Mandrake 9.2 and LG CD Drives

[JoeHill]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:18:57 -0400
Austin <aacton-B71PBEe7S7Y at public.gmane.org> uttered:

> > Thanks for the link. I'm thinking of skipping 9.2 and going to  
> > Cooker,
> 
> I run cooker all the time on two of my three machines.  The trick is
> to  update a day or two late, and watch the mailing list to make sure
> there  are no "You broke KDE!" or "supermount is using 100% cpu!"  
> messages.  ;-)  More help is good though.  Cooker users report a LOT  
> more bugs than beta testers.
> 
> > somewhat out of boredom (everything just works too well!) and
> > somewhat out of wanting to join in the fun on the Cooker list.
> 
> Esh... the cooker list I could do without.  100+ emails a day (up to  
> 200+ during testing season), lots of bickering...

Is this a seperate list than the one you refer to above, or are you
differentiating between "monitoring" and "participating"? ;-)

> > Whaddaya think? My only issue would be the gaming and multimedia
> > aspects, which I enjoy greatly. I would need to compile my own
> > Nvidia drivers, I suppose?
> 
> Yeah, you would have to recompile nvidia every time you update the  
> kernel.  You don't have to update the kernel every time though.

I just looked at the Nvidia site and they don't appear to have the
sources available anymore :-(, just an executable (.run).

> I have a cooker mirror here in toronto.  I don't have enough bandwidth
>  
> to make it public, but I'm working on a solution to that...

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