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Actually yes, I think it's beta3, it's about a 100Mb cd image which I downloaded and burned and installed. Pretty cool, but not really much easier than the regular type install, I think. Problems: Can't figure out how to install NVIDIA drivers, I've done it a hundred times before, it comes with kernel-2.4.25-1 so I found the kernel-source-2.4.25, the NVIDIA installer fails saying it can't detect the nvidia kernel, or some weird stuff like that. Also, how to get working icons for CD, DVD and Floppy? If I put a disk in and click on the icons I made, I get: error mount: only root can do that. I have checked permissions. Strange, maybe you have ideas? I would like to figure this stuff out.

Good points, and well taken. I am glad I'm not the only one, at any rate, who sees a problem with apt. I just tried using the Debian sarge netinst cd, and got it installed, but of course, now it won't go into X, so again I will try another method. Like maybe just the standard, traditional install. I got that running before, but never could get my printer going. When I get frustrated there again, I will probably just give it up for a while, and gather more patience and try again. Thanks for the pointers.

Thanks for the replies. I agree that URPMI is at LEAST as good as apt, from my experience. I primarily use Mandrake, cuz that's what I started with, and cuz inspite of some major or minor flaws with each release, it always seems to be the most idiot-proof to me, and functional without too much fussing around with it. I do like Mandrake. But having too much 'free time' and an incurable curiousty to see how things work (and how to break them), I have reached out to try other distributions, and I really liked SuSE on my old AMD machine, it worked great, but not on this one, which is a Intel p4 with "hyper-threading" (what is that anyway?) At any rate, SuSE didn't play well with this box. So Debian is a challenge, to try to get my hardware all working, (which hasn't happened yet, except for the Knoppix install). So now I will try the Debian installer rc3, and see if that helps much. Thanks again.

Maybe I am the only one, but installed Knoppix 3.3 on my spare drive, and it works very, very, well. I change the sources.list to "testing" and, apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade, and things still work well, but after doing this a few times, my system starts getting slow to boot, which is bad, so I try changing to "unstable" and doing it all again, now is when it gets hosed, for some reason it hangs up on installing 'kdelibs-data' and there goes KDE, no more worky, and no way that I can find to fix it. This has happened more than once, so it's not just a fluke. Anybody have any ideas? Other than just "don't do that anymore"? :lol: Thanks.

Thanks, I think this 10 is really pretty cool, got the kernel-source and then nvidia drivers installed, printer is good, etc. One thing is XMMS no longer plays my mp3's, but Noatun does. hmmm.... no biggie I guess. Overall it seems (to me) a little faster than 9.2, do you agree?

Well, I cannot believe this. I found an old ps2 mouse, plugged it in, and did the upgrade from 9.2 to 10. Now, I unplug the ps2 mouse, and my USB mouse is working. Very puzzling. Cool, but puzzling.

Hi bvc, I had to give SuSe up, when I got this new machine, for some reason SuSE didn't like this machine, it ran slow and funky and wouldnt always work right. I am running Debian sarge (from a Knoppix HD install) and Mandrake 9.2, and the mouse and printer/scanner work fine with these two distributions. I was referring to the post (By thinkliberty) that said if I conpiled my own kernel, my mouse would work. I will check bios plugnplay, do you really think that would matter? And no I have not unplugged all other USBs... Thanks.

Ok, so what I need to do is install Mandrake 10 with no mouse, then compile my own kernel so I can have my mouse again. Am I the only one?

I KNEW I should have bought another AMD!!! I KNEW it!!!

Motherboard is an MSI, MS-6758 with Intel 875P chipset. How can I connect my nice USB wheel mouse to a PS-2 mouse port? Do I have to buy an adapter? No thanks, especially if there is no USB device detection! That's frickin ridiculous! Are you telling me my USB printer won't work either? Again, what's so great about this release? Oh, must be that wonderful new kernel, eh? Thanks for the reply. :D

Booted to the CD1, setup starts, but mouse don't work at all. (Even after I select the mouse type in the install). So I quit the install. Anyone have ideas? Thanks

hmm, good question... I will get back to you on that. Thanks! :woops:

Well somehow I got past that, now I get an error during "make" Here is the last piece: 652: undefined reference to `QStringData::deleteSelf()' xojpanel-moc.o(.gnu.linkonce.t._ZN8XojPanelD0Ev+0xc9):/usr/include/qt/qstring.h: 652: undefined reference to `QWidget::~QWidget [not-in-charge]()' xojpanel-moc.o(.gnu.linkonce.t._ZN8XojPanelD0Ev+0xd9):/usr/include/qt/qstring.h: 652: undefined reference to `QWidget::~QWidget [not-in-charge]()' xojpanel-moc.o(.gnu.linkonce.r._ZTI8XojPanel+0x8):/usr/include/qt/qwidget.h:774: undefined reference to `typeinfo for QWidget' xojpanel-moc.o(.gnu.linkonce.r._ZTI6QGList+0x8):/usr/include/qt/qwidget.h:774: u ndefined reference to `typeinfo for QCollection' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [xojpanel] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/hpoj-0.91/apps/xojpanel' make: *** [just_compile] Error 2 mike@debianmike:~/hpoj-0.91$ Please help.

Hi, I'm back at the Debian thing, Fresh install and upgraded to Sid, and trying to get my HP printer working with hpoj, which I got the CVS version of. When I do ./configure, I get this error, and I have NO idea what to do about it, so any help will be much appreciated. checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check debianmike:/home/mike/hpoj# Please help this old newbie out, you Deb gurus!!

To me, a gui program called 'Audacity' sounds like just what he's looking for. You can convert this to that, and that to the other thing, provided you have all the dependancies. You can split audio, and join it as well, and edit just about every concievable part of it, too.

Finally, Totem plays music CDs perfectly, it even grabs the CDinfo from the web. KSCD will "play" them, but it produces no sound. I have the same problem with kscd 'playing' an audio CD with 'no sound'. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks

Should say this: (it's what mine says, anyway) ~/mp3/%A/%d/%t_%n.ogg

Thanks.

Please, can somebody tell me what smp means? Just installed Mandrake 9.2 on a brand-new box which has a pentium 4 processor at 3 ghz, I am an Intel newbie, as I've always used AMD before, One of my lilo boot options is for /boot/vmlinuz-smp. Thanks...

Well, I'll be damned, its working now, after I uninstalled it all and rebuilt and installed it from source-rpm. Thanks for the help, you guys are great. :lol:

Thanks for all the info, but it still won't work. I open my browser (either Konqueror or Mozilla) go to a torrent site, click a link, and a whole page of gobbledy-gook opens up, like this: d8:announce45:http://beowulf.mobilefrenzy.com:6969/announce10:created by15:Azureus/2.0.3.213:creation datei1066201580890e4:infod6:lengthi683642880e4:name35:MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso12:piece lengthi524288e6:pieces26080:ᥠ+¶žðnŠ ” ÕÏe£ f SG×·j' *½Ñý¡é3%äkŠü gÃ{Æ1¾Çnõ ©ÎyV–¾ý¬æ†¡ Ó]-nîjg½ è‰y[ÿnŽÝW —ž] •› çL›ŠÒ ½Ã¼ÉA …Ê ¯ã !³ ---forever like that. On the other hand, if I right click the file, and then 'open with' btdownloadgui.py, absolutely nothing happens. I give up. Any thoughts? Thank You.

That happened to me, it turned out to be a bad CD which I burned with a bad md5sum iso. But it wasn't 9.2, it was 9.2 RC2.

Thanks, I will try that version from texstar, but for the life of me, It can't seem to find that file, do you know what type of wxGTK package you have? I have tried source packages and rpms with no luck. Thanks again.

Can you tell me exactly which packages you are using, mine doesn't work. I have wxGTK-2.4.2 built from source, and Bittorent 3.3 The mailcap file has been edited. When I go to run bittorrent I get this: [mike@localhost mike]$ btdownloadgui.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr//bin/btdownloadgui.py", line 14, in ? from wxPython.wx import * ImportError: No module named wxPython.wx [mike@localhost mike]$ Crap, it IS INSTALLED, why can't it be found? HELP! :shock: Thank you...

Is there a faq on installing and using this bittorrent? I installed it, and the dependancies, but I cannot figure it out. Thanks...