On Wednesday 06 March 2002 7:26 pm, you wrote: > On Wednesday 06 March 2002 13:20, you wrote: > > anyone read this? > > ofcourse, but a lot of things get reported double (hint:)
heh - and you're the second person to reply to this :) I rarely post to the cooker list since most people have usually covered the problem... I just thought since I was prob one of the early ones to get hold of the beta 4 iso's i might try posting to lend a hand. > And since there is a lot of traffic, some posts get ignored. and even more so when you post after everyone else has gone home/to bed ;-) I don't really mind tbh, it would just be nice to have someone occasion say thanks or fixed :) (but I realise at the moment people are a little busy for things like that ;) I know some people on the list have been having problems with the philips webcam drivers as well, hence I was interested with a follow up :) > > Maybe it helps if you post 1 subject per email. I did think that after I posted, and it's a fair point - the subject line could have probably been more constructive as well ;) I post just as much as to get tips from other cooker users though (for instance, someone else was good enough to reply after an earlier problem I've had with dma on my tyan mboard) - yes, the forums may be a more appropriate place for such discussion, but since it's problems that occured when upgrading with cooker, the cooker list seemed better > I will comment on a few things. > > > > drakconf looks like it's shaping up well, but clicking on add/remove > > > software for rpmdrake spits out an error and drakconf dies > > known, more people reported it. I noticed ta - someone mailed me back with the quick fix to get it going again > > > > I'm also having problems installing the nvidia drivers... I know it's > > > nothing to do the mandrake, but I doubt I'm the only one with an nvidia > > > card ;) > > Other people (me) have it working fine:) heh - god damn you ;-) > > > > I've tried installing from src.rpm (with --rebuild) & tar-balls - each > > > time it says the installation went fine, but after editing XF86Config-4 > > > and restarting X, my machine appears to hang (there's some HD activity, > > > but X won't restart and I can't get to a console) Has anyone else had > > > any luck? The drivers that ship are ok but they've got timing issues > > > with my monitor whilst the nvidia drivers have always been great > > This is way to little to go on. Is the NVDriver module loaded succesfully > before you boot X? What is your XF86Config-4? Are you using agp? What is in > /proc/nv/card/0? What is in syslog and XFree.0.log? By the time you did all > this you probably know what is wrong and will not have to post the > problem:) I've done all that over and over... NVDriver is loaded before X starts and /proc/nv/card/0 shows my card & it's details - but after X starts everything goes blank and freezes (hence the log's don't seem to get flushed to disk). Posting in the nvidia forums seem to indicate that it could be a devfs problem, but I don't buy that (since I've had them working on devfs box's b4) I'm guessing that it's permissions somewhere like /dev but that's only a guess and don't really have enough time to start digging around It's not really a fair test though since I'm trying to install them on a machine that's been through most of the beta installs - I'm going to format and try from scratch with beta 4. Sadly my machine tends to compilcate things by using smp, so I thought I'd post to see if I could get any helpful comments from other smp mdk cooker users that may have had the same problem & figured out how to avoid a re-install :)
