jdion81

I get the same thing but with VMware, every time my machine boots it tries:

rm: cannot remove '/(dont remember which folder)/VMware/jason': Is a directory

I thought about deleting the folder or at least seeing what was in it to get an idea of what is going on but havent yet.

well i am off to try the suse live cd.

Thanks for your input.

I ran into the same problem. Does this mean then that I have selected something in the available packages that would be on the club set? I got around this by reinstalling and then choosing a minimal set of items to install and finishing up with urpmi

urpmi rocks

RH, Fedora and Libranet have debian based tools that are not free that are used to configure the operating system (Network settings, Sound card drivers, Printer setup)? Isnt that weird since RH and fedora are basically the same for now and they are pretty much a standard (using RPM based packages) for other distros and debian is in itself a standard as well? How do you install these graphical configurations utilities in RH and fedora? I have not checked out Suse but I think I will now.

I want to use a distro that will give me speed and power balanced with the ease of configuration. I have only used debian for a day now and it seems to me to be a little more expert oriented than mdk where I feel mdk is a little too newbie-ish for what I want.

Do any other distributions have tools that allow you to configure the OS, hardware and mount points (cdrw, dvd, printer, sound card, network....) Like Mandrake does? I installed Debian testing and I cannot figure out how to configure the sound card or other hardware devices,. I know all this can be done with the CLI but would rather the point and click way ya know?

The more distros I try the more I like MDK.

I thought that there was an issue with the SB Live card that come with the Dells. Something about the fact that the cards are actually not 100% SB Live cards (they use a different chipset). Or was this only with the audigy cards?

Does anyone know how to get mail synced between a palm and evolution? I am able to sync the mail using Jpilot and the mail plugin, but I would like to use evolution (more features).

On a side note anyone had any luck in sending mail from the palm with Jpilot? I have postfix installed on the machine and am able to send using evolution and thunderbird.

I have a Palm m505 that I have successfully configured to sync with Gnome Pilot and evolution but how on earth do you get it (Gnome Pilot and Evolution) to sync EMAIL with the palm? I have been able to get my email to the palm with JPilot and the email plugin but this program seems a little lacking compared to evolution.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

I dont want to confuse but if you use the command "su" it should then ask Password: (this is where you would type the password for your root account.)

su - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs

If USER not given, assume root

If you upgrade to 4.4 what do you do if something is not compatible or something goes wrong? (Besides restore) Is there a way to roll back?

I tried the torrent listed on Mandrakes mirror list and was getting crap (.1 k/s) for speeds. I know its not my configuration or network connection as I can get other things at about 150k to 300k/sec

if they are easy to break can you tell me what I can do to get the password back on a zip file that i lost the password to?

You dont want to use 2 DHCP servers on the same network unless they are on different subnets (or serving unrelated scopes ie router 192.168.0.0/24 and winxp 192.168.1.0/24) even then there is nothing that is bridging the network connection from wired (crossover cable) to wireless connection.

The Ideal way to do what you want is to bridge the connections.

To do this with windows Xp:

(first you will need to turn off ICS in winxp)

Right click on My network Places and go to properties (or go to network connections in the control panel, you may have to classic view in the control panel).

Select the wireless connection and the wired ethernet connection by holding ctrl and clicking on each.

Right click on one of the still selected connections and choose bridge connections.

After you have bridged the connections both connections will have the same IP address and you will need to make any future changes needed the Network Bridge that is now listed in Network Connections

This setup will essentially make the windows XP machine act like a wireless to ethernet bridge (access point). The mandrake machine will get its IP information from the DHCP server in the router.

I don't know if this works or if you've tried it but I recently installed MDK 10 CE on my machine (AMD 1700+ on a ECS K7S5A board (has a SIS 900 NIC onboard)) and the Network worked fine I then wiped the machine (to dual boot win2k (so that I could run Auto Gordian Knot)) and installed MDK 9.2. When I installed 9.2 the network did not work until I turned off ACPI in services and in LILO. I guess something in ACPI in the 2.4 Kernel conflicts with the SIS 900 (Works fine in the 2.6 kernel and windoze)

I ran into the same message about dependencies, I just installed all of them with urpmi after I removed the cd media from the urpmi database

gcc2.96-2.96-0.83mdk

gcc2.96-c++-2.96-0.83mdk

gcc2.96-cpp-2.96-0.83mdk

I forgot to tell you that when you install it the shortcut will be installed to other applications > monitoring in KDE (I think)

There is a program called firestarter that i use. from what I have read it is really just a front-end to iptables. I have it running fine on my laptop with Mandrake 9.2 but when I installed it on MDK 10.0 it told me that i needed at least Kernel 2.4.x (MDK 10 uses 2.6) So it wont run on MDK 10 yet. The cool thing about firestarter is that if you install it from PRM (rather than compile it) it will start at each boot.

You can install it using urpmi

in a terminal type:

su

(enter root password)

urpmi firestarter

Hope this helps,

Jason

Anyone know if there are specific drivers for the ATI Radeon 7500?

I know that's not totaly accurite, but that is the fealing of it.  I have found that the .2 releases are always best.  I will install 10, but just the cheap-bytes version, same with 10.1, and then when it rolls around, I'll buy 10.2 powerpack on DVD.

Is there something different with the cheap-bytes version?

I guess I just need to make a post to inspire myself with a solution. I went into Harddrake and ran the config tool for the sound card and changed the audio driver from emu10k1 to snd-emu10k1 and rebooted and all was fine except I needed to install xmms-alsa to get XMMS to work right.

Now if I can find an alternative to AutoGordianKnot that works well I will be all set.

Checking in KMix the only controls on the Output tab are Volume, PCM, Speaker, OGain, Digital1 and Phone out. I am using analog 5.1 speakers (as opposed to digital) I assume if I had Digital speakers the digital1 control would handle the 5.1. I dont see controls for multiple channels anywhere.

Don't know what fixed it but when I got home from work tonight Totem was locked and I hit ctrl + alt + backspace to reload X and when it came back and KDE loaded I had sound.

WoooHOOO

Next thing, anyone know how to get 5.1 out of the audigy?

Thanks!

Jason

how much overhead are we talking about? enought to slow a 1.4 ghz or a 550 mhz?

This is my hardware list:

ECS k7s5a Mainboard

256 mb pc133 Kingston SDRAM

SB Audigy MP3

ATI Radeon 7500

Generic USB 2.0 Card

DLINK DWL 520 Wireless card

HP DJ 880c using USB

WD 20 gig

WD 100 gig SE

Maxtor 120 gig SE

Acer 24x12x40 CDRW

HP dvd 200i DVD+RW

Everything works perfect with winXP

I have downloaded the Mandrake 10.0 RC1 CD ISO's and used this script to convert them to a DVD ISO. I then burned the ISO and installed MDK to the 20 gig drive eradicating winXP (after a full backup of course). I get 'sound server, fatal error, cpu overload' when I log into KDE. I have done ls /usr/bin > /dev/dsp and I get about 9 seconds of static from the speakers. When I get an error message from KDE there is also a sound that comes from the speakers.

When I open XMMS and then open an MP3 and click play XMMS locks. I have tried changing the output settings in XMMS to /dev/dsp , this did not change anything. I have tried opening Totem to play a Xvid video by double clicking on a video file as soon as Totem opens it hangs. If I open Totem without opening a file it hangs also.

Any suggestions?