Re: Mandrake Woes
From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 10/18/03
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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:56:06 +0000 (UTC)
glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) writes:
]I got a cheap computer from eBay for a Linux box, a Kayak XAs, monitor
]cables finally arrived so I could see what I'm doing. I got Mandrake from
]eBay, a 7 CD set for around $5 including shipping. Couldn't figure out
]why it was so cheap.
]Installation was fun and easy for the first disk. When it said to insert
]the second disk it just hung there, and eventually said there was an error
]installing some package, continue? Yes. Error installing another
]package, continue? Yes. Eventually I gave up, started over clicking
]"cancel" to skip CD 2. It said to insert International CD 3, so I stuck
]in the International CD which was my CD 7, and it didn't like that. So I
]tried my CD 3 and it didn't like that. Eventually the install finished
]with just the first disk.
]Maybe that's why it was so cheap. There's still stuff on the other disks,
]but it's as if the Install disk were made for something else.
]If I have a working setup, I can add stuff later. But my monitor is stuck
]in crappy mode, the 640x480 strobe light. It's an AuroraVision that
]doesn't appear in the hardware list, but I'd entered the settings and it
]told me I'd have to restart GNOME before the setting take effect. Which
]is kind of frustrating because on my Mac I enter a resolution and refresh
]rate and it's set immediately, and if the screen goes wonky it resets in a
]few seconds. I know immediately that something is happening and whether
]it worked. But when I restarted Gnome the settings didn't take effect, I
]still had a cramped strobe light. I've found a few places to enter
]monitor settings, but it didn't seem to take in any of them.
]My modem settings didn't seem to take, either. It's an ISA modem that
]came with an Optiplex PII 233 MHz, however old that is. There are no
]markings on the modem that I know how to relate to a brand or
]manufacturer, but the computer said it detected a modem. But my ISP
]information doesn't seem to take. I enter the phone number, user name,
]password, DNS servers, etc., and test the connection and nothing happens.
]Then I go back to the networking wizard and most or all of the fields are
]blank, or all but the first few digits of the phone number were gone.
]Weird.
]What's going on there?
]I'd like to think I could spend $50 on "real" CDs from the Mandrake store
]and all the problems would be solved, but then I imagine spending $50 and
]being exactly where I am now, except $50 poorer.
Or you could download the new Mandrake 9.2 and burn that onto
CDs for the cost of the CDs. Or get a good set of
CDs from somewhere like cheapbytes. Or order from Mandrake, or...
Sounds to me like you got a bum set of CDs You also seem to have trouble
setting up your video card. Hard to tell from here with no information.
You also do not tell us which program you use to try to connect to the
net with? kppp?
Yes, Linux is not as advanced as Mac or Win is in setting the screen
resolution.You do NOT have to reboot. You just need to restart your X.
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