Dyslexic

I took a look at the other thread. Looks like you're missing a couple of packages. 1. win32-codecs 2. mplayer-gui Optional: 3. xine-win32 (if you want xine/kaffeine to work) These are all available in plf. The win32-codecs package is actually missing a few codecs for reasons unknown to me, but we can solve that if/when it comes a problem. Make sure you have the plf source installed so urpmi/RPMdrake can resolve package depedencies automatically. You should also have the contrib source installed.

Mandrake 10.1 actually uses xorg 6.7, if I recall. 10.0 uses XFree86 4.3. If I were to guess which driver would work for 10.1, it would be the xorg 6.8 driver. However, you shouldn't need the ATI binaries for mplayer. The open source Radeon driver, and even the generic vesa driver give you Xv support, which is all you need for mplayer. I'm not sure if xorg 6.7 had support for the newer ATI cores or not. I've been using ATI cards since the late 80s. Heck, I even owned an ATI sound card at one point. After ATI failed to deliver on its Linux support promises, I gave my Radeon boards to friends who use Windows, and replaced them with Nvidia cards. Never looked back.

Try removing the ACPI kernel parameter from /etc/lilo.conf. This actually enables full ACPI support. If you edit the file by hand, don't forget to run /sbin/lilo after.

I've seen the X-Micro USB WiFi working, but you'd have to patch and compile your kernel for the USB interface, compile the kernel module for the WiFi driver, and sacrifice a goat to the Gods of hardware compatibility. Other USB devices might be easier to setup, but USB WiFi support on Linux is not good in general. I strongly recommend using a wireless access point in client mode if you can't use a PCI card for some reason.

I've had that happen to me a few times. Sometimes if you crash the X11 server, KDE (Mandrake's implementation) will revert to its default settings. Your file is still where you left it, but you'll probably have to redo all your KDE settings.

I couldn't get DVD Shrink to work with Cedega, Crossover Office or Mandrake's WINE. Some people have been able to rip DVDs with DVD-RIP, requantize with DVD Shrink and burn with k3b, but DVD Shrink always crashes when I try.

When you log in through X-Windows, that's one user. When you open a console window, that spawns another user instance. So opening a console window to check how many users are logged in causes a new user to be logged in ;) As aforementioned, it's nothing to worry about; there are several reasons this can happen. The ability to choose your desktop environment is the job of the display manager. The most popular ones are KDM, MdkKDM (unique to Mandrake), and GDM. MdkKDM should be the default in Mandrake 10.1 Official. You can see which one you are running in the Mandrake Control Center under System --> Display Manager. If you have MdkKDM selected and it's not letting you choose your desktop environment try GDM instead. You may have to install it first.

Looks like you didn't install the Windows driver. Insert the windows driver CD that came with the NIC. The CD should automatically mount. I'll assume it mounts on /mnt/cdrom. Use the following commands: ndiswrapper -i /mnt/cdrom/Drivers/bcmwl5.inf modprobe ndiswrapper From there you should be able to configure the NIC in the Mandrake Control Center. Edit: I just remembered that your ndiswrapper -l output might be correct for the version in Mdk 10.1. I don't remember. Here's my output: # ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

Looks like you have the wrong kernel-source package. Mandrake comes with a few different kernels, and a source package for each of them. If you're using the default Mandrake kernel, you need the kernel-source-2.6 package. Just make sure you don't have the multimedia kernel source, the stripped source, or the 2.4 kernel source installed. You can use urpmi -y kernel-source to see the available choices, or use the RPMdrake GUI.

There have been a lot of changes to glib and gtk recently, so you have to be careful with downloading the latest version. I'd recommend installing the Mandrake 10.1 libglib2.0_0-devel package.

Looks like you didn't install the kernel-source package. You can do that from urpmi/RPMdrake.

You're out of luck on this one. The ISOs are available only to club members or people who purchase Mandrake for AMD64, as far as I know. I haven't tried Fedora Core 3 after my terrible experience with FC2, but it has freely downloadable AMD64 ISOs. Probably even a DVD ISO.

LC_ALL=C overrides the i18n locale with the POSIX locale.

I've never had a problem with krfb through Linksys NAT in Mandrake 9.1 to Cooker 10.2, or with VNC/TightVNC in Mandrake 8.0 to 9.0. I prefer Mandrake's rfbdrake, since it uses lower image quality/faster drawing settings than krfb. If you don't mind the awkward setup and not actually sharing an existing session, nxdesktop is faster than both rfbdrake and krfb, without sacificing image quality.

Yep, I got the blank page after about two seconds in Konqueror 3.3.2. Looks like you'll have to use one of the Gecko browsers for that page. I was able to load it with Firefox.

Konqueror does that with a few pages :/ If you post the URL here, we can verify if it's a Konqueror problem, or something wrong with your installation/configuration.

That actually sounds like the correct behaviour for vim ;). You'll need to install something like gvim if you want a gui for it. When you run vim from the console, can you type :i followed by the enter key? If so, does that allow you to type stuff? I apologize in advance if you're a seasoned vi(m) user and are having some other problem.

Are you using the Nvidia driver, the generic nv driver, or the vesa driver? If you use the Nvidia driver, have you tried adding Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV" to your xorg.conf file? Have you tried changing your horizontal sync to 30-50? Other Nvidia driver parameters to try: Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M" Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"

You should be able to right-sclick on your desktop, and create a new "Link to location." For the URL, enter something like "/mnt/windows". I'm not sure why right-clicking on the icons to change the association back didn't work, but I'll assume you tried that without success. Setting mp3s to open with Amarok shouldn't be a problem, just do it for an individual mp3, and not the folder.

If you know what you are doing and/or don't care if you break your system, you can get GIMP 2.2 from Cooker (the dev/test version of Mdk). The new GTK shouldn't break Gnome 2.6 or current GTK apps, but differences in package requirements might cause Bad Things™ to happen. There are minor incompatibilities with the new gtk-pixbuf library. Just to make this clear, Cooker is for experienced Linux users. I'm posting this for experienced Linux users who are new to Mandrake and might not know about Cooker. Cooker is fairly stable right now with only minor udev problems, but it changes daily.

Gnomemeeting, and most other webcam programs for Linux don't use drivers directly. They access the cam through the video4linux interface. You need to load that interface in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Make sure you have a line that says Load "v4l" in the "Module" section. I did a quick search on Google to see what chipset your webcam uses, and came up with nothing. Identifying the chipset is always the first step in finding out if there is Linux driver support for your hardware. Most cams that have Linux support already have a driver compiled into the kernel.

I'm not sure why you're having that problem, but you should be able to use menudrake to change the "execute" command to the one that works.

My preference is to use a procmail rule. Add this to your /etc/procmailrc file. This will keep and a copy and foward the email. :0Hc * ^X-Original-To: <email address to be forwarded> ! <destination address>

You need the libxorg-x11-devel package to compile programs with x11 dependencies.

Yes, it requantizes movies to fit on a DVD-R, but you lose the menus and extras. Also, check the size of source DVD. I've found that a few movies are small enough to fit on DVD-R without compression, and can be copied with k3b.