Maya is one of the most well known 3d animation packages
used to do the special FX for feature films like "The Lord of the Rings", "Shrek", "Final Fantasy the Movie" and so on.
Fore more info:

http://www.aliaswavefront.com

Lilo's working fine with windows!
I start my pc , it boots up and Lilo shows up (yet with the shell style... wasn't there something like a better graphical layout... but wtf - who needs eyekandy )
I've get "DOS / LINUX" to choose from
DOS (this means Windows2000 in my part) boots up without any problems.
LINUX on the other hand tells me that he's loading the
kernel (vmzlinuz or something like that) , then he tries
to change to somewhere and the screen just stays black.
He's not booting into Linux and because of that I still need the bootdisc to get into SW8.1

>> Ok, I think its the problem of the 'Lilo is being installed after the 1024th cylinder' problem...you can fix this by stuffing around in the BIOS, but that takes a fair few reboots...
Hm.... curious... I told LILO to write itself into the MBR...
so it should work, right? There should be no problem with this 1024th cylinder stuff :-/

DSL is up and running
I'm posting this from slackware *jumps around*

I've already solved the ALT button problem with Maya,
just a quick look at LOOK&FEEL -> Windows Behavior -> Actions.
(btw: worked a bit with Maya and it works PERFECT and MUCH faster as on Windows!!)

The next thing I'll look after is the mouse, read some posts on this
boards and gonna test that out now.

Slackware is so full of the feeling of accomplishment isn't it? You make things happen, you make em work, not the distro guessing what you want.

Those errors, don't worry about em, to me it reads as a KDE problem, but it's really no biggie, I'd think anyway (anyone feel free to rip me apart for completely disregarding that if it's important ).

13 lines down in your /etc/lilo.conf file comment out the vga=771.

Also, just for aesthetics, let's change those names, edit the 2 entries to show as this:
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS, after making changes to /etc/lilo.conf run:
/sbin/lilo -v (with or without the -v option) This reinstalls LILO to the MBR to save the changes.

We are only editing the label options for now. Ok, so now I'd think we are going to need to build you a kernel.

Let me know if you are ready.

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Whoooho, I'm back at home - had to do some babysitting for a good friend of mine.
Gonna test that lilo stuff right now, I'll be back in .... 5mins.

Ooops , forgot to post - everything worked just fine.
I'm now able to boot with LILO
Just waiting for you, MC

Nice catch there MasterC

While your waiting for MasterC, read over this guide and then when he comes along to explain to you, you'll know exactly whats happening coz your a master already ...

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html


That guide goes into a bit of detail on what each thing does...the mains things you need to take notice of is:

make clean
make menuconfig, or make xconfig, or just make config
made dep
make
make bzImage
make modules
make install
make modules_install


thats close to all you have to type...its just a matter of reading thru that guide to see what each one does...if you get into any trouble, or have any questions, we'll happily answer

I'm back. Grim's (nice info there ) got you all the info you need up there, from this point on it's just a matter of trial and error, and long days of reading the help files associated with each option in your kernel config.

Good Luck, and like was mentioned, if you run into a brick wall, or start to stumble, we are all here for you. No need to post questions in this thread really anymore, unless the question is related.

If you prefer IM for the simple questions (quick and dirties I call em ) then I have setup an IM for LQ users to IM me:
MasterCLQ
It's on AIM (which I use GAIM to chat with).

Cool

Hehe oki - one last question
Can you recommend a specific kernel?
I mean - there are many versions out there, any particular stable/good one?

**update**
Ah - in the same thread:

First things first though, go get the newest kernel from www.kernel.org Here's a direct link to 2.4.20:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...x-2.4.20.tar.gz

2.4.20 is it then, oki

you wish to know about debian? well if you've had some linux experiance (mainly command line experiance) you can do it.

people say installation is hard? they obviously havn't tried it, just beacuse its a text based install doesn't mean its hard. just download a neat and tidy 10mb iso (net install, get the bf2.4 flavor) and follow instructions. it will proceed to configure kbd, network (install the right modules also, eg tulip) and then goes off to suck down the rest of debian.

remember after that your on yourself, you might wanna upgrade to "sid" which is unstable but its really not, its just cutting edge of debian and has all the dependancies figured out. (to upgrade change places where it says "stable" to "sid" and apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade)

now heres the golden twinkie: its mix and match. u want gnome? apt-get install gnome.

u want kde? (add the latest mirrors from kde.org first)
apt-get install kde

u want anything else?
apt-get install ethereal nmap nmapfe mozilla evolution gaim xine anything u want.

want to reconfigure something?
dpkg-reconfigure thethinghere

such as: reconfiguring X?
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

follow instructions, there ya go. (dont enable framebuffer, it usually doesn't work and make sure your default color depth is at most 16)

oh yeah, and best of all: apt-get install wine

have fun!

Or if you want, you can get the LQ kernel It's located here:
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/s....20-lq1.tar.gz

A thread for more info is here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=39193

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MasterC, Faeroon and others...

This has been one great discussion. I think you just fixed my problem with LILO too.

Great info on recompiling the kernel here too.

Thanks...

Hehe, glad we could help
*wants to know what he did *

I have to give the nod to two different distros, for two different reasons.

If you want the most flexible packaging possible in a complete distribution, then the way to go is Debian, and if you want to use a commercial package that gets you into Debian fast, I highly recommend Libranet. You can download their earlier releases at no cost and then upgrade your software as you wish, or you can start with a really good CD set for around $60. Very solid, fast, reliable software. Not too flashy, as far as the installation program goes, and very little packaging documentation. But everything you need is either online or on the CDs. So if you're either experienced or adventuresome, this is the best thing around.

If you're completely different than that, and you just want an easy to install distribution that has very little configuration needed, then try Lycoris Desktop/LX. You can buy systems preconfigured with Desktop/LX from Wal-Mart, and if you're not familiar with Linux, I recommend that approach.

I guess I was wrong about my LILO being fixed.

I boot my pc and it goes right into Windows ME without even showing a lilo screen. I can boot Slackware with a boot disk. I am not getting errors when I run lilo.

Ok here is my lilo.conf

# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/hda2
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
prompt
# Normal VGA console
vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
# ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# WinME bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
label = WindowsME
table = /dev/hda
# WinME bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda2
label = Slackware8.1
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends


And FSTAB...

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /tmp reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda9 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /winme vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/hda10 /rigdata vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0

A question on the fstab... on /dev/hda10 /rigdata this is not giving me access to my fat32 data partition. When I do ls /rigdata it says it is empty and it should have my documents, program files etc... I wrote out lilo.conf and fstab to /rigdata/* resp. and they are the only items on that disk... yet when I boot back into WinME I see the stuff I am supposed to minus a lilo.conf and fstab in the root of d:\. WinME I see in Slackware. If I do ls /winme I see my WinMe partition and everything that is on it.

Sorry, I am moving rather quickly so if I missed something I appologize. However it appears lilo is being installed to the second partition of the first device, change that to the root partition of the first device:
/dev/hda

SO edit this line from:
boot = /dev/hda2

To:

boot = /dev/hda

I don't understand your fstab question though... I suggest you look at fdisk -l to determine your correct drive though and then make sure it's getting mounted. Use the 'mount' command to view mounted devices.

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