GuoJing

Use MozillaFirebird instead of Mozilla. Use way less memory, and runs faster too.

I'd use something lighter like WindowMaker (in fact I'm using that with my P3 600 (Katmai) Compaq with ATI Rage128 onboard). KDE and GNOME will make your system crawl. But it's just me being very sensitive to speed, as my other machine is a P4-C 2.4@3.3GHz :P

Yes I have, but it's not the service. They have a support forum - nobody there had that problem except me.

Yeah some worked, and significantly many stopped working :P At least these are among the sites I frequently visit. rcxau: I only used the Optus DNS to test, as they used to work for me before when the Netspace DNS server went bananas. My connection is Netspace ADSL.

I have a P3 Mandrake 9.1 Linux server and a WinXP machine that connects to that one for Internet stuff. Today my ADSL connection has been up and down like a yoyo. Early in the morning, I couldn't run adsl-start at all. I rebooted and it worked. For half of the day, many websites and Internet services don't work for me. They are Australian sites like UniMelb, SMH, etc. and many international sites. Also, ICQ, Yahoo, VixMule, Netspace's personal webspace, Netscape pub FTP and email, ping, tracert etc. don't work either :-/ I can still connect to some certain sites, like OCAU, Whirlpool and a few International sites though. I have tried everything - stop and reconnect the adsl connection on the server, stop/restart/stop/... the firewall (Firestarter), rerun adsl-setup, try Optus DNS blah blah blah. Nothing worked. When I was about to go get the sledgehammer, I thought maybe I should reboot the damn thing... Well, after a reboot, it finally worked. Everything works fine now. I thought this thing is only for Win"doze" :roll: :confused: Could anyone explain what was wrong and how I could solve such problem without having to reboot my system and pray for it to work again ? :confused: Thanks very much in advance :)

If you do a 'lsmod' as root, which items related to sound (snd something) are listed ? Btw is your onboard sound a 5.1 device ? If it is, you should try plugging the speaker connector into the LineIN or MIC ports :P It sounds stupid but it worked for me :P

I'm no expert but from my experience... -> ./configure will get the specific info from your comp (like CPU types etc.) to optimise the software for your system, so unless your friend's comp is the same, don't try that (it depends on the SW though, but I think a HW driver will do that). I think the default configuration should be fine. -> why don't you build a RPM for him ? :)

I built a system for a friend using a Gigabyte 7N400 Pro (nForce2). He wanted to try a bit of Linux so I put MDK 9.1 on that one. Just saw that Gigabyte has the ITE RAID driver for Linux (RH and MDK) on their download site, so I went there to check... http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Suppor...7N400%20Pro.htm Funny....:roll: :lol:

If you're buying one now, get the Seagate Barracuda V(or VI) 7200rpm 8MB cache. It's faster than the WD and you can be sure that there's no compatibility issue. It's rock stable, even after being tortured zillions of times by my crazy overclock (reboots/crashes :P)

Have you visited this site: http://frankscorner.org/ ? Has everything you need to know. Also... I think it's wiser to install it in the default location: /home/username/.wine/fake_windows yadda yadda. As for the wine config complaint, I think you haven't run winesetuptk yet. Download that rpm and run it to set up wine. I'm not sure what you mean by "kazaa script" though. What's that ? Btw to get Kazaa to work perfectly, you need to get the Windows DLLs for Kazaa, the dcomm98.exe's DLLs and put them in the fake_windows' system folder.

Oops I forgot about this for 2 weeks ! :P Thanks a lot for your help, tyme, really appreciate it :) During that 2 weeks, I switched to a different ISP and got a new comp also, and just then I remembered that I should get WineX again. This time things went smoothly: I no longer had to su to root just to log in to their CVS server and download stuff :roll: Got excellent speed too. However, it once again paushed at wineclipsrv.c.......As you can imagine, I was quite pissed off :P Fortunately it only lasted for a min or two and all is done now !!! -> start compiling WineX :P

Hi again After making sure that I have unmuted everything, I was pulling my hair out wondering why this pos won't work... Suddenly, among my desperate searches, there pops up a thread where a guy plugs his speakers in the microphone port to test. I thought that was funny, but tried it anyway. Guess what, the f*ing thing works in my LineIn port ! :shock: :P :roll: I think this might have something to do with the fact that this is a 5.1 onboard sound configuration, but I have no idea how to change it. Any suggestion ? :) edit by Ixthusdan

Hi thanks a lot for the replies :) I added alias eth0 3c2000 (the driver name) to modules.conf and the NIC works now ! Working on the sound atm...

I just got a P4P800 Deluxe and installed Mandrake 9.1 on it. Everything went smooth except for 2 things: - The sound is detected by default but there's no sound. XMMS and other audio apps play songs normally except that there's no sound coming out of the speakers :P I tried selecting different drivers but no use. I also compiled and installed the driver downloaded from Asus site but that has the same problem. It says that the Alsa mixer is muted by default and I have unmuted it, but I still can't get any sound. - I could compile and install the 3com 3c2000 LAN driver fine. insmod, ifconfig, adsl-xxxx worked ok too. However although I did a make and a make install, the driver doesn't seem to be installed properly. I don't get it enabled at bootup, I have to manually go to the folder where I compiled the driver, ifconfig it and insmod it. What should I do to get it automatically load the driver at startup ? Many thanks in advance :)

Strangely, your problem sounds just like a typical Windows problem.... :P

I love the speed and simplicity but it's still a little buggy right now with a few sites that I frequently visit, and also doesn't work very well with flash. If they fix these in the next version it will be the best browser, IMO. Sticking with Mozilla 1.4 for now - it's a lot faster than previous versions. I love it 8)

heheh I tried to read the ProFTPd manual on their site once....Got a page that is something like this: Anyway after that I got gProFTPd which is a pretty good GUI and has some decent instructions as well.

Sorry, I wasn't saying that you're a liar, but it's not true that "fdisk is evil". It's not any less reliable than other stuff, maybe it doesn't have as many options, but for this purpose it's good enough. Although I prefer using the WinXP one (isn't it the same but improved fdisk but with a different interface ?) I've been working as a tech at a computer shop for over 2 years and I've used my method (see above) to install OSes on (i've lost count) computers. Work 100% of the time.

Many thanks to the guinea pigs :) I don't have to waste a whole day downloading this ant hill then :P

About Partitioning: You can use WinXP installation program to creat partitions just before you select drive/partition to install the OS to. No need for partition magic. Creat a partition (the main one, C) for WinXP and you can format it later. Remember to creat a big enough partition for Mandrake. The other partitions can be formatted later in WinXP. You can use Mandrake installation program to auto-allocate partitions in the big partition you reserve for Mandrake. Works for me 100% of the time. I wish the Windows bashers would stop the "windows never works for me lol!!!11!" - it's not true... About the hardware: they all work fine, I had a similar mobo running MDK 9.0 before.

The MDK kernels (0.13 and 0.18) always fail to compile with SMP support for some reasons (fail at cpufreq module). I got the stable 2.4.21 kernel and it compiled just fine. Now there are two more problems: audio and LAN... esp the former. I'll try wrestling with them for one more day ^_^

No it's not enabled by default, and the customised Mandrake kernel sources wouldn't compile with SMP (for HT) support on my machine for some reasons. Always fails when it comes to the cpufreq module. I got the 2.4.21 stable kernel and it compiled fine. Runs very fast :)

I just got a 2.4C & P4P800 Deluxe with HT support, wonder if Mandrake 9.1 supports that or I need to get an updated kernel ? This is what Intel recommends: I've tried the first two and didn't like them (too slow) and I'm not even aware that the latter exist :P I've been searching Google but all I've found so far are flamewars on AMD/Intel and why some geeks think that HT is shithouse, or bugs with HT and older distro's, but haven't found any success story. Does anyone here have HT and Mandrake 9.1 working well ? :)

I'm pulling my hair out after almost a week trying to compile these things and I have done everything I can and installed everything I think is related to these from the Mandrake CDs :? I hope you guys can help me with this. Many thanks in advance :) With giFT: Here are the problematic lines I can find: After ./configure: checking command to parse /usr//bin/nm -B output... ./configure: line 4187: uniq: command not found.... .................. configure: creating ./config.status ./configure: line 16047: uniq: command not found .................. giFT 0.11.1 -------------------- core --- libgift.................: yes gift daemon.............: yes use ltdl................: no --------------- protocols --- OpenFT..................: yes Gnutella................: yes -------------- extensions --- use zlib................: yes use perl................: no (support temporarily deprecated) use libdb...............: yes --------- meta data tools --- use libvorbis...........: yes use ImageMagick.........: no use libmagic............: no ----------------------------- After make: .................... meta_avi.c:68:3: #error inttypes.h not found! meta_avi.c: In function `avi_close_output_file': meta_avi.c:1321: `PACKAGE' undeclared (first use in this function) meta_avi.c:1321: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once meta_avi.c:1321: for each function it appears in.) meta_avi.c:1321: `VERSION' undeclared (first use in this function) make[3]: *** [meta_avi.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/guojing/Install/giFT/giFT-0.11.1/src/meta' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/guojing/Install/giFT/giFT-0.11.1/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/guojing/Install/giFT/giFT-0.11.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 inttypes.h does exist in /usr/include.... I also have the same PACKAGE and VERSION problem in some avi_close_output_file function when compiling transcode (can't compile that one either). Wonder if it has anything to do with ImageMagick. I have IM 5.4.4-7mdk installed with all the devel shit, but somehow transcode and this one both report that there is no ImageMagick (dependent modules) available; in particular, transcode even reports that InitializeMagick (which as I understand is the first and most basic function of the whole ImageMagick package) function cannot be found in -lMagick :mad: This is where compiling transcode fails: avilib.c: In function `avi_close_output_file': avilib.c:995: `PACKAGE' undeclared (first use in this function) avilib.c:995: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once avilib.c:995: for each function it appears in.) avilib.c:995: `VERSION' undeclared (first use in this function) make[2]: *** [avilib.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/guojing/Install/transcode-0.6.8/avilib' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/guojing/Install/transcode-0.6.8' make: *** [all] Error 2 and I've tried zillions of transcode versions. AARRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH why do they have to make installing software so hard !!!!?????? :x

It's doing this for the n-th time: ....... U wine/windows/x11drv/wineclipsrv.c and just pauses there doing nothing. Been like that for 12 hours since last night....