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As it happens Linux Format magazine has done a feature on just this topic this month, only of interest if your in the UK. Generally I prefer Xine, but Ogle is also pretty good. You can also use Mplayer and couple of others, but IMHO xine and Ogle are the best. Regardless of what you use you'll need the DVD decryption libaries. As Irsach01 says PLF is the best soure for those using MDK. You can add PLF as an urpmi source to make the installtion easier. http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php There is a more up-to-date version of Xine on PLF than is shipped with MDK. So once you've added PLF as a source I'd do a searches for Xine, DVD and CSS then install pretty much everything that comes up.

They may have already have fixed this but when I first installed 9.2 if you clicked on any of the server wizard icons (eg Samba) nothing happened. I found out that i had to manually install the appropiate rpms before the wizards would launch. This didn't happen in 9.1 (I think). Just thought I'd mention it.

Its not much help to you this time, but you can create an emergancy boot floppy in the Mandrake Control Centre for booting your machine when Lilo is up the spout. Only really useful if like me yo don't always have the installtion media to hand.

The chances are that enything except a minor upgrade wouldn't work anyway. You end up having the wring sockets or chipsets or something.

I rebuilt my house mate's computer about 2 months ago for £270 and its runs really well. So it can be done! I would recommend getting things that are well matached to each other. There is not point in having a super fast processor if you buy really slow RAM for instance. Specifics: AMD AthlonXP - cheaper than Intels and just as good, eg 2600 are fairly cheap Epox Motherboards - Used several and never had a problem RAM - the fastest your CPU can support, something like DDR400 or 333 Decent hard drive - HD access makes a big difference to overall system performance

Thanks! I've just tried compiling the same code with the ARM compiler in ADS and it worked first time. So I'm guessing its how I'm compiling the code with GCC not the code itself.

I normally use C++, but for a project I'm working on at the moment I have to use C. Anyway, how do I use "sin" and "cos" in C? I've made a simple console program in Kdevelop which just fills an array with samples of a sin wave. It has "#include <math.h>" at the top. When I try to compile it i get the following message: gmake all-recursive gmake[1]: Entering directory `/home/martin/Documents/ac_test' Making all in ac_test gmake[2]: Entering directory `/home/martin/Documents/ac_test/ac_test' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -O2 -O0 -g3 -Wall -c main.c /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc -O2 -O0 -g3 -Wall -o ac_test main.o gcc -O2 -O0 -g3 -Wall -o ac_test main.o main.o(.text+0x86): In function `main': /home/martin/Documents/ac_test/ac_test/main.c:45: undefined reference to `sin' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/martin/Documents/ac_test/ac_test' gmake[2]: *** [ac_test] Error 1 gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/martin/Documents/ac_test' gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 *** failed *** I've checked that I've got everything installed and can't spot anything obiviously wrong witht he code. HELP!

I'm doing a programming project on eCos for Uni, which means using Makefiles. So far I've okay as I've been editing one of the example files, but I can't work out how to add a file to the list of things I want to compile. The files I want to add are: fourierd.c ddc.c ddcmaths.h fftmisc.c The file with my code is called twothreads.c, and use make twothreads to compile it. The Makefile file looks like this: # Mostly written by Jonathan Larmour, Red Hat, Inc. # This file is in the public domain and may be used for any purpose # PKG_INSTALL_DIR might need to be edited. Right now it is set # assuming that a user ran pkgconf.tcl in //c/ecos-work on Windows NT, # or used the Configuration Tool with C:\ecos-work as a build-tree. # # You can also override it on the make command-line, e.g.: # make PKG_INSTALL_DIR=/myecc/install # or you can set it in your environment PKG_INSTALL_DIR = /home/genuser/ecos-work/install # You must also set XCC to the name of your cross-compiler, including any # options it needs. # Uncomment one of the below, or invoke make with the name of the compiler # you want, e.g.: # make XCC="sparclite-elf-gcc -mcpu=sparclite -msoft-float" # You can also set XCC in your environment XCC = arm-elf-gcc -mcpu=arm7di # AEB ###### VARIABLES # Any of these can be overriden on the command-line or in your environment ifeq ($(XCC),sh-elf-gcc) CFLAGS = -ggdb else CFLAGS = -g endif CXXFLAGS = $(CFLAGS) EXTRACFLAGS = -Wall -I$(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/include -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections EXTRACXXFLAGS = $(EXTRACFLAGS) -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -fvtable-gc -finit-priority LDFLAGS = -nostartfiles -L$(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/lib -Wl,--gc-sections LIBS = -Ttarget.ld -nostdlib LD = $(XCC) XCXX = $(XCC) ###### RULES .PHONY: all clean CCCHECK all: hello twothreads simple-alarm serial clean: -rm -f twothreads twothreads.o -rm -f serial serial.o -rm -f instrument-test instrument-test.o CCCHECK: ifeq ($(XCC),) @echo You must set XCC to the name of your cross-compiler @false endif %.o: %.c $(XCC) -c -o $*.o $(CFLAGS) $(EXTRACFLAGS) $< %.o: %.cxx $(XCXX) -c -o $*.o $(CXXFLAGS) $(EXTRACXXFLAGS) $< %.o: %.C $(XCXX) -c -o $*.o $(CXXFLAGS) $(EXTRACXXFLAGS) $< %.o: %.cc $(XCXX) -c -o $*.o $(CXXFLAGS) $(EXTRACXXFLAGS) $< twothreads: CCCHECK twothreads.o $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $@.o $(LIBS) serial: CCCHECK serial.o $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $@.o $(LIBS) instrument-test: CCCHECK instrument-test.o $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $@.o $(LIBS)

The club organises volunteers to build rpms of popular apps, the results are then made available to everyone (member or not). You can find the Club Contribs on most mirrors: ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio....ed/MandrakeClub But I think the rpms that are still in the testing stages are not pubically available, sorry.

Kopete is the best, at least in my opinion. If you download the latest rpm from the Club testing site (or other source) the problem with MSN has been fixed.

You have to install the wizard and samba packages before the icon appears. Open up the software installer and do a search for wizard. I can't remember exactly what the package is called, but thats the search I used to find it. The do a search for Samba and install the server and client packages (plus any deps). Close and re-open MDK Control Centre and it should be there.

There is an rpm in the download->misc section of this site. Once installed edit the app link KDE creates for it so that the command reads "soundwrapper realplay" not "realplay". This means that it work with arts, and stops it from crashing.

There is always RealPlayer, which works ok.

Try lauching it manually from a terminal using: drakconf If that launches that means the shortcut has some how been broken. In which case I would suggest re-creating it from scratch.

I've used tried it on my system, and it gave the answer 5. I would try having a look around the OpenOffice settings you might have switched functions off.

I have a USB web-cam, not Intel but I don't suppose its that different. To use I plugged it in, and an entry in /dev was created automatically. The entry should be called something like "video" or "video0". I would check whats there before you plug-in the camera, so you know which one is the camera afterwards. There are lots of different apps you can use with the camera, but my favourite one is xawtv. Try something like: "xawtx /dev/video0"

You can use XCDRoast to produce .iso images, I've done it in the past. I'll have a play with it when I get back this evening to see how I did it.

You can find the Sun Java VM for Linux, Flash and other useful stuff all packaged up for Mandrake at: ftp://mandrake-forum.org/pub/Misc

You can use Mandrake Control Centre to adjust the display resolution while X is running. I'm not sure it was designed for frequent changes, or how KDE/Gnome will re-act. But give it a go, should work. MDK Control Centre -> Hardware -> Change your screen resolution Edit: D'OH Just remembered you can also adjust your resolution on the fly with: "alt ctrl +" to increase res "alt ctrl -" to decrease res Use the + and - keys on the number pad, for some reason it doesn't like the other keys.

Kuickshow is good, very simple with no extra features to hog memory. Plus easy to remember key shortcuts: Enter = fullscreen/window Page up = previous file Page down = next file

If you use urpmi to resolve the deps, and the rpms are built for Mandrake they should install + work. Although other people who have actually tried will be able to tell you for sure. BUT remember that 3.2 is beta, so it my install/run but theres no gaurentee how stable it will be.

There is a web-based interface, which you can access from via your browser http://localhost:631/ or from the K-Menu Configuration->Printers->CUPS WWW admin tool. Is that what your looking for?

I found a new app (at least new to me) on the KDE apps site. Its called MusicMan and its a Konqueror plugin to help you sort your music files. I downloaded the Red Hat 9.x src rpm, it built and installed perfectly. http://apps.kde.com/rf/2/latest?sid=aea1ed...f885eb307460372

Try this site: http://www.alsa-project.org/

Ok, another case of Mandrake 9.2 forgetting my settings. OpenOffice was defaulting to using MS Office file types, which is not only odd but also annoying. So I went to Tools -> Configure and changed the defaults. But next time I booted guess what, OOo prompts me to save as a .doc file. Why?!