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I understand that it's kind of normal to want to play PC games on a PC but if you just want to play a game to kill the time there are plenty of other options. Many arcade games or console games work perfectly well under Linux. Xmame supports now 5036 games. I'm sure there must something there that will keep you occupied. (I'm playing Scramble now. Anyone remember how to get passed 3th stage?)

There is http://rpm.nyvalls.se/ (thac's rpms).

urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.0/RPMS with hdlist.cz (for mandrake 10)

Urpmi is looking for installed rpm's, not installed programs (that's why 'upgrade' during an installation never works).

The reason why it couldn't find the package is probably because 9.1 is so last year...... (It isn't been given the attention it needs)

Use this page http://rpm.pbone.net/ to find mpage. Then install it: urpmi mpage

Good luck

An does it say:

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults,devmode=0666 0 0

?

(Just checking everything mentioned in man sane-usb LIBUSB :). Next up the Generic kernel scanner driver )

Does your fstab contain a line line like:

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0

?

Linux and sound:

-1- OSS or ALSA: OSS and ALSA are the basic building blocks to get sound in Linux. You need one of those to get started. ALSA is the new default in Linux so I suggest you stick with that. To see if ALSA is working do (as root) /etc/init.d/alsa status.

-2- Modules (that is drivers) for most soundcards there are different drivers or, as they are called in Linux, modules. To see how to load them with the MCC, look at my earlier reply to you.

-3- Mixers: To control the sound settings (volume, stereo, mute etc etc) you need a mixer. Again there are different mixers (kmix, alsamixer etc etc)

last-4- advanced: soundmixing. If your soundcard doesn't do harwaremixing that means only one application at a time can use sound. So if you're playing a movie, kopete can't notify someone is messaging you. For more applications to use sound you need a softwaremixer. In KDE this is arts. You have to tell an app that it must use arts for sound. Most KDE apps already do so but for instance mplayer doesn't. So for mplayer to use arts you have to give the command '-ao arts' (or put it in the conf).

Have you unloaded the kernel driver? (modprobe -r scanner).

(I'm getting all this from man sane-usb. What more have you tried??)

Try sane-find-scanner as root.

Information and configuration of the he soundcard happens in the Mandrake Control Center. I don't know the French or English links so yust look at the attachment.

You can change the module (driver) there. Make sure you don't have any application using the driver (like kmix or another mixer, music player etc etc) open.

ALSA can be stopped or started as a service (also make sure no mixer is open). It can be done in a console or in MCC but console is easiest for me to explain :)

Log in as root ant type: /etc/init.d/alsa status (that will show if alsa is running or not). If it's not running do:/ etc/init.d/alsa start

Good luck.

It's Firefox you're using right? Just to be sure change the name of the hidden .mozilla folder? Or are you logged in as root? Then you have to rename /root/.phoenix.

In Linux all the user settings are stored in your home folder (or if you're root, in /root). If you mess something up and you're logged in as a user (non-root) only these user settings are changed. The program (firefox in this case) itself should still work.

Rename the .phoenix folder and try again. You'll loose the settings but you can copy them back later.

(I made some typo's: it should be prefs.bak--->prefs.js Hope that was clear :unsure: )

I've read somewhere (but can't find the site anymore :) ) someone had installed 3000 fonts and had no problems.

If that doesn't convince you (and I can't blame you) you could install the fonts for a 'user' (non-root). Then if something goes wrong it's easy to fix.

For font installation use the KDE control center, not the MCC. (Or you could ofcourse just copy the fonts to $HOME/.fonts)

Probably some service or deamon resets the settings. My guess would be the DHCP client. Try a static adress.

Probably your settings are off. Go to the .phoenix (hidden) folder in $HOME, to default, suzsaxxxxx. In that last folder you'll find a prefs.bak and a prefs.js.

Delete the prefs.js and rename prfs.bak--->pref.js. Then try again.

As far as I know Firefox detects java automatically. No need to adjust the settings (just check the java box is ticked, if it doesn't work)

The same happened to me (KDE + Nvidia). Couldn't even kill -9 it. Only thing that would work was a reboot. :(

The lag you hear is the buffer. Just set the buffer smaller (in the KDE control center--sound&multimedia--soundsystem)

You can kill arts with: killall artsd. I've no idea if killing arts will help you getting sound in ET

Just copy the fonts from a windows installation to your fake_windows/Windows/Fonts folder (if you don't have a Fonts folder, make one :) )

There are several ways: If you're in X (the graphical environment) you can open a consolel, type su at the prompt <enter> password.

If you're in a terminal (no X), and you see a login prompt you can give as user name root <enter> password. Then you type startx to start X.. (If you are already logged in with your regular user account, type su<enter>password)

If a program needs superuser (administrative) rights to be executed (like the Mandrake control center), a box will appear when you start it, that asks for the root-password

Arts is the KDE soundmixer. If your soundcard doesn't do hardware-mixing, and is occupied with an other app. you don't get sound when you don't use a software mixer like arts.

the correct command would be :artsdsp -m et

or if you need to give the complete path: artsdsp -m /usr/bin(wherever)/et

Good luck

(this is ofcourse if you use KDE, the sofwaremixer for GNOME is called esd)

You got your sources set up correctley? The Mandrake CD's, update, contrib and PLF are what you need. Urpmi doesn't work if it can't find the packages.

(PS in my win32 are 96 codecs. I think you need to install some more. :) )

Mplayer plays everything.... :)

Th codecs are in /usr/lib/win32

You can check if you have everything. On the mplayer site you can download all codecs (including the ones you seem to miss know). Just copy them to the win32 folder and it should work.

Good luck

Try starting it with arts:

artsdsp -m et(wolf?)

I was translating it from Dutch. Maybe this screenshot is more helpfull

What mouse are you using (manucturer/make)? What type of mouse (usb/ps/2)?

You've downloaded an incorrect package (plugin). You need j2re and not j2re-plugin.

Good luck.