Re: [expert] How do I set up a joystick?
If this is a USB sidewider that you are talking about, try modprobe joydev. Also: rm /dev/js0 ln -s /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0 might make life a bit easier. Hope this helps. By the way, can anyone tell me how to calibrate said joystck? On Sunday, June 17, 2001, at 02:58 PM, Ken Arromdee wrote: I am running Mandrake 8, with fvwm2 as a window manager and no Gnome or KDE. I'm trying to compile/run xmame and need joystick support, but can't figure out how to get it. harddrake shows a line for joysticks, but if I click on it nothing happens. probing options lists no configuration tool for joysticks. rpmdrake lists no packages that contain the string joy. xf86cfg doesn't seem to anything useful that I can figure out (like put a joystick section in my XF86Config-4). I can try modprobe analog or turn on my Sidewinder and try modprobe sidewinder. This doesn't give an error message, but doesn't do anything useful that I can see, either. What can I do to get a working joystick?
[expert] man IOslave
Hi, I am running Mandrake-8.0 (upgraded from 7.2). Trying to browse man pages in konquerer (e.g. man:/rpm) gives me an error WARNING: KFilterBase::findFilterByExtension : not filter found for application/x-bzip2 and I have no out. Does anybody experience the same problem? Any help is appreciated, Slava
Re: [expert] cdrecord always fail
Hi. I had the same problem in the past. Today I can still have the problem: I only need to do a dummy write before really burning a CD. In other words, I had the same error, but it only appears when I had a dummy write (simulated write, I don'k know if you understand me, my english maybe is not perfect;) When I not do a dummy write, the problem is missing. Maybe It can help you ??? Salu2, Oscar. El Dom 17 Jun 2001 01:24, escribiste: i've a lot of problems with LM8 and cdrecord. Some weeks ago i bought a ATAPI Acer cdrw, and tried to record some cd's. Cdrecord always produced errors, so i thought the recorder was broken and i took back. I changed the cdrw with another acer. Tried this, same problem. Brought back, took another, same problem. After this, i brought back the last acer and took an yamaha 2100 SCSI. tried it. same problem. This time i'm quite sure it's not an hardware problem. I tried the cdrecord shipped with mandrake, and the cdrecord 1.11a03 (the last from the schilling site). I also recompiled the last 2.4.5 kernel. same problem. i also tried to change the media, and i tried 2 or 3 different media. No results. I started searching on deja. A lot of people have my problem, but no one get a valid and useful (for them and for me) reply. this is the report (with 1.9, the report with 1.11a03 is identical). Sometimes instead of fatal error i get a retryable error, but the writing fails in the same manner. [root@quela bin]# ./cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=/dev/sgb /mnt/iso.iso Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '/dev/sgb' devname: '/dev/sgb' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' atapi: 0 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : SYNC Vendor_info: 'YAMAHA ' Identifikation : 'CRW2100S' Revision : '1.0H' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 7582848 = 7405 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 629 MB Total size: 723 MB (71:38.58) = 322394 sectors Lout start: 723 MB (71:40/44) = 322394 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 4 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3) ATIP start of lead in: -11079 (97:34/21) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type:Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar) Manuf. index: 11 Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 37455 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in write mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 1 seconds. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 6 of 629 MB written (fifo 85%)../cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: fatal error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 0C 5A 00 00 1F 00 write track data: error after 6475776 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 21.307s Fixating... Fixating time: 31.199s ./cdrecord: fifo had 166 puts and 103 gets. ./cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 20 times full, min fill was 84%. many thanks for the help. After this, i'll start downloading nero and seek for a windoze installation ;_;
Re: [expert] lm-sensors install/use problems
On Sunday 17 June 2001 01:09 am, David E. Fox wrote: that doesn't work for you, it's a hardware problem. Still, AMD isn't going to fully support temperature monitoring till the Athlon 4's come out Isn't that more of a mainboard issue than a CPU one? Not practically. While decent motherboards socket A boards have monitoring chips/buses, the most important value .. the cpu core temp is bogus. Temps garnered from a thermistor (probe), no matter how well placed on the die, are a guess at best. Like tryin to measure the temperature of the wiring inside a wall, by pressing a thermometer against the sheetrock. With the cpu's core temp jumping 10 to 20°C in a heartbeat under instant load, a probe temp of 50°C from a Tbird or Duron is useless. Even AMD docs now caution to add between 10 to 20°C to the reported probe temp under load to best _approximate_ the actual core temp. Even with this fudge factor, spikes in the core temp will not be seen. Overclockers have long known / used this rule of thumb. Current AMD cpu motherboards are ready, have been for some time, and the Athlon4's will have an internal diode (like Pentium processors have had all along) to accurately and usefully monitor the core temp. The only way to sort'a kind'a accurately tell now if an AMD cpu is experiencing intolerable core temp spikes, is if the system randomly freezes or reboots (assuming everything else is in order). Until AMD implements accurate core monitoring, the best fix if you're concerned about cpu overheating is to underclock. Reduce the FSB about 5% or reduce the multiplier by .5 Of course, case temp should be kept at or near room temp, and a better than AMD 'retail' heatsink and fan with thermal grease (not pad) should be used. Another trick is to try an' reduce Vcore a little, no more than ~5% and increase IO voltage up to ~12%. 'Course now this is a motherboard issue, you havt'a have a decent enough one to support doin' all this ; -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[expert] Local Sources for Software Manager/Mandrake Update
Hi All, I can't seem to get my Software Manager to look for a local source for RPMS. Every time I set a local source, give it a name and a path, then go back to the main interface, it doesn't look up the new source, and then when I go back into the define sources interface, the local source is gone. Is this a bug, or am I missing something? TIA David
[expert] Mozilla experts
When I used to use IBM's OS/2 there was a line, I think is was in 'preferences' that could be edited to fool sites to see the 2.xx Netscape so they would see it aa a later version of Netscape and not complain. Is this possible with Mozilla? My online banking site complains because Mozilla reports itself as Netscape 6.1 which they don' support that version. -- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED] My GnuPG Key ID: 78A3ADB0
Re: [expert] cdrecord always fail
On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 09:39:40AM -0400, civileme wrote: here it is. the mobo is a Asus P2BS, with onboard AHA2940 controller. The actual cdrw is correctly terminated, and the scsi id is unique. Try this rmmod aic7xxx modprobe aic7xxx_old Civileme it was not so simple. Since i have the master hd on the scsi chain, a simple modprobe does not resolve, but even crashes the whole linux box with an hard kernel panic (just to try the feeling having two conflicting drivers together :) ). So i started hacking on initrd.img, gunzipped it, mounted it on loopback, removed the module aic7xxx and replaced with the old module from the /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk tree. now the cdrw seems to work correctly. i've just burned an iso at 16x with no writing errors (just a couple of them in the start/stop unit, but i think it's quite normal since the drive is spinning up to catch the media paramters... it's not writing time so i dont' care) however, is not so clear why the ide cdrw had problems too... kernel hackers know :) many thanks for the help. I'll broadcast the solution as fast as i can. -- phalanx2 non ci crederai, ma ho visto un abaco con sotto scritto powered by linux
[expert] Mozilla experts
When I used to use IBM's OS/2 there was a line, I think is was in 'preferences' that could be edited to fool sites to see the 2.xx Netscape so they would see it aa a later version of Netscape and not complain. Is this possible with Mozilla? My online banking site complains because Mozilla reports itself as Netscape 6.1 which they don' support that version. -- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED] My GnuPG Key ID: 78A3ADB0
[expert] Found joystick problem, need Modeline help
Never mind, I found it. I needed to do a modprobe joydev and ns558 also Now I'm having trouble setting video modes. xmame really requires modes such as 320x240 to work better fullscreen. How do I set a video mode? (Under XFree86 4.0.3.) My XF86Config contains Modelines for various low resolution video modes including 320x240, 400x300, and others. But nothing I can do can get any of these modes recognized by anything (never mind xmame). If I manually add 320x240 to any Modes lines in XF86Config-4, or if I add them in XF86Config, I still don't get them. Also, when I do XFdrake, it doesn't see the 320x240 or other low resolution modes. I really have little idea where even to begin.
[expert] SMP and APM
Hi. I am running LM 8.0 on a Dual Xeon PII system. Does LM8.0 support APM for SMP systems? If so, is the support already included in the rpm file on the ISO distribution or do I need to recompile the source? If not, would I be able to use APM if I use uniprocessor kernel on my SMP machine. My inability to use APM on my SMP machine, is the reason why I still use Windows 2000. Sincerely, Kouros
[expert] Ecuational linux programes
Hello folks, I am a profesor in a Spanish University (Murcia); from four year ago I am using some windows applications to graduate my students and also to elaborate quiz (vargrade for windows, quiz..). I am trying to find similar aplications under linux but until now I haven't been capable of finding anyone. Does anybody know where can I found similar software packages runin under linux. Thanks a lot for your kind attention Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
Re: [expert] cdrecord always fail
civileme wrote: --snip---snip-- I see that you have an nVida GeForce video. My question, are you running your X-Windows system at a DefaultDepth 16 and DRI? The reason for my question: I have a Maxtor G400 and when my Xf86Config-4 Section Screen was set for a DefaultDepth 16, which enabled the DRI my system would fault with the same errors as you are having. The ONLY way I could correct this was to change the DefaultDepth to 24 which disabled DRI for my card and system. After doing this my system now burns cd just fine. Don't know if this is you problem, but worth a try. Larry Well, if that is the case, the thing to try is updating mandrake_desk which also enables bluefish, screem, gfloppy and some others that were segfaulting or freezing in the original version because there was a faulty eazel-gtk theme in Gnome (and lots of our widets are gtk based) Civileme Okay, I installed the mandrake_desk update, set my xf86Config-4 to DefaultDepth 16 and DRI and now my cd-burner using Gnometoster works. It works! Thank you Larry -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587
[expert] Recommended usable Free OCR program for Linux?
Hi All, I did not even test the comercial one ( I have heard somewhere...) but still suspect its quality. Using gocr is very very dissapointing, it takes so long long time to process a simple page and the out put is unreadable. I still dont understand why they call gocr as beta software? IMO its quality doesn't deserve that name !. Or am I missing something when using it? If compare even with the simple OCR engine come together with the scanner suite (run in Windowz of course) the windowz one is much much better, faster and usable. I am looking for another one , if some one knows or has any ideas pls tell me. Thanks Steve = S.KIEU _ http://messenger.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger - Voice chat, mail alerts, stock quotes and favourite news and lots more!
Re: [expert] Mozilla experts
My online bankings has a statement that says NS changed their SSL protocol for NS 6.0 and it it not compliant with the standard. If you could fool your bank it may not work anyway. You could use Squid, and set it up to make anyone believe anything. Best Regards, Bruce On Sunday 17 June 2001 08:16 pm, you wrote: When I used to use IBM's OS/2 there was a line, I think is was in 'preferences' that could be edited to fool sites to see the 2.xx Netscape so they would see it aa a later version of Netscape and not complain. Is this possible with Mozilla? My online banking site complains because Mozilla reports itself as Netscape 6.1 which they don' support that version.
Re: [expert] Playmidi reports `/dev/sequencer unknown' with Soundblaster PCI64V
Thanks for the replies I got from Oscar and Laura. At least, it seems that I am a little closer now. On June 12, 2001, Oscar wrote: O Is your soundcard MIDI detected? I have a SB Awe 64 and harddrake O detected the sound device but not the midi port. Maybe your card's O midi device has not been detected by the install program. It is that this is what have happened to me too: harddrake only reports the sound card, not any midi devices. Are there other ways to test whether MIDI has been detected? O Try running sndconfig as root from console (without X) Also, be O sure to select the correct midi port in kmid (not the external MIDI O out port) I tried running sndconfig, but that did not change anything. In particular, kmid could not find any midi devices. I then followed Laura's advice and installed ALSA. Now kmid lists an ``External MIDI 0 MIDI 0-0 - ALSA Device''. However, I can still not get it to produce any sound. On June 12, 2001, Laura Conrad wrote: LC After I ran alsaconf, I wasn't getting the MIDI errors any more, LC but I still wasn't hearing the MIDI files playing, so then I LC remembered that you have to sfxload some soundfonts. I am that same point now. I have installed alsa (it took a while to get this to work as ALSA applies some patches that are already in my Mandrake 7.2 kernel 2.2.17 to all kernels prior to 2.2.18) and usual sound playback works. However, playmidi still does not produce any sound: - playmidi with no options, option -f, option -4, reports ``No playback device found.'' - playmidi with option -e or option -a hangs for a while and then exits. I suppose it is playing the file, but sends the output to a device I cannot hear. I tried following your advice and use sfxload. Unfortunately, that seems only to work with AWE devices, not with my Ensoniq 1370. So is there a special program to load sound fonts on that card? Or could it be something as stupidly simple as the midi playback having its own volume control (I tried unmuting maximizing the volume on all channels using alsamixer). Best Peter -- http://cs-people.bu.edu/turtle/contact.html ``Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.'' -- Tolkien
[expert] hang on su
I installed the 2.4.3 enterprise kernel that comes with LM8.0. When I do su inside a shell, the system hangs completely. I can see a few pixels blinking on the X screen. This however dosn't happen if i ssh to the machine from another and do a su. Any ideas why this is happening? This did not happen in the regular kernel. Also, here is the output from /var/log/messages at the point of hanging. Its basically garbage! Jun 17 22:07:54 vx15 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 Jun 17 22:07:55 vx15 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@ ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@Jun 17 22:12:16 vx15 syslogd 1.4-0:restart. Some stats on the machine: LM 8.0 kernel : 2.4.3-20mdkenterprise #1 SMP Sun Apr 15 22:48:22 CEST 2001 i686 unknown 1GHz Athelon, 1.5GB RAM, single processor, GeForce2 GTS graphics card or better yet, # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C691 [Apollo PRO] (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3 AGP] 00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 22) 00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10) 00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 10) 00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 10) 00:04.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30) 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor AU8810 Vortex Digital Audio Processor (rev 02) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15 (Geforce2 GTS) (rev a3) thanks for your help in advance! regards, sarang -- ~ Sarang Lakare [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~lsarang/linux] !!Join the fight for freedom - Go GNU/Linux!!
[expert] NVidia drivers for enterprise kernel
Hi guys, I am asking this again.. How do I get the nvidia drivers for the enterprise kernel? I am in such a mess here : To get 1.5GB recognized, I had to install the enterprise kernel.. now the nvidia drivers don't install in this kernel.. they give lots of unresolved symbols. I cannot even compile the src.rpm... it gives tons of errors. I really have no clue what to do! Anybody from Mandrake cares to answer? All I needed was the recognition of 1.5GB of RAM on my system. Simply setting 4GB memory support and recompiling the kernel dosn't help either :( make modules gives tons of errors :( The simply fact is that kernels provided with LM8.0 simply don't compile when make modules is done! I find this really really strange! Why is the source released when its not going to compile?? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! thanks! sarang -- ~ Sarang Lakare [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~lsarang/linux] !!Join the fight for freedom - Go GNU/Linux!!
Re: [expert] NVidia drivers for enterprise kernel
instead of using the RPM or src.RPM, have you tried the TAR files? I had some dificulties until I tried the package and now everything is ok... Sarang Lakare wrote: Hi guys, I am asking this again.. How do I get the nvidia drivers for the enterprise kernel? I am in such a mess here : To get 1.5GB recognized, I had to install the enterprise kernel.. now the nvidia drivers don't install in this kernel.. they give lots of unresolved symbols. I cannot even compile the src.rpm... it gives tons of errors. I really have no clue what to do! Anybody from Mandrake cares to answer? All I needed was the recognition of 1.5GB of RAM on my system. Simply setting 4GB memory support and recompiling the kernel dosn't help either :( make modules gives tons of errors :( The simply fact is that kernels provided with LM8.0 simply don't compile when make modules is done! I find this really really strange! Why is the source released when its not going to compile?? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! thanks! sarang
Re: [expert] Playmidi reports `/dev/sequencer unknown' with Soundblaster PCI64V
PMN == Peter Møller Neergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PMN - playmidi with option -e or option -a hangs for a while and then PMN exits. I suppose it is playing the file, but sends the output to a PMN device I cannot hear. PMN I tried following your advice and use sfxload. Unfortunately, that PMN seems only to work with AWE devices, not with my Ensoniq 1370. So is PMN there a special program to load sound fonts on that card? My SBLive card uses the Ensoniq 1370 hardware. And I use sfxload to load the soundfonts on it. I remember the documentation not making that very clear, but that is what you do. Specifically, the disk that came with my card had a directory with soundfonts in it somewhere, and I copied them to my hard drive, and now when I want to use MIDI I say: sfxload /usr/local/lib/sfbank/8mbgmsfx.sf2 So see if you can find some files named something.sf2 and try loading them. Another thing I've had to do to use jazz as a sequencer is to tell it to never reset the MIDI, since otherwise it seems to unload the sound fonts. So you might want to make sure you aren't running anything that does that. -- Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
Re: [expert] Playmidi reports `/dev/sequencer unknown' with Soundblaster PCI64V
I really appreciate your patience with trying to help me with out with this. Unfortunately, I am still not able to get things to work correctly. (It's one of those moments where I consider shifting back to Windoze :-( ) On June 17, 2001, Laura Conrad wrote: LC My SBLive card uses the Ensoniq 1370 hardware. And I use sfxload LC to load the soundfonts on it. I remember the documentation not LC making that very clear, but that is what you do. Interesting! When I using sfxload, I get an error message: peter:~ sudo sfxload hit7.sf2 No AWE synth device is found My RPM containing sfxload awesfx-0.4.3a-11mdk. Could it make any difference that 8.0 uses awesfx-0.4.3a-12mdk.i586.rpm? LC Specifically, the disk that came with my card had a directory with LC soundfonts in it somewhere, and I copied them to my hard drive, LC and now when I want to use MIDI I say: I searched my disk, and it did not contain any *.sf2 or *.sbk files. So the hit7.sf2 file above, was a random file I downloaded from the net. Could that make any difference? Best Peter -- http://cs-people.bu.edu/turtle/contact.html ``Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.'' -- Tolkien
[expert] mac-binhex40
Anyone have a line on a useable viewer which works with mac-binhex40 . i.e. converting them to jpegs, etc. ? Havent had much luck in tracking one down that actually works! William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
[newbie] new_font is not of type Gtk::Gdk::Font at /usr/X11R6/bin/DrakConf.real line 207.??????
I can't start DrakConf. The line that you reads in subject aperar when I tried to start. What it means? Anyone can help to repair? well thanks anyway I'm using LM8 of course
Re: [expert] Ecuational linux programes
On Sunday 17 June 2001 17:40, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Hello folks, I am a profesor in a Spanish University (Murcia); from four year ago I am using some windows applications to graduate my students and also to elaborate quiz (vargrade for windows, quiz..). I am trying to find similar aplications under linux but until now I haven't been capable of finding anyone. Does anybody know where can I found similar software packages runin under linux. Thanks a lot for your kind attention Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) http://www.beaconschool.org/~clehmann/projects/ http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=softexact=1words=Educational Those should get you started. Civileme
Re: [expert] Ecuational linux programes
Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Hello folks, I am a profesor in a Spanish University (Murcia); from four year ago I am using some windows applications to graduate my students and also to elaborate quiz (vargrade for windows, quiz..). I am trying to find similar aplications under linux but until now I haven't been capable of finding anyone. Does anybody know where can I found similar software packages runin under linux. Thanks a lot for your kind attention Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) An excellent place to start is the Scientific Applications on Linux page. USA http://sal.kachinatech.com Spain http://ceu.fi.ude.es/SAL/ Larry -- Sword'sEdge VoiceMail/Fax: (858) 860-6406 x1587
[expert] Mozilla experts
When I used to use IBM's OS/2 there was a line, I think is was in 'preferences' that could be edited to fool sites to see the 2.xx Netscape so they would see it aa a later version of Netscape and not complain. Is this possible with Mozilla? My online banking site complains because Mozilla reports itself as Netscape 6.1 which they don' support that version. -- David Boles [EMAIL PROTECTED] My GnuPG Key ID: 78A3ADB0
[expert] The big switch
Hi all, Currently I'm running two good machines, one for windows, and one for Linux which acts as my server. However, I'm picking up a new dual P3 motherboard and two 750 chips on monday, and was thinking, since I'm doing mostly C++ work it might be a better idea to just put Linux on that (originally that was going to replace my Windows machine). After thinking about it some more, I thought I might just switch over to Linux completely. Most of what I do is coding, and whatever else is just standard web browsing and email. I already use pine for all of my email. My only concerns are how well Mandrake 8.0 would support a dual P3 750 setup using the VIA 694 northbridge. I know in the past, with my current linux machine, I've had to set agpgart=apg_try_unsupported to use nvidia drivers for example. I just want to make sure that everything is going to work, and work well, before I spent a day setting everything up the way I like it. I'd like to get some reassurance from others that might have recently switched over completely, as well as people running SMP systems as workstations. Thanks Current Linux kernel 2.4.3-20mdk uptime: 12 days 21 hours 52 minutes.
Re: [expert] How do I set up a joystick?
Hello Ken! There is a homepage at home.wanadoo.nl (I don't remember the full URL) that helped me with that sequence: | Adding Joystick Support: | For 2.4 kernels only | | 1. Enable the PCI port: | insmod ns558 | 2. Load Input Modules (may not need if compiled | insmod input | insmod joydev | 3. Load Joystick drivers: | insmod gameport | insmod analog (or whatever your driver is called) | 4. Fix your Joystick device: | mv /dev/js0 /dev/js0.bak | ln -s /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0 But I had to do that sequence... see what works for you... 1-insmod gameport 2-insmod ns558 3-insmod input 4-insmod joydev 5-insmod gravis 6-mv /dev/js0 /dev/js0.bak 7-ln -s /dev/input/js0 /dev/js0 orlando ps: at line 5 I'm using insmod gravis cause I'm using a Gravis Xterminator pad... use the module correspondig to your joystick (thrustmaster, sidewinder, analog,...).
