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nope in the english version it's 'create new'>file>'link to location'. Of course, this is not as simple as in windows where you can drag and drop, but hey, it's a different OS. it does some things better, some things worse and most everything differently.

If you're not using proper nvidia drivers, I think it's highly unlikely that you will get the right behavior out of your dual head card no matter what you do. I think that needs to be your first priority. NOT your X config. One thing you might check, it what kernel version is running and what kernel source version is installed, there's a good chance they don't match, and that could cause your problem. Next, you should try and re-download the nvidia driver. make sure that you have the most current version AND that it's a good download. A corrupted installer could cause all sorts of mysterious errors. Also, try the following: ctrl-alt-F3 root (or su to root if your allready logged in there) service dm stop rmmod rivafb (now re-install the nvidia drivers) modprobe nvidia service dm start ctrl-alt-F7 The reason is that the nvidia module does NOT play nicely with the rivafb module which 'may' be getting loaded automaticaly. If by some chance that fixes it, then you know that's the problem and can go about finding a permanent solution.

Wow, I guess I didn't read that closely enough, oops. oh well, so i guess that still totaly fails to explain a darn thing. Oh, and the geek dictionary is called the jargon file. http://www.jargon.org I would guess, mind you, this is puely 'talking out of my ass here,' that it has to do with the sneakiness of daemon programs. Particularly as described in that deffinition. The idea of a demon waiting for you to do something bad so it can jump out, grab your soul and scream 'gotcha!" Kind of the way some daemons work, they sit around and wait for an event and then go boo. there's actualy a number of windows virii that opperate as daemons, waiting for you to do something seemingly harmless like open c: in explorer or try to reboot your computer that then suddenly activate and kill your box.

I should point out that the 5% 'other' is in all likelyhood mostly linux, and I would venture to guess that 1/4 linux users or more have their browsers report themselves as ie6 in XP.

Yup, here's two dictionaries: 1: 2: and now the geek def. In all likelyhood, there is no relationship what so ever between the middle english spelling of demon (daemon) and the acronym d.a.e.mon.

congradulations, few people can install those drivers as new linux users, by the time I was confident in my ability to get them running, i had long since bought a hardware modem. Since it's dialing, the issue is not driver related, and at 'standard' it's not a security issue either. Most likely, you are either using the wrong authentication protecal or the wrong login information. example: Let's say I had MSN internet service with the email address VeeDubb@msn.com. (I don't have msn any more, but i used to) Anyway, you'd think my username would be VeeDubb, or maybe VeeDubb@msn.com, but what I had to use for a login was MSN/VeeDubb Well, actualy VeeDubb wasn't my msn name, so it was something else, but you get the gist. So what ISP are you using? don't post your username or pass, just the name of the ISP and hopefuly someone will be able to help you out.

No, it DOES NOT "emulate a windows environment" Sorry, take a look at how the program works, won't bother replying again, it does not do anything that even vaguely resembles emulation is you understand what emulation means. Realy Tyme, I expected more accuracy from you, :lol: Let me explain more clearly, for what I promiss will be the last time for me in this thread. Example 1: When you load up a rom image for metroid in a program like Nesticle(An NES emulator) The program 'metroid' is running on a virtual machine, which functions in a manor very similar to a real NES. That NES in turn is actualy a program that is running on your computer. Nice in that every thing will function perfectly given a well coded emulator and an adequitly advanced real computer, but the downside is of course that the more advanced the machine or system being emulated, the worse it will run. Example 2: When I play Tribes2 on my linux desktop with cedega (I tried to buy the linux port, I swear I did, but it's not available anymore) It is running in Linux. Not virtual windows inside of linux, which would seriously reduce proformance just like an emulator, but it is runing all by it self, directly in linux, with full resources and real access to the acual computer. Meanwhile, cedega sits in the background, and when ever tribes2 tries to ask for a windows specific item, let's say "C:\Dymanix\Gamedata\base\base.vl2" cedega simply changes that to /home/stephen/.transgaming/c_drive/Dynamix/Gamedata/base/base.vl2" It does the same things for library and api calls. It doesn't emulate windows or a windows environment, it just redirects things to the right locations, ecause the truth, as we all should know, is that linux can do anything windows can do and in many cases it can do much more. The software doesn't translate because it isn't smart enough on it's own to know what to ask for in linux. These two examples are perfect examples of emulation and a compatability layer respectively. They are CLEARLY very different on a deeply fundamental level. That is that, in an emulator, you have a piece os software that pretends to be another system, and in wine/cedega, you have a background program that simply acts as a translator so software can run natively. I swear, if i didn't shave my whole head every day, I'd have pulled the hair out anyway.

Yup, sorry SS, WINE is no way an emulator. It doesn't do any of the things that an emulator does. All it does is provide libraries for Windows API calls to be translated in to Linux API calls. Not one architecture to another.

I realy have to disagree with you this time, Tyme. :lol: you'r looking at it all wrong. It's not that nVidia is the way to go if you're using linux, it's that nvidia is the way to go, PERIOD! I've built a lot of computers. I've used a handful of ATI's some matrox's and many, many nvidia. And you know why I keep coming back to nvidia? Because they work. Windows (any version) linux, (nearly any version) it all works. I've never stuck an nvidia video card in a mobo that should have supported it and not had it work. I've never been unable to find a good driver. My Fiance's vidoe card in her laptop (non-upgradable of course) is an ATI and the driver is actualy OLDER than the laptop and there are no new updates for the driver. Nvidia on the other hand, is constantly releasing new and better drivers. And while i know it was someone else who said it, I feal I should mention the whole, more bang foryour buck with ATI lie. That's right, i called it a lie. i see these idiotic comparisons all the time between the latest and greatest ATI at some great sale price vs. the GeForce4 at it's original msrp. Yeah that's nice, the new ati is a better deal than a 3 year old video card at bleeding edge prices, duh. If you compare comperable models of ati and nvidia, you will find that nvidia is realy only a litle more expensive, and vastly superior. The other problem is that people go look around Fry's and they see an ATI9600, with 128MB or RAM that's been on the shelf a few years and is down to $200 and they see a GeForceFX5900 Ultra that hit the shelf last month for $300-$350 and they don't understand that just because both have 128MBof memory they are NOT comparable cards.

"SO...Athlon XP 2200+ is better than a Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz...right? :P" Yes, you're deffinately right. "2200 is the speed...2.2GHz, right? Or am I understanding that wrong..." You're sort of right. Those number that AMD uses are are comparison based numbers. a 3000+ is not 3ghz, but is just a litle faster in real life than a P4 3ghz. It's actual clock speed however, is much lower, like 2.17ghz or so. "I got 3 games I wanna be able to play on this comp when I'm done (one I can't even play on my family's (brother's :P) newer comp because of the stupid graphics card) and need 1.8GHz for one of 'em" That 1.8ghz requirement listed on the box is based on the p4 inall likelyhood, so an AthlonXP1800+ which runs at something like 1.5ghz should work just as well. However, let me give you some advice here, never waste money buying a CPU that is 'just fast enough' because in 6 months it will be too slow. You should should always buy the fastest hardware you can justify financialy. Of course, that will vary from person to person, but keep in mind, better ahrdware today means fewer upgrades tommorrow. "Athlon XP mobo and XP 2200+ CPU will work ok with Mandrake 9.2 and 10.0? No Driver or other problems?" Of course. As far as 99.99999% of all software is concerned the Athlon XP and P4 are the same chip. The difference is proformance, price and stability.

Many people ahve long labored under the very false impression that clock speed has more than a vague connection to proformance. Here is the difference between AMD and Intel CPU's. AMD's are far cheaper for a similarly proforming intel CPU, not same clock speed, but same total processing power. An Athlon XP 3000+, despite the slower clock speed, is labled as the 3000+ because it can OUTRUN an Intel P4 3ghz. As an example, at newegg, the p42.8ghz starts at $129 but the AthlonXP 2800+, which proforms better, is only $121 This lower clock speed means they are not quite as expensive and also means they don't work quite as hard, consequently they last longer and are more stable and even require less cooling. Of course, I'm sure you're asking yourself, "Then why are they so popular?" And it's a good questions that I can answer. Once upon a time, Intel kicked the crap out of AMD, they made better processors, and the only reason AMD could even stay afloat was that AMD didn't spend a dime on advertizement and beat their prices a litle bit. But then AMD started making beter CPU's and Intel, in their infinite wisom, decided to rush the P4 out the door well before it was ready and since then, they have simply cranked up the clock speeds without addressing the fundamental flaws in design. How have they gotten away with it? Simple, they've taken a page from the book of Gates and crushed every single competitor except AMD, who they can't crush because of AMD's superior product and firm hold of their market share. Intel has also forced and manipulated all the major manufacturers into contracts prohibiting them from using any other CPU's, just as MS has done with Windows. And why, you might ask, do I feal I know what the heck I'm talking about and just what gives me the nerve to correct people? Well, a substantial portion of my anual income is from building custom PC's for private companies and I have built a lot of computers with AMD and Intel CPU's. I decided a year ago that I would no longer build computers with Intel CPU's or chipsets as they require replacement far more regularly.

for your convenience and the use of any other programs with might want to access themodem directly, you should create a symlink called /dev/modem that points to /dev/ttyS0 I don't know why the mandrake installer sometimes fails to do this, but it's easily corrected. Of course, if all you use your modem for is internet via kppp, don't worry about it. But any fax or telnetting program will look at /dev/modem by default.

come back and let me know whether or not you got it working and if so, just how well. As in, all buttons with usefull funtions or basica functionality etc.

The first thing to get out of the way is 'instalation'. Basiacly all you have to do to install a serial modem in linux is plug the thing into a serial port, an outlet, and a phone jack, then create a link from whatever serial port it's connected to (usualy /dev/ttyS0 if you have only a single serial port and it's attatched to you motherboard directly). That's it. If you've done that, it's installed. And best of all, that symlink is NOT required if using kppp, you simply tell kppp to use the correct serial port and symlinks be damned. Now that the least likely problem is taken care of, I suggest you post your error mesage so folks will have a fighting chance of helping you. It would also be VERY helpful if you mentioned what ISP you're having dificulty with.

Welcome to the boards. Let me start with a little tip on getting help. The best thing you can do is look around. If you were to use the search feature OR even read the titles of just the very first page of hardware questions, you would have found the folllowing thread which posses TWO ways of configureing more compllex mice. The first with a nice GUI based app and the other through the command line and a text editor. Look here -----> http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=16246 All that being said, it seems that this is purely a configuration issue. If it was unrecognized hardware, you probably wouldn't get the scrol to work. The second thing you can do is update your kernel. This can be done through the mandrake controll center. I won't waste the time to say how since it's REALYU well discussed on the board allready if you just look around. And of course, if you get stuck anywhere, folks are always happy to help as long as you're doing your part. (i.e. searching and reading and then asking the most inteligent questions you can)

Better yet, try https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/485...040615.i586.rpm It actualy IS real player. to be specific, it's the RealONE player, which as far as i know is th latest from Real Media. Runs like a charm. All you had to do was click the search button above and search for Realplayer. the fourth hit was a thread anouncing it. See here -----> http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?sho...=0entry114005 Works like a champ. Far better than mplayer with the real codecs in my opinion as it plays ALL RealMedia content without fail, and mplayer only plays 'most' of it in my experience.

Oh, and for the record, for the 1 billionth time, Wine, WineX(now cedega) and crossover office are ABSOLUTELY NOT EMULATORS!!!!!!!!!!! Glad I got that out of my sytem.

Yes, but I don't know how. Seriously though, this has come up before, and it is certainly possible to map those buttons to usefull functions, but I seriously have not ever figured out how. Of course, I don't have a 5 button mouse, so why would I bother to figure it out??? Just search the hardware forum for 'mouse' it'll be in there somewhere.

it probably is the driv, but I had to put maybe just because with that kind of power fault there are so many things that 'could' have been damaged. By the way, isn't it 'slot 1' and not slot A?? thought it was slot 1 or socket A

If gaming is what you care about, there's two sites you need to have a look at. The first is http://www.tuxgames.com/ If there is a native linux version of a commercial game, they sell it. Period. You should always check there first. The other is cedega (formerly known as WineX) at http://www.transgaming.com They also have a public forum at http://www.transgaming.org/forum Cedega is the only viable solution for running most windows games in linux at the present time. win4lin I'm told is good for many games that don't have huge system requirements and okay for others, but the only way to get true native speed with a windows game in linux, is cedega in all my experience. it's not free though, to get access to the support forums and downloads you need to pay $5.00/month and the first sign up is a 3 month minimum, so it will cost you at least $15.00, of course that's not bad when you consider the next best thing is win4lin at $89.00

As far as I know, if you want 3d accelleration in linux, you only have two choices. 1. nvidia, and almost all of them work due to the awsome nvidia linux driver support. 2. ATI, just as good in terms of quality (debatable) but the driver support is not nearly as good. If I'm wrong here I'm sure someone will correct me in no time

well, that's what I had in mind. I know about the unavoidable price drop and a friend of mine who plays a lot more games than me wants to buy an FX once the 6800's come, so my question remains, which of those two fx chip set is better. I couldn't find any usefull info at nvidia.com

I want everyone's opinion on which video card to buy. All else equal, is the GeForceFX5700ultra or the FX5900XT a better card. both agp-8x, both good manufacturers, both 128MBddr, both retail packages with similar included software. I just want to know which chipset it better.

Gowator and CrashDamage. I'm very glad to hear that your experiences with x86 emulation have been more possitive than mine. However, my experiences are far from unusual, let alone unique. I recently tried the trial of VMware and after 4 days of tinkering, I managed to get an install of windwosXP that would boot into safe mode. WIndows95a AND 95b both failed entirely to reccognize all of the virtual hardware, even after installing the powertools. 98se refused to install all together, and XPhome isntalled fine, but config.sys magicaly dissapeared on every reboot. I don't currently have access to WindowsMe. Win4lin, I have not been able to try, I am simply repeating what users have told me. As Crashdamage confimed, many people told me that it runs better than vmware, but having attempted to get it running, I hold fast to my assertion that it is not easy for new linux users to install. Wine and cedega are also far from perfect. I my self have to run both of them to get all the windows apps I care about running under linux, and not all of them run well. Crossover office, like all the others, falls far short of perfect. By their own admission it won't actualy run microsoft office, despite that being the primary focus of crossover. It will only run certain office components. The real point anyone should take away from this thread with them is that running software made for one opperating system under another system is problematic at best, and is often simply impossible.

To expand on tymes response, vmware, and win4lin, to put it very politely, suck. Well, they suck for most applications anyway) Basicaly, take all the specs for your system, cpu speed, ram and so on, then divide by four. That's how it will run on your system at the very best. This is okay for testing software and doing simple tasks, but for most games and most current office software, they're largely a waste of time. Also, they are not the easiest to run. They are basicaly for people who MUST use window but are too stubborn to just dual boot. They have their place, but it's not on the average desktop. vmware, is by far the easier of the two to install, but it can be dificult to maintian a stable virtual machine. win4lin on the other hand, is a bloody nightmare for those new to linux to install as it requires a special kernel and all kinds of nutty stuff. However, I'm told it is more stable once opperational and performs a litle better. There is a third in this category called bochs (or something like that) It won't run anything like windows XP (as far as I know) but it will run some versions of linux in a window as well as DOS, win3.1 or win95) It seems very configurable and could be made to run reasonably fast but it's VERY complicated to configure. frankly it's well above my head. The second option is frequently called emulation, though, that is not a proper name. Emulation is what vmware and win4libn do. It implies a virtual machine, and wine and cedega do NOT use any form of emulation. They work with a set of libraries that translate windows API calls to linux API calls, and provide direct access to your hardware. This is NOT emulation. Wine is 100% and completely free. Current versions, with a litle tweaking to the config files, will run a large selection of non-3d software and a small selection of 3d games. Specificaly, it will run games that use older versions of OpenGL for 3d and DirectX for 2d such as Half Life. Cedega, which was called WineX untill June 22nd of thise year, is not quite free. Cedega is based heavily on Wine, but includes support for most directX games all the way up to DX9. That INCLUDES 3d, so may new games run just fine, but as always, there a catch. There's 2 versions of cedega. The first is free. You have to use a protecal called CVS to download the source and compile and install it. Of course, this free version is crippleware. I does not include but half the 3d support, and none of the CD copy protection support, so it's basicaly worthless. To access the download server for the other version, you have to subscribe to http://www.transgaming.com for $5/month and you have to pay 3 months up front. This version of course includes all the bells and whistles, and comes precompiled and packaged in a number of common formats including .rpm I have a transgaming subcription and have had it for a some time now. Personaly, I think it's well worth it. There are other programs based on Wine, including crossover office and one or two others.