DragonMage

As far as I know, this is one primary weakness in Gnome desktop. A usable dialup program similar to kppp. Gnome-ppp hasn't been updated since the 1.x days. Heck, RedHat with its default gnome desktop has its own dialer. Anyway, you can use kppp for dialup even if you are using gnome desktop. It will just be well.. weirder since the blinking lights will not go into the system tray. If you want something more universal, try wvdial but it's a command line dialer.

Yow.. this kind of question should be directed toward another board entirely, since everyone has different opinions of what good CDRs are. Personally, I think el-cheapo CDRs are good enough as long as you burn it in low enough speed. Besides, it's a burn once only media anyway. Personally, I don't think it's worth it to pay as much as 5 times more to buy a brand name for something you only use once. Now, if you are burning Audio CDs, or you are looking for CDRWs, then a trusted name like sony and TDK is better since you will use it again and again..

There are a few things that make a CD not bootable. 1. Go into your computer's bios, and make the first boot drive the CDROM drive. To do so, you need to press a key during bootup (like F1, Esc, or Del). 2. The cd is burned wrongly, so it doesn't boot. I don't think Mandrake 10.1 is available in ISO format yet unless you are a MandrakeClub member. Ask your friend to reburn the cd in slower speed, or burn it properly. And tell him/her to check whether the cd is bootable in his/her computer.

It's very possible. In fact I have been doing it since I have a second hard drive to play around with :) Anyway, to do so, during installation in the partitioning section, just put your mandrake partitions into your second hard drive.

From what I read, it seems to be primarily a KDE / arts problem. Have you tried disabling arts from KDE Control Center? Have you tried using a command line player like mpg123 to test whether sound works? Use Aumix to adjust sound.

I thought Mandrake was in the black since a couple of financial terms ago. Does the report for the whole year or something?

If you are using KDE, just pressing delete will move the files into trash, so you need to empty your trashcan every so often. Usually, I just use shift delete to delete the items permanently

The news is not that surprising. According to a CCTV news story I watched a few months ago, the Chinese software developer has been complaining about the monopoly Microsoft is holding (and if my dad is translating it from Chinese correctly, they actually accused Microsoft of "stealing" their research when creating a Chinese version of Office). I guess the Chinese gov't listened to them and now emphasizing local products first by choosing Red Flag Linux and Kingsoft WPS

I have heard of people having problem installing FC3 due problems in Anaconda. Not even text installation fixed it. I want to try FC3 but news like this is not that good.

The Chinese WON'T get MS or any other company (foreign or local) get that kind of power over any kind of industry. While the Chinese economy has becoming a lot more free in the recent years (in terms of economy, it is a actually a capitalist nation), once a company try to get into the politics, the government will stop them cold. For example, recently, some US companies (including McDonald's I believe) got fined pretty heavily for violating Chinese labor laws (something about vacation/work time). So in China, they welcome your business as long as it doesn't mess with the gov't.

I find that Mepis is a better distro than Knoppix to explain what Linux desktop can be. The only problem with Mepis is that it still doesn't eject the cdrom after rebooting, so you can be stuck with running Mepis over and over (if you are not careful). Otherwise it's a slick distro, but not as complete as Mandrake (what do you expect? It's only one cd).

I am not in my Mandrake box right now, so it's basically a guess. Check whether the parallel port module is loaded. If it is not, load it and then rerun printerdrake. (The thing is, I forgot the name of the module for parallel port, but I'm sure you can search for it yourself, or someone else could help in you this regards).

I found out that buying a DSL modem with built in firewall/switch/router would prevent lots of problems later on. They can be bought for about about $100 nowadays. Instant networking too :)

It's quite simple in Indonesia really. All you have to do is go to a local computer shop/mall and you can probably buy the cd for about 5 dollars (pirated of course) As for me, even $100 computer is too expensive for the majority of the people here. But we try to manage using old computers and install Linux in it :)

Hmm.. it does seem to be the info I am looking for :) Anyway, as soon as I have access to the computer with the data cable, I will try to do it. Anyway, ArTee, if you are there, can you tell me the exact step by step method to compile a single module?

Ok here is a situation I have. I have a USB to Nokia data cable that is supposedly supported in Linux. The linux module is named pl2303. Now as it turns out, the data cable I have is actually based on a newer revision of the Prolific Chip called pl2303-X. If I use the default Linux module, basically it won't run. After a bit of searching, I found a patch for the the driver that is created for Suse kernel. So my plan is that I will replace the Mandrake kernel source's pl2303.c and pl2303.h with Suse's and then patch it. However, I find that recompiling the whole kernel just for a stupid module is not something I want to do (not to mention I have to recompile other drivers like NVidia and winmodem). So my question is, is it possible for just recompiling that one module and then install it in my current kernel? If so, how to do it? Note that if it is not possible, then the only way is recompile the whole kernel. I am not afraid of recompiling my kernel if I have to (in fact I have done that quite a lot before). I just don't want to spend a couple of hours just for one stupid module :) Thanks in advance.

Nice work.. too bad downloading this iso could take days for me. But I'll try testing it if I have the time

I used to test distro a lot back in the States. The reason is that broadband and CDRs/CDRWs are cheap so I can test different distros easily. I even remembered downloading 7 isos of 3 different distros (mandrake, redhat, and storm) in one day and then testing them in the next. Now that I am not in the States anymore, I cannot test distros anymore. No broadband, no testing. Although I managed to test a couple of distros in the last few months.

And the response is already available here http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041121124609671 But face it.. there are tons of forks in Linux already. There are kernel version forks for example (2.2 vs 2.4 vs 2.6) and then there are distro/people forks such as mandrake kernel, vanilla kernel, fedora kernel, tmb kernel, etc. And the linux world still hasn't come to an end since most of those forks go back from/to the main treeline :)

Bah.. I haven't seen anyone sued for using Linux yet in Asia. On the other hands, I have seen tons of people getting sued for using Microsoft products (pirated of course) :)

Well.. you have to do it physically I'm afraid. Change the jumpers at your CDRW to master and your old CDROM to slave.

By default, urpmi and its graphical front end rpmdrake will erase the file after updating. If you use urpmi --noclean option, the files will be located in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/

Well, if you want to make it automountable, yes you need to repartition and reformat the drive. Anyway, the easiest way is to use knoppix and qtparted. At least with knoppix, the /dev/sda drive is recognizable. Boot knoppix then open a konsole. Then type qtparted Then go to the /dev/sda folder and delete the partition. Then make a new primary fat16 partition out of the drive. Reboot and check whether the usb key disk is changed to /dev/sda<number>. If it is, then it should be automountable from now on.

Hey, you got the same notebook as I have :) Anyway, to load toshiba_acpi everytime you boot, put it in /etc/modprobe.preload file. Don't forget to put yenta_socket also in that file or else the pcmcia cards won't work. Cpad doesn't work that well in kernel 2.6 I'm afraid. There is a patch to make it work as intended (that is the middle button works) but it requires compiling the kernel. Anyway, if you haven't read it yet, go to http://www.janerob.com/rob/ts5100/index.shtml It's the best resource for making linux runs on this laptop. Too bad it's for kernel 2.4, but with a little luck and effort, you can make it work for kernel 2.6 also. Good luck

I found out that how the company format the USB disk can have an impact of whether the USB disk is automountable or not. If the USB key disk is detected as /dev/sda<number> then it can be automountable. But some USB keydisks are detected as /dev/sda (no number). If that is the case, you have to either repartition and reformat the USB key disk (use knoppix and qtparted) or mount it manually.