Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-22 Thread Raffaele Belardi
I've had the same problem. I installed 9.2 download edition, then installed security and bugfixes through MCC (but not the kernel, since I don't have an LG drive), and experienced three system freezes in a row. Since other MDK releases were rock solid, and it was the first time that I tried

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-21 Thread E. Hines
With 9.1, I haven't had any problem with the Nvidia drivers, but my cards are all at least a year old, so I can't guarantee what happens with the newest hardware. I've been using the proprietary Nvidia drivers for a couple of years now, with cards from the old TNT to GeForce (depending on

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-21 Thread robin
E. Hines wrote: With 9.1, I haven't had any problem with the Nvidia drivers, but my cards are all at least a year old, so I can't guarantee what happens with the newest hardware. I've been using the proprietary Nvidia drivers for a couple of years now, with cards from the old TNT to GeForce

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-21 Thread et
On Sunday 21 December 2003 11:41 am, robin wrote: E. Hines wrote: With 9.1, I haven't had any problem with the Nvidia drivers, but my cards are all at least a year old, so I can't guarantee what happens with the newest hardware. I've been using the proprietary Nvidia drivers for a couple

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-21 Thread Ramin M
--- et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 but back to the problem in the subject line. turn off 'plug and pray aware' OS in BIOS. Sorry, is this in reply to my problem? Why should i turn off this in BIOS? Regards, Regards, Ramin

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-21 Thread et
On Sunday 21 December 2003 10:36 pm, Ramin M wrote: --- et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 but back to the problem in the subject line. turn off 'plug and pray aware' OS in BIOS. Sorry, is this in reply to my problem? Why should i turn off this in BIOS? Regards, Regards,

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-20 Thread Ramin M
It is getting better now as the lockupĀ“s are less frequent than before but still they happen. A few minutes ago, i was typing a message that the OS suddenly rebooted the machine with no apparant reason! Yes i am dual booting with windows. Regards, Ramin --- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-20 Thread Ramin M
--- E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday Have any other users out there noticed that the /home/username directory isn't user writable after installation? I haven't seen that one before (and I installed 9.2 on a friends laptop last week). The lockups are happening less than

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-20 Thread Ramin M
I have heard that nvidia graphic cards usually work better under linux and mandrake already includes them in the power pack version like the ati drivers. Do you know about if they are trouble free unlike the ati cards? I am thinking to buy one and sell out my ati card. Financially this is not much

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-19 Thread jason pearl
On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 19:54, Ramin M wrote: Hi, I am new to the list and mandrake. More than a year ago, i tried with mandrake 9.0 for a short time and decided that i prefered suse. Recently i decided to try mandrake once again. I became a silver member of mandrake club and downlowd

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-19 Thread E. Hines
On Friday 19 December 2003 06:54 pm, Ramin M wrote: Hi, I am new to the list and mandrake. More than a year ago, i tried with mandrake 9.0 for a short time and decided that i prefered suse. Recently i decided to try mandrake once again. I became a silver member of mandrake club and