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Gnome faster? From personal experience KDE and almost all of Qt apps run noticeably faster (especially on older PC's, like mine, pentium 3 550 mHz). Gnome is much prettier, but for me KDE is more usable, although in past i preferred Gnome.

What about proprietary media codecs (WMA/WMV/mp3) ? Are they easy to get & install ?

I've rtied tdfx driver as well and various sattings, including screen size and refresh rates (vertical and horizonta). I installed other video card, and now it works fine. Thanks for attention.

Nothing, only resolution got smaller. Something else? What might cause xorg 7.0 not to work, while 6.9 works fine with same drivers?

Adding monitor sync rates doesn't help. The screen looks the same.

When i take a screenshot, the screen looks ok, that is why i use a camera.

Hi there, I posted a similar topic here earlier, but since then a long time have past, so I want to start from scratch. I've installed Ubuntu 6.06 (not the newest, but that is what got). It works great, even detects all my USB devices correctly. Only one little problem, the screen looks like this. Please help me solving this. My xorg.conf: # /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using # values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the /etc/X11/xorg.conf manual page. # (Type "man /etc/X11/xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.) # # This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only* # if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg # package. # # If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated # again, run the following command: # sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg Section "Files" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi" # path to defoma fonts FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" EndSection Section "Module" Load "i2c" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "stylus" Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to # /dev/input/event # for USB Option "Type" "stylus" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "eraser" Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to # /dev/input/event # for USB Option "Type" "eraser" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "cursor" Option "Device" "/dev/wacom" # Change to # /dev/input/event # for USB Option "Type" "cursor" Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo Banshee" Driver "vesa" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "L1750SQ" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo Banshee" Monitor "L1750SQ" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 1 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 4 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "720x400" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection

From XMMS to Audacious

Interview with Firefox Founder and Creator Blake Ross

That is what i use: [internet connection] | [ADSL router] | [wireless router]------cat5------[my PC] \---------------[brother's PC] \-------------[any other wifi computer] Works fine for me. I've paid only about 18$ for my wireless/cat5 router. Although it is not of some major brand (Level One) but it works fine and I never turned it off or restarted for a year and a half (since i bought it).

Very nice! What about Fedora ? :)

Fresh look:

Suppose you have a file with a code you wrote, lets call it "prog.c". To compile it using GCC, you shuld type in a konsole/terminal emulator the following: gcc -ld [i]/location-of-prog.c[/i] -o [u]name-of-binary[/u] Here how i do it:

By default GCC plugs in only the stdio.h, you should tell it to plug in other libraries. Try this: gcc -ld your-code.c -o file.name To learn more about GCC type "man gcc".

Uuhhmmmmm, not so sure about the bush x 2 pic...... :unsure: I'm sure about it. It's verry funny. It's political..... Don't start that again ! All I see there is a simple desktop image... And besides, it's kind of ok with mods and admins...

Try these: http://www.tuxfiles.org/ http://www.linux.org/lessons/

Gray tones... ...me trying to study... :D

I'm looking for an OSS than can draw graphs of various math functions like: sin(1/x), polynoms etc. Have any idea where to find one? Thanks.

Thanks man! Should have tried that myself...

I'm taking a programming course at my university where we learn the basics of C. We should use Windows and the old Borland TurboC++ 3.1. 1. I like turboC, but I'm using mostly Linux so i want to be able to code in it. So far i've tried Kdevelop and Anjuta. Is there something else more similar to turboC? With a good visual debugger? 2. In DOS you can run a program like this: C:\xxxx\ hello-world.exe < input.txt > output.txt How do i do this in a Linux console? Thanks.

Try this: linux installation. Somewhere in the middle of the page there is a link on how to setup samba on mandriva. Tell us how you're doing...

Red Hat response

In overall, linux is quiet suited for desktop use, but not every distribution. There are indeed some really easy to install and maintain distros like Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora and Suse. However, there are few that are tough nuts. Windows has only one flavor, you may like or not but it is common and relatively simple for average person's understanding, what contributes to its popularity in the masses. When i started with linux, i didn't know what to choose, so i thought to myself: "There are dozens of distros, what shall i choose? The hell, why bother at all, i don't need it." After a month or so, i decided do try Debian - big mistake. Debian was not intuitive, alien and weird creature. Even now, after using linux for about a year, i don't think i could configure it my way. Debian is great stable system for servers (just an example) but very not comfortable for a desktop use, in my opinion. Linux offers a lot of free software and that is one of its main advantages. Yet not all software is stable enough and meets all the demands. Some proprietary software are coded more professionally, better tested and suited better for a specific job. You also may get support from its creator. People who want to make money are interested that their software would be the best, so they make big efforts to assure this. OS developers are free of this bond and work hard, but with different ideology in mind. Correct me if i'm wrong, but in my opinion computer gaming is still (there is a decline however) one of the most profitable spheres of software business (see here). Linux indeed lacks support for games. You need third party software like Cedega to play some games if it is possible at all. Few have native support and those that have are underperformed in comparison to Windows clones. My conclusion: linux can be used on a desktop, but still it has to mature and undergo some improvements in order to get to the masses.

Well, they made a deal with a satan. In order to kill Red Hat, Novell came up with this dangerous alliance. Very interesting. Should we anticipate for some kind of Windows-Linux hybrid or a total annihilation of one of the software giants? I also wonder how Red Hat is going to react.

You can download the latest Thunderbird.tar.gz package from Mozilla and than untar it to a system folder or your home folder. I installed my copy in /usr/lib/thunderbird. To untar the package use your terminal: - type 'su' to become root type 'konqueror' or 'nautilus' (depending on what you prefer Gnome or KDE) to open the filemanager as a super user - navigate to thunderbird.tar.gz and right-lick on it - choose to open the file in default packaging program and then untar it to a desired location. tar.gz FAQ page I'm not sure, but maybe Mandriva has Thunderbird in its repositories, so you may try to install it by using urpmi: - open the terminal, type 'su' - type 'urpmi thunderbird' urpmi FAQ Good luck! P.S. since you are new, you have to add some mirrors to your urpmi so you can download extra software. Follow this how-to: How to add urpmi mirrors