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From: lisztnet on 5 Apr 2008 17:31
And therefor i will reinstall it.

Why ?

Because it is the only system which supports my ati rage Mach64
mobility card, and is faster than what other poor guys obtain when
they have luck, after heavy compiling and sweeting.

When they have luck they compile everything an 1/2 get the thing
works. Then he gets 200 fps, sometimes 300, very seldom. I get 317.
ANd i need 1/4 h to install the driver without compiling anything.
They need years and a bug report for Ubuntu. And lots of
disappointment.

I have no choice than maintaining a partition with good old mandrake
9.1.

L


From: David W. Hodgins on 5 Apr 2008 17:49
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:31:27 -0400, <lisztnet(a)aliceadsl.fr> wrote:

> I have no choice than maintaining a partition with good old mandrake
> 9.1.

That version has been out of support for years. See
http://www.mandriva.com/archives/en/security/productlifetime.html
for the currently supported versions, and when support ends for them.

I would install 2008.0, or wait a month, and then install 2008.1.

Also, this newsgroup is pretty much dead, as Mandrake changed the
company and distribution name to Mandriva. You'll find many more
people using alt.os.linux.mandriva.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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From: Bit Twister on 5 Apr 2008 18:39
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:49:47 -0400, David W. Hodgins wrote:
>
> I would install 2008.0, or wait a month, and then install 2008.1.

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Development schedule suggests
Official Public Release 09/04/2008

A month may be optimistic, if you go to
https://qa.mandriva.com/index.cgi
Under Other Options:
Click View bugs reported today
click Edit Search
and put 20080401 in the YYYMMMDD box under
Bug Changes
Only bugs changed between:

and see what has been reported. :(
From: ray on 5 Apr 2008 20:33
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:31:27 -0700, lisztnet wrote:

> And therefor i will reinstall it.
>
> Why ?
>
> Because it is the only system which supports my ati rage Mach64 mobility
> card, and is faster than what other poor guys obtain when they have
> luck, after heavy compiling and sweeting.
>
> When they have luck they compile everything an 1/2 get the thing works.
> Then he gets 200 fps, sometimes 300, very seldom. I get 317. ANd i need
> 1/4 h to install the driver without compiling anything. They need years
> and a bug report for Ubuntu. And lots of disappointment.
>
> I have no choice than maintaining a partition with good old mandrake
> 9.1.
>
> L

If that' your only frame of reference, then go for it! Personally, I run a
fully optimized Gentoo on my mini-itx - I'm quite pleased with the
performance compared to every 'out of the box' distro I've tried.
From: lisztnet on 6 Apr 2008 04:43
On 6 avr, 02:33, ray <r...(a)zianet.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:31:27 -0700, lisztnet wrote:
> > And therefor i will reinstall it.
>
> > Why ?
>
> > Because it is the only system which supports my ati rage Mach64 mobility
> > card, and is faster than what other poor guys obtain when they have
> > luck, after heavy compiling and sweeting.
>
> > When they have luck they compile everything an 1/2 get the thing works.
> > Then he gets 200 fps, sometimes 300, very seldom. I get 317. ANd i need
> > 1/4 h to install the driver without compiling anything. They need years
> > and a bug report for Ubuntu. And lots of disappointment.
>
> > I have no choice than maintaining a partition with good old mandrake
> > 9.1.
>
> > L
>
> If that' your only frame of reference, then go for it! Personally, I run a
> fully optimized Gentoo on my mini-itx - I'm quite pleased with the
> performance compared to every 'out of the box' distro I've tried.


I would like right now a linux with DRI support for Ati mach64
mobility card which i could install from iso, because i have no
cdrom.

Mandriva dropped support for this card in one kernel, then rebuild the
support, so 2007 should be good, 2008 not sure.

I wonder if i could install a mandriva one-spring 2007 without cdrom ?
and i need a speedtouch 330 modem to going to work too.

L





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