yep, it's a geoforce 3 Ti200. Will try the tip by Francisco Alcaraz Ariza. Something to fix or to add to the errata? Well, nothing positive unfortunately except use the Nvidia drivers. The XFree geforce 3 4 ones shouldn't really be

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 06:06 pm, Oden Eriksson wrote: tisdagen den 4 mars 2003 22.52 skrev Francisco Alcaraz Ariza: I had a similar problem with rc1 using the XFREE86 4.299 nvidia driver for my geforce4; if you haven't the apropriate rpms from nvidia for the kernel, select as graphic

Re: [Cooker] RC2, first impression

2003-03-04 Thread francisco
Joker, I have rebuilded the nvidia drivers after have kernel-source installed, now my geforce 4 Ti 4200 is runing fine with 3d activated. Even the kdm reboout that previously I had just as a white windows now show all the lilo entries. Just tuxracer crass X when I select the race how says that