[PLUG] geforce 2 and corel

[Christopher N. Deckard]

I don't know why you are having the difficulties you are.  That's just 
strange.  If you can hold off a couple weeks, come to installfest and 
we'll help ya out.

Something that could help would be for you to list out every piece of 
hardware on your computer.  You keep saying you have an ATA controller, 
but so does pretty much every motherboard made in the last two years. 
Is it an add on PCI controller?

I'd say for you to try out Mandrake.  It's availabe on CSociety's 
server.  Use ftp or http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu.  They've got 
ISOs for Mandrake and RedHat.  Mandrake is pretty good at detecting 
funky hardware etc.

As for what everyone was talking about with regards to XFree86 (the 
Xwindows system for many Unices), there are two different major 
releases.  Currently 3.3.6 and 4.0.2.  The latter is known as XFree4. 
XFree4 is a complete redesign of the previous X.  I think.  It's much 
different so I'm only assuming they rewrote most of it.  XFree3 and 4 
both support many graphics cards, but some aren't supported under each. 
  XFree3 probably doesn't support the newest of graphics cards.  If I 
recall correctly, Corel has basically dropped their Linux distro.  It 
hasn't really been updated in a while.  To my knowledge anyway.  It was 
never that great to begin with.

Try Mandrake.  If that doesn't work, well, bring it to installfest and 
I'm sure some of the gurus we'll get it going.  Send us a list of what 
hardware you've got.  You may also want to check the hardware 
compatibility lists at Mandrake's website (http://www.linux-mandrake.com).

-Chris

Matt wrote:

> ok basically the only thing i understood was "Matt"  um.  here's the deal. i
> have a 40 gig windows partitoin and 5 gig of free space that isn't partitioned
> to anything. i want to download an iso, burn it. and have linux on my
> computer.   i have an ata controller card and a geforce 2.  i really dont know
> anything about linux. i just hate windows. and can't afford to just order an
> apple heh heh.  can you give me a url or something to where i can get such an
> iso and the name of it?  matt
> 
> Seth Heckard wrote:
> 
> 
>> Paul Kuliniewicz wrote:
>> 
>>> Are you using a version of XFree86 earlier than 4.0.1?  If not,
>>> upgrade.  You will *not* be able to get a GeForce 2 to work under XFree86
>>> 3.3.6 (which still comes with some distros, not sure about Corel).  Trust
>>> me on this. ;-)  The drivers for the card only work with 4.0.1 or later,
>>> and you'd need to install them separately.  But if you get XFree86 4.0.2,
>>> the driver comes built in, and you just need to run XF86Config to set it
>>> up.  That's what I suggest.
>> 
>> One thing to add: the 4.0.2 drivers aren't accelerated, they're just
>> enough to get the thing going.  To do any OpenGL or hardware 2D scaling,
>> you'll need the Nvidia ones.
>> 
>> Seth Heckard / sdh@purdue.edu
> 
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