now video card topic

[Chris Midkiff]

Thanks for the assist, I'm at work right now, and if I come to the meeting,
I'm not going to have time to mess with the machine first.  I have tried the
Expert mode, I must have missed the option.

I'll bring the system in for the Install Fest tonight, between the bunch of
us, we should be able to get it going. I have the Source and XInstall.sh for
the latest XFree and KDE's latest Mandrake Binary RPM's on the machine.  The
disk has a Winders partition, so we ought to be able to wipe the current
Mandrake install and save the downloads.

Anybody have a pressed copy of Mandrake 7.2 they can bring in?  My copy is a
burn, and my CDRom reads burns slowly...

Do we need anything for the meeting (hub, etc) that I can bring?

On a different note:  Anyone North of the River interested in Car-Pooling to
the meetings?

Chris Midkiff
DataCapture Technologies
chris at datacaptech.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Cox [mailto:michael.cox at honeywell.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:38 PM
To: chris at datacaptech.com
Subject: RE: Meeting reminder [now video card topic]

On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, you wrote:
> I have Mandrake 7.2, and it loads the SVGA driver.  I want Accelerated
(that
> why I bought a Geforce, right?)  If you read the fine print, directly
under
> the NVidia Geforce in the link you sent, it points to a how-to that tells
> how one person got the NVidia drivers running under Mandrake 7.0  I have
> followed these steps with Mandrake 7.2, and tried variations on the FAQ,
> Nothing.
>
> Also, Mandrake claims to have XFree86 4.0.1 (The package name is
> XFree86-4.0.1-26mdk.rpm), but the identifier from xdpyinfo shows 3.3.6!
>
> Chris Midkiff
> DataCapture Technologies
> chris at datacaptech.com

I believe Mandrake only installs XFree 4 when you use the "expert" install
option, and then you have to explicitly tell it to do so.

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