From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:08:30 +0300 From: Michael Shigorin To: community-en@altlinux.org Subject: Re: [Comm-en] Followup AltJr2.2 dual boot with Mdk 9.1 Message-ID: <20030712180830.GM873@osdn.org.ua> Mail-Followup-To: community-en@altlinux.org References: <3F1046BD.8080708@amnet.co.cr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F1046BD.8080708@amnet.co.cr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-BeenThere: community-en@altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list Reply-To: community-en@altlinux.org List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 18:08:36 -0000 Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:34:53AM -0600, tama4 wrote: > Michael, just a follow up to the problems posted earlier with the > attempt at a dual boot with a user of Mandrake 9.1: Thanks. > "Chadd, thanks for following up. I have a GeForce FX 5200 which > is relatively new and probably the source of the problem. Definitely. > Re the install aborting, what actually happened is I would get > the popup window reporting the no XFree rpm and asking if I > wanted to try again or abort. It was observed in exactly that case, that's why I suspected it. > I retried several times and kept getting the same error message > so I finally aborted. Yep. It just didn't hold the card for being "supported by nvidia (or any other known) driver". _Probably_ trying to hand-pick some other nvidia card could do, but that's a hassle that shouldn't. > Was able to install XFree using either apt-get or urpmi, can't > recall which. I ran XFdrake which worked but I was unable to > configure a working X configuration. Due to the same missing PCI ID -> driver info. > Tried installing the nvidia drivers but apparently the kernel > sources are not included on the alt linux cds. Well they aren't needed -- nvidia drivers are already there (NVIDIA_*i586.rpm) > Got an error message re no binutils so the nvidia driver > program was unable to compile the kernel. Sure. But again, it was _already_ included precompiled :) > Tried installing binutils with both urpmi and apt-get, but no > dice, the package was not found and apparently it's not on the > install cds or otherwise available. Yes, these are available on CD2 which can be downoaded when needed. > Re the lilo problem, I beleive i was getting the same error > messages when I would try to restore mandrake's lilo that I > would get if I tried to restore mdk 9.1 lilo using an mdk 9.0 > install cd1. Ugh. These usually need more robust information, and it's somewhat hard to collect in place too. Multi-distro is somewhat advanced topic anyways =) -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/