Hey everyone.
Have any of you installed a dual-boot Linux Mandrake
8.0/Windows XX on a notebook? If so, and if the
install was fairly painless (or if you could describe
the pain), would anyone be able to recommend a brand
to me? I'm fairly clueless about notebooks in general
(this will be my fir
Hey all,
I accidentally deleted some files that were installed
on my system via an RPM last night. I tried to
reinstall the RPM with "rpm -U theRPMName", but the
rpm utility told me that the rpm was already
installed. If it's possible, I'd like to get access
to just those files that I accidental
That kind of depends on what you want to do. For just
general C and C++ standard API stuff, you could use
either man pages (which I use as a last resort), or
any books that you would have on the standard library
would work (Linux sticks to standards like POSIX and
ANSI for threads, etc., so you d
Hello all,
I've been having problems getting my Diamond Viper
770D 32MB card with the TNT2 chipset to work in LM
8.0 with XFree86 4. I've been scratching my head
over this one for a while. I'm really new to setting
up /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and I need some help.
I downloaded and instal
Hello everyone,
I have a problem that I think is pretty common with LM
8.0. I can't seem to get my video card to work with
it. The message displayed when I try to run anything
using Mesa-3D is:
GLUT: Fatal Error in gears: OpenGL GLX extension not
supported by display: :0.0
My card uses the TNT
Hey all,
I'm having a problem setting up my ActionTec PCI
call-waiting modem on the new Mandrake Linux 8. It's
an internal 56k modem using COM5 on Windows, and it's
configured on IRQ 9. When I've used Mandrake 6.1, I
could set it up using /dev/ttyS4 as /dev/modem (I
followed the instructions for
