Problem with Mandrake 9.2

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Problem with Mandrake 9.2

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Name: Andrew3
Date: December 21, 2003 at 06:13:15 Pacific
Subject: Problem with Mandrake 9.2
OS: Mandrake 9.2
CPU/Ram: celeron 1.7ghz 384mb ram

Comment:

Hi, I am having some trouble with mandrake,
when I try to change the color from
Thousands of colors to Millions of colors,
it wont let me. There is no millions of
colors in the list. In fact thousands of
colors is the only option. I used to to
have millions of colors under Fedora Core
1, but mandrake wont let me. Please help, I
am using an Intel 845 video card w/64mb
ram. By the way dose anyone know where I
can buy the FULL version of Unreal
Tournament 2003 for linux and not the demo?

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Response Number 1

Name: Guido130473
Date: December 21, 2003 at 06:46:39 Pacific
Subject: Problem with Mandrake 9.2

Reply: (edit)

Can you post the config file of your X system?
The millions of colors is nothing more than colordepth; 8 bit=256 colors; 16=thousands and colordepth 24 equals millions of colors.

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Response Number 2

Name: Andrew3
Date: December 21, 2003 at 06:48:10 Pacific
Subject: Problem with Mandrake 9.2

Reply: (edit)

Yes, but where is this file located?

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Response Number 3

Name: taurus
Date: December 21, 2003 at 07:13:26 Pacific
Subject: Problem with Mandrake 9.2

Reply: (edit)

/etc/X11/XF86Config-4!!!
taurus

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Response Number 4

Name: Guido130473
Date: December 21, 2003 at 07:16:50 Pacific
Subject: Problem with Mandrake 9.2

Reply: (edit)

Unreal tournament:
www.tuxgames.com
For a story about it:
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32796.htm
It appears you need a nvidia graphic card for it to work correctly, but read it yourself.
I've something like this in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "** Intel i810 (generic) [i810]"
Monitor "My Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Before making changes to your X system it's wise to let her boot into the non-graphical mode, so if f----ups are made your system will still boot properly.
To do this, change the default runlevel in the /etc/inittab file from 5 to 3
When you reboot now, the graphical system (KDE/Gnome) will not be started after a boot, unless you tell her to.
login as root
start the program:/usr/bin/X11/xf86config
And just fill everything in. I don't think the i845 chipset is offered as an option during configuration of the graphic card, just try the i810 and see if it works.
first make a backup of your original config file with a different name, so you can restore everything to a working environment quickly if something fails.
startx will startup the graphical system from a commandline.

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Response Number 5

Name: Andrew3
Date: December 21, 2003 at 07:48:38 Pacific
Subject: Problem with Mandrake 9.2

Reply: (edit)

Oh happy days! I just bought an nvidia card
not even knowing that I would require it to
play UT2003!!! And I edited my Xfree86
config file to use 24 bit color and guess
what... IT WORKED!!! Wow I should have
started off with Mandrake in the first
place!

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Response Number 6

Name: Guido130473
Date: December 21, 2003 at 07:54:24 Pacific
Subject: Problem with Mandrake 9.2

Reply: (edit)

congratulations! By the way, almost all GNU-linuxes use for most things the same configurations scripts. Only the graphical user interface is somehow different.
For you binairy only nvidia driver, see
www.nvidia.com Over there is and the linux driver and an installation guide.

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