mtweidmann

I had problems with BitTorrent being very slow, but after following some tips on the MDK Club website its gone freom 3K to 50K. The forwarding bit only really applies if, like me, you sitting behind a router. If you prefer a FTP site my advice is to find one in the same country as yourself they tend to be a bit better.

My Compaq Presario hasn't given me any problems, and works well with MDK. That said its getting on a bit.

Soundwrapper means that the sound output of the app is passed to arts regardless of what the app itself thinks its doing. Arts is the KDE sound daemon and its designed to allow more than one app to play sound at once, most apps have a arts driver for those which don't you can use the soundwrapper. There is an arts driver for Xmms and it would make far more sense to use that than the sound wrapper. First you'll need to install the package (if you haven't already), so do a search for Xmms in the MDK software installer and it should appear. Then launch Xmms and hit "CTRL+P" to get to the options. On the first tab change the output driver to arts, close the app and re-open. After that you shouldn't need the soundwrapper anyway so you can remove it from the shortcut commands. If that hasn't worked then it may be that arts isn't running. If your not bothered by this then simply run Xmms with the OSS driver and no soundwrapper. If not have a play around in KDE control centre to enable it.

Not sure about Hyperthreading, but dual CPUs and large aounts of RAM are both supported. To get them to work you have to use a kernel with those options correct options compiled in, for Mandrake this is the Enterprise kernel. I think from memory you have to boot from CD2 rather than CD1 to be given the option.

A lot of people have complained about how sloppy 9.2 was, personnally I never understaod why. Its worked fine for me, even the 64bit version works. And I think if you read the annoucements made by MadrakeSoft it is specifically because so many bugs are found just after release that they have adopted the Community and Official release policy. But Iphitus is right they could make it a bit clearer.

Older versions of MDK always used to ask you which CDs you had before going to the package selection screen, I wonder why they ditched it.

First of all I would say get 10 as its been realised, rather tan 9.2 but thats ot answering your question. In terms of software I'm pretty sure that as a silver club member you get the entire PowerPack. But of course no manual, printed disks, support entitlement, etc... Its a strictly software only deal. Also it represents about 2GB of downloads, I tried to download the 64bit version of 9.2 when they realised it club memebers but gave up because it would have taken for ever.

Have you tried building you own libdvdnav rpms? When I moved over to the 64bit version of Mandrake I found that there were a lot of programs (eg Xine plugins) that hadn't been packaged up for the AMD64. To my surrpirse it wasn't too difficult to build them myself using .src.rpms after which everything has worked fine. Might be worth a try in your case.

Just sat down to browse the board and drink tea from my newly arrived mug. :)

I've got a WinTV Theatre card, and it works fine with Mandrake. I've never had much luck with recording video from it, but then I never tried that hard.

The ATI vs NVIDIA arguement on this board has got quite heated at times. I've got an ATI card and have always prefered them to NVIDIA, but thats just me. There are drivers included with MDK 9.2 for the Radeonbut they only really do 2D. You'll have to download and install ATI's own Linux drivers to use the card properly. The general feeling seems to be that they are slightly harder to set up when compared to Nvidia's, but they do work well once installed. If you are a MDK Club member you can download all the packages pre-made for you. Final note, if you have an AMD Athlon64 or Operton delay getting an ATI card as they haven't released 64bit drivers yet.

I would check your firewall settings, it might be that you've restricted the IP address range one/both of the machines will reply to pings from.

Writing some C++ for a Uni project, and I've got a problem with dynamic memory allocations. I need to store N sets of data, where each set is made up of 2N long doubles. As N can change I decided to dynamically allocate the memory: Needless to say it doesn't work, when I try to compile it I get the following error message: I can't put a constant value in, because if I could I wouldn't need to mess around with the whole dynamic memory in the first place. GRRR Do any of you amazingly clever people know how I do it? PS I'm using Borland Builder 5.0, not through choice.

There is a program called MusicMan which is a Konqueror plugin. You highlight a group of mp3/ogg files right click and it gives the option to rename based on the ID3 tags. I'm afraid I don't know the project's web address, but if you have problems I can send you the rpm (its only small).

My motherboard has got USB 2.0 support (so the manual tells me), but I've never had any USB 2 devices to plug it into. Last Saturday I wanted to get some large files (4GBish) and luckily he has a USB 2 hard drive, so we used that to transfere them. The HD was detected immediately, mounted and worked well. BUT it was really slow, no where near the speed I'd expect from USB 2. Went and looked at the Mandrake website and it does say USB 2 is supported so I had a play around in MDK Control Centre but no joy. Martin Spec: AMD Athlon64 3200 512MB RAM MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R ATI Radeon 9200 MDK 9.2 64Bit Version

Its probably easiest to during the install of the box set. Part of the install process is to set up and format the partitions you want to use, at this point select "custom".. Then find the partitions from your previous Linux install and delete them, finish off by clicking the "auto allocate" button to create new ones.

There is an Open Sourse alternative if you are interested: https://helixcommunity.org/

Most apps now provide the option to use arts for sound, or enlightment for Gnome users. If a particular app doesn't there is a simepl work round, change the KDE shortcut (or console command) so the command is: soundwrapper <app> That will pass any attempts the app makes to use your sound card to arts without the app needing to know about it.

I'm confused, why don't you set Xmms to use "arts" as output plugin. Then all the sound from both apps will be passed to the arts deamon, allowing both apps to play sound at once. (Based on the assumption that you are running KDE)

I NOW HAVE SOUND! :D Should anyone have the same card and problem, switch the driver being used to "forte" rather than the default. I found this out by working my way through the list of drivers until one worked.

The easiest way is to use the original install CD/DVD. Boot from it as if you were going to re-install, but when you see the welcome screen press F1 not enter. On the next screen type "rescue" and hit enter. This should then give you the option to re-install Lilo to the right place.

You could try building it yourself, as it tends to work out a bit cheaper and you get to choose exactly what you want. If you do I would recommend not buying anything too exotic as it could make setting up Linux harder. As for pre-built systems I've had good experiences with www.cclcomputers.co.uk Note: Evesham used to sell desktops with Linux pre-installed, which got good write ups. Sadly they've ditched the range. Edit: If you're only going to use it as a secondary system, have you thought about buying a second machine?

Thanks for the advice, sndconfig says that my card isn't supported. :(

Chris_Z: Tried to run it from terminal, and get no feedback other than the launch info.

I upgraded my computer over the weekend, one of the things I kept was my ABit AU10 sound card. I've installed MDK 9.2 and Win2K as on the old system, but while I have sound in Windows, in Linux the only sound I get is the TV card which connects to the Line-In. The card is detected and identified correctly (or at least the same settings as before) and all the modules are getting loaded. I've tried poking around alsamixer and aumix, but no joy there. Tried various different apps includng arts and non-arts apps, but everything seems to equally affected. Had a look in "/dev/sound/" and there are entries for: Here is the information that KDE Control Centre gives me (again same as on old system). The system spec is: AMD Athlon64 3200 MSI K8T-Neo (built in sound card, but I disbaled it in the BIOS) 512MB RAM 40GB HD WinTV Theatre TV card ABit AU10 Sound Card Mandrake 9.2