punkisdead

don't set them on fire, just sell them to someone and salvage some of the wasted money.

well the second half of your lilo.conf is all screwy it should read as follows: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 label=linux root=/dev/hda8 append="hdc=ide-scsi" other=/dev/hda1 label=xp then after you have fixed the lilo.conf you then need to run lilo again to make the changes go into effect.

I like debian personally, not bleeding edge like most of the other distros, but can be with a little work. Also apt is by far the best as far as installing packages. I personally don't care for Redhat 8.0, I liked 7.3 but they kinda screwed up on 8.0.

You can either go to www.mandrakelinux.com to their downloads page, or try linuxiso.org.

Sorry the only router I've used is an actual linux router. An old Pentium 100 with a floppy and 16Megs of RAM, running Coyote Linux using IPtables for firewalling. But I do know that Linksys generally has good support for their products and most of the routers out there by any manufacturer are configured by an internal web interface. So as long as you can open up Konqueror or Mozilla you can configure the router.

As long as you have a matching resolution in your XF86Config file to your resolution that you run the game at....it should run fullscreen then.

sorry, I'm not much help with the sound driver....You might try posting something to the transgaming site to see if anyone has run across that problem. Other than that I don't know.

just add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://mirror.segfault.info/debian/kde3.1-beta2/ ./ run apt-get update then use either my personal favorite "synaptic" or dselect or apt to install the packages

I believe the actual size is the larger of the two. The good news is that you might not have to start from the beginning, just try a different mirror site and ftp generally will allow you to resume from where it left off.

well, as far as the video goes, change the resolution of the game to match your default resolution and color depth. Or add a few lines to your XF86Config to add a few other resolutions. Here is a sample of how my Display section reads...... DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x400" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubsection EndSection The first resolution listed on the list is the default. To switch between resolutions just hit Ctrl-Alt-(either the + or - key depending on which way you want to change the resolution) For the sound....what kind of sound card do you have?????

Redhat did some funky things with 8.0, one of them being the building rpm's from source. If I remember correctly they changed the wording of the command, also you might just have to create a group called buildmeister and have root join that group. Even still you have to go in and edit the XF86Config file manually so using the rpm's doesn't really save you any steps anyway, so there is no real advantage to using the rpm's over building from tarball.

well, I know if you upgrade your distro, you have the option to migrate ext2 -> ext3 but off the top of my head I can't remember what the utility is.

well that explains alot....The drivers provided by Redhat don't do 3D very well. I would look at the post in the General Linux forum called xserver I believe. I posted a pretty basic walkthru on how to install the nvidia drivers for Redhat 8.0 it starts here.... http://www.linuxcompatible.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=119 and finishes up in this topic... http://www.linuxcompatible.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=128

what distro are you using??? Have you loaded the nvidia drivers from nvidia's site????

mount the cd, then as your normal user type: winex /mnt/cdrom(or wherever your cdrom is mounted)/install.exe follow the prompts just like you would for any normal windows install. find yourself a no-cd patch and then to run the game, just in case it dindn't create menu items or shortcuts to the desktop all you need to do is type in: winex (whatever the path to the executable is). usually /home/user/Transgaming Drive/Program Files/............

you can download from the CVS tree for free, but in order to download precompiled binaries you need to pay a $5 a month subscription.

when you type lsmod in the command prompt you should see NVdriver listed, if not you need to try to insmod NVdriver. If you do see it loaded you are going to need to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file because when you load nvidia's glx package it overwrites some of the mesa files, such as libGL.so and so forth. In the command prompt as root type: vi /etc/X11/XF86Config you should see a screen full of text The lines you want to look for are as follows: scroll down to the section labeled "Module" press either the insert key or i and now the bottom of your screen should say --INSERT-- add a line that reads, if there isn't one: Load "glx" and then comment out: #Load "dri" under section "Device" change Driver "nv" to read as Driver "nvidia" Lastly at the very end of the file comment out the section #Section "DRI" # Mode 0666 #End Section Then hit Esc to get out of --INSERT-- mode. Type without the quotes ":wq" then hit enter. Now you should be able to startx If you are still having problems email me a copy of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file and list in the message what monitor you have, mouse ( usb, ps/2) , to punkisd3ad@attbi.com

I just built the drivers from the source on their site and played UT2003. Everything seemed to run flawlessly.... People are probably having problems with the drivers that Red Hat provides because I beleive they aren't capable of doing 3d acceleration very well. It's just a few very simple steps to build from source, just download the latest .tar.gz from nvidia's site. tar -zxvf NVIDIA-kernel(whatever version).tar.gz tar -zxvf NVIDIA-GLX(whatever version).tar.gz then su to root and do the following cd NVIDIA-kernel(version) make make install cd .. cd NVIDIA-GLX(version) make make install then change the following lines in the /etc/X11/XF86Config(or XF86Config-4 I can't remember off the top of my head which one RedHat uses)..... change the video driver from "nv" to "nvidia" under the modules section comment out "dri" by placing a # in front of it also comment out the section labeled "dri" at the very end of the file. restart X by pressing Ctrl-Alt and Backspace, and voila you should see the Nvidia splash screen.... open up a terminal and run glxgears ( a nifty tool for checking if GLX works right) and the FPS should be in the thousands somewhere...

Oh now that is just too funny.... I think I've worked on a few computers that acted just like that.

What is your current working directory ( $PWD) when trying to umount the drive? Because if your directory is under the mount point when you try to umount it won't work..

All distros are perfectly capable of mounting NTFS partitions, so long as you have enabled NTFS support in the kernel. Which I don't believe Redhat has done.

I concur, always install windows before any other OS, the Windows boot loader sucks. I myself prefer GRUB, and have never had any problems nor heard of anyone not being able to boot to XP after installing GRUB to the MBR... BTW why would you have to recompile your kernel just to enable OpenGL support????? You have a GeForce, correct?

You would have to make sure the NTFS support is loaded either in your kernel or as a module. Or take the easy way out and install either Suse or Mandrake.

don't know about the new nforce boards, but the original one works fine for me. knowing nvidia, they will probably work fine or they'll figure a way to make it work.

you can still use kde apps in gnome just as long as you have kde installed or at minimum the libraries.