mtweidmann

I'm not sure this actually answers your question, but here goes anyway. Out house has 4 PCs (and occasionally a laptop) networked together and sharing an ADSL connection. We have a D-Link combined ADSL modem/router/switch. Its was one of the best buys I've ever made computer kit wise. Its a fairly small box that lives under the sofa, that plugs directly into the phone line and has 4 T100 network ports on it. It handles the modem/connection stuff, has a simple file wall and DHCP server. You set these up using a HTTP interface, which isn't the best in the world but its good enough. The best thing about it NO DRIVERS!!!!! Between us we have 2 versions of Window, 2 versions of Linux and BSD. All of which connect with just the drivers for their network cards, specifying auto-matic IP and manually setting the gateway and DNS. The main draw back is port forwarding, only one machine can do any server stuff. Which means is annyoing for bit torrent and MSN file transferes.

Does anyone know where i can get an rpm to supply libxosd.so.0? I want to set up HotKeys on my laptop but the rpm won't install because it fails the dependancy check. I've got libxosd2 installed, but this doesn't help. Edit: As a temporary measure I'm using an rpm compiled for another distro. While this works I'd prefer a "mdk" package if possible.

There is a driver (somewhere) to allow you to write to NTFS, but I really don't recommend using it.

Personally if its not a laptop I'd build it myself, but when it comes branded PCs I've used 2 Dells and they've both been pretty good.

I running MDK 10CE Beta1 for the AMD64. I want to keep it updated from Cooker as its still Beta, bt having a problem installing the draktools packages. They always fail saying that it can't satisfy the dependcy perl(ctxhelp). I had a search on the interent and found some mention of a similar problem in 9.1 but there aren't any suggested fixes. Anyone know how to get round this or where I can get the perl package?

I thought I'd give JuK a go, but have run into a rather strange problem. When I try to play any file from within it there is no sound. the progress bar moves and the timer works but thats it. I tried Xmmx, Kaboodle, Totem and Noatun and they all work perfectly. I had a look around JuK and there does not seem to be many options for me to play with. If anybody has any ideas would very much like to hear them. Might be useful: MDK 10CE for AMD64 Beta1 updated from Cooker. ABit AU10 Sound Card using the 'Forte' driver

One less stupid cable. :D Plus I have a feeling that the standard audio cable is analog rather than digital.

I'm using MDK 10CE, have no CD audio cables in machine at all and yet I can still play CDs perfectly. It could be that you have installed the required package, which is called cdparanoia I think. If you are using Xmms then you need lauch it press CTLR+P and choose the correct CD audio I/O plugin. For KDE apps you can set it to digital extraction in the KDE control centre.

Be easier to add PLF as a urpmi source as it will automated any dependcies for you. http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/

I like Bit Torrent personnally, I know its not quite the smae genre as Kazaa but its good.

I've just installed and set up MDK10 Beta 1 on my machine, and for a first beta its actually very nice. Being lazy I've always quite liked the Mandrake Wizards for quickly setting up Apache or Samba (or whatever) from the Control Centre. But I can't find the wizard! It was listed in the control centre when I first installed so have tried searching through urpmi but still can't find it. Is it included and if so whihc packages do I need to install to get it?

I suppose it depends on where you measure from, after all 10CE will have been around for a good deal longer and the final release of 10 is just patched rather than updated.

I dual boot Linux and WindowsXP from the same drive so it can be done! I would do something along these lines (I know the numbers don't add up entirely): 15GB - NTFS - WindowsXP 50GB - FAT32 - Data 2GB - ext3 - / swap partition about 0.5GB? 10GB - ext3 - /usr 2GB - ext3 - /home Now a little explanation of why I would do this. For the Windows boot partition I would use NTFS because IMHO it is better than FAT32. You can't (relaibly) write to NTFS from Linux, but you shouldn't really be playing around with the windows install from Linux anyway. I guess you want to be able to access your date from both OSes hence using FAT32 for the data drive, which is read/write accessable from both OSes. As to the Linux parition layout thats just how I do it. I would use whatever tool you feel happy with to set up the partitions before installing the OSes. Personnally I would suggest creating one big FAT32 partition as a place holder for the Linux partitions. Then install Windows first, followed by Mandrake. In the Mandrake installer just delete the place holder partition and use the installer to set up the Linux partitions. As to your last question I don't think you need to have the Linux partitions in the first 8GB. Anyway thats I'd do, have fun. :)

Were you in KDE when you tested your sound? Were the apps you were testing using arts, oss or alsa output drivers? Was arts running? It could just be that arts wasn't running for whatever reason, or that it was and the app you were using couldn't use arts hence couldn't access the sound card.

If your not using a proxy server you might have to specify a internet gateway. You'll normally have to d this if the gateway isn't at the same address of the DHCP server (the thing handing out IP addresses) or if you're manually assigning IP addresses. For instance we have one machine on our network with a static IP address, so when we configured it we had to specify the address of the ADSL router as the gateway. I would suggest re-running the network set up from Mandrake Control Centre, and trying to specify the gateway address manually. I haven't tried 10 yet but in 9.2 its simply a matter of pressing the button marked "Configure Internet Access".

2Mbps?! I could off you in a big way. ;) As the modem is attached directly to your router its unlikely to a driver problem as it is the router that should be dealing with it. I think its more likely to be something to do with your network settings in MDK. I would re-run the network set up from the control centre, but this time do everything manually including setting a manual IP. Making sure that you specify the IP address of your router as the gateway. But don't forget that CE really is a RC so it could be a software fault that will be fixed.

This thread explains it pretty well: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=10812

I'm not 100% certain but I think this should work. There is a file called "hdlists" which lists all the hdlist.cz files the installer should use, you'll have to add an entry to it. The file can be found in: /Mandrake/current/i586/Mandrake/base/ and looks something like: All of the listed hdlist*.cz files were in the same directory, so I would copy the file for Contribs there. Then just specify the path and see if it works. Maybe somehting like:

You could try loading K3B from a terminal, you might get an error message telling you why its not working. Can't remember how to set up video out under windows, sorry.

I installed 9.2 from a hard drive, and it was pretty painless and very fast. MDK 9.2 had a windows tool for creating the boot disk (sorry but I didn't have a Linux machine available) and it gives the option of what type of disk to create. Then I booted off that disk, it asked me which of the detected partitions the files were on (so its important that you know where they are) and that was pretty much it.

K3B can create VCDs if you install the correct libraries. Try running it then opening up the configure or options menu. One of the tabs lists which of the libraries it supports are installed (can't remember their names). If the VCD ones aren't there its just a matter of urpmi them then re-starting K3B. I'm pretty sure from memory that all the packages are available either in contribs, unsupported or PLF.

Hi, I'm running 9.2 for the AMD64, and while its not bad it does seem it was never quite finished (for instance the servers still call it RC2). Personnally I would suggest trying out he Beta of 10.0 which has just been released. Not getting passed the second stage could be caused by a few things. Trying hitting F1 on the frist screen of the installer, which should then give you more options. Try this post: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=12139 Finally if you run the 32bit version of Mandrake (i586) it should run perfectly, just like a quick XP. But you won't see any of the benefits of the 64bit architecture.

In case anyone didn't know, 10 Beta 1 for the AMD64 has been released. :D http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/100amd64beta.php3

Does anyone know it its possible to set the format of a cell as binary in OpenOffice's Calc? I don't want bolean, but proper binary and I can't find amoungst the supported format types, Thanks!

Mandrake Move seems pretty good to me.