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So I picked up from ebay an HP Photosmart 315. It works wonderful. It came with two lexar cards, a 16 and a 32 meg. It also came with a lexar jumpshot card reader. Now the camera recognizes no prob and I can get all my pics from the camera no problem and that's probably how I'll work it. But I've read quite a few posts on the problems lexar card readers have with automount. With mine it does pretty much the same. it locks up the computer so bad that I have to reboot with the reset button and go through disk clean up during boot. I can run other programs but if I try to logout of my user it locks the machine up hard. Even ctrl-alt-del won't do anything. I checked ksysguard and it shows the memory usage is messed up. All 888888's. Now it works fine in the Win98 site (dual boot on same machine) and it's no biggie since I'll just use it off the camera. But would be nice just to have it working in linux too. Any one find any help with this? From what I've read it's automount that's the bugger. And it works wonderfully otherwise so I don't want to disable it.

I have disc 4. It does not have kde 3.3 on it. Sites like the PLF directories give you the urpmi commands. Very useful.

I know all about gnomemeeting. I do use it for outside conferencing. But getting the lan setup to work is a pain, and I don't have a mic on the second machine. I just want a simple little program to notify the computers on my lan of text messages sort of like a chat mode between desktops. That way I can page the kids or something when I'm working. Not a biggie but just a nice little bell and whistle. And no I don't want to bugger with a jabber server. It's not that important to set something like that up.

I've got a local network setup at home. At present 3 computers networked through a netgear hub. I'm looking for something that will chat between machines on the local lan. From what I can see gnomemeeting and kopete won't cut it. any ideas?

That TUX mag looks like the old Maximum Linux. Now that was a great read. I still have my old issues. Oh what that mag would have been like if it had survived.

I've been itching to get into programming some apps for fun. I've got a couple programming in linux books I'm working on. But I was wondering every/anyone's oppinion of Kdevelop in regards to writing programs. I've got it setup and configured fine. I'm just wondering, is this a good starting point I see it's really in depth in regards to making make files and getting things started and Kdevelop seems to get the first steps off the ground. Or is it the cheater's way around and a lazy crutch? [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I've got it running fine on my 10.0 install. What backward compat files did you install. I have two I saved from my old Mandy 7.0 cd that allow me to run/install WP8. I didn't have to add anything to /etc/ld.so.conf.

I had the same problem, and just fixed it by associating php mime types (application/x-php) with firefox. Don't edit prefs.js - if you wish to manually add a preference put it in user.js and it will be safely added to prefs.js by firefox. See http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/edit for more info. It's unlikely users who have just downloaded firefox will have mozffremote. Use % firefox -remote That's why I pointed them to Chips rpms. It's included and makes it easier. It's fine editing the prefs.js file. You just have to make sure you don't do it while the browser is open. Otherwise the changes get over written. And using gnome settings doesn't help much if you don't use it. Like if you use KDE or Icewm. This is a fix EVERYone can use.

Well I was able to save cd4. It just barely read I'm going to reburn it. Getting money back isn't an option. It's been too long. I"VE got good cd's I'm making copies onto. It's the cd's I bought. the curse of ebay. I got them the day 10.0 official came out. I think the guy who did them had a bad batch of cd's since they all had read errors. I'd just hate to have to get new cd's when it turns out there are only 4 files trashed. I was able to copy the entire cd off to my temp dir but 4 files wouldn't read and they're at the end of the cd. I was hoping to just go online and download these files and reburn the cd.

Is it possible to rebuild a bad burned cd by copying the cd to the hd and replacing the bad files with files downloaded off the 'net and then reburning the cd? I got my mandy 10.0 cd's online. I had the guy replace cd's 1 and 2 because I couldn't even install with them because they had bad read errors. With them replaced I could install. But today I went to make a copy of the cd's for a friend and cd's 3 and 4 also have bad reads at the end of the cd. I can install with them but I can't copy then with any cd copying program (linux or windows). The only problems I can foresee is the cd volume. Don't want to have to buy new cd's because of this if at all avoidable.

I have the same problem. I also installed the mozex extension and it didn't help. I got a post from usenet on a possible fix. It's similar to how you make thunderbird open firefox when you click on links. It requires you to edit the prefs.js file. I'm not at home now so I'll have to wait until later to get the fix. I haven't tried it yet but will tonight.

I've been using GNUCash since I converted from Winbloze 95 in 1998 to Mandy 7. Never had a problem. And I use OpenOffice OpenCalc to do budget spreadsheets (I used Quatro in W95).

But I still haven't found a fix for the mailto: setup in Firefox. I've read to get the mozex extension. I did but still no go.

Here's the link to my fix on the Thunderbird problem with clicking links in e-mails. http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=20215 Not my fix but I found it and it worked.

Well, sort of. I've finally figured how to open urls in thunderbird email messages without using scripts. It's really easy. The problem I was having was urls that didn't end in html or htm. Also I had a problem with Firefox downloading the page first and opening it locally instead of from the remote site. I tried using the script from mozilla but found a simpler way. In your home directory find your .thunderbird directory. go to your xxxx.default directory (the xxxx will be unique to your system). Find the prefs.js file. I know it says not to edit this file. But I did. add this line to the bottom. Oh do this not while thunderbird is open. If it is open it will rewrite the prefs.js file when it closes. user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/mozffremote"); (you can cut it and paste it right from here) Now one thing. I am using the rpms from Chips website that you can link to from PClinuxonline. So if you installed it from another site you might want to check the install dir and change it in the line above accordingly. The thing is (I don't know if other packages include it but) Chip's rpms include the mozffremote script in /usr/bin. If your install doesn't include it I can email it to you. It allows you to open firefox even if it's already open. If it's not open it opens a new window and if it is open already it opens the new link in a new tab. Problem solved. Make it easier on yourself and just download Chips rpms and install those and you'll be all set. Once I fix my mailto: protocol in Firefox I'll have the two working flawlessly as old mozilla.

I got the rpms from chips site that you can link to from pclinuxonline. Works great. I'm still working on getting the mozex extension to call up thunderbird for mailto: and I keep old mozilla for the composer to edit my web pages. But I've switched the family over to firefox. The migration tool was flawless. I tried earlier versions but had too many kinks I didn't like. They fixed them all since. Either fixed or have extensions to fix them instead of writing scripts. If they rolled mozilla's composer off into a separate project too I'd be able to dump it totally. Besides that would be a possible answer to all those who are looking for dreamweaver or frontpage alternatives.

Ahh nuts! Thanks Spiny, that link helped clear that up. Until recently I hadn't been on PCLO since the days they had the linux chick pics on there.

I was away from Mandrake for the first half of this year. Came back when 10.0 came out. So I went back to PCLinuxonline and see that texstar hasn't put out any new rpms. His last batch was for 9.1. I see he's working on other stuff but does that mean he doesn't do rpm's anymore? I was hoping to get Firefox and thunderbird from him as I've used and liked his rpm's in the past.

I used to use Eroaster (In mandy and Debian) And it worked fine. But when I put Mandrake 10 on the machine with the 2.6 kernel, Eroaster won't work. It still looks for the scsi drives (scd* or sg*) And won't recognize just the hdc burner. So I tried K3B. It worked just as good at Eroaster but recognized the ide devices. Only thing is it won't copy a mixed format cd (I had to copy my warcraft II cd since it was getting scratched and hang at a spot) and had to jump to windows to do it. Also it doesn't recognize my burner 4x speed even though eroaster did. But other wise it has worked like a charm. I've burned about a dozen music cd's from converting my lp's and an ongoing archive cd of programs. No coasters yet.

OK A couple of issues to address first then questions. first, K3B WILL allow you to burn cd's as a user. You just have to use UserDrake to add yourself to the cdrw (or whatever it's called) group. Then that issue will be nixed. Also Kernel 2.6.3 is the default kernel installed with MDK10.0. The 2.6 version of the kernel no longer uses the ide-scsi emulation, so it can recognize ide cdburners with out the scsi emulation included. And K3B will work fine (I've burned a number of cd's with mine). On a related note eroaster still looks for the scsi drives so it needs the scsi emulation and won't work on the 2.6 kernel. Now questions? When you say you select the songs. What format? are they wav's or mp3's? If mp3's you need lame installed. Does k3b detect your burner ok? Have you tried burning a data cd?

For me I didn't do anything special. I just installed Mandrake and during install included wine. Then in my user I ran the wine config (a little different from the previous one I used in Debian) Now I used my existing Win98 partition which Starcraft is installed on also. Then I opened Konqueror and opened the starcraft exe with wine. It ran, but it's slow. But it included sound. No problems. I'm going to try with a local win directory to see if it improves performance.

Well I was a Mandy evangelist until 9.1. That was the last one I installed. Then Debian Woody came out and I jumped on it. Ran it for a year and a half on my main box. But when 10.0 OE came out I gave it a shot. Had a spare partition to try on my debian machine. The difference from my 9.1 install was striking. The first time a promise of increased system speed was actually fulfilled. I had recently upgraded from my K6-2 450 to an Athlon 950 in Debian. Good performance boost (the 450 used to run the Mandy 9.1) So when I put 10.0 on the 950 what a difference. I do miss the apt-get. And urpmi is a bugger for me. And only downside is the module for my onboard sound won't initiailize the line in for recording (it works in the windows side) But I have everything else back. And updated packages as opposed to my debian box. Now the Debian box was pieced back together (the k6-2) with Debian and is in the living room and the main box now resides with 10.0. Very pleased. Though I'm back to resolving rpm dependency issues from time to time. And I can't get my WordPerfect 8 to install for lack of the compatiblity libs. But I can feel comfortable again recommending Mandy to possible converts.

I've also got the wine included with Mandrake 10 to run BroodWar. And it's got sound, but it's dog-slow. Don't think my system has the cahones to handle it.

In Mandrake, no. Debian has a few apps that might work. Xwave might work fine (haven't tried it yet) But no and I haven't seen anything new coming up so waiting for a newer distro won't help either. This is one case where the old simple was the way to go and such a simple process is being overthought. Hell I'd even install a gnome app to make it work. In Mandrake 10 I have audacity installed no prob. It's just that it's such a memory hog. It always takes up all my memory and locks up x on me so I have to ctrl-alt-backspace when recording stereo. I feel like keeping my old Mandrake 7 installed on a backup drive just to have krecord back or jumping over to my win98 partition to record.

Krec is a totally assinine program. I can't believe they dumped simple Krecord for this pos. First you have to go into noatun (a totallly separate program) and install the fir equalizer and then the stereo compression plugins (In that order or else it won't load the stereo compression which is needed). Then (important) exit noatun (or else the settings won't stick. Then open Krec. then create a new audio file, then right click on it and set it to record and THEN record. Stupid. Huh? I even got a responce from the progs author. He says this is the way professional recordings are done. Since when do you need to open 2 programs to simply record a wav file. Oh but I'm forgetting something. It only records in raw data format. You then have to convert it to a wav file. I mean come on. And audacity is such a memory hog it's not a good alternative. But you need it to convert krec's file to a .wav file. But then again good old krecord won't compile on the new KDE 3.x.