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I'm currently using Fedora Core 1 on my laptop (with Mdk 9.2 on my desktop machine at home). To me, FC1 feels very polished and as controversial as it is I actually like the unified feel of bluecurve. The desktop just looks nice and I prefer it to the Mandrake default, somehow feels more professional. The graphical boot is gorgeous too, a far better implementation IMO than any others that I've seen. I currently rate yum as a better package management solution than urpmi although this is probably just due to the fact I've learnt the syntax for the conf file so it makes installing and updating from many repos a straight forward process, especially with the fat internet pipe I'm sitting on. FC1 is a distro that wants to be completely OSS based, hence no ntfs support, no mp3 support and no dvd playback out of the box. I actually admire redhat for making these decisions, in the ideal world we should all be using OSS and oggs would be more widely accepted than MP3's, besides if you really want these features they are extremely easy to enable via yum or direct rpm installations. FC2 (in testing now) looks like it's going to be a must install for me, latest 2.6 kernel with selinux and exec-shield enabled, Gnome 2.6 and a whole host of other goodies. In some ways mandrake feels like a less professional attempt at a distro than FC, but at the same time it also feels more orientated towards the home user who doesn't want to spend his entire life messing with the distro before getting some work done. Mandrakesoft are going to have to make some big improvements before you'll see Mandrake X.Y on my laptop, although it will probably remain on my home desktop which is my general actually do some work and play the occassional game machine.

You could try living on the bleeding edge and installing 2.5 - from my playing about it seems quite stable. I don't like what they've done to nautilus but then I don't use it much anyway.

You've come across one of the problems of building from source in an rpm based distro. Probably the best thing to do is remove your build of moz 1.6 (PITA, I know), find a mandy 1.6 rpm - pref with xft2 support enabled - and install that. Your rpms for galeon / epiphany should then just work. Another option would be to build Galeon from source against your source mozilla install. Note, last time I built mozilla it took almost 2 GiB of disk space - you might find it benifical to use rpms instead.

Can I ask if you actually need the SCSI megaraid module? If you don't then turn it off in the config and try again - you are using the correct module utils too aren't you?

Bad sigs and bad md5sums can also be caused by broken downloads, that said it sounds like the above replies are correct and as long as you trust the mirror it should be fine to install.

rpm Sorry, had to be done!

It's been released - list of mirrors at icculus

I just want to say I love the vera fonts (thanks a lot Bitstream) - I use the mono font for ssh sessions when I have to use win. The only gotcha is with accented etc characters (not common in english) which may end up looking like some kind of mahjong tile.

This isn't a mandrake specific issue (AFAIK), I'd suggest trying mozex again, or playing around with about:config I've never really bothered trying to sort this things out on my box - call it inertia

Alt-F2 should give you a run command box - try konsole from that.

The problem with the moz fonts is also due to XFS vs XFT2. You can probably find some xft enabled rpm builds around too, compiling it yourself takes ages and eats disk space. Don't suppose that really helps.... :P

It could also be the drive controller - probably built into the mobo

move your .kde elsewhere and restart kde to get a new one. If this fixes the problem diff the files between the two .kde's and find the difference thats causing this behaviour.

Either use kppp like chrisz mentioned or wvdial.

I use grub, it looks nice, works well and I know the syntax. All winners in my book

qtparted is just parted with a front end so I guess that should go under parted.... which is exactly what I use. I've used it to resize my winXP vfat partition that came pre-installed, then create several ext3 / swap / boot partitions and then finally to reduce the size of one of these ext3 partitions and add a vfat share partition.

Can I ask what sound modules you're attempting to use, and what lspci thinks your soundcard is?

You'll have to give more specifics if you actually want some help......

Under another rpm and grub based distro the rpm installs a new entry into grub and leaves the old entry. It also picks up the old parameters you had for booting the old kernel too. Very convinient. B)

It should work like that.... all instructions here (its a src rpm): http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/software/fluxbo...x/mandrake.html

Perhaps you could buy a multimedia keyboard (ick, I know) in the language of your choice (probably US) and then re-map all those extra keys to produce the characters you want. Disclaimer, this is just an idea - I have no idea of its feasibility

You can just install the fluxbox rpm (theres a link on the fluxbox website) and it will provide the relevant entries for you to use fluxbox instead of gnome at log-in. I wouldn't use fluxbox as the GNOME WM, thats a whole world of pain.

The kernel-source should be bigger than that - say 39MB. It should also be provided on the ISO's, but don't get me started on that..

cat /proc/cpuinfo is probably you're friend here.

I have no idea of what distro / mozilla version you are using but I know language support for anything other than english is currently very flaky. RedHat have started removing various language packs (may be upstream I'm not sure) until things get sorted.