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yeah, ME did that to me just last week. After installing, I reinstalled lilo from the 9.1 discs and went into diskdrake and found that ME was overlapping my / partition!! after crossing my fingers, i deleted the partition ME created and it didn't end up hurting my / partition. when I started over, and got it to work by creating the FAT32 partition in mandrake, then booting with a ME bootdisk and formatting that partition (FORMAT C: ) before installing. for whatever reason, if I didn't boot onto the bootdisk and manually format the drive, the install program seemed to go haywire and start overlapping other partitions. After the manual format, however, install went very smoothly. I mostly wanted ME because it is smaller than XP. I would've used 98 but it didn't want to recognize my firewire CD-RW. In a few months, I'll probably uninstall ME forever, but I need it to take final exams because the software the school makes me use only runs on windows.

i don't have a problem with my laptop, but just realized i've got something like 3 years left on the warranty. how do computer companies handle service on a laptop running linux? if i send in the laptop because the keyboard stops working, or the video card goes bad, will they first reformat the HD and do a clean install of windex before doing anything else?

i usually use evolution, but it's just personal preference. when i first installed, i looked at both and made an arbitrary decision. evolution is more like M$ outlook, but i never use any of the features in evolution other than as a plain e-mail client. your problem sounds like it's more likely on the university connection end of things than a problem with the email client... just open them both up and see if you like one over the other. there are a lot of other choices that people swear by too, including sylpheed and thunderbird--might wanna check those out, and delete 'em if you don't like them. p.s. don't sweat being a newbie, you're doing great for a dog :D

have you tried a browser like konqueror that lets you set the browser identification? (Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Browser Identification) It's generally frowned upon to use this all the time since then it looks like everyone's using windows, but it's easy to set it for particular sites. My bank, for instance, insists that IE is the only secure browser so they only allow IE to access user accounts. But konqueror gets in just fine with fake ID. :wink:

i can back chris up on this one... the tar files are just about foolproof AS LONG AS YOU FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS (there's only about 3 steps, so it's not bad at all).

wow, you're not kidding. i looked at some of the documents that i usually need to use word for (resume, etc), and they are spot-on perfectly formatted. this is a big release.

this is SO weird. i rebooted my desktop for the first time in a long while, and upon reboot i couldn't get ANYWHERE, it just gave me about 10 bazillion of the error message "ldm_validate_partition_table disk read failed" i spent about 4 hours poring over my lilo.conf, fstab, anything i could think of but couldn't figure it out. (the 9.1 install disks work as rescue disks in a pinch, but they don't have much in the way of useful utilities on them). borrowed someone else's computer and found this thread... and now the problem's solved. i unplugged my compact flash reader and it booted up just like always. the weird thing is that i'm SURE i've booted with the reader empty before, because I remember thinking it was cool that XP would never boot with the reader plugged in, but mandrake would. what could've caused the change? i suppose anything in the last few months since the last reboot? thanks to mtweidman for solving this problem 6 months ago :> (now if i'd only read this thread before)

make sure you have imagemagick installed. if not, as root urpmi imagemagick . convert is very powerful and i wish i had discovered it sooner. i use it all the time to get pictures ready to go on my website and it's much faster at rotating images than going into gimp each time. the man page has a lot of good info, but to rotate/tilt an image, you can convert -rotate 90 input.jpg output.jpg (if you just want to rotate it, make input the same as output) here's a good page of info: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/libr...raf/?ca=dnt-428

thanks for the heads-up! :D

i can't figure out quite what this process is, but it seems to be using all my CPU cycles on my laptop whenever i'm connected to a particular wireless network using LEAP encryption. (cisco aironet 350). what is causing this and what can i do to keep it in check?

ok, i realized that the tutorial above was for DATA cds. and i was copying an AUDIO cd. (duh). I finally got it to work with cdrdao copy --device 0,0,0 --driver generic-mmc --speed 4 --keepimage i used "--keepimage" because i was making so many coasters, i thought i'd rather not have to keep reading the audio cd over and over (wasn't doing it on the fly). for whatever reason, i think i was getting buffer underruns. it finally worked when i lowered the speed to 4x and closed everything else running that i could.

ok, weird. hopefully i just solved my own problem. i just tried it with a different brand cd-r (both 80 min, 700mb, and this time it worked. both brands worked under windows once upon a time, but fuji must work better under linux than prime peripherals. now it looks like i need to work on mkisofs... my cd burned but only had one big track and doesn't play right. i must've messed up making the ISO.

I've been through the tutorials (http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=4737) and still can't get my ML9.1 desktop to use cdrecord without errors. This is what I get. Can anyone see the problem here? hopefully it's something easy and stupid :) [peep@beepy ani]$ cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,0,0 test.iso Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'ATAPI ' Identifikation : 'CD-R/RW 24X10 ' Revision : 'P.MJ' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO RAW/R16 RAW/R96R Drive buf size : 1630208 = 1592 KB FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB Track 01: data 609 MB Total size: 699 MB (69:20.24) = 312018 sectors Lout start: 700 MB (69:22/18) = 312018 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 7 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable ATIP start of lead in: -11538 (97:28/12) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar) Manuf. index: 7 Manufacturer: GIGASTORAGE CORPORATION Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 47831 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in real TAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is OFF. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: 0 of 609 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 22.433s timeout 40s write track data: error after 0 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 27.471s Average write speed 151.5x. Fixating... cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 480s Fixating time: 0.002s cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. [peep@beepy ani]$

I've been having similar thoughts related to 9.2. I'm not jumping ship for another distro, but I'm perfectly happy with 9.1. I've been running linux for about 5 months now (all with MDK), but don't see any particular reason to upgrade. With M$ I was always excited and rushed out to get upgrades because there was the promise that things would start working again if you got the new OS. Now my computers already work :D Plus... in order to upgrade, I'd have to reboot, right? :) The only thing that I have problems with at the moment is my laptop's power management, but that's not even a huge deal. I almost feel bad. When I first installed 9.1 I was on this board every day, trying to solve a new problem I had caused. Now, a few months later, I still stop by MUB almost every day but rarely post anything because I don't feel competent enough to help people very much and I rarely have problems.

I'm not sure if the PowerShot S100 is an elph, but i think it is... I have the Powershot S200 and carry it EVERYWHERE. the elphs are small enough to stick in your pocket, tough enough to put up with anything, and take great pictures. My experience sounds exactly like crashdamage. I've looked at other cameras and I still think the elphs are the best cameras out there if you want a point and shoot to take with you all the time. Ours has been hundreds of miles on my bike, to the virgin islands, hiking all over the place. I do kind of wish I could afford a digital SLR... but I don't have $6000 sitting around at the moment :wink:

my problem isn't flux related. it's menudrake related :(

i also just upgraded to texstar's kde 3.1.3 and the problem is still here (empty kde control panel, kicker menu, etc).

I have very nearly the same problem. BobGuy's suggestion (update-menus -v) didn't seem to help. My K menu has nothing above "configure KDE" and the KDE Control Panel is empty. My application buttons next to the kicker are gone too. The menus are also all empty in gnome, but in other window managers (IceWM and Fluxbox) all the applications are in the menus. I installed fluxbox yesterday, but I think it was after this problem had occurred. I'm pretty sure that the problem started when I went into menudrake and tried to add a menu entry for MozillaFirebird. I had an icon for it already but wanted to have it on the menus too. Once I hadded it in menudrake, pressed save, then re-logged in, everything was screwed up. When I go into menudrake, as far as i can tell everything is still there. it just doesn't show up on the actual menu. ?

ok, i uninstalled lilo (lilo -U /dev/hda), used the windows cd to repair the mbr (with both fixboot and fixmbr), and still can't get windows to load. ALTHOUGH: i just picked windows from the lilo menu and let it sit there... after quite a while, it starts trying to load windows and eventually lets me pick safe mode/etc, but ends up rebooting after a while. so it's getting to windows, just not loading completely. i also get the little stripe at the bottom that windows shows when you're returning from suspend, but it usually takes about 5 seconds to load up... now after about 10 minutes it only gets about 1 inch of the bar. weird. maybe this is a question for a windows forum somewhere.

hmm, i removed lilo, repaired the windows mbr and it still didn't work :( i reinstalled lilo and mandrake is fine. maybe this will convince me to get rid of windows completely, although i like having it on there so i can format "important" things in word and make sure they look fine (ie, resumes, etc).

other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda so if i remove lilo, i can just get it right back by booting from the mandrake cd, right?

There are a lot of lilo threads and dual-booting threads, but I'm not really sure what to do... so I'm asking before I royally botch everything. I reinstalled 9.1 a few months ago, but never bothered to try to boot into winxp until today. If i pick windows from lilo, it just goes to a black screen and the hard drive churns forever. I can see the windows partition from within mandrake, so i know it's still there. It looks like lilo is in the hda mbr. should i have put it elsewhere, and does the windows bootloader need to be in the mbr? or what can i do to make windows bootable again?

this thread looks like old news, but it sounds like maybe you didn't install the drivers for the card?? i just got an aironet 350 pcmcia card and it works fine in linux. i used the drivers from the cd that came with it. i don't think there were any rpms included, i had to configure it from the command line, but the documentation laid it out step by step pretty well. i'm pretty sure this card won't work with drivers included in mandrake, you need to add others (just like if you want to use an orinoco card, or just about any other wireless card).

i think that particular mini-pci card does not yet work with linux, but broadcom is supposedly working on it. also... see here: http://www.petitiononline.com/BCM4301/ dell's stance is utterly ridiculous. i have an orinoco mini-pci in my laptop that worked fairly well, but bought a cisco aironet pcmcia card so i could use LEAP authentication. cisco's linux support is head and shoulders above most others. if anyone cares, cisco aironet 350 works great for me in ML9.1 on a gateway 200 (same as dell x200 and others). the drivers cd even contains linux drivers and utilities.

ahh, ok. i see how i can do what i want now. i had always been trying cannonfodder's method of drawing a box you want to crop. but selecting the crop button (as michel suggested) allows you to click outside the image and make a straight line across the image. you can then pick how much of the image to save from that line. i can't describe it very well so i'm not surprised nobody knows what the heck i'm talking about but this is the best way i've found to crop the top and bottom of a picture. thanks!