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If your gonna look at upgrading anway... I would look for a motherboard that can use both SDram and DDR memory. Probably will have to do some serious searching for one of these now a days, but may be able to find bargain. I would also look at getting an AMD Duron 1.2 processor for now to save a few bucks. That and a GeForce 2 with 64MB should play games such as sim city and similiar nicely.

Total speed performance is gonna come from a combination of processor, ram, bus speed, etc., with just one slow item in this chain, would cause the rest to slow down. I was also thinking... not sure, but if your running the original harddrive with this as your primary drive... this could be the cause of the slowdown. Compaq was only using 4000-5400 RPM harddrives at that time. I would just make the best of this set-up, until you can afford to build your own with better parts. Compaq is known to skimp on anything they could and your not gonna squeaze much more from a crappy motherboard. OH and BTW, don't touch that voltage setting unless you move to Europe ;)

Would be helpful to see your complete fstab. And to continue with some basics here... Are these two harddrives on same IDE cable ? The master on the end and the slave connected in the middle ?

I am thinking hardware related also... especially since your install disks worked great with other systems. IF I were to make a stab at what to look into... I would look at the chipset and see if there are any issues between it and the kernel. Maybe you will need to use one of the alternative kernels for this setup. I am not familiar with anything like this, but after looking up a similiar board, I see it may have a SiS chip. I also do not run any of those, so maybe I am shooting blanks here. ;) I am sure someone else here will be familiar with these chips and any issues. good luck and welcome aboard. :)

some good tux stuff here: (will need flash to view the cute animation) http://www.sadeem.net/tux.html

yes, you probably should have mounted your other partitions as /windows /works /media when asked during the install. You would then find these three partitions under /mnt Also, you may want to try finding one of our volunteer translaters: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=9672 Maybe one of our members can help us understand better. What happens when you try to boot. Any errors or messages ? Oh, and welcome to our forum. :D

From what I have seen posted here previously, grip seems to be a favorite. If you would want to do any editing, try Audacity.

I would guess you upgraded to 10, which it kept the previous working kernel. A fresh clean install should of defaulted to the 2.6.3-7mdk kernel.

This is something that is designed to protect your system. Anything that needs root access can be done through a terminal / console window. But if you wanted to... you could start up Mandrake Control Center System --> Configuration --> Configure your computer (it will ask for your root password here) choose Boot and then Autologin There is an option there to "Launch the graphical environment" If this is unchecked, it will bring you to a command line where you would be able to log in as root, instead of auto launching your GUI destop.

Yes it is a nice piece of work. No problem booting on my machine, whereas another live CD based on Mandrake needs those "geeky" command line options to boot to a gui. I gave my MandrakeMove CD I burnt to a co-worker to discover Linux. I can't wait to hear how it goes. Their family reboots.... uh... I mean... runs ME and has no idea other OS's exist.

I see https and ports 443 and 21 do work, BUT 80 does not. Somewhere in your setup port 80 is blocked. Where exactly... I am not sure, but it needs to be opened if you want to serve web pages. Do you have something like my NETGEAR router's Web-based Router Configuration Utility. I had added a forward to port 80 using this for my setup by browsing to router's IP and then forwarding port 80 to the nic of the machine running Apache.

You sure you had a working proxy ? try using www.whatismyip.com to see the IP the browser is using.

Don't know if this is the right thing to do, but try this via terminal while in /home: chmod 0700 gnome2_private I did something similiar when konq wasn't writing to directories on a windows drive correctly, but used 0777 instead.

What do you have plugged in ? USB devices I bet?

Good to see your not letting it beat you. I would suggest re-doing from the ground up (which sounds like what your up to here). Format over previous install to be sure to get rid of any old configs. Check the md5sum of your download and double check your bios settings before you even begin to install. Here's a great sight to explain the installation: http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/install.html good luck, I bet it works out better this time around. :D

I just linked it to the libmp3lame.so.0 file and it seems to do the job.

Try Audacity... you will need to have liblame0-3.93.1-4plf.i586.rpm installed and set up in the prefs.

spiedra... can you fix those images ?... we are only getting thumbnails

That's cool, What a good group here

Just realized this... about those NTFS partitions... I don't Linux is quite up to working with them like it is with Fat partitions. So, in plainer English. I would reformat H: while in windows (using fdisk, although, Mandrake will be able to do this also... long as there is nothing else on this partition you need to worry about) . Format 15 GB with FAT32 (in case you want to move files from Linux to Windows or vice-verse) and leave the rest unused for Linux. I would also agree to use a spare drive, if possible.

Just wanted to note that anacron's quoted instructions from Mandrake are intended for those window's systems that were installed and use 100% of the harddrive (C://) and were always risky to try. reavercop, It is not clear where you plan on installing Linux? How much space can you give Linux? If you can clear a separate partition with windows first, I think that will make it easier (H:// would be possible here). I suppose you have data you need to keep on the partitions you have.

Seeing the gimp is the only animal I know for this job... let's try my easy intro to ani-GIF: Save a copy of my avatar and open with gimp You will notice this GIF file has two layers (if you don't have this window open, it is under Dialogs/Layers) The key is to double click on each layer's name and add in the time to display each layer. My two layers are named "Background" and "Frame 2" which I added (700ms) for the timing element of the animation Another thing to remember is to convert to indexed color. Do this by selecting "indexed color" under Image/Mode drop menu. Do a File/ Save As and choose the GIF extension. In the pop-up window, select "Save as Animation" and click the "Export" button. Click "OK" and you should have an animated GIF.

Right now, I don't believe they have the resources. Mandrake still is a small company, which happens to have just recovered from bankruptcy, which was the result of bad (previous) management. Their efforts have been focused on OEM products/services and their "official" pay-for-membership club. This has been their short-term "money tree." Quite a few of us here would like to see a more long-term marketing / business plan too. PS: welcome to the forum :D

Try this: (might not be exactly what your looking for, but it diagrams what the wires are in the ps/2 connector and has a bunch of other links) http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/s...er/keybinfo.htm I was trying to find the name of the old style keyboard connector... which I still use on a backup box I have.

My pleasure, Hope ya'all like it. :unsure: *** /me looks around crowd looking to see if cjc notices ***