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My whole point is if you log in as root the flash drive works fine. When I log in as a normal user is when I get problems. In order to study it I set the file browser to run as root so it will open. I would think since it works as root that it is a file access permission of some sort. Everyone says install the updates to fix it. But I would like to use this from a straight install for other people and this is the only problem, or biggest one it has. A simple fix other than a 514 MB update would be nice.

I don't know if this will help you but my USB camera & jumpdrive would not mount then they did (they just did under root). I posted this in alt.os.linux.mandrake. Hello, I have been working on this problem and when logged in as root I have no trouble which leads me to believe it is a file permission problem. When logged in as a regular user Konqeror will not start after inserting a USB device. I am using a Lexar jumpdrive and a fuji 2400 camera. The home icon on the desktop does not open either. WORK AROUND: I changed the home icon to run at root, entered the password and told it to save the password. It opens, not everytime, but 4 out of 5 maybe. I will keep looking but it sure looks like file permissions to me. Some of you guys with a little more experience might be able to fix this. Jim Wrote" Can you rephrase that a bit? I've got a pendrive that works fine with 10.0 but rarely gets recognized with 10.1. Kindly outline for a relative newbie the workaround." Sorry about that. On the desktop you have a home icon. Right click it and do a properties on it. Then on one of the tabs there is an advanced button. Select run as (meaning run as a different user). I put root in there. Now when you double click the home folder it will ask for the root password. Enter it and select save password. Then you can use that to open a file browser and view the files and the web for help. It is a bummer when you can't browse anything for help. Everyone says install all the updates. Yea, that might fix it but it seems like it is pretty simple once you find it. Works fine logged in as root. I am still working on this.

I thought KDE 3.1 could be installed in 9.0 with no problems except for bugs in the beta KDE or even possible bugs in the final. Do you mean it needs libs or something that is only in cooker, and not part of KDE, but required by KDE? I once had RH, forgot the version, 7.1 or 7.2, and it had KDE 2.x and I installed KDE 3.0 on it with KDE RPM's direct from their website. The official KDE 3.1 came out today, 1/28/03.

Last question first: What is Texstar? Does anyone know of any KDE 3.1 final RPM's for MDK9.0? I am really new and don't want to try to comiple it.

Hello, Is there a way to minimize an app to the "Tray" as in Windows? You know, where the big taskbar button is hiden... I just know there must me, everything else is! Oh yea, MDK9 & KDE. Thanks

There are two OK's you have to do before it does not give you a warning. Are you overlooking those at the bottom of the screen? If you are in a low resolution those ok buttons might not be visible. Use alt-click anywhere on the window to move it up to get to those buttons.

Joe, when you do get it all ready to go here is where I posted info on how to dual boot XP/MDK. It is pretty simple and I learned it after reading for hours on the net about 10 different ways to do it that I didn't understand. This is basically 3 simple steps, 4 if you count making a linux boot floppy but you should do that anyway during step 1, installing Linux. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...t=1841&start=15

BVC, Up a few post I said: when I type startx it displays entering run level 3, stopping dm. It flashes entering run level so fast, but I see it blink 2 or 3 times then it says enterinmg run level 3 and stopping dm. It flashes the nvidia splash (Nvidia drivers), you see the cursor, then the runlevel stuff, exiting X. I had not caught on to stopping dm as being display manager. And this does sound like what is going on as I had not configured a dm or .xinitrc. I never even checked view>show hidden files as things are so much different than windows it never dawned on me!!! Hahaha! I sure wish they would put a right click>copy in Konq, that is driving me nuts! I build computers and all my friends are going to see this Linux and want it so I NEED to know how to work the bugs out. I'm telling all them to get a book now and even a Knoppix or Suse live CD to learn a bit now. I started with RH6 in 2000, then RH7 and what got me was if you went to use a tool in 7 from the 1200 page RH6 book, it was no longer there. I played with Mandrake then, but for the past month I have been serious about learning Linux because I see it on the radar as a need to know thing. I believe you are right on track that it is a new install issue and I'll bet 9.1 is not like that. I appreciate your help guys and I knew one of you had seen this but all that digging was worth it because I understand the X startup process pretty well now. I have a lot to learn about the syntax of the scripts. I will try to share what I learn in the forums and here you guys can find a good post about how I got XP & MDK to dual boot: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...t=1841&start=15 Thanks again and if I find a for sure perfect fix I'll post it. After checking show hidden files I see that the .xinitrc is there and is blank. It may be confusing it so I am going to make the .xinitrc file point to whichever script it is supposed to run if .xinitrc does not exist instead of having it load a WM there because it seems that file short circiuts some needed stuff in the other scripts. Sorry the posts are so long...

I'm new to Linux but here is how I got mine to dual boot XP & MDK 9.0. I have a 40 GB and an 80GB HD. The 40 GB is all XP, primary master. The 80GB is two partitions, 40GB FAT32 and the second 40GB is MDK, primary slave. DVD & CD/RW are on the seconday controller as master & slave. XP was already there, so I installed MDK on the second partition of the slave HD. I installed GRUB to the root partition of the MDK install. Now to get the boot sector that is needed to boot linux to the XP drive I did: dd if=/dev/hdb5 bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/XP/linux.bin You do this in a linux console or terminal. What this does is copy the GRUB boot sector to the XP drive at C: and puts it in a file called linux.bin. Then on your XP drive at C: you have a file called boot.ini. This file is XP's boot loader that tells it what partition to boot. Here is my boot.ini: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect c:linux.bin="Mandrake Linux 9.0" As you can see c:linux.bin="Mandrake Linux 9.0" poiints to the GRUB boot sector in c:linux.bin. When you boot up you get the XP boot screen with 1. XP and 2. MDK to choose from. In this line that saved the GRUB boot sector: dd if=/dev/hdb5 bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/XP/linux.bin hdb5 is my root of my linux install, so if you install linux to hdc5 just replace the hdb5 with hdc5. I liked it this way because it leaves XP in tact and I can even unplug the linux drive and it will not conflict with XP in any way unless you select boot to linux. It is 3 simple steps: 1. Install Linux 2. Copy the linux boot sector. dd if=/dev/hdb5 bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/XP/linux.bin 3. Add linux to boot.ini Also, do not skip making that linux boot floppy, you need it to boot the first time to get the boot sector to the windows drive. This can most likely be done from the CD, but I don't know how, like I said, I'm new at this, so make that boot floppy. To remove linux just delete the linux line from boot.ini, delete linux.bin and format the linux partition. I doubt that is going to happen, looks more like I might format XP!

pmpatrick: Well here is the deal. I poked around so much I may have screwed something up but I don't think so. I made a ./xinitrc file in my home directory then I found out ./ files are invisible. Do you know how to make them viewable in Konq? Anyway, all I put in it was exec startkde and then logged in and typed startx and it worked. Liked to never got out of it! And lots of errors on exit. But, then I deleted the ./xinitrc file and done a full reboot. I logged in on the graphic screen, brought up a console and init 3'd it to force run level 3. Then a startx did not work. SO I done a init 5 and it switched to 5 then a startx worked. So far as I can tell it is fixed though I'm not sure why, but you are on the right track about default window manager etc. There is an option somewhere to set default WM or last used. I'm going to set a default as I think it is loosing the last used, maybe. I can say one thing, if X won't fire up at all, I think I can fix that now!!!! Thanks for your help...

Good call... When logged in at the console typing kde goes right into KDE with no graphic login. Typing init 5 goes into the KDE graphic login screen. I have an XP 1600 so it is too fast to see good but when I type startx it displays entering run level 3, stopping dm. It is a script error because startx should switch it to run level 5 and it don't. I am glad it is not the run levels screwed up. I have been reading here: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/xwin/xstart.html , and it is like this script calls that script and in turn calls this script if this or that happens. WOW! By the way, I didn't play with anything to do with the start up until I used the Mandrake Control Center to tell it to not startx at boot and found this problem. I have installed TTF's, DVD codecs, all the MDK updates, a couple themes, and my hardware like scanner, camera etc. None of that should change the startup scripts unless it was the updates.

The startx X was a typo, sorry. I have been reading the docs and learning a lot about the startup. Changing the initdefault to 3 in /etc/inittab makes the startx command not work. Typing "init 5" after login starts X and works, just startx does not work. I have went thru the run levels in /etc/rc3.d and rc5.d and they appear to have the same contents except for rc5.d has S30dm which when I read it tells me "This startup script launches the graphical display manager". I have a book on Redhat and read the docs on MDK and they both explain changing the run level to 3 in initdefault makes it boot to console and then to use startx. It sure appears to be a script error and not a problem with the X server.

I changed the run level in /etc/inittab like this: id:3:initdefault It was id:5:initdefault It will not start X with the startx command after this change. Changing it back fixes it. I thought the more you knew the easier it would be.

Hello, I am really new to Linux and when I installed it I set it to start X at boot up. Now I want to change that but have a problem. I go to Mandrake Control Center and then to boot options and uncheck auto start x and when I reboot sure enough, no X. But, logging in and typing startx starts it up, then it exits. There is no error and there is no errors in /var/log/Xfree86.log. I boot to install CD 1 and tell it to upgrade and of course it don't, it just flies thru to where I tell it to auto start X and it is back in good shape. I don't think it is the XF86Config-4 file because it stays the same. Seems to me it is a bug maybe to do with the run level? I've only been at this about a month so I know it must be simple... Thanks for your help! Sorry guys, it is MDK 9.0 with all the updates.

I have a Fuji Finepix 2400 Zoom that did work when I first installed Mandrake 9.0. All I did was plug it in and up popped an icon on the KDE desktop named dynamic_mnt_camera and it worked great. After running Mandrake Update or after I messed something else up in the last week it didn't pop up an icon no more. Here is how I fixed it. I read this thread and made a folder called /mnt/camera and opened a console and typed: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera I then went to the /mnt/camera folder and there it was, all my pics. Then I noticed the icon back on the desktop. I am really new at linux, like less than a month of serious study. To all you new guys, I know you're gritting your teeth, but it gets more fun as your work pays of more and more. Now I can just browse to the /mnt/camera folder and it detects the camera everytime even after being unplugged and unmounted. I do have to do a view>reload to make it show up after being off.