LG CD-RW, nVidia GeForce2 MX400 and Mandrake 8.2 distro

[The_Novastorm]

Any ideas how to get My Mandrake prosuite 8.2 Distro to 3d accelerate games, like tuxracer, etc.

Also anyone know how to get R/W capability on an LG CD-RW 32x10x50 Drive in Nautilus or Konqueror File managers

Also I am a newbie, so any info on the mounting/dismounting of the VArious Drives would be useful.

I am currently packing the KDE desktop, but have become attracted to Enlightenment.

[chris_i386]

As far as the accelerated graphics for your geForce card
are concerned: there are many threads on this forum
covering just that, so a forum search will probably help.

You could also go to the nvidia website and read what they
write about their linux drivers.

I'm sorry but I can't help you with your CD-RW problem.

[carlywarly]

I assume you are talking about packet/incremental writng - udf, I believe. The kernel does in fact support udf, but it is very dangerous and potentially unstable. I don't know of any apps to use with it, but you would need to alter your /etc/fstab entry for your cdrom if you intend to have a try.

[The_Novastorm]

I assum when you mention UDF you mean file-by-file writing to CD-RW? - I only want to be able to Write and erase whole disk sessions.

I do not know how to do either, is there software required, is it kernel level support, or will I need drivers.

As yet, in Nautilus and/or Konqueror, I am unable to loacate an erase CD-RW option.

Can you help?

[mdwatts]

For the commandline, look into use cdrecord to blank cdrw's. There is a section in the cdrecord manpage (man cdrecord) on blanking.

For the gui, I just use XCDRoast both and home and at work and it also gives you the option to blank a cdrw before writing to it.

Konqueror will not have a option to erase/blank a cdrw.

Windows Explorer might with DirectCD, but you have to remember that Linux is not the same as Windows.

UDF kernel support is improving with each kernel release. You can read more on udf if you have the kernel source installed.

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt

[The_Novastorm]

I will look into that and tell you how it goes, thanks!