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I looked into it. Basically it is using the old WP for Linux 8 and reworked with compatibility for newer systems. It's called a proof of concept I think is what they call it. It is going for $30 (last I checked) from the Corel site. Like listed above they are looking to see if there is adequate response to the offer before putting resources into developing a new linux native version. From what I've read if they do do it it will be a full linux app like the old v8 not the WP2K which was just the windows version run on top of a specialized version of wine. (Must have been real specialized because I've got WP2K on my Win98 partition and have never gotten it to work in my wine installs). Anyway it'd be nice to see happen since I can no longer install my old WP8 on the newer systems. I keep it installed in my Debian boxes but I've read (and haven't seen anyone contradict it) that the new libs in KDE 3.2 conflict with the backwards compatible libs needed by the WP8 installer. I'm going to check this this week to make sure. but I think $30 for just a compatibility layer on the old WP8 is a bit much. Maybe $15 or at most $20 for something that is years out of date and was free for a while. But I'd be hard pressed to put down the change for the full version since I've converted most of my old data to OpenOffice. and what I haven't I just pull up in my laptop (Debian). P.S. having not been on the site for a little over a week, gotta say things look....um...interresting...Kinda miss the banner though.

Like I posted a while ago I got my ClickSmart 310 working, well webcam side anyway. I'm trying to find a good program to upload pics to my website. So far the webcam app included with xawtv seems to be the best choice for what I want. But I'm having a bugger of a time figuring how to set it up to upload my pics. Right now I have it set to save and update the pics to my user's tmp directory. Good resolution and works good. But can't figure the ftp side out. I guess same could be said for camstream. Has similar settings for ftp but not as good resolution. I've tried about a dozen (no lie) other apps that either didn't install right/at all or didn't work well when it did install. So how do I get the ftp upload part to work? Or is there a better program for webcam uploading or video stream recording? I've done so many searches and haven't come up with many good results.

I've gotten my Logitech Clicksmart 310 to work in Linux. I got the experimental kernel module from this site: webcam kernel site All I had to do was "make" and "make install" by following the instructions. And with Genomeeting loaded all I do is plug the camera in and genomeeting pops up with the camera working. Haven't checked downloading pics yet. But at least now the camera is recognized and works in Linux. Logitech are infamous for not supporting linux (case in point my old scanman32 scanner) but thanks to hacks it works now. Gotta let the guys who worked this kernel know.

Using my Rockwell 56k isa (in my last isa slotted mobo) Never gives me trouble. But also have a USR 56k that I bought just in case it didn't have an isa port. I use it as a backup. Same download speed as the Rockwell. Edit: Oh sorry.I got both off Ebay. I got the Rockwell for $5 (included with a 33.6k modem I flashed to a 56k also.) The USR was $17. But I had to fix the power plug.

I just checked with glxgears. I'm getting between 423 and 461 fps. I guess that's good. Especially for a 16 meg rage magnum.

A couple things. First Kwrite is NOT and imaging program. It's just a text editor, similar to wordpad. If you are talking about cd burning you can look into k3b. There is another program I used to use called eroaster. But the setup in Mandrake 10 looks for the old 2.4 kernel info. The new 2.6 kernel (default) sets stuff up different rendering the included eroaster unusable. But k3b is great too.

I replaced my PCI Rage IIc with an agp Rage Magnum 16mb card. Getting my regular display reset was a hell of a lot less painful that on my windows dual boot. (only reset my display and resolution, windows required installing a whole new driver and rebooting twice heh) EDIT: I said it before I'll say it again - Mandrake 10 ROCKS!!! I've read all about the problems setting up ati cards with drm. Well it took me a couple tries. I didn't do the setup right the first time. that's why I originally posted a message here. Well I did it a second time. And this time I hit the right buttons to get the card initialized. And it inlucded the 3d accelleration. The problem was that it retained my old card's config (the rage II+) But now the rage magnum is working great. I even loaded tuxracer and it runs great. I still have to find my actual frame rate but Tuxracer played excellent. No lag or jumpy play. And after all the problems I've heard of people having with ati cards. the rage128 setup is flawless and painless. I'm glad I came back now. I remember looking at seting it up in the 2.4 kernel and all the recompiling and everything involved. This was simpler than even windows driver setup. Nyah to all you people who say linux isn't ready for the desktop. I think I'm going down to half price books and get that copy of Quake Arena back. This is so excellent! I didn't expect it to be this easy. I expected to have to tinker a little. This is the way it is supposed to be. Sure I liked fiddling with things behind the scenes when Debian was on the machine but this is so much better.

No I don't live in the 3rd world. But I do know that UPS and Fedex will deliver over there. And as far as ebay, there are over 400 external modems listed. You should be able to find one on there reasonably priced that will ship international. As far as marketing. I can't speak for Mandrakesoft. Yeah they have made some slips on some of their marketing schemes (e-training, lost package) but as far as finding out what's included it only takes a little searching for the info.

The question I have is why not just go on Ebay. Plunk down $10-$15 and pick up an external 56k? I did and it works fine. It all comes to how much do you want to get rid of Windows. If you are committed to making the change you would have no problem shelling out a few bucks for real hardware, now windoze crap. Or contributing to the distro itself and purchasing the powerpack to get the drivers. After all Mandrake IS a company and any company's goal is to make a profit. If you don't want to cough up for the support you shouldn't complain about what's lacking in the free version.

I've got a sportster 56k also. it's my backup. I still have an internal isa 56k (in my one and only isa slot) I get comperable responce time with either. Any external modem you plug in through the serial port will work. But watch out for the usb modems. Some are infamous winmodems.

I've added a few programs with invalid signatures. Like older Mandrake rpms (from 9.1 and 8.2) like xkobo and xgammon. Stuff not in 10.0. And also stuff from outside like Suse RPM's for acrobat and acrobat plugin and they have all worked fine. I've yet to come up on an rpm that didn't work yet.

URPMI easy?! Hah! Infuriating is more like it. Coming back from debian it is totally archane. It's almost easier to just download the packages and install them separately as opposed to figuring out URPMI's setup. (And yes I did read the man page). Now I used the Software Media Manager instead and added a mirror for the PLF archives and have already downloaded a couple packages as a test and they installed fine. But I can't find where they were downloaded. I assumed it was in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms but they aren't there. I know of the -noclean option for urpmi but I didn't set it up with that. So how can I change it so the downloaded rpms are not erased? Is there a config file to edit? (probably) If so what is is and what do I need to enter. Otherwise I'll end up just downloading stuff I want. Honestly the Software Media Manager is close to what a gui frontend for Debian's apt-cdrom add utility would work like. I figure that is what they wanted urpmi to work like but it's too archane. Then again it could have just been plf. I went to the easy-urpmi site and tried to folllow the instructions there to enter the PLF source and failed miserably. The Software Media Manager was simpler.

Go I've got my system all setup. But have one bug that has been bugging me. I have KPPP Mozilla and Mozilla mail in my taskbar for quick loading. Now the desktop icon, the terminal icon and kppp all work fine. But on first logon and when resuming from a screensaver, sometimes, not always the mozilla and mozilla mail icons don't work the first time. if I click on them a second time they work fine. And the menu items for the two always work fine. But once in a while the taskbar icons don't. Any idea why. I've deleted and remade them twice to make sure they are pointing to the right place. And like I said when it does happen clicking a second time will make them work. It's wierd and I can live with it. But would like to gix it once and for all if possible.

Well I tried making a simlink to scd0 but didn't do the sg link. That's when I tried k3b. Since I got that working I'm not going to go through the headache of figuring it out. I've got hardware monitoring to fiddle with now and then my database.

Well I see in sourceforge that ksensors has a package for mandy 10. But I'll give superkaramba a look.

Nope it's either KDE or Icewm for my liking. I couldn't find the ksensors prog in the 10 official cd's I'll have to dig around or look on the kde download site for it. I have it setup in Debian and like it. I have lm-sensors installed in mandy but was looking for the front end.

Well this is one thing I've been wanting to setup on my new machine. I was tinkering with it when Debian was installed but didn't finish. Now deb is gone and I'm back to Mandrake with 10.0. It works wonderfully. But I want to setup my hardware monitoring. Specifically for my system temp. I know you can do it with gkrellm with some tinkering, (I'll check taht post on here regarding that) but what other programs in mandrake official can monitor or are there better programs elsewhere to download to do this? Like on rpmfind. or sourceforge. I was using ksensors in Woody but that is in KDE2.2. Don't see a replacement in KDE 3.2. So going to do some more digging.

Both as root and user, same message.

Well considering it was a clean install it had no "old" configuration to look for. I went into the config and told it to look for hdc (the writer) but it keeps giving scsi errors when I try to burn. Says couldn't acess device sg* should be root. Now the sg devices aren't created and it won't look for hdd even though I tell it. The writer detect finds device 1,0,0 but it says it's device scd0. even though it's not. it's hdc. I know all about the 2.6 kernel and scsi emulation.

OK so got the system up to 100%. but I see now that eroaster is not usable. It's still looking for the 2.4 kernel devices like sg0 or scd0. Niether of which are created in Mandrake 10. Why include it then? I've instaled also k3b and can burn with that but it seems a little wierd to include a program that won't work. Is this a possible bug to report? Or does anyone have it working with Mandy 10. This used to be my #2 needed program. But at least k3b works.

I found the fix by accident. I uninstalled and reinstalled samba the third time. I set it up as usual. But this time I also installed webmin, which installed a bunch of other package as dependencies. Well once that was done....Bingo, the mandrake network was visible on both machines. I think it might have been the pam-authentication package that installed with webmin. Either way it's all working now. Now how would I have known to do that otherwise. And shouldn't samba have loaded the pam-authentication package if it was needed? Oh boy back in dependency hell again.

This is the last step I need to finish my conversion back. With 10.0 I have the laptop loaded with debian and samba 2. I have Mandrake setup with samba 3. The laptop always connected to the big box when Debian was installed in it but Can't get it to see the Mandrake shares now. And it's setup identical in the smb.conf [global] workgroup = THEKEYS server string = Samba Server %v security = SHARE encrypt passwords = No map to guest = Bad User passdb backend = passwd log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = cups dns proxy = No ldap ssl = no printer admin = @adm hosts allow = 192.168.47, 192.168.46, 127 printing = cups [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes print command = lpr-cups -P %p -o raw %s -r # using client side printer drivers. browseable = No [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers write list = @adm, root inherit permissions = Yes guest ok = Yes [pdf-generator] comment = PDF Generator (only valid users) path = /var/tmp printable = Yes print command = /usr/share/samba/scripts/print-pdf %s ~%u //%L/%u %m %I "%J" & [cage] comment = Cage's Home dir path = /home/cage read only = No guest ok = Yes Now I've done just about all changes I can think of. Samba is running and I can see the laptop shares but the laptop and Mandrake box can't see the mandrake box shares. I use linneighborhood and in my workgroup both the laptop and the big box show but no shares available. They must have changed something since the last time I used mandrake. What am I missing?

OK I'm finally good in the network. Problem was harddrake was putting dns servers in my eth0 setup. I just have straight nic to nic static ip so those werent needed. And I'm on dialup so no dns needed. Now I can ping the laptop and I'm dialed up at the same time. All is good in the world. Now on to Samba. and now I have to reset all my internet passwords in Mozilla. Guess I'll be lurking more around here again. Hasta dudes.

Well when I do ifconfig eth0 (myaddress) netmask 255.255.255.0 it works fine. I can connect to my laptop and it connects back. But it won't work when I use the harddrake tool. Also the ifconfig setting doesn't last when I reboot. it's the only thing hanging up right now. But the system is in now and I'm back in Mandrake land. Gonna check on that network config stuff more. At least the dialup is fine.

Yeah, I've had the link for rpmfind since my old mandrake days. I pulled down the Suse rpm for acrobat. It installs fine except it gives that bad signiture error which does nothing performance wise. And you have to manually make a menu entry. No biggie since I tweak my menus anyway. I still have my old add on rpms from before, like prboom, xkobo and what I can't I pull from the Mandy 9.1 cd's but one thing that really bugged me is the lack of xkill. I looked all through the 10.0 cd's and couldn't find it. I consider that essential. I'll just pull off the 9.1 rpm. I've still gotta tinker to find the preferred way to setup eth0 without crapping out my dialup. That's one thing I never liked about mandrake. But I'll get around it. But I did some tests. Everything else is top notch. I'm not sure if it's the 2.6 kernel or Mandrake optimizations but everything from system performance to internet connection speed it faster than good old Debian. So I'm relegating Debian for the backup box and I'm going offline now and putting Mandy 10.0 on the main partition of the main box. I burned all my config files and user stuff to cd so I can pull it back. So I'll see you guys in a few. (I'm still not satisfied with my lack of WordPerfect on the main box now though)