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Red Knuckles

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  1. How does one get PUP to work. When I first opened it the 'output' was: /dev/lp0 and the Printer was: Lexmark Optra 40/45. Neither is correct for me. I have a Printer: HP 3940 and it is located at /dev/usb/lp0. I opened PUP in root and was able to change 'output' to /dev/usb/lp0 but the drop down list for printers only contains 5 options unfortunately none close to my needs. Can anyone help me with this??? :wall:

     

    Of what use is a printer utility that only works with 5 models??? I must be missing something. Time to Google. B)

  2. If you installed documentation, you should find it on the menu under More Applications - Documentation.  If not, go into the MCC and use the Install Software option to search for packages which include 'mandriva-doc'.  Select the ones you need.  :)

     

    I did find a couple of docs to install. A 'Discovering Mandriva' and a 'DrakXTools User Manual'. I already had KDE Help Center. This should be very helpful. What I want to do is get my multimedia stuff configured as well as Azureus. Among other things I need to install win32codecs, libdvdcss, and Sun Java JRE-1.5. I think I know how to install them the next question is WHERE to install them. :headbang:

  3. When I installed Mandriva free the install CD's referred to something calle "Official Mandriva Linux User's Guide". Where do I find it? I have looked and will continue to do so. I need this or something similar perhaps compareable to "Stanton Finley's Installation Notes" for Fedora. Any advice out there? I guess what I am looking for could also be called a configuration guide. :help: It's time I read RTFM for Mandriva!!! :cheeky:

  4. I haven't been able to figure this out yet. I don't understand the French site enough to do anything with it. MozEx from Mozilla/Extensions won't install. It states that it is incompatible with my version of Firefox [1.0.6]. Which brings up isn't that a fairly old version of Firefox? How do I upgrade to Firefox 1.5 or even 1.0.7? :wall:

  5. Ok, I've got the packages installed and the KDE Desktop is up and running. The system configuration works as well now. It leads to a for pay service which I might be interested in AFTER I determine that Mandriva is my main OS. Right now I'm trying a number of systems [Fedora, Suse, and Ubuntu as well as Mandriva]. If I have to pay for all of them it could get quite expensive!!! :thanks: :D

  6. I managed to screw things up worse and had to wipe my HD and start over. I'm working on a Mandriva install right now but would like to install other distros on my HD [300GB]. What is best way to do that???

    Also during install I selected Icemv Desktop [not sure I spelled that right] rather than KDE. Can I switch it back to KDE??? If so How??? :thanks:

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