yea i saw that on ur other post m8

Wow you all are lucky, upon install for me, it didnt install apps or utilities, as well as any config tools. Kept coming up saying couldnt be found.

Can we download the latest Redhat from internet too ?

Can we download the latest Redhat from internet too ?

futurist. I'm a little confused... you have 308 posts to your credit, and according to your profile are running two different brands of Linux (one of them is Red Hat incidently), so you obviously know what you are doing and aren't a newbie. What did your searches for this information reveal?

I sincerely thank you for your participation and addition to the community, but even a cursory reading of the red hat page would reveal your answer. I don't mean to be mean, but everyone benefits if we all do a little research first. Incidently, Fedora is what you are looking for.

im not trying to be mean too but I think Futurist is being lame, if you read the second post to my thread here from him he says:

Dude, if you are bored or taking the piss then rather not post, because it doesn't make things pleasant ok.

Does Mandrake 10 use xfree86 4.4 and if it does will it have support for 3d for the ATI IGP series mobile graphic cards? If not do you guys think they will include 4.4 in the official release version or will there not be enough time to finish up xfree86 4.4 by the time Mandrake 10 ships?

hey guys, it had been 8 months i did not run any linux, so i forgot many things about linux.
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I'm not sure buddy, that's the whole reason I sold my other HP Compaq NX9000 laptop, was because of the damn ATI Radeon Mobility IGP 340M. I know there was only 2d working for the card but I doubt there will be propper 3d as at the time I was following a bug report with Xfrree86.org they said that feature freeze was over. However the 2.6 probably does have support for IGP chipsets, but you would have to patch the kernel and recompile it. It's alot of dirty work! What I did was buy a new laptop, a Toshiba Satellite A30-714 and it has been running excellent. IMO I never want another card from ATI as they do not care about the linux community and they are keeping a closed attitude towards their drivers. I would now only go for a laptop that features and Intel card or nVidia.

You may want to read this:

http://www.mail-archive.com/dri-deve.../msg14651.html


http://www.consultmatt.co.uk/nx9005/...-igp/index.php

hope that helps.

ciao

ok Futurist, sorry bout all that. Always here to help

So correct me if I'm wrong, if the kernel has a driver included then xfree will use that if possible? Or will it try to use the one in xfree86? I've gotten the whole kernel compile thing down pat now but I have never tried an xfree86 compile. I'm a little leary about husing the graphical environment and then having to start over.

Any of you guys know of an easy tutorial to compile the xfree86 and any tips.

Sorry for taking this off topic a little bit. I guess I should download the Mandrake 10 cd's myself and start playing around with them.

That would be your best bet. On my main machine I could never start 9.2 with graphics. It would lock up on graphics start. I would have to work with to awhile get any graphics. With 10 I have graphics first thing. So my first impression is they made some changes to XFree.

You can download thr tarball from Xfree86.org or you can use cvs. Once you have the file you will have to extract it and cd into the dir and issue this command:

make world

or make World

You do not have to do ./configure, I done this along time ago, but in the dir you will have the install fiile which explains it all.

ciao

After you do "make world" does it automatically put all of the files in the correct spot? So I won't have to be moving any directories around? Where exactly are these directories that xfree usually resides in? Also, should I be concerned about backing up only my xfree86-4 config file or are there other files I need to back up in order to keep mandrake and xfree working together? I might just have to give this a wirl if it's as easy as this sounds...

Again, sorry for hijacking the post