Dell Latitude D6. Mandrake 1. 0. 1 on a Dell Latitude D6. First I would like to assess that if you don't see many mandrake install reports, it is not because few dare installing it, on the contrary, it is because it is so simple and works so well that few bother filing a report, there is indeed not much to report. I found being a Mandrake club member a very nice thing, it is cheap and gives you access to precompiled modules, tailored to the packaged kernels, that is to say you can have the ATI graphics acceleration without having to recompile a kernel. You have access as well to non GPL packages like Real. Player, Flash. Player, acroread (PDF viewer, although xpdf works fine), and the SUN java j. Choose a user name without any special character like space or accents as it will be sent through http in order to connect to the RPM database.
Partitions think about a big swap and a vfat partition. Sound, ethernet out of the box, nothing to report.
第一张盘不能启动安装,以前9。0的光盘可启动安装,请GGJJ不吝赐教。 如何安装Mandrake 10.0??? if this doesn't solve the problem, the disk may be sth. wrong u if u. I recently burned the Mandrake 9 iso to cd's and tried the install with cd1. Mandrake 9 install problems. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > Advertisement.
USB you might edit the fstab to control how supermount does the job. Power management ACPI closelid configuration. Graphics full ATI acceleration requires a kernel build if you are not a club member.
Hi, If the installer isn't finding the kernel image, it suggests that there might be a problem with the installer reading the disk / media. Is the disk you're using a. Mandrake 10.1 on a Dell Latitude D600 First I would like to assess that if you don't see many mandrake install reports, it is not because few dare installing it, on the it is. :juggle:/> Greetings! I have a Mandrake installation problem. I am attempting to install version 10.1. At first after the installation (currently using O/S Win XP) on. For that type of hardware, I suggest you give Mandriva 2008 a try. I don't think Mandrake/Mandriva 10.x is still a supported product, so its best yo use something.
Installation of non packaged applications. Before you start, an overview of the install. I downloaded the ISOs, burnt them, installed it: Choose your language, the keyboard is standard, the mouse/trackpad is PS/2, create the partitions (see below), the size and depth of the LCD is automatic, the sound card is recognized, the ethernet card as well, but you can look at all these settings under windows just to be sure (as well as the port of your modem). Have your internet provider data handy since you can type that in at the end of the install in order to fetch the latest update.
Think about partitions. First thing first. Boot windows, disable the virtual memory (no page file), reboot and defrag (Execute the command defrag c: in a DOS prompt). I was told one should disable hibernation as well but I forgot. Then Mandrake can make room for itself while keeping windows. Reboot with the Mandrake cd.
F1. 2 at boottime (you only have one second to do that!), choose "boot from CD". Choose your language, keyboard and mouse (PS/2).
Partition your disk to use the free space on the windows partition: select the Custom disk partitioning, shrink the windows partition and be sure to have a swap partition of one and a third your RAM space, so if you have 5. M, have something like 7. M swap, in order to be able to hibernate (swsusp).
If you have to interact with windows, be aware that you won't be able to easily write on your NTFS windows partition, although you can read it. And as is to be expected, you can't see at all the linux partitions from windows.
So if you need to share files with windows, create a big vfat partition in order to store your working files and share them between the two OS. Sound, ethernet. Sound works fine. The acme package let me configure the volume with the buttons. Ethernet works fine. Mandrake is so easy compared to debian to setup things properly! I have a gorgeous Sony DSC- F7.
It mounts when plugged, unmount when unplugged. Easy. In fact under the 1.
I now have a USB key, a flash muti- cards reader, a La. Cie USB ecternal hard- drive and so on, don't mess with /etc/fstab too much if you want things to work automatically. Power management ACPI. ACPI is available (check it under drakboot> Configure LILO, and under drakxservices as well), the computer is pretty silent and not hot. Kernel version : 2. ACPI version : 2. Battery #1 : present.
Remaining capacity : 4. Wh, 1. 37. 2%. Present rate : 0. Charging state : charged.
Last full capacity : 3. Wh. Battery type : rechargeable, LION. Model number : DELL 6. P7. 58. Serial number : 1. Battery #2 : slot empty. AC adapter : on- line. Thermal info : ok, 3.
C. Fan : not available. See here for more tests. The important feature I want for a laptop is to be able to put it in standby mode by simply shutting the lid and putting it aside on my crowded desk. The best option in my view is hibernation, everything is shut down and the memory is written to disk. Beware that hardware acceleration of the radeon graphic card is incompatible with hibernation so far!
It is achieved by acpitool - S. Be sure to have a big enough swap and to have the resume parameter in your /etc/lilo. Following what I read here and there, I created an executable (chmod 7. LID 0. 00. 00. 08. You'll have to add a line to /etc/sudoers so that everybody can execute gotosleep. ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/acpi/gotosleep. The ATI Radeon 9.
If you are a mandrake club member, at first boot, enter your member name, password and root password, and the ATI driver will be available in rpmdrake, as well as other non free packages such as Real. Player, acroread, Flash. Player, the java Sun j. I am concerned. If you don't want to pay, you can go to the ATI driver download web page but you have to compile a new kernel (see first shot). Beware that hardware acceleration is incompatible with hibernation!
Non packaged applications. There is a very nice tool in order to write La. Te. X (I am a mathematician), it is whizzytex under (X)Emacs. It allows you to incrementally compile your La. Te. X source as you type, to jump back and forth from the code to the dvi preview.
I love it. Unfortunately it doesn't come as a mandrake package. So I will show you how you install an application which is non packaged. Whizzytex depends on a dvi viewer and is best experienced with Active- DVI. I prefer XEmacs to GNU Emacs because of the packages feature. Be sure to include the XEmacs package and the AUCTe.
X mandrake package. Download the advi development kit, as root, unpack it and make it.
Then do the same thing with the whizzytex package. Actually I want all the users to gain from it so I put this little extra file in /etc/emacs/site- start. Whizzy. Te. X requires Emacs 2. Autoloads: ; ;; ; check wich Emacs we are running, and on which platform(cond ((string- match "GNU" (emacs- version)) (message "customizing GNU Emacs") (autoload 'whizzytex- mode "/usr/local/share/whizzytex/emacs/whizzytex. Whizzy. Te. X, a minor- mode WYSIWIG environment for La. Te. X" t) ; GNU Emacs specific stuff ends here ) ((string- match "XEmacs" (emacs- version)) (message "customizing XEmacs") (autoload 'whizzytex- mode "/usr/local/share/whizzytex/xemacs/whizzytex.
Whizzy. Te. X, a minor- mode WYSIWIG environment for La. Te. X" t) ; XEmacs specific stuff ends here )). Then M- x whizzytex- mode in XEmacs on a La. Te. X buffer will open its dvi preview, browsing through the code will scroll the dvi and shift- clicking in the dvi will jump to the associated point in the code.
I love preview- latex as well, which shows some part of the code (an equation for example) as images obtained by compiling it, it is much more readable and doesn't change the code you are working on. Download the two rpm's and install them. Since La. Te. X is the only G*d and David Kastrup is its propeth, I add a last line.
AUCTe. X enabled by default. CTAN style files and La. Te. X packages. You just received a La. Te. X file which uses a package your system doesn't have? You have to install it from CTAN. Locate the package, fetch the entire directory, uncompress it, cd to it (use the Tab completion mechanism to enter the complete path), make it and install the styles, classes, fonts and documentations where they belong. For simple macro packages (say foiltex), it will go like.
Other packages may differ a bit, it won't be . Always have a look in the readme file afterwards.
Fonts for example will require more work, for example eulervm requires. Another example. In order to write slides, I use Te. Xpower. It needs other packages like soul, ifmslide and foiltex, available at CTAN, mostly under the presentation topic. Download the archive, say from their website and not from CTAN, uncompress it and install it. You can then compile and install the doc (if you don't succeed because some packages are missing, install the packages first, or else trash the whole doc folder and download the precompiled docs from CTAN). Partitions think about a big swap and a vfat partition. Sound, ethernet out of the box, nothing to report.
Power management ACPI closelid configuration and blanking LCD fix. Graphics full ATI acceleration required kernel build. Before you start: think about partitions. I downloaded the ISOs, burnt them, installed it. I let Mandrake figure out everything by itself while keeping windows. It was a mistake: XP kept 1.
Gb on my 3. 0Gb hard disk, although I first disabled the virtual memory and defrag'd the drive under windows. Annoying. What is even more annoying is that the XP partition format is NTFS and it is dangerous to write to it under linux (I realized these things too late). So, while I can read windows files, I can not use the windows partition to store my working files or even bulky things like movies or music! I heard some people are writing to NTFS without problems, so at the first kernel compile I did, I allowed writing to NTFS. I'll come here back crying if I experience some problems.
Another reason why you should look into things manually is that, hibernation, known under linux as Software Suspend: swsusp, writes the hibernation data to the swap partition so you have to be sure that it is big enough (3. RAM). My advice if you have to keep windows: create a big vfat partition in order to store your working files and share them with windows; create a large enough swap. Sound, ethernet. Sound works fine. The acme package let me configure the volume with the buttons. Ethernet works fine.
Mandrake is so easy compared to debian to setup things properly! Power management ACPI. ACPI is available, the computer seems pretty silent and not hot, I haven't played much with the settings so I can not say more than that, here more tests.
The important feature I want for a laptop is to be able to put it in standby mode by simply shutting the lid and putting it aside on my crowded desk. I achieved that after a little bit of tries.