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Sorry for this post. I should have read some other articles first. Looks like it is a common problem with Linux that kernels are released without any regard at all as to drivers that vendors are providing and whether or not the kernel will work with drivers or wipe them out.

The kernels that you get from kernel.org do not include drivers from 3rd party vendors like nvidia, you have to goto your distribution and get their latest kernel from their ftp site. Then you can compile it yourself or just install the precompiled package. Use hardware that cooperates with Linux instead of hardware that deliberately does not cooperate with Linux. Windows has a hardware compatibility list, so does Linux.

So the answer is "stick with what you have working and never upgrade your kernel unless you are a professional programmer and can compile it yourself" where Linux is concerned.

No the answer is to never update the kernel, this rewrites the working kernels files, rather install the latest version. This way you have two kernels to choose from when you boot up. When you know how to do this, it's childs play.

Meaning, I never get a security update for my OS if I want to keep using it.

I get them, it's fast with broadband, easy, and darn near fool proof when you know how to use the tools that your distro, in this case mandrake provides. I do however wait about 36 hours after a security, bug fix, normal update has been released, this way if there is a problem, I'll hear about it here, or somewhere on the internet.

Nope Eroaster will not work for me, and I'm not in the mood to figure out why, I'll just keep a eye out for the next release and see if that works. :lol:

tyme, those modules are loaded at startup here in mandrake 10.0

I just installed eroaster-2.2.0-0.6.4mdk

I'll try and burn some stuff, and see if it can be done.

Only been using K3B, and it works fine here.

BTW why is it that when I click on Preview Post it does not, it Add Reply?

Makes it kinda difficult to edit.

Says couldn't acess device sg* should be root.

Whats lsmod say?

Module Size Used by

loop 15368 0

sg 40028 0

st 39992 0

sr_mod 18116 0

sd_mod 17920 0

scsi_mod 117744 4 sg,st,sr_mod,sd_mod

The writer detect finds device 1,0,0 but it says it's device scd0. even though it's not. it's hdc.

Perhaps a symlink would help here. :unsure:

The last time I installed windows fonts, back in mandrake 9.0, what I had to do after I launched the font installer.

And to get all of them was to goto the folder they are in through the font installer, then instead of selecting the fonts in that folder, I just clicked on OK OPEN whatever it was in the dialog box, and then it added all the fonts in that folder to the main font installer, from there I had to click on install fonts. It did take a few minutes to install all of the fonts.

It wasent documented very well back then and I expect that it isn't documented very well today. I havent tried to install microsoft fonts in mandrake 10.0 though.

Richard, here is a Tip on how to install fonts the "GUI" way in Mandrake.

Usually I would goto the font installer in mandrake 10.0, but for just 1 at a time oh... like 2 or 3 times a week, or month, this way is much quicker.

It just blows the command line right out of your mind. :lol:

However just because this is so easy is no excuse for not learning the command line in due time after they get tired of all that point and click action. :D

Do this command from your /home directory.

cd /home

du -s * | sort -nr > $HOME/filled_up.txt

cd /bobguy

cat filled_up.txt

75M bobguy

28M sandy

Now see what each user has in their home directory

du -s * | sort -nr > $HOME/filled_up_bobguy.txt

cat filled_up_bobguy.txt

908K descriptions

629K office

512K dualview.png

420K bbf1.png

2.5M web

1.2M docs

1.0K tmp

You get the idea.

The text file will show you the largest files and names first, to the smallest files, and directorys last.

df -Th is another good one.

I've successfully installed a plugin to play SHN and all other filetypes work fine, but not FLAC. What could be causing this?

Well did you install FLAC from the install packages utility?

Name: flac-xmms

Version: 1.1.0-5mdk

Size: 87 KB

Medium: Installation CD (ftp1)

Currently installed version: (none)

Summary: Xmms plugin to play FLAC files

Description: An input plugin that enables playback of FLAC files in xmms.

Files: /usr/lib/xmms/Input/libxmms-flac.so

Nvidia driver installation is a snap

I see quite a few folks having problems installing the Nvidia rpms. This Mini-How-To takes less than 15 MInutes and you get a custom compiled driver to boot.

http://www.linuxloader.com/modules.php?nam...=showpage&pid=6

Compiling a Custom Linux Kernel

http://www.bitbenderforums.com/vb22/showth...&threadid=58650

I would download the mandrake kernel-source myself and build that for a mandrake system. Mandrake tweaks their kernels some, while you get the original linus kernel from kernel.org ie, they don't always work as expected in mandrake.

Have fun, it's a well documented artical with lots of pictures. :D

Well I found this 3 part review-howto. Hope it helps some.

"Since the system would be designed to run Linux (Mandrake-Linux specifically), basing it around the AMD Athlon 64 was a farily obvious choice - there was a current Mandrake version for AMD64, AMD appears to be actively supporting Linux and, just to show that we all fall into lockstep behind him, Linus has been quoted as believing AMD64 to be the better technology. :)"

http://www.warpedsystems.sk.ca/staticpages...040114201153299

I've entered all the right information that's required in the settings

Not really, otherwise the server would not return 'server authentification failed'

When the password is correct, then most likely its your login name thats incorrect.

This depends on how your isp has their login setup for email, example:

login: bob

OR

login: bob@home.net

It will be only one of these. On both SMTP and POP3

That was my inital problem getting setup to send and recieve email, after the change kmail has worked fine.

Hope this helps. :D

Man9.1 doesn't get to internet,

Now do you want to 'get to the internet'?

Or just inform us that 'If it was the only operating system on the computer, the computer would be useless.'?

If you want to use the internet it might help if we knew what you are using, dial-up, DSL, cable?

I got some skins for xmms and wanted to extract them to the skins folder.

If you are just grabbing a few xmms skins from the internet as a user, you don't have to extract them, just move them to your .xmms/Skins directory, and XMMS will use them.

$ cd .xmms

$ ls

Plugins/ Skins/

$ cd Skins

$ ls

Blizzard.wsz Kenwood_KDC-2019.wsz Panasonic_Old_Style.wsz

chaos_XMMS.zip Nucleo_Alien_Mind.wsz

Expensive_Hi-Fi_1.1.wsz Nucleo_N-Log1.wsz

Because the root user doesnt need to play music, there isn't much point in installing new skins global unless you have a bunch of trusted users that you want to have access to those skins.

There should be xmms skin rpms in the 'software package installer' that you can download that will install the skins global so every user has access to them. May even be on one of the cds.

For what its worth...

K3b 0.10.1 is out

http://apps.kde.com/rf/2/info/vid/9778?sid...964c266b3a648a9

What on earth could a software program do to burn up a cdrom drive???

Here is my take on this issue Ixthusdan

This is a drive problem. The LG CD-ROM firmware did not stick to the established standards. Probably due to cost cuts to 'save a buck'.

Where LG says that they do not test or support their drives in Linux is just a cop-out, this is just a standard cover your ass policy when problems crop up.

Devices are supposed to protect eeprom registers... they should be out of the way, where nothing will go for starters, and they should only be accessible through special routines (i.e. flash program)(thanks Grogan)

If a developer can brake (fry a chip) a CD-ROM with software, something is wrong with that drive model. How can anyone develop any device driver, if you are always at risk of burning the device out?

No doubt that this issue will be resolved very soon as to what actually happened and why it happened.

I have a Dell Optiplex GX 240, the CD-ROM in question is a LG CRD-8240B.

You are like so screwed. :(

From Mandrakes errata page...

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/errata.php3#badlg

Error scenario: Installing 9.2 and being told unable to install the base system and subsequent reboot reveals that CD-ROM is physically dead.

Why: According to LG Electronics, their ODD (Optical Disc Drive) products do not support Linux nor do they test with Linux. Unfortunately, many Dell computers (possibly others) come with these CD-ROM drives.

Solution: Currently there is no solution or work-around for this issue; it is still under investigation. Damage occurs even when doing a network install. At this point, please do not install Mandrake Linux 9.2 on any computer containing a LG-based CD-ROM or it will damage your CD-ROM! We are actively looking for a solution to this problem.

I wonder if there is any chance that the download ISO's to be released next week will include all the updates and the new kernel? It makes sense to me.

Didn't I read that the .iso was sent to the cd makers to create the cds and packaging for the boxed set, and that was on oct 14th.

It could happen, but I kind of doubt that it will. Sad really.

This will put the hurt on dial-up users.

Even more info...

Problem solved!

 

Some how (I'm still not sure how) I downloaded a corrupt file or corrupted it myself. The culprit was LINUXRDR.TAR. How it was corrupted, I just don't know. BUT! It works.

Sounds like what happenned is that the rpm you downloaded the first time wasent complete to begin with, ie., you got a 1.5 meg rpm when you should of got 2 meg rpm. It's happened to me before.

Thats why I always look at the size of the rpm I'm going to download, and compair my copy of it to what size it's suppose to be. If you can check the md5sum, all the better.

I've had to goto a different ftp site to get the complete rpm twice in 1 year, cause the ftp site that I originally tried had a incomplete rpm. It's rare but it happens.

I have never had a bad rpm install when using urpmi or the MCC software manager to install software. Thats why I use these tools whenever I can.

Congratulations on fixing this all by yourself. :D

try-> /usr/bin/mozilla -edit

I have tried to use gftp and it would open a directory, the first time I tried it, but the it asked for a password.

Generally when you get a password popup at a pub ftp site it just wants a email address, any address will do. I always put in me@home.net and I have always been granted access.

1. No "system tray" as windows had

For KDE, Right click on a empty spot on the kicker (task bar in windows lingo) then select: Add-> Applet-> Quick Launcher, and click on it.

It will add the quick launcher to the kicker panel.

Now right click on one of the 6 empty folders and navigate to the application that you want in the quick launcher, and click on that.

You can have as many or as few apps in the quick launcher as you want.

There is a system tray and a quick launcher, from what you describe I suspect that what you are looking for is the quick launcher, because it does what microsofts system tray does.

Could someone who actually nows what theyre doing, clear this up or translate into a mandrake install.

It would help if we knew what the name of theme you are trying to install is. :roll:

As a user...

$ XFree86 -version

XFree86 Version 4.3.0

Release Date: 27 February 2003

X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6

Here is how I installed the 6240-Crystalcursors.tar.gz theme.

$ cd download/tarball <--where the theme is.

$ ls

6240-Crystalcursors.tar.gz

extract the tarball here, then cd into the directory.

$ cd Crystalcursors

$ ls

CREDITS cursors/ gray_src/ green_src/ Makefile README sources/

[bob@home Crystalcursors]$ pwd

/home/bob/download/tarball/Crystalcursors

$ make green

make -C green_src

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bob/download/tarball/Crystalcursors/green_src'

xcursorgen bd_double_arrow.conf ../cursors/bd_double_arrow

xcursorgen bottom_left_corner.conf ../cursors/bottom_left_corner

xcursorgen bottom_right_corner.conf ../cursors/bottom_right_corner

xcursorgen xterm.conf ../cursors/xterm

xcursorgen watch/watch.conf ../cursors/watch

xcursorgen left_ptr_watch/left_ptr_watch.conf ../cursors/left_ptr_watch

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bob/download/tarball/Crystalcursors/green_src'

$ make install_green

make install -C green_src

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bob/download/tarball/Crystalcursors/green_src'

#Create necessary directories

if test ! -d /home/bob/.icons ;then mkdir /home/bob/.icons; fi

if test ! -d /home/bob/.icons/default ;then mkdir /home/bob/.icons/default;fi

if test ! -d /home/bob/.icons/crystal ;then mkdir /home/bob/.icons/crystal; fi

if test ! -d /home/bob/.icons/crystal/cursors ;then mkdir /home/bob/.icons/crystal/cursors; fi

#Copy the cursors

ln -sf /home/bob/.icons/crystal/cursors/left_ptr_watch /home/bob/.icons/crystal/cursors/08e8e1c95fe2fc01f976f1e063a24ccd #mozilla's left_ptr_watch

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bob/download/tarball/Crystalcursors/green_src'

Green version of CrystalCursors is correctly installed.

#

Close out the konsole, then logout, login kde.

Shazam I now have the green crystal mouse theme. :D

Have fun :)

Sun is the lesser known of of SCO's sugar daddies along with Microsoft, they are funding SCO in the IBM linux suit.

Why pay royalties to sun for Starving Office when they are trying to destroy Linux with lawsuits?

If Mandrake dumped SO, then its a honorible thing which will not go unnoticed by the linux community.