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First, why would the admins care about you posting this? Any way, please read my instructions. Installing it to your home directory IS the problem. You cannot possibly expect things installed to the /home directory to work. That's just not the way linux works. /home is for storing personal files and settings ONLY. First delete the direcotry it installed in, because that is just a waste of hard drive space. Then, download the proper RPM file here -----> https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/114...050401.i586.rpm That is the latest version of the best player. It's in RPM format so you can't do anything silly with it like install it to your home directory. Once isntalled, you can launch it from a console with the comand 'realplay'

Also, setting up the scanner part through the MCC, will prevent the printer part from functioning correctly. You should be able to sue the mcc, but you may find that the following things help. Just try the one that sound rpomissing to you, and see what happens, most are discussed on this board elsewhere(by me) You see I have a psc 1210, which is the same printer minus the front usb port and the photo tray. 1. Try with the mcc, by removing the scanner from scanner drake if you personaly set it up there, then removing the printer, and then reisntall the printer, telling mandrake it's a multifunction device when it asks. 2. Screw the mcc. Try setting it up manualy. 3. Update your kernel, as the first kernel mandrake releases with any version seems to consistantly break psc printer, wacom tablets and some USB mice, which are all fixed in the second kernel of each rellease. Don't ask why, I don't know, it's a mystery. Anyway, then repeat 1 or 2 or both. 4. Go to linux-printing.org There follow the links to the hpoj AND hpijs drivers. download the latest versions of both, manualy compile and install, then man ualy configure. This is a pain the first time oyu do it, but IMO, well worth the effort, as mandriva never includes all the printer files, and couldn't possible have the very latest versions of every driver every time no matter how hard they tried. It's just not reasonable to expect. 5. Search for post concerning the 1210 by me. I went through hell to get mine working back in the 9.0 days, and I've had various problems since. Now the PSC's are very well supported, and offer, IMNSHO one of the best cost/value ratios available in a home multi.

If you're using KDE, I reccomend, you go through the log-out procedure to end session BEFORE you kill the dm. Killing the dm 'shouldn't' ever cause a problem, but you never know, and loggin out of kde only takes a few seconds.

Too right. At that distance, you'd get better sound quality out of $50.00 headphones than $500.00 Hi-Fi's Small but high wuality is WAY better, not to mention how much space they take up. I use a pair of very compact Boston Acoustics that came with a Gateway I bought when I was 18. The sound quality up close is fantastic.

http://www.newegg.com Pretty sure they have dual layer burners and discs and I'm almost certain that k3b supports dual layer disks. These are of course more expensive than single layer disks, but as I said before, there are very few people out there who make copies of DVD's for legitimate reasons.

here is what you need to do if you tried to install realplayer to your hoem directory. Step 1. NEVER install programs to your home directory. Step 2. No really, don't isntall stuff there. Step 3. Simply delete it from your home directory, it won't work from there anyway. Step 4. Download the RPM package. DO NOT try to install from source or a binary isntaller if you don't know what you're doing. Do offense, but there is a reason so much software is available in rpm packages. Step 5. Once you have a proper RPM, install it. Usualy just double clicking the RPM will get the job done, but you will be prompted for the ROOT password. Step 6. Enjoy. The rest of this is a bit of an explanation. Things which are stored in /home are not normaly executable globaly. You can't install to /home and then just enter realplay in console and expect it to work. Niether can you expect your browser to be able to launch it, as only you have permission to play around in your /home When you install an RPM, the software is installed as the root user, to /usr or /bin or /usr/bin or maybe even /usr/local/bin depending on what flavor of linux you are using. The important thing is that those files, can be executed by all users from any location. Whenever you install anything that you want to be able to access globaly, you need to install it to /usr as root, because only that directory is globaly available, and only the root user has write priviledges there. So, use the rpm and let me knwo how it goes.

You might consider at leaqst trying cedega for that. It's also payware, but very inexpensive, as litle as $15 if you don't ever want updates, and it's MUCH simpler. It's doesn't require a windows install and it doesn't require a special kernel. Personaly, I've never actualy used win4lin, because it's simply too much trouble to deal with.

Part of the reason that the linux scene is lacking here, is that while there 'are' legitimate uses for that kind of software, they are few and far between, and 'most' people making so called back-up of their DVD's are realy making copies of rentals and so forth. Using services like netflix to make illegal copies of dozens or hundred of DVD's has become a comon practice, and few in the linux communityare in a hurry to be associated with that behaveior. Don't get me wrong, I'm not accusing you of anything, just trying to help you understand the lack of software. However, even k3b can make a 1 to 1 copy of a DVD, and I would imagine, that this would work on any DVD, though I may be mistaken, as I don't yet own a DVD burner. As for replacements, there are inclusive apps writen, like DVDrip and a few others that are available in PLF, but as suggested above, they will install not only themselves, but a small library of programs which work together to get the job done, if what you want is to rip the DVD's for making Divx files or disks, or some other use.

I think what he has is DSL---->internal DSL modem in linux PC -> second nic -> Xbox. My setup is exactly like yours, except the PC is hardwired to the router, and the Xbox uses WiFi.

I have had the greatest success with the helix version. The helix community actualy has released two players, their RealONE player, and the Helixplayer. I use the RealONE player from helix, and it's what I'd reccomend.

I wouldn't just move them, I'd get some smaller ones. You can very small speakers with great sound quality for very litle money these days. In all seriousness, I can't image speakers that big sitting on my desk. Also, comfortable input devices is always a must. I Use a Wacom Graphire for daily stuff, because it happens to fit my hand nicely. Find a keyboard and mous e that really fit you. Despite common belief, that are NOT all the say. Slightly diffferent inclines, different levels of tachtile feedback, and then there's the ergonomic ones, which ahve varying degrees of spread on them.

That is often caused by having a browser open when you install. Firefox checks for new plug-ins on launch, so it's pretty hard to mess up, BUT, if you have firefox open when you install, it may not work. I'd remove realplay 10, and any other versions that might still be installed, and when you're sure it's all gone, install the latest again with firefox NOT running. Beynod that, I'm not sure. These are really the hardest kind of problem to solve. When somebody get's on and says "I just isntalled linux for the first time, and games are slugish with my hot new nvidia card" we all know what to do, but when someone comes on and says, this perfectly well known program, that works flawlessly for 99% of people is not doing it's job, it can be a real nightmare to figure out what's up.

LOL, it was a joke. I was joking around, trying to get you to trade me your really beautiful LCD for my crappy old CRT monitor.

As for setting up the printer on the windows boxer, that's easy. First, make sure that the linux box and winodws boxes are all in the same workgroup. You'll notice my linux machine thinks it's in the MSHOME work group. If you have several windows PC's, it's just easier to let the linux box be on MSHOME, because it's the default for all windows machines. Then, on the windows machines, just open up the control center>printers>add a new printer and follow the dummy clicks for a printer attatched to the local network. It's really not tough, but if you have problems, I can help.

You don't need to see the cups stuff. If the printer works localy with cups, all youneed to share it is the proper samba.conf, and here's mine # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2005/04/14 16:30:49 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MSHOME server string = Samba Server %v security = SHARE encrypt passwords = No map to guest = Bad User guest account = stephen log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 dns proxy = No printer admin = @adm [homes] comment = Home Directories path = /home/stephen/SAMBAshare read only = No guest ok = Yes hosts allow = 192.168.0. [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. use client driver = Yes browseable = No [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers write list = @adm, root inherit permissions = Yes guest ok = Yes hosts allow = 192.168.0. [pdf-gen] comment = PDF Generator (only valid users) path = /var/tmp printable = Yes printing = bsd print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf "%s" "%H" "//%L/%u" "%m" "%I" "%J" & lpq command = /bin/true lprm command = lprm -P'%p' %j [psc-1210] comment = HP PSC 1210 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) path = /var/spool/samba read only = No create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes hosts allow = 192.168.0. printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. printer name = psc-1210 use client driver = Yes oplocks = No share modes = No You'll notice that this was generated by samba swat. (Samb Web Admin Tool) and I HIGHLY reccomend installing that. It makes life much easier when confrigureing samba. Let me explain a few of those lines. psc-1210 is my printer. It's actualy a multi function, but I can only print across netrwork. hosts allow as I have it will allow access to my printer from anyone with the ip addres starting with 192.168.0. which is fine because every computer in my house is in the same network group. You also need to be sure you have readonly = no, printable = yes, and unless you set up users on you machine for every winodws PC in the house, you'll want guest ok = yes. Enjoy

CABLES! It's a conder you can sit at that desk without getting snared and traped like a wild animal in all those loose dangling cables. YOu might invest $1.79 in a baggy of cable ties. Also, and I know this one is out in left field, but seriously, everyine knows that those LCD's are bad for workng on. They cause too much eye strain. Of course, I'm a generous guy so I'll tell you what. You just box that baby up and ship her on over to me, and I'll send you my CRT. It's a heart wrencher letting it go, but I could manage I suppose.

I have XBL, but I connect everything a bit differently. What you might consider, is contacting your DSL provider, and asking if they have an exterenal DSL gateway option, that is also a router. I don't know who your provider is, but there are many such devices. You can even buy them yourself at many computer stores, and they don't require any more configuration than what you've got now. Just be sure the one you get supports whatever exact connection type they're throwing at you. In my experience, this is a much easier way to configure the connection. On the PC and Xbox, you end up with a simple direct lan to the gateway/router and it doesn't really matter how well the PC and Xbox get along. You wouldn't need a ppp0, or multiple connections, or iptable or anything special at all. Mine (from qwest DSL) is a Netgear Wireless router, with one wired lan port. It sits in my office, connected to the PC with a cable, and connects tot he Xbox with the XBox WiFi adapter that you can get at Best Buy or anywhere else for $100 It's really a nicer way to go.

That's always a tough question. It inculudes many updated programs, and support for even more hardware. If you haven't actualy installed 10.1 yet, I'd say go ahead and get 2005. If you have 10.1, and you have to ask, I'd only upgrade if you think it will fix something that's wrong with 10.1

aioshin's response didn't seem wuite clear to me, so here's what I get from your post, and what I think you need to do. First, you REALLY need to include a little more info, it's really not clear what is wrong with your computer or what you want. I'm gathering from your post that you have installed mandrake in a dual boot setup, and encountered problems. You then tried to correct those problems by installing mandrake again, but they are still there, and now, you want to remove mandarke completely so that you can make a clean install. At the same time, since you're dual booting, you can't do anything that will hurt windows. If I'm right, read on. If I'm wrong, correct me now. Anyway, my first and best advice is this. Stop dual booting. Dual booting is the WORST way to learn a new OS. Windows becomes a crutch that prevent's you from ever learning. Of course, if you stop dual booting just because I said that, you'll be the first person to ever listen. My advice that answers your question directly, is this. Just reinstall as aioshin suggested, and when proptem for install or upgrade, choose install. Then, when you get to section of the instalation that asks you which partitions you want to format, format every partition EXCEPT your windows partition. That will do the trick. If that doesn't solve things, then the issue is bigger. Probably either bad instalation media, or incompatible hardware. Come back after you've tried, and let me know ow it goes. There's enough knowledge held by the member of this board, that if linux 'can' work on your system, we can help you get there. All you need is patience.

By the way, if you happen to decide to get a different multi-function, the HP PSC series is very well supported, and they start under $100

http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi is always a good place to look. Unfortunately, they don'tlist that particular printer. perhaps you can find a similar model, and use that driver to get ti rolling.

I'm just really confused by the lack of GUI for the install. It is possible to install without the GUI, but I've never seen it come up as the default instalation. Was this the mini-install version or something? Did you enter any unusual commands early in the instalation? As willard said, having XP in the boot loader list is TOTALY normal. If the mandrake isntaller detects a windows partition, it will automaticaly put a windows option in the boot loader. The idea being that it's easier to dual boot that way. Basicaly, my thought is this: I don't know what you installed, but it wasn't the regualr version of mandrake. I know that's not really useful, but it sounds like something went VERY wrong. My only suggestion, is to put the first disk back in, if you're sure it's actualy the full install of mandrake, and install again.

'Normaly' if you used an RPM from mandrake to isntall the new kernel, the old kernel will still be there, you just ahve to select it in lilo when you boot up. The boot section of the mandrake control center can help yo uconfigure which is booted by default. I you removed the 2.4, all you should have to do is open up the control center, and install it again.

I think the guys at Mandriva are using mdv. pretty sure that's what adamw's been using.

Well, it dosen't look like I did much to help, but I'm glad you got it working. Once you have all the different tools configured in your XF86Config, have a look at the settings for gimp. Once you get the tools working in the Gimp with pressure sensativity, it's fantastic.