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I would imagine so. I'm at work right now and don't have my laptop with me so I can't check right now. I will give that a look and see. I do remember, though, that APM wasn't listed when I went into DrakXServices, so maybe it wasn't being used. Oh well, no big deal. I will get it working satisfactorily eventually. Thanks a lot for your help bvc.

Nevermind. According to http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc...pc/acpi/faq.htm this site, Q12, sleep/resume isn't implemented yet in acpi for Linux.

ok, that worked. acpi is started, acpid is running so that's good. Only thing is, it still doesn't put my laptop into sleep mode when I close the lid. It seems to shut the screen off, but it never powers down like it's supposed to. Any ideas on how to get it to do that?

here's what I get: BOOT_IMAGE=Mandrake ro root=306 quiet devfs=mount acpi=off I rebooted and got the same message about acpid not starting. I tried in MCC to start acpi and acpid, acpi won't even start. I click the start button and get nothing, no error message or anything. This is really strange. Do I need to create something like /proc/acpi/event ? It seems like that may be where I'm getting stuck, but I could be wrong. I don't know.

edit: nevermind, I figured that part out. What next?

I get that same error message at boot that I do when I try to start acpid from MCC Here is the code from /etc/fstab having to do with the /proc dir: none /proc proc defaults 0 0 I hope to get this working soon. I'm compiling a list of things having to do with the install on my laptop. When I do, I will post it on the web so that maybe someone can benefit from it.

ok, I did that, but when I try to start it (with MCC) I get an error: Starting acpi daemon: acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: No such file or directory [FAILED} Ok, I checked, and there is no directory or file /proc/acpi/event, there isn't even a /proc/acpi Yes, I have rebooted too, just to check. Now what?

ok, acpi is enabled, is that a good thing or no? I'm not sure. As far as acpid goes, I checked MCC -> System -> DrakXServices, but there's no entry for it. I assume there should be? What now?

Ummm....I'm not sure. I will check that out when I get a chance and tell you what I find. Did something change from the default install of 9.0 to 9.1? I didn't change anything (that I know of) when I installed 9.0 and it worked just fine.

Usually, when I close the lid of my laptop, it powers down and goes into suspend mode. This has been the same for Windows and for Mandrake 9.0 (although it causes strange problems if you do it when you're in X). I just installed ML 9.1 and the install went very smoothly, just as I would expect, but now when I close the lid, it stays on. I have tried it in X (Which produces very similar results as it did before, and at the command prompt (and the login prompt for that matter) but nothing has worked. Before you ask, Yes I have checked the BIOS and it is set to suspend on lid close and yes, it still works in Windows. Is this something new with XFree 4.3? Does anyone have any ideas? All I am looking to do is have it suspend when I close the lid after I have logged out of X, without having to shutdown the whole system. Anything would be helpful. Thanks

Thanks everyone for your replies. I was considering Gentoo, but the fact that I've buggered up every kernel recompile I've ever done (even when I was following DOlson's tutorial) is kind of keeping me away from that option. I may consider Libranet or Suse in the future, when I have some spare cash. Right now, I think I'm going to stick with Mandrake. I installed 9.1 on there last night after I had made a few posts and I think I'm going to stick with it for now. I'm still open to new suggestions from anyone, though. So far, the only thing anyone's mentioned are the major distros. Is soneone out there running a smaller one that he/she (yes, I know there are only 2 she's here) likes? I do have a problem that I ran into after my Mandrake install, but that's for the Laptop forum, though. Look for my newest post there if you're interested or may know the solution.

Is the 25% a limitation that is being set by something? What I would do is: 4-5 GB - 1st partition for Win98 ~20 GB (in either 1 big partition or 2 smaller ones) for fat32 data, apps, music, whatever the rest for Linux, making sure you have separate partitions for at least /, /usr, /swap (naturally), and /home.

That's just what I'm used to. I would like it, but it's not a necessity. I have looked into Suse and Libranet. I can buy Suse at Borders here in town. If I want to go Debian, there are other distros out there that are free, or at least have ISO's available for download.

One more thing, for now at least (I keep thinking of more things) ability to mount ntfs and fat32 drives automatically (like detect and create the /ect/fstab entries during install) would be nice. I know how to do it by editing the file myself, but I would prefer not to. I was thinking about Slackware. Does this have what I'm looking for? Some mini distros I have tried and their downfalls: ArkLinux - Will only install if there is unpartitioned space on the drive, or fully destroy any existing partitions to install itself, and even then; there is no partitioning tool, it creates one giant / partition and installs everything there. Alt Linux - Don't know, wouldn't install at all on my system. Red Hat - Installed, but not really what I'm looking for. Morphix - Runs off of a CD, so that's something new, but can also be installed on a hard drive. The thing I didn't like about it was that my mouse didn't work right off the bat. I probably could have made it work, but that wasn't a good sign for a mini distro in my mind. Perhaps for a more mainstream distro. Anyway, any suggestions would be great.

I am in the process of looking for a new distro for my laptop. I had Mandrake 9.0 installed on there, but I really want to try something new. I am keeping Mandrake 9.1 on my desktop, but I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations. Here are a few things that I would like: KDE 3.1(.1 ot .2?)- (I realize that there are other choices, but this is what I'm used to) RPM package capability (I use urpmi way too much), failing that; a means to install or update software graphically. Decent configuration options (I would prefer them to be graphical, I don't know enough to edit all of the config files myself) A good partitioner in the installer (so I can create the partitions I want) Graphical installation isn't necessary, but it would be nice. Sounds like I just described Mandrake and Red Hat, but I was wondering if there were any more out there that I may have overlooked. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. edit: to update some of the things I am looking for.

I just recently updated my gaim installation by using texstar's rpm for it. I have the texstar depository installed for urpmi, so all I did was urpmi gaim and it worked just fine. I think it did install something else as well, but I can't remember. If you go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ this site, it will generate all the code you need to add texstar and plf as urpmi sources, then all you have to do is copy the code they provide and paste (as root) into a konsole window and you're all set. Hope this helps.

lol

I saw this game the other day, but I held off on buying it. If there is a Linux port coming out, I will deinitely put down the $50US for it.

From the SCO website: ....right.....

I think that to run star office from a command line you would type staroffice in a terminal window. I could be wrong about this, it's been a long time since I've installed StarOffice and I don't have it on my machine currently. You could try typing star and pressting the tab key in the terminal window. That should tell you if that command is correct. If so, just make a link to a new application on your desktop, in the execute tab just type in 'staroffice' or whatever the actual command is, without the quotes. Choose an icon for it and you're all set.

The easiest way, at least I think, would be to create the folder structure wherever you wanted (like your home directory), but just create the ~/cvsproj/winex folders. Then cd to ~/cvsproj/winex and run the cvs grab from there. It will automatically create the wine folder when you do that.

Hey, if anyone wants it I have an icon for Americas Army. I copied it from a windows install and made it into a png. If anyone wants it, here you go:

I've always had a separate drive for Linux (dating back to my first install, Mandrake 7.0 on a 6 gig drive) so I never really ran into that problem. I know plenty of people that have, though,

Good point cannonfodder, I hadn't thought about that.

Writing to NTFS is risky at best, and extremely dangerous at worst. Your best bet might be to get a copy of Partition Magic (or something similar) for windows and convert the partition that your music is on to Fat32. If you don't have a separate partition for music, why not make one (if you have the space), PM can do that too if you want. Just a thought.