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I am thinking about buying a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop soon, I was wondering if anyone has had luck installing Mandrake on this particular laptop. I have checked www.linux-laptop.net but I only find info on the Inspiron 8100. Does anyone have 9.0 up and running on this laptop? If so, is there anything I need to watch out for? edited to fix the link

I did issue the make mrproper command, just before I did the make xconfig (the only difference between what I did and DOlson's tutorial), but I did something with automount and ipv4(?) and it's giving me all kinds of errors when I boot. I'm going to try to get it fixed; hopefully I will be able to do it without reinstalling.

Thanks for the info, I think I fubar'd my kernel when I tried to recompile it last night. That'll teach me to start these things at 3am. I'm going to have to try to rebuild it from init 3 becaust I don't want to try to start x this way. I can't seem to get the old kernel to boot either. I don't want to reinstall, I want to get this figured out without having to resort to a reinstall. I was getting some weird errors during boot. I didn't catch them, but I think I disabled something that I shouldn't have. At least I still have the default config files, so I can rebuild from that.

Also, I've read somewhere that the quality of the media that you are trying to use might not be readable by older drives. A re-burn might fix your problems there.

I'm going to try recompiling my kernel soon. I have read several places that I need to reinstall my nvidia drivers after I do this. My question is: Do I have to uninstall the nvidia drivers before I recompile the kernel? If so, do I just issue the rpm -e command? Also, do I have to recompile both the nvidia kernel and the glx module or just one or the other? This is the first time I have done this, so I want to know what I'm going to have to do for display drivers before I start. Thanks

billforce copy the file from the floppy to somewhere on your /home drive. You can do this in any graphical desktop just like in windows. Open up a terminal window as your user and cd to where you copied the file to. ie cd /where/you/put/the/file once you get there, type in ls and hit enter. If the file appears in the window, you're good. next, type tar -xzvf program_name.tar.gz After that is finished, cd to the program_name folder. Once inside, type ./configure, this is just as MottS said, it will check to see if you have all the necessary items for the install. We'll assume you do and go on next type in make This will build the program, it may take some time. Once that is done, type in su (enter) and enter your root password at the prompt. Once you are there, type make install to switch back to your normal user. from there, you can type in the program name from a terminal window to start the program. Hope this clears up some confusion you have. Post back if you have any more questions.

you are right, they should, but you never know. I didn't know about the nodma option either. Give that a try and see if it works out for you.

I would open your case and check to see if everything is seated properly. I had a similar problem with another os on a friends computer. Turns out that the IDE cable wasn't seated properly. If you rule that out as a cause of the problem, do you have another cd drive that you could swap into that box and try that? Perhaps the problem lies with the drive. Saying that you had NT on that box previous to the attempt at installing mandrake just means that the hardware worked previously, it doesn't rule out the possibility of the cpu slipping, or one of the cables getting loose. Open up the case and see if something is loose; it's at least a place to start.

Thanks MottS. I will give it a try as soon as I get home from work. 4 1/2 hours to go.

Thanks a ton. I will have to try that out when I get home from work. I think mine would be 32x32, so I will start there. Do I have to restart the kicker after I change the icon?

I think it has to do with whatever icon is set as the k menu in whatever theme is installed. I could be wrong, though. I'm going to try some things and see if I can get it changed.

I have RTCW running just fine under 9.0, sound and everything. Not sure why you don't have any sound. I didn't change anything on my install except where it installed the game to.

I did the same thing, it installed (at least on my machine) to /usr/local/mozilla (I think, I'll check when I get home). From the readme file, I saw that you have to run the ./mozilla file from taht directory as root first to configure everything for user support. After that, just make a new link (desktop, kmenu if you're using kde, wherever you want it) to the shell script in /usr/local/mozilla and you'll be all set. As I said, I will double check this when I get home and post if the directory is different than the above mentioned. edit: I did check when I got home, and it is in fact the /usr/local/mozilla directory that the textar rpm installs to (maybe this is the default, I'm not sure) but if you follow the above directions, you should be ok.

This may not be the right forum for this, but I'm going to put it here anyway. If it needs to be moved, moderators, by all means; please do so. Is there a way to change the icon for the kmenu in KDE without changing the whole icon theme? I have searched for an answer to this question, but I can't seem to find one. I would really appreciate it if someone could push me in the right direction. Thanks

not exactly an answer to your question, but I use gtk-Gnutella and it seems to work just fine for me. I think I got it from Tucows.

MOttS - I tried lm_sensors, but I am getting the same problem that many of the other posters on those threads are getting, it is only displaying the RAM and not the CPU temp or fan speed. After a check of the LM Sensors website, I found out that only my south bridge controller is supported right now (VIA VT8233), the north bridge chipset (VIA VT8366) is not listed as being supported. Oh well. Anyone know of another program that would do the same thing that supports the VT8366 chipset? I really like the idea of integrating it into GKrellm, if only I could get it to work.

sounds like a good program. I just ran a little search and came up with a couple of alternatives (just like an article I read said, 1 program for Windows; many for Linux) that might work out for you. http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/linuxs...uxsm04.000.html Try these and see if one of them does what you are looking for. Let me know if it helps. By the way, how are you seeing your cpu temp? The only way I know of is to reboot and look at what the bios temperature readings say.

you're right billforce, it doesn't. If you read my first post in this thread, I was just as interested in the software that you mentioned. I happened to mention that I was running hot as well and have a lot of case fans, that's how we got off on this tangent about cooling. My question for you is, what exactly does Vcool do that lowers your processor temp by that much? It would seem to me that if the processor was running at the same speed/cycles as it did before you installed Vcool, it would still be at the same temperature. I'm curious now.

4 in the front as an intake, 2 blowing out the back and 1 blowing out the side. No cutting involved, case I have (similar to this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...4&category=3669 came with the spots for them.

I would love to have a program like that. My cpu runs extremely hot as well (60+) and I would love to figure out how to make it cooler. (I already have 7 fans in the case, not including the cpu fan)

no problem. I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who had that problem. :D

just install the zip utility with rpmdrake. I think it's on cd 1, but I could be wrong. Go to install software in the menu and type in zip. You'll be all set after that.

I missed something too, I hate to see you leave DOlson. I am currently dual boot Mandrake 9.0 and Windows XP Pro. I haven't booted into Windows in a couple of months now, except to play NWN. When the client for that comes out, I'm done with Windows.

I think that news post alone is enough for me to go out and buy the First Encounter. It will tide me over until the Second Encounter is released; which, as the message states, will hopefully be sometime in the future. Hopefully it will be closer to the near future.

These are aall good suggestions, but maybe I should explain what it is I'm trying to do. I am trying to make the 2 scripts I found here: http://www.a500hacking.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=510 work. It will allow me to download stuff to my phone. I don't know if I can edit the mime types of the firmware browser on the phone, nor do I know how to hold down a shift key. the application/octet-stream idea is a good one, but where do I put that?