I downloaded and installed Mandrake 9.0, and I decided to try GNome instead of KDE, and I love it! Its so much faster! Anyway, that''s my post. GNOME ROCKS! Now when is NVidia going to release the Mandrake 9.0 drivers? I can''t get them to compile. Anyone wanna help out?

in order to compile the nvidia drivers you need a kernel already built up to the make dep stage

with the same configuration as your running kernel

i dont use mandrake, you figure out where mandrake hides the config of the running kernel.

Well, usually the kernel source (if it was installed) is in /usr/src/linux-2.x.xx, where x.xx is the kernel version. This directory may also be symlinked to /usr/src/linux.

the config, not the sources

Hardly do you need the actual location of the kernel config itself (it''s usually in the same directory as the kernel sources anyway); just use make config or make xconfig and specify a different output kernel name & location.

I somehow got the drivers to compile. I just installed the kernel sources, and the drivers compiled! I still don''t know how, since I''ve tried that many times before and it never worked. Maybe 9.0 finally got something fixed.

Now I''m just trying to get my sound to work. XMMS and TuxRacer sound works, but nothing else, including my SDL_Mixer game, which is wierd, cause as far as I know TuxRacer uses SDL_Mixer. OpenAL doesn''t work either.

It''s always the sound. The 1 thing I can never get to work completely right. Well that and Xinerama. If only I could get sound and Xinerama to work right, I''d be all set. I''d never need Windows again. Oh, and printing on a printer hooked up to a Windows machine on my network. I can''t get that to work. Samba too, I can''t get that to work. Oh yeah, and Mozilla crashes whenever I try to go to the preferences ever since I fiddled with the Gnome fonts. I''d try to ask someone at Mozilla about it, but I''d just get a bug # thrown at me.

Any help with any of the many problems listed above?

Seems like Mandrake 9 still needs some work.

quote: Original post by BradDaBug
XMMS and TuxRacer sound works, but nothing else, including my SDL_Mixer game, which is wierd, cause as far as I know TuxRacer uses SDL_Mixer.

XMMS uses the Open Sound System by default in Debian, check what sound system it's using (it's in the preferences dealie). Yes, Tux Racer uses SDL_mixer for sound. Try something else that uses SDL_mixer; if that also works, there might be something wrong in your code.

quote: Original post by BradDaBug
OpenAL doesn't work either.

What backend is it using? Whatever it's using isn't working, I guess.

quote: Original post by BradDaBug
It's always the sound. The 1 thing I can never get to work completely right.

I've never had any problems with sound with any distro (on any of the three machines I have regular access to). Two of them have (PCI) Sound Blasters though (which are relatively common).

quote: Original post by BradDaBug
Oh, and printing on a printer hooked up to a Windows machine on my network. I can't get that to work.

I'm pretty sure you can do it through Samba, but I've never done it before. Maybe I'll hook up a printer to a Windows machine and try to figure it out in a bit.

quote: Original post by BradDaBug
Samba too, I can't get that to work.

Samba is pretty easy for the most part. Does Mandrake have any configuration tool that does it for you (I'd think it would, but I don't have Mandrake on anything right now to check)? That'd be even easier obviously .

quote: Original post by BradDaBug
Oh yeah, and Mozilla crashes whenever I try to go to the preferences ever since I fiddled with the Gnome fonts. I'd try to ask someone at Mozilla about it, but I'd just get a bug # thrown at me.

That one's a little weird, I can't really help you with it. Try using Galeon instead; since you like Gnome so much, you'll probably like Galeon too (I do ). It's just a new Gnome/GTK+ UI for Gecko (Mozilla's rendering engine).

If I end up getting another hard drive I'll probably give Mandrake a try, but I'll probably wait for a new revision after seeing this .



[edited by - Null and Void on September 26, 2002 11:43:49 PM]

No comments on Xinerama?!

Mandrake uses SWAT to configure Samba, which is pretty stupid IMHO cause SWAT is kinda tough to configure itself since it has to be set up as a service and all this other junk, and it apparently doesn''t work out of the box. Defeats the purpose, doesn''t it?

My sound card is a built in VIA something or other.

At one point I was able to print to a printer hooked up to a Windows machine, but for some reason the Mandrake Control Center doesn''t have any buttons showing up under Printers. Its blank. It did at one point, but when I started trying to configure a printer I realized I had gone into the wrong part. I tried to cancel out of it, and ever since then no buttons.

My game says SDL_Mixer is using DSP for sound, if that makes any difference.

quote: Original post by BradDaBug
No comments on Xinerama?!

I''ve never used it. It seems like a monitor dies in my house every two months, so my household is lucky to even have a working monitor for every computer at once. Right after I bought a new monitor (graduation money ), which may already be slowly dying (not sure yet, it pops occasionally), my mom''s monitor died. So, she now uses my old dying one; my sister''s newer monitor, which replaced her dead monitor (which is sitting in a closet), is very blurry now, but I may be able to fix that when I have time .

quote: Original post by BradDaBug
Mandrake uses SWAT to configure Samba, which is pretty stupid IMHO cause SWAT is kinda tough to configure itself since it has to be set up as a service and all this other junk, and it apparently doesn''t work out of the box. Defeats the purpose, doesn''t it?

I''ve never really used SWAT. I guess that''s another thing I''ll play around with tonight .

quote: Original post by BradDaBug
My game says SDL_Mixer is using DSP for sound, if that makes any difference.

Open a terminal and type ls -l /dev/dsp. If the first part looks like crw-rw---- (notably the last three characters) you may not have rights to access that device. Check what group /dev/dsp belongs to (it''s the fourth part of the output) and type groups. If the group /dev/dsp belongs to isn''t listed in the output from that, then typing adduser your-user-name dsp-group-name as root may fix the situation. Or, if you simply want everyone to have access to /dev/dsp, do chmod a+rw /dev/dsp as root.

SWAT seems to have been setup automatically when Debian installed it, so no problems here. It does have a decent interface for configuring Samba too, you might want to try to get it working if you want easy Samba configuration. I still haven''t done any messing around with printing through a Windows machine from my *nix machine yet.