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Thanks- but I have tried two older wine rpm versions, neither will work properly. As far as winex- unless they have made some major changes in the FREE version, I'm not even gonna try it again, and I'm certainly not gonna pay for it. I have had tremendous success with wine from cvs, but not this time... and I'm not sure that the problem isn't related to the nvidia drivers. Seems I can't rebuild the (nvidia) kernel source rpm on 9.1. So I am using textar rpms. :lol:

Hi ezroller! Hope he has better luck with wine on 9.1 than I do... none of my games will work now, Half-Life, Blue-Shift, Op-Force and RTCW all don't work, with different problems on all. I'm thinking seriously of 'downgrading' to Mandrake9 , had it all working great. (Of course I HAD to try 9.1!!)

I'm going back to Mandrake9, this always happens to me! I got 9 running perfectly, and just the way I liked it... and thought I could improve on that with 9.1. The install went well, until I tried to rebuild the nvidia source drivers, and they wouldn't build... ended up using textar rpms for the nvidia drivers, which worked great. The 9.1 looks awesome, and seem to work OK for me, but some things I still liked better with 9. And by the way, I've tried 3 versions of wine including the one which comes with 9.1, but no matter what I do I can't run Half-Life or RTCW, which is a minor annoyance, but still my favorite games... so please don't bitch at me about native games...( I got UT2003 as well) Just my opinion here.

Right, well, I am mostly concerned about the hardware compatibility, at this point. If that type of hardware is recognised yet. I'm sure once that happens, there will be people creating software specifically to run it. I haven't heard about anyone using one, though. Thanks.

I am curious if anybody has one of those new dvd writers to work on Mandrake 9? Mostly cuz the prices are finally getting (almost) affordable, and it sure would be cool... Thanks!

huh?

Can anyone please give me some pointers on configuring the 'obsidian' script to work with xchat? I got the basic thing, but when I turn it on, it won't show up in a channel, and is not complete, in that it doesn't list a trigger, and other info normally expected. Any help is appreciated! Thanks.

I am trying to figure out how to make 'obsidian' work with xchat. (An f-serve add-on perl script for file sharing). If anybody could give some pointers, I will greatly appreciate it. I have a feeling I am just missing somthing simple. Thanks in advance.

Thanks, I think that'll do it.

Hi again, Anyone know of a program for linux, that will take a large mp3 or ogg file, (such as an entire album of music), and allow you to edit and split the file to each individual song track? I am thinking of somthing like what comes with Nero, the 'track limits and split' feature. Thanks in advance.

To whoever wanted Half-Life on wine, use the wine RPMs that come with Mandrake 9 to install the game. It won't install if you use other versions...at least that has been MY experience. And DOlson, nice job on your new site! http://icculus.org/~dolson/mdkxp/ 8)

Well, my experience is very limited, I have recompiled a kernel only 2 or 3 times, and I was VERY inexperienced and it was really educational. It was actually quite scary! Cuz one little slip-up and you ain't a-gonna boot. In my case, it was to upgrade to a kernel that would support video capture and editing, so I was willing to take the risk. Please keep in mind that my machine is mostly just a "toy", and if I really had a lot of "important" stuff on it, I would probably not bother, (without some serious backing-up.) I agree that it is probably not needed on a machine that fast, hell, mine's only 1.53 gigahertz and it just smokes! AND it's almost twice as fast on Linux than it is on M$ products, with NO optimizing! :wink:

Just for the heck of it here... I have an AMD athlon xp1800 and did NOTHING special in any way at all, and my machine works perfectly with Mandrake 9. So I have to ask, is it necessary at all to do what you want to do?

This is my simple-minded solution to this prob: 1)Used KPackage to remove gurpmi and urpmi.(making sure to uncheck the "check dependancies" box). 2)Installed the "original" versions from the Mandrake9 CDs. 3)Opened Mandrake Control Center and ran "update' on all sources. 4) Those which would NOT update I deleted and then added new sources (for updates). After this I ran the Mandrake update and it worked flawlessly, just like it did out-of-the-box, so to speak. Hope this helps some of the less technically inclined, like myself. :wink:

I just use Mandrake, so I went and installed the firewall from the control center, I guess that's OK. It was fairly simple, even for me. Thanks for your replies. :?

Thanks, I knew about 'always on' but I'm not sure which firewall to use,I guess for my purposes the less configuring I have to do the better off I'll be. Have you got a favorite? Thanks.

Thanks, I will try that.

This is gonna sound dumb, but I finally got cable internet, and it is so cool... but how can I have the little icon in the system tray that I used to get with dial-up? (The little "two monitors" icon that shows a connection?) Thanks in advance.

OK, Thanks!

Hey- Since the Mandrake eXPerience website is down, and I can't get access to DOlson's tutorial on removing the 'Removable Media" icon from Mandrake 9 kde desktop, will somebody please spell it out here? Thanks a lot.

I've been waiting, but I guess chad isn't gonna get back to us... Anyway, I was wondering a similar question: I want to purchase a Linksys BEFW11S4 wireless access point router with 4 port switch, and a Linksys WUSB11 wireless USB network adapter. I'm just wondering if anybody here has these items, and is using them, and what it takes to configure them. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

fuzzylizard: I don't think so with jGnash, but yes with Gnucash. Dunno with the Kapital. the YinYeti: I tried for hours to get that newer version of Gnucash installed, but, man, the dependancies! Can you share how you got it all installed please?

Hi, I started that thread, and since, have been using Gnucash and a nifty prog called jGnash. http://jgnash.sourceforge.net/ I am in the process of evaluating them both to see which will better meet my needs. jGnash seems to have lots of promise, if the author does the things in the future he says he's going to do. It requires the latest version of java. Gnucash works fine, but I'm not crazy about the zillions of very long file names it creates. I can't deal with all that, so periodically I go and delete all but the last-dated. Hope that helps some...

You might try glabels, it works fine for a lot of different types of labels and stuff, and has templates for Neato cd labels. http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.p....&system=&arch=

hmmm, well if yor cds aren't working, I don't think that would cause it to not reboot. obviously you didn't change anything, they just stopped working? What do you have, a cd burner and a cd-rom? I dunno, man, I would just reboot it, at best it may help, at worse, you may have to reinstall, but if the CDs don't work then your install is sorta useless anyway, right? That's what I would do, but then my machine is basically just a toy for me, I don't have anything irreplaceable on it, and since I started playing with Linux version 8.1, I bet I've wrecked my install and had to re-do it at least a dozen times. :mrgreen: