mandrake 8.2

**nabeels786** · May 7th, 2002, 04:14 PM

how do i change the resolution? its waaay too big..must be smaller

**Wynd** · May 7th, 2002, 05:48 PM

Easy way: Press Ctrl+alt+<minus> (not sure if it stays, if not see below)

1337 way: edit /etc/XF86Config (as root) and find the Modes section, it should say something like "640x480", change it to whatever you want.

**HarryW** · May 7th, 2002, 05:59 PM

Uh, can't you change it in the control panel type thing? Don't remember the name exactly.

**Gandalf_Grey_** · May 7th, 2002, 06:17 PM

ya you can do that too

**nabeels786** · May 7th, 2002, 06:57 PM

im looking in the contrl panel now, nothing about resolution in there cheif

the ctl alt - didnt work

and i could find a mode thing in that file

**Rick Bull** · May 8th, 2002, 06:51 AM

I've only just installed Mandrake (even though it won't boot now for me

) but I found it in the Control Centre, or what ever it's called. I think you click on hardware, and then it's under display. Which window maker are you using? I'm not sure if the Control Centre is different if you use different WMs. I was using Gnome.

**nabeels786** · May 8th, 2002, 04:13 PM

ill try that. i was looking under desktop settings

**The Hobo** · May 8th, 2002, 05:52 PM

I'd look for it for you, but it takes me a good hour to even boot Mandrake, so I've given up on it.

**nabeels786** · May 8th, 2002, 06:11 PM

lol

i got it, i can only go upto 800x600, but i did more options and i got it.

if it only worked faster on my 300

win98/2k worked alot faster

**hipopony66** · May 8th, 2002, 09:32 PM

I got it just to try it out, and you can't really do much with it. If your interested in running a server get redhat or SuSe. Mandrake is basically a Linux for the home user without half of the support windows has.........oh, and it takes FOREVER to boot.

**Rick Bull** · May 9th, 2002, 07:09 AM

It seems pretty quick to boot for me. It takes about a minute, just a bit more that Win98. I have a PIII 800.

**hipopony66** · May 9th, 2002, 09:50 AM

But I WAS dual booting Mandrake & Win XP

**CyberSurfer** · May 9th, 2002, 11:40 AM

hippony, *** do you mean you can't really do anything with Mandrake? You can set it up as a server during the installation process, and you do pretty much anything you want with all the free stuff out there...Hell, you can even run VB through WINE!!

And I doubt you'll find any Linux distro with the support Windows has, but that's just the way it is.

FYI, I mainly use Linux for everything, even VB programming, and on my PC (Duron 850, Dual Booting with Win98), it boots in around the same time as 98, possibly a little faster.

**The Hobo** · May 9th, 2002, 12:47 PM

Booting takes forever for me, and then once it does boot, it's extremely slow. I move the mouse and 4 seconds later it arrives at the new position. It takes 10 minutes to open a program.

I haven't used it since the day it arrived in the mail. Total waste of $25.

**HarryW** · May 9th, 2002, 04:28 PM

Hobo, sounds like it was seriously misconfigured. That's not normal.

hipopony, Mandrake is virtually identical at its core to Red Hat - it's just a branch (ie a version that has been split off by another group of developers and turned into a seperate project; branching is a CVS thing) of Red Hat Linux. You can use RPMs for it. It has an excellent hardware setup system (HardDrake). What exactly can't you do with it?

If you found you couldn't get it working right then you probably just set it up wrong, which is odd because it has to be the most easy to set up distro out there.

**nabeels786** · May 9th, 2002, 06:20 PM

i like it, its just a bit slow, but thats my computer's fault

**hipopony66** · May 9th, 2002, 06:22 PM

The Mandrake Partitioning thing is what messed with me. I couldn't get it to setup right apparently. And I thought that KDE had something like windows explorer. It didn't recognize any of my drives! I'm running Windows XP on a FAT32 30 gig HD & my drive more mp3 storage is a 40 gig FAT32 Drive. I tried to run a couple of the games and they didn't work. Some bubble game thing never loaded on the screen, but kept making noise and I had to reboot, and The TUX penguin racing game never loaded. I ran KDE as my interface or whatever. So basically, It didn't recognize any of my drives and I couldn't really use it for anything. And some may say Linux is just harder than Windows because you haven't LEARNED LINUX yet, but It seems a lot harder. Nothing makes sense, and there's too much command line stuff. Yes, I loved the KDE interface etc., but like I said What can I do with it? Can't connect to the internet with it! Doesn't support Microsoft Network, America Online, or pretty much any other service. And It sure as hell doesn't support broadband connections. The problem I had mainly was the software that was distributed with it wouldn't work (the games that are supposed to run in KDE & Gnome). Oh yeah, and KOffice maybe a LITTLE better than Wordpad, but takes twice as long to load. How can I get Kernel updates and stuff like that or other software If I can't connect to the internet with Linux? Anyway, I like the interface, but once again What do you do with it? I by no means want it as my main OS, but if you can convince me there is some good to it I may give it another try. But, with the Kernel constantly changing, how can one develop for a OS that is always changing?

**HarryW** · May 10th, 2002, 03:50 AM

The kernel changes but the API stays the same. It's really quite simple.

I'm not interested in convincing you to use Linux, from the sounds of it it's not the kind of thing you'll get anything out of. So don't bother.

**Rick Bull** · May 10th, 2002, 05:20 AM

Tux racer never worked for me either

I wanted to play that game. Anyone played it, what is it like?

**Wynd** · May 10th, 2002, 05:36 PM

Originally posted by nabeels786
im looking in the contrl panel now, nothing about resolution in there cheif

the ctl alt - didnt work

and i could find a mode thing in that file

Did you use the minus on the keypad? It has to be that one.

**HarryW** · May 10th, 2002, 05:41 PM

Tux Racer isn't exactly ground-breaking. You need to have OpenGL set up properly and I advise you make sure your X version is up to date. Software rendering is probably pretty bad.

Only time I've played Tux Racer is when I was testing out my OpenGL setup in preparation to play Unreal Tournament.

**nabeels786** · May 11th, 2002, 06:09 PM

no i didnt use teh numpad one..d'oh!

i got it to change though, it was in the display thing under hardware

thanks

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