Dyslexic

I apologize in advance for not answering your question, but I've been wondering about something for a long time. I'm not trying to be a troll, this is an honest question: why do people use apt-rpm instead of urpmi on Mandrake? What advantage does apt-rpm offer over urpmi?

This case in particluar. Cooker has an hdlist.cz file. Why not just add Cooker to the urpmi sources?

# urpmi.addmedia Cooker ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux...6/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz

Try using the aplay command instead of alsa.

Interesting that you're using Mandrake for a server and Gentoo for a desktop OS. Good to see people breaking out of stereotypes.

You can get rid of

CUPS (if you don't print)

linuxconf (though it doesn't hurt to leave it. It's useful if your hardware changes)

netfs

numlock (doesn't hurt to leave it)

partmon (If you know you're not going to completely fill any partitions)

portmap

postfix

rwhod

tmdns

xadmin

Athene is actually an operating system. It can be used as video server under Linux, but is not yet compatible with X11 applications. If you're curious about the Athene OS, it's probably worth a try.

This should do the trick.

http://www.krename.net/

My understanding is that X-Windows defines the mouse pointers. It's not a GTK/QT thing. Individual applications, like GIMP, can override the X-Windows mouse pointer, and if the app is going to do that, there's not much you can do about it. I'm currently using the jaguarx mouse pointer set from kdelook.org, and my mouse pointer is consistent across GTK/QT apps, with the exception of special apps like GIMP.

I hope you don't consider this response to be a troll reply, but...

Texstar's KDE 3.1 packages worked just fine for me, and most others as far as I know. I have the main distribution, contrib, plf, and Texstar added to my urpmi sources, so I didn't really notices what dependency issues there might be. The 9.0 packages aren't on his mirrors anymore, but someone here may still have them. I realize you just went through a compilation...

I'm currently using an ATI AIW Rage 128 Pro on Mandrake 9.1. I didn't do anything special to get it working. There are some minor quirks with the TV tuner, but that's related XF86 4.3. I experienced the same quirks with XF86 4.3 under Mandrake 9.0, and eventually went back to XF86 4.2.1. When Mandrake 9.1 was released, I managed to find some work-arounds for the TV-tuner issues. The only thing that I couldn't get working (and I didn't really try) is DRI. I could never get DRI working under Mandrake 8.x or 9.0 with the AIW R128 Pro. Since I have seen other Rage 128 cards work with DRI out of the box, I assume the problem is with my motherboard/chipset.

I ran into that problem with a few applications from KDE CVS. I just compiled and installed automake and autoconf from source instead of using the RPMs. My applications compiled just fine and Kdevelop still works.

Finally got my Wiki working. I used MoinMoin. The only deviations from the instructions that were required were setting up the Wiki in /var/www/html/mywiki instead of /usr/share/moin/mywiki, and I had to copy the contents of /usr/share/moin/htdocs into /var/www/html. The URL_prefix for moin_config.py is "..".

I just thought I'd submit this in case anyone else tries to setup a Wiki.

I had a similar problem once. Deleting the .DCOPserver files in my home directory fixed it.

I'll use Geramik as an example of how to use GTK themes in KDE.

(I'm starting with the assumption that you've already installed the GTK theme)

# cd /usr/share/themes/Geramik/gtk-2.0

(all GTK themes should be in /usr/share/themes/)

# cp gtkrc ~$HOME/.gtkrc-2.0

(substitute $HOME with your home directory. This file is for GTK 2 apps like Pan and XChat)

# cd ../gtk

# cp gtkrc ~$HOME/.gtkrc

(substitute $HOME with your home directory. This file is for GTK apps like Firebird and GIMP)

Restart KDE, and everything should work. Hope this helps.

Yes httpd and mysql are running. PHP-Nuke is working, so I know both services are fine.

I've finally found something that I can't figure out how to do in Mandrake 9.1.

I'm trying to install a wiki. The first thing I tried was "urpmi pwiki". The instructions in /usr/share/doc/pwiki were incomprehensible. Then I went to sf.net and installed some other PHP wiki that "works right out of the box." Didn't work. Then I installed mod_python and tried some Python wiki which didn't work. Then I installed a Perl wiki that "works right out of the box." That didn't work either. I was about to install a JSP-based wiki, and then after that didn't work a .net wiki on Mono. Ok, maybe I wouldn't have gone quite that far.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

That was absolutely brilliant. Funniest thing I've seen in ages.