DragonMage

You know, with all these requests for stickers.. I am surprised that Mandrake doesn't think of this yet. Heck.. the stickers could be a good "incentive" to join the mandrakeclub. I mean, I think I prefer mandrake stickers to cdholders anyway.

I have a feeling that you probably will need the windows NWN, if only for the cd keys and the main aurora engine.

Yay! This will definitely hasten the release date from March to maybe January.. By then most, if not all the witch wake series will be out.. And I can play it in one shot instead of waiting and waiting and waiting.. Now if I can only get a good sega cd emulator for linux.. I missed Lunar.

Which type of openoffice do you use, the mandrake supplied rpm or the tarballs from the openoffice.org? Did you you still keep the ~/.openoffice directory from your /home partition? That could be the reason.. what happened if you delete your .openoffice directory and rerun openoffice again? Anyway.. for the spelling part, you may need to install all the myspell dictionary rpms asuming you are trying the English language.. All the rpms are myspell-hyph-en-1.0.1-0.20020727.4mdk myspell-en_US-1.0.1-0.20020626.4mdk myspell-en_CA-1.0.1-0.20020315.4mdk myspell-en_GB-1.0.1-0.20020903.4mdk then set up the options -> Language Settings -> Writing Aids and enable all the checkmarks in the spellchecker.

It does.. at least texstar's version of synaptic does.

I tried compiling the source rpms.. doesn't compile.. but the binary works perfectly.. Well.. not perfectly since I cannot play pool worth a damn.. but it runs fine and looks pretty cool.

Well.. there is a program called getbinnews. It even have an rpm version. I used it for a while but I hate the UI so I go back to pan for my binary newsgroup needs.

How bout changing the font? All the fonts look ugly or just certain fonts?

I have a feeling that it is an XFT or fontconfig problem. Once I installed the newest texstar XFT and fontconfig and the same problem happens to my openoffice menu. All I have to do is uninstall the two packages and reboot, then I change my menu system in Openoffice.org to OS/2 style instead of standard style.. then reinstall the XFT and fontconfig. The menu will look bold but at least it's viewable. As soon as I change the menu system back to standard, the dash problem reappears. However I remember which menu and options to choose to change it back to OS/2 style again and all is well now.

Have you installed freetype rpms from texstar or plf that is hacked to enable antialiasing? I installed those rpms and imported my truetype fonts from my windows partition and everything looks smooth. You can find the rpms from the Worthwhile links section in the links above.

I think it depends on the settings of OO.o itself. Since OO.o is windows manager independent (so it doesn't matter how you set it up in KDE or gnome or something), you need to set it up yourself. Anyway, I just did some experiments. In the word processor, it doesn't matter whether you put comma or periods since it counts as words, not numbers. But in the spreadsheet.. all you have to do is highlight the cells you want the numbers to be changed and select format cells. Then you go to the Numbers tab and you can put whatever format you want for that section. There are even some examples and you can just edit that examples according to your heart's content and it will be saved in user defined section. I hope that helps.

Well.. searching the dri mailing list archives, it seems that the users with similar laptops (ati mobility m6p) is using that driver. Try the driver from there... you may need the newest cvs or something.. but it should work.

You know... this is why I don't like partition magic for resizing partition that has data/files in it.. Somehow, something is always screwed up.. Once I used partition magic to make my fat32 partition smaller in order to install win2k and even though the partition seems to look fine from windows, some of the data is actually screwed up when checked with norton disk doctor or checkdisk. If I were you.. I backup the data, wiped the hd clean, and reinstall everything (windows and linux) from scratch. Less problems in the future.

I haven't seen any shockwave plugin for linux.. Now flash plugin is included.. but it's a different beast altogether... Same company, different program.

What kind of drivers do you use on it? Is it the default mandrake one or the one from http://dri.sourceforge.net ?

I haven't seen it either.. I guess macromedia is either too lazy or too close-guarded to release the linux player.

You know.. with all those years.. I'm surprised Paul hasn't found an alien already..... Waitaminute.. what if Paul is an alien.. omygosh... that has to be true.. I know the truth is out there.. but this is so surprising.. wait till I tell the wo..... (dragged away by men in black).

I got 5 out of 7.. Should be 6 out of 7 if I didn't forget to answer that 1 billionth second in unix question.. I actually know that one.. stupid mouse scroller.

Ok.. since a picture says a thousand words, lemme just post a screenshot of the my mplayer in preference mode. Now you see that "Start in Fullscreen" option just about in the middle? Uncheck that and everything should be in window mode the next time you restart mplayer.

the -v setting is verbose mode.. Just something so that we receive better feedbacks when everything is being done. Anyway.. if you have texstar ftp, and mandrake installation cds in your urpmi database, then all the dependencies should be in there.. If you type the command rpm -ivh libgal21* and it spouts out something like requires something something rpm, then all you have to do is urpmi (name of the needed rpm) then try the rpm -ivh libgal21* again to check whether there are other dependencies needed for that.. if I remember correctly, it requires libgtkhtml and a couple more rpms.. but it's been a while so I kinda forgot.. heh Hope it helps.

oh yeah.. forgot to warn you about that.. Anyway.. first download (that's right download, we need to install this manually) the libgal21-0.21-4tex.rpm and libgal21-devel-0.21-4tex.rpm from texstar place. Then install it via this command rpm -ivh libgal21* If it needs dependancies.. urpmi those dependencies first.. after all those are installed, then install the libgal21 like above. After the libgal21 are installed, then you can just type urpmi evolution then you are done. I guess texstar forgot to make those rpms installable instead of upgradable.

All mandrake control center do is basically open up kppp. Now, I have a feeling you just don't want to open up a terminal just to use wvdial, and you want something similar to dial-up networking in windows. To do that. Just drag the kppp icon from Start menu -> Networking -> Remote Access -> kppp to the desktop and select copy. Then open kppp using that icon and put all the relevant info (the modem device which is /dev/modem, the phone number, the username and password, etc etc) then check the relevant checkmarks (I like a log window and that modem applet to show up in my panel (Dock into panel on connect choice)) and when you double click on that icon in the desktop.. voila.. dialup :) As for the /dev/modem disappearing every reboot, I dunno really. I used to use the HCF version of the modem and the driver and it seems to have no problem keeping the symlinks and whatnots after reboot. Does it just the /dev/modem that disappear or the whole /dev/ttySHSF0 also? If it is just the /dev/modem.. just add a command that symlink /dev/modem to /dev/ttySHSF0 in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.

Well.. all you have to do is just put a line in those files.. repeating what it says. for example, this is an excerpt of my /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file <!-- Font directory list configured on Sat Oct 5 19:36:51 CDT 2002 --> <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1</dir> <dir>/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts</dir> <dir>/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1</dir> <dir>/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western</dir> and this is my /etc/X11/XftConfig # User installed fonts dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont" dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf" dir "/usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts" dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1" While this is my /etc/X11/fs/config # where to look for fonts # catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk:unscaled, /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1, /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts, See that I just imitate the naming sequence but just add a line that puts the msttcorefonts directory? You can use any text editor you like to edit those three files. You just need to be root in order to do it. Now for the service xfs restart part. It basically restart the font server so that the new font directory is detected by the font server. Type that command as root, then restart X. Of course, this is the hard part. There is an easier part (yet somewhat tedious). Open drakfont (from Mandrake Control Center -> System -> Fonts) then pick Advanced Options. Then pick add. Now the tricky part is that first you need to make that 'Select the Font directory and click on add' writing blank first, then go to /usr/share/fonts/msttcorefonts directory, then choose each font file then press add until all the font files are added, then you can close the add window then press 'install list' in the main drakfont window. That one should add all the font files. Anyway, whichever you like.

What is your mplayer version? Typing rpm -qa |grep mplayer resulted in mplayer-fonts-1.0-3plf mplayer-0.90-0.pre9.3plf mplayer-skins-1.3-1plf mplayer-gui-0.90-0.pre9.3plf for me. Maybe that's the reason.

Are you using stock mandrake 9.0 kde packages? I think mandrake culled down the kde screensaver list in order to keep the package size low. If you upgrade to mandrake kde 3.0.4 packages or higher.. the missing screensavers will be back. Of course, you can always download other kde compatible screensavers such as kparanoia or kfireworks3d. Just check http://www.kde-look.org