Re: [tuxracer-main] tuxracer problem with Mandrake 8.0

[Bill O. <dr...@di...>]

I never noticed that.  When I saw that it setup the nVidia drivers for me in
the X configuration, I thought everything was golden.

For the most part, 8.0 is a big improvement.  The installation was
unbelievably easy.  It even found my printer on a windows machine on my
network and was able to print off a test page during the setup.  That
impressed me, the guys at Xerox told me I wouldn't be able to use this
printer in Linux at all  :)    I guess someone finally wrote a drive for it

The only main problem I've seen is the font's it uses by default.  They are
really bad, and I've heard others complaining about them as well.  Just a
couple of clicks in the configuration and it seemed to fix it right up.
It has a Control Center that allows you setup all your hardware, network
configuration, services, users etc..etc.. with a nice gui.  It will even let
you setup a home firewall with a few clicks of the mouse, now that was nice
:)
It's based on the 2.4.3 kernel, so it comes with a ton of support built
right in.  Being 2 CD's long, there is a ton of software you can install.
There also have a program for software management.  It will let you do a
query to see if a piece of software was installed, if not, it will let you
install it right then and there, from the installation cd's, or from a ftp
mirror site for updates and security patches.  That too is a very nice
feature.

All en' all, I'm impressed MDK 8.0.  If you ask me, it's the best distro for
newbies and for the desktop.  Now if it would just come complete with jdk
and staroffice... :)

There are many more pro's then con's with Mandrake 8.0.  I'd highly
recommend it.

As soon as I get the time, I'll go out and install the drivers for my video
card and let you know it turns out

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl & Paula Zeilon" <PCZ...@at...>
To: <tux...@li...>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [tuxracer-main] tuxracer problem with Mandrake 8.0


> Bill, check out the fine print for Mandrake 8.0.  It tells you that the
> nVidia drivers are only included with the retail box. (Due to
> licensing).  I assume you downloaded your copy.  How is it by the way?
I'm
> running 7.0
>
> At 08:32 AM 4/30/2001, you wrote:
>
> >Like I said, it's a fresh install of Mandrake 8.0 (tuxracer is installed
> >with the distribution).   Apparently, this program (along with a few
> >others), do not work out of the box.  I'll go out and install the nVideo
> >OpenGL drivers, that should fix the problem.
> >
> >Am I the only person that you've seen with problems running tuxracer with
> >Mandrake 8.0 (installed with the os)?
> >
> >I'll let you know how this works out
> >
> >Bill
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Steve Baker" <sjb...@ai...>
> >To: <tux...@li...>
> >Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:12 AM
> >Subject: Re: [tuxracer-main] tuxracer problem with Mandrake 8.0
> >
> >
> > > Bill Omer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> > > > Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> > > > *** tuxracer error: Couldn't initialize video: Couldn't find
matching
> >GLX
> > > > visual (Success)
> > > >
> > > > Anyone have any suggestions what it could be?  I am running X
(4.0.3)
> >with
> > > > KDE2 on a Geforce 2 MX 32meg card on a celeron 400MHz with 320 megs
of
> >ram.
> > >
> > > Do you have the nVidia OpenGL-for-Linux drivers installed?
> > >
> > > Do any other OpenGL programs run?
> > >
> > > (I suspect the answers are "No" and "No".)
> > >
> > > --
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