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I believe that it would be best (and easiest) for you to go to the Adobe site:

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Then d/l and install the 'Adobe reader for Linux and Solaris rpm'. You should be able to view your Linux Bible without any problems using that.

yes, that did the trick - i've now got 'adobe reader 8' on my desktop

it opens up twice as fast as ghostview

( i've deleted about a dozen pdf's over the past year thinking they were corrupt files !)

thanks for the help, Greg2

this has happened a couple of times - the latest with the 'linux bible' 2007 edition -

i download a pdf file - open it - and the thumbnails view on the lefthand side shows

some blank pages ...

as you click through the pdf , the pages shown as blank in the thumbnails show as text

in the main window - but only for a split-second , then the content disappears

.. i.e. although the thumbnail is empty - there is actually something there

would this be because of a fault in the pdf viewer , or has the pdf file itself been

improperly put together ?

anyone had experience of this behaviour ?

thanks

i've just tried kaffeine - and it played the mp3's ....

i then tried amarok - you guessed it - it played them as well ... :P

so, problem solved ( after a fashion)

thanks again

it's not just 1 mp3, it's all of them - i.e amarok was working as it should , and then it stopped altogether .

it's not a hw prob. - and since i reinstalled amarok , it might be some os interference which is responsible.

i haven't installed any other apps. recently .

i did try to install m-player from the dvd , but the message popped up 'couldn't read files'

is there another mp3 - playing app. for mandriva , or a way of playing mp3's in kde which i could try ?

thanks

when i try to play an mp3 ( which previously played) , amarok now stops processing the track

after about 5 seconds - ( no sound during the 5 seconds - but the highlighted title showed

that something was happening)

i tried removing amarok, and reinstalling - same problem

i'm using mandriva 10.2 limited edition , amarok 1.2

any ideas ? ( sound is fine playing avi's etc - so it isn't the soundcard)

thanks

try looking at

menu > system > configuration > KDE > sound > sound system

this shows a form with 2 tabs - general & hardware

on the 'general' tab - enable the sound system

on the 'hardware' tab - enable full duplex ( this one might be unnecessary)