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Is devfs enabled? You must configure /etc/modules.conf or /etc/devfsd.conf such that it loads the driver for your modem when you try to access it. I believe that all your hsfconfig program does is to load the driver and maybe do some mknod and little tuning.

- xfs doesn't provide antialiased fonts. Period. They are provided by a separate mechanism, which is even configured differently. - X in Mandrake configuration relies on xfs to get its fonts ( non-antialiased). So there could be no such thing as "kdm starting before xfs". X (and therefore KDM) just wouldn't start at all if xfs doesn't run. ( AFAIK ).

Why Lilo's? Please start calling things their right names :-) LILO graphic prompt is what you get before you boot Linux kdm configuration file ( /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc) is screwed. Have you tinkered with the "Login manager" part of KDE Control Center? It's an option there to show all users, or selected users, or all but no-show users. Most chances are that the "show all users" value got selected somehow. Being root is dangerous :-)

It will leave them there. I believe that Winamp for Windows supports ogg.

That has something to do with msec. There is a cron job for msec that runs hourly and changes all the permissions according to the requested security level.

You mean issuing each command manually? But you shouldn't. You may easily convert all of them by just one command. You need the command-line based convertor called mp32ogg - or whatever suits you better. Let's suppose all your mp3 files are located under /home/your_user/mp3 Let's even suppose there are subdirectories within that. The command will look the following in this case : find /home/your_user/mp3 -iname "*.mp3" -exec mp32ogg {}; It will nevertheless take some time, but you won't have to issue each command manually. man find This manpage will help you learn the options of the "find" command better.

Most chances are that you're using a graphical login, am I correct? If you succeed to see the graphical login window for more than several seconds, then XFree86 does run. It is your desktop environment that is screwed. Just re-install KDE. OTOH, if even the graphical login window doesn't show but for a few seconds, the problem may be completely different. Still, if the graphical login window does show, the problem is not with XFree86 as such not running ( for it does run), but rather with kdm ( or gdm, or xdm, whatever you use).

Try reading the manpages for "nfs" and "exports" man nfs man exports They describe all the options and have some good examples for mounting NFS shares.

There is no problem to use SAMBA to share between two linux boxes. CIFS is mainly for Windows, but not only. Largely, it's just another protocol. And if you want purely UNIX way, configure your boxes as NFS servers. NFS shares are easily mounted into the FS hierarchy tree.

OTOH : Unless your matter is to succeed to compile k3b by yourself :-), you may get it from here : http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...4-1tex.i586.rpm It is supposed to work, AFAIK.

Cooker RPM is not even supposed to install on 9.0. What is supposed to usually help is to download the source RPM from Cooker and then - rpm --rebuild path_to_it/k3b.*.src.rpm And then install the resulting RPM.

patch -p expects its input to come from stdin IN ANY CASE. It's just that with the < sign you REPLACE its stdin to come from a file and not from a console.

And then when within linux, make it ext3. Journalled filesystem, good-bye long fscks if the system crashed and such. Yes. It may be done several different ways - either transfer all your old /home into the new partition and mount the new partition as /home, or mount your new partition somewhere under /home/your_user. E.g, /home/your_user/huge_partition_for_music. Or use some other way, whatever suits you better. I'm not so sure that you can get rid of LILO. Linux needs some bootloader to boot up, period. Mandrake bundles LILO and GRUB as its bootloaders, and you may choose either one. OTOH, you may configure LILO not to display prompt and boot Linux within some very short timeout.

Add the following to /etc/modules : and the following to /etc/modules.conf And then run : depmod -a && modprobe ad1848.

If that is really so, just re-install BOTH parts of the NVidia driver - both kernel one and GLX one. It may be just well that the GLX part of the NVidia driver got overwritten by Mesa during the install.

I wouldn't recommend this way if it didn't work :-) Just don't forget that all channels are muted by default and that you need to unmute the MIDI channel to hear something.

Actually I have tried something like this in modules.conf, which did not work: post-install snd-emu10k1-synth /bin/sfxload some_path/8MBGMSFX.SF2 So, may I ask, what does "-V100" parameter mean here? man sfxload -V 100 means that the volume of the font is 100 %.

For example, it may be done like this : Put the following line in your modules.conf

In KDE 3.1, there would be KGet. Pretty good download manager, the only thing I miss in it is better integration with Konqueror, something along the lines of Mozilla download manager.

I've performed such test on my own machine. [alex@linux alex]$ ls -l somefile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 6 17:10 somefile [alex@linux alex]$ rm somefile rm: remove write-protected regular empty file `somefile'? y [alex@linux alex]$ ls -l somefile ls: somefile: No such file or directory [alex@linux alex]$ id uid=501(alex) You're surely wrong :-) . The file was created by root and nevertheless a regular user succeeded to delete it. Pure issue of directory permissions.

This is from my XF86Config-4 Section "Device" Identifier "RIVA TNT2" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" Driver "nvidia" Option "NoLogo" "True" That's what you need EndSection They have some littlle :) README both at their site and within the .tar.gz or .rpm. You may learn all the options, issues, tricks etc from there. More than that, THEIR tutorial ( they do have one, on the download page ) MANDATES reading this README as one of the installation steps.

Epson 760 via USB - prints without any problem. There used to be a problem around two years ago, but it was quickly solved ( Epson printers require some control sequence to be set to them so that they start receive jobs via USB, and this very fact was undocumented).

Yes, that's by definition. Just security-wise. If I'm not mistaken, telnetd may be configured to accept root login, but by default it doesn't.[/b]

They are called /dev/ttyS<number>, /dev/ttyS0, /dev/ttyS1 and so on. When devfs is enabled, /dev/ttyS* are links to /dev/tts/*.

Just another bug, don't cry, it doesn't hurt :-) Just mount it as /dev/sda1 ( in case you haven't got another USB storage device connected before), filesystem type is vfat.