DragonMage

Nah, that's basically caused by using the old configuration files (from the old /home in previous version of mandrake). If you are installing mandrake 9 to a freshly formatted hd (formatting everything), then the problem is not that great.

Well, we already discuss this and we found a solution. Go to

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?p=4293#4293

And read down from there..

Ah, that.. well... I don't believe that at all really.. I have an athlon so it should be something different, but I think it just detect something that is part of p2 and above and just show it..

A real i686 iso should be compiled to a i686 architecture, including the kernel and such.. There used to be a rpm depository that are compiled specifically for athlons in texstar's place, but no more.

What's so special about NVidia theme other than the black and green color? Do you have a link to a screenshot where it shows the nvidia theme in all its "glory?"

You did install the kernel-source rpm, didn't you?

If not, just use the command su followed by root password and type

urpmi kernel-source

I think they just plain spent much more time playing Quake than you. I mean. .some people insure their hands for 50,000 dollars (or is it pounds) when they go to gaming tournament. Anyway, don't spend too much on games, it's not just healthy.

Don't use texstar's freetype2 rpms.. Use plf instead.. they are older but a bit more stable with 9.0 apps, that I found out.

For instruction of where to get it go to

http://plf.zarb.org

I thought the best way to play 1st person perspective shooter ala Quake, Unreal Tournament and so on is the keyboard/mouse combo.. Joystick is just plain lacking in response time compared to those two... You may need to invest in a gaming mouse or something.

So I take it you solved your problem right? Do share what you did other than setting the right color depth. It cannot be just that to change blocky fonts in kde to good ones.

Many times it is not that complicated to install software.

1. bin files

An example for this is java SDK, or OpenOffice.org. Basically all you have to do is to make that file executable by typing

chmod a+x <name of file.bin>

followed by

./<name of file.bin> (note the dot slash is important)

of course a

sh <name of file.bin>

works also.

Sometimes you may want to do this as root by using su command followed by superuser password, especially if you want the application to be accessible by everyone. (like openoffice or java sdk)

2. tarballs

The files are usually ends with tar.gz or .tgz. It's a bit trickier but many times, all you have to do are these commands:

tar xvfz <name of file.tar.gz> (uncompress the tarball)

cd <new directory created>

./configure (note the dot slash)

make (to compile the package)

At this point, you may want to su to root and enter your root password in order for the application to be accessible to everyone. After that type

make install

In some cases, tarballs ends with .tar.bz2 instead, for this, you may want to put the tarballs in separate directory then use these commands to uncompress it.

bzip2 -d <name of file.tar.bz2>

tar xvf <resulting file.tar>

then you can do the three step ./configure, make, make install routine

Anyway, always read the README or INSTALL notes that usually accompany the tarballs, sometimes there are some things that you need to install before you can compile the program. Other times, the installation is different (wine for example, it requires you just to unpack the files then type ./tools/wineinstall instead of the usual three steps)

Hope it helps.

That explanantion is way above my head.. but I got a gist of what you want to say... :)

Anyway, is this a good reason for that Advanced Linux Topic idea? :)

Let's do it one by one.

1. Newsreader:

If you need binary downloading, you can use pan, its interface is similar to agent (not to mention same sucking up hd space capability). If you don't, knode or mozilla's own newsclient is good enough.

2. Image viewer:

Kuickshow, gqview, and tons of others. I just found out of an application in texstar's mirror called (sorry to say this, but this is actually the name) pornview. I never tried it since kuickshow and gqview are good enough for me.

3. Vector illustration package:

I am not sure about this one, but I think kontour could be close enough to what you are looking for.

4. Mp3 ripping software

grip, ripperX are good rippers. KDE3 Konqueror with audioCD-Slave can also rip cds right from the file manager. For the mp3 part, just download a version of lame or bladeenc codec and you can just activate it from grip or ripperX's own options.

5. CDBurner

XCDRoast, and eroaster are good cdburner. If you need a Nero like GUI, just download k3b. I haven't used arson yet, but I heard it can burn VCDs automatically.

Anything else?

Hmm.. that bug never happened to me in all these years of using mandrake, from 8.0 to 9.0. I have a feeling that it is one of those once in a blue moon kind of thing. I mean, it must be a linux thing, not just a mandrake problem because that thing can happen to anyone.

Incidentally, once I brought my harddisk from Austin to SF to install in another computer. I don't know what happened, but the hard drive got tons of errors when installed to that other computer, and as a result, I lost 5 gigs worth of mp3 downloaded back during the golden age of napster. That teaches me to backup my data to something more substantial, like CDRs. That computer uses win2k btw, so I figure it's not just linux that has this type of problems. (Yes, the HD is fine hardware wise.. in fact.. I am using it right now)

BTW, did you partition the fat32 partition using dos/windows fdisk? If that is true, I think that's the problem. I found out that dos fdisk partition the disk incorrectly, dunno why. I always lost my partition data if I install an OS (no matter what kind, win2k, win98 or linux) if I use windows to partition it sooner or later. But if I use linux fdisk or partition magic, nothing happens for ages.

Heh.. yeah.. me too.. that's how long now... 2 months?

Anyway, let's try to break that record, 2 months without RTFM in the post, starting now :)

Ok.. here's how. I assume you know how to open up a terminal or console.

1. Open a console, type

su

followed by your root password.

2. Now use your favorite text editor to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local An example is using kwrite (in which you should have unless you didn't install kde). Type

kwrite /etc/rc.d/rc.local

3. Now go to the last line and type the commands to activate hdparm for all your harddisks and if you want, your cdroms also. In my case it is like this

hdparm -c3 -d1 /dev/hda

hdparm -c3 -d1 /dev/hdb

hdparm -c3 -d1 /dev/hdc

hdparm -c3 -d1 /dev/hdd

4. Save the file then exit.

The next time you boot, those commands will be executed automatically.

Put down the commands in your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. It will be executed during boot.

I just tried getbinnews...

 

Just want to say that whoever wrote it is a skillled programmer who is totally lost on how to design a functional GUI. What a mess to work with!

I know, but unfortunately, it's the only binary extractor that I know of that doesn't use mucho hard disk space (which pan does, I mean come on.. 36 megs just for keeping up what articles are read or not?). What I want is a port of XNews to linux.. now that is a really good all in one newsreader and binary extractor.

There is another reader/extractor I know of, which is named BNR from http://bnr.newzbin.com but I haven't tried it yet since it requires qt2 libraries.. I am afraid what will happen if qt2 libraries are mixed with qt3 libraries in mandrake 9.0

Coolness, now let's see how successful it is.. I hope it is successful and cause others to do similar things.

So far the only thing I know that does both yenc encoding, post combining and news reading is pan. If you only need a binary news extractor, use getbinnews instead.

Back when I used Mandrake 8.2, there was a program I downloaded in rpm form from texstar called aria. It's a really nice download manager. Unfortunately it isn't there no more, but you can download it from http://aria.rednoah.com

Of course, for command line users, wget is THE program :)

It's not that.. I am just surprised that Mandrake created a i686 ISO (if that is Mandrake). Usually Mandrake only have i586 ISOs. If there is such a thing.. I am going to download that and replace my old i586 isos with it. I mean.. I have an athlon, I686 compiled mandrake would be faster than i586 compiled mandrake ain't it?

Where did you get the i686 iso?

Ah, sorry.. it did work. I'm just surprised that the link goes to a winamp site. I didn't know that xmms can take winamp skin. Now, I can look for other skin that is more fitting to my desktop. :)

It says they are skins for winamp.. Can xmms uses winamp skin?

Other than that, it looks too pale.. white and light blue?

Well.. I don't know any programs that can resize reiserfs partition without formatting, not even partition magic. I am curious of what you need 4 gigs of hd space for. Anyway, since the /home is in separate harddrive, you can reinstall mandrake by just reformatting the / partition and the /home will be kept safe. The only problem is remembering the order you create the users since it seems that every user got their own userid number and group number in mandrake. I found this out the hard way when I switched the order of creating users during one of my reinstallation of mandrake and found that I cannot access my files in my accounts. I can login just fine and ls list the correct files and directories, but just cannot read, write or execute the file due to file permission is set to wrong user.

My suggestion before reformatting and reinstalling mandrake is go to userdrake and write down the numerical version of userid and group id. The first user created will be 501, the second will be 502 and so on.