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Sounds pretty cheap to me. I charge more than that, but then I get customers who tried to get someone like Best Buy (National Retailer) to do it for $30.00, and got sick of taking it back, and back, and back, etc.

My system is a custom built pc. It has powered off completely and automatically since 8.0. At work, I have 2 out of 12 win98 machines that have the power down problem, still not working with the official ms patch installed. MS blames antivirus software.

The program is asking for a specific library, which is available in an rpm, glib-1.2.8-2mdk.i586.rpm. Just retrieve and install this rpm.

Or you could issue the command

"rpm --rebuild glib-1.2.10-6mdk.src.rpm" and then install the resulting rpm. "urpmi /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586/*.rpm"

You should do all of this as root.

Look under documentation in your Mandrake menu. It's called CD Writing HOWTO. There is a lot of technical stuff to look at, most of which will not apply, but it is all there. Be sure to note the explanation for using the ide-scsi driver. I think aloat of problems arise because of this driver not loading. You need to know which ide device your writer is. That is, ide1 master is hda, ide1 slave is hdb, ide2 master is hdc, and ide2 slave is hdd. This only applies to the loading of the ide-scsi driver. If your writer is the secondery slave, your append in lilo would read

"hdd=ide-scsi"

CD-RW's have to be listed as scsi devices in Linux. The CDRW HOWTO can walk you through the process, or I believe that there is a way with the Mandrake Control Center. My writer is mounted as /mnt/cdrom and listed as /dev/scd0. I have a second reader that is listed as /mnt/cdrom2 and /dev/hdc. Finally, if you're using lilo, you need to add an entry to your append section. If this sounds like Greek, read the howto and I can also get more detailed. (It's more fun to set it up manually rather than using a GUI!)

Power supply.

I've had this happen under two different circumstances. The first was of course a bad burn or bad download.

The second was a bad read from the CDROM, which I replaced. While there could be other exotic possibilities, these are the most obvious under the described circumstances. Please note that replacing the ribbon connectors might also solve this problem, since a bad cable could make the CDROM look bad.

Download them into a directory in /home/whatever and use urpmi to install them. If you do one new program at a time, urpmi will give you any missing depends and you can install it all at once, after urpmi is satisfied. I always keep an install folder open for this use.

If you try to install something that is already there, urpmi will tell you.

Note: the kernel sources are on the third cd. If you try to rebuild anything, like Nvidia drivers, it won't work without the sources installed. The 2nd cd has some good stuff. You should get all three. But the first cd should give you a functional system.

I've been using an SMC router with a printer server and built in firewall. Never had a problem utilizing any of the features in Linux. I run my Linux box and two windows boxes in our home network. The router has 4 ports each of which can receive a hub or switch. Theoretically the router can handle 256 stations. And it was only 70 bucks after rebate!

Repititon is good for the soul--- or someting like that!!

Hey, I had a windows demo install terminate with the BSD, and eveyone blamed the hardware. So, blame the hardware!!

I have been building and installing windows machines for the past four years, all custom build stuff. Even a wintell box had to be tweaked with the latest driver releases in order to be delivered to the customer. And every customer needed to know that their machine had to be rebooted daily if they wanted it to work. The only exception was NTv4, and only with the right service packs.

Please don't try to tell me that Mandrake 9.0 is not ready for the desk top! It blows windows away, even with KDE eye-candy that the purists don't like. Mandrake 9.0 can do it; the challenge is the image that windows is so good. What we need is better PR and the guts to get it on! :wink:

For building from src.rpm's, I still use rpm --rebuild, and then install the resulting rpm with urpmi. Seems to work.

In Mandrake, CDRW's have to listed twice. Once as a scsi device (for writing) and secondly as a standard cdrom device (for reading). If it does not autodetect, then look in the howto's for CDRW. It's not that hard to do.

I like to "balance" my color preferences with xgamma. Are you familiar with it?

In a terminal, type

xgamma -rgamma x.xx -ggamma x.xx -bgamma x.xx

where rgamma is your red, defaulta at 1.0

ggamma is your green, defaults at 1.0

bgamma is your blue, defaults at 1.0

I use "xgamma -rgamma 1.1 -bgamma 1.1" which sets my monitor to red @ 1.1, green @ 1.0, and blue @ 1.1, but your monitor and card really determine these characteristics. Sometimes, brightnes is not what is off, but gamma, or color intensity.

Precisely the point: I prefer facts about a product, and then followed by an opinionated analysis. I'm not sure I give a hoot about someone's opinion with whom I am not familiar. In other words, for me to value an opinion, I must know the person expressing it. If someone is "reviewing", I like some facts first. Just my opinion!

Look under configuraion -> packaging -> software sources

O.K., some of what the reviewer said was good to consider in improving an excellent distribution. I think that the numeric grade was higher than the oral attack. Kind of like what the media does in US news reports; you get the facts after it is shaded by personal biases, which makes them facts no longer! I guess I like reviewers to be less pre-opinionated. The review is appealing to those who are against Mandrake Linux. Although I no longer use Red Hat, I would prefer a review that is objective rather than for or against Red Hat.

You know, I have noticed the mouse thing that everybody is complaining about, actually since 7.2 (I think!) when Mandrake automated the imwheel setup. If you just move the wheel, and click the clickers, like the install says to do, the process levels out and your wheel works. Sure, it acts crazy for 5 seconds, but then it's done. So, what is the complaint?

The rest of the comments are pretty anti-Mandrake. I don't think Red Hat is that good, and it seems the author didn't like Mandrake from the beginning. If I want to read propaganda, I can do that on ZDnet!

I just tried k3b, and I think I am switching from eroaster. The setup was as idiot proof as it gets. Nice program. By the way, I got texstar rpm's.

Are you talking about scrolling?

Phoenix is indeed very fast. But I like a "suite" like Mozilla.

fdisk does not like partitions set up by Linux. It has trouble IDing size and even what is there.

This is hoke, but it works. Take the Mandrake install disk. Start an install in expert and reformat your partions, using fat32. After it is done, instaed of loading the OS, just shut down! fdisk will ID all.

I never saw the warning until 8.2, and then it was some obscure rpm's that I experimented with. But with 9.0, texstar's rpm's are giving me the warning, which never did previously.