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Well, I did the install of the nForce drivers, and all seems to be well. I'm going to test a few applications with a cdrom inserted, and I'll post back with any information. Thanks again guys!

I'll check the permissions, but if it were truly permissions, wouldn't I at very least be able to kill the application that froze and still have some remaining X functionality?

I'm getting some pretty consistent lockups. Both thru Mandrake 10CE and 10 Official. I can use both cdroms on my system, and MagicDev seems to mount them fine. I can also view the contents and work with the files on the cds. The problem occurs when I try to do ANYTHING other than work with the cd. If I open Mozilla with a cd in the cdrom, then the whole system locks hard. I try the same process with Evolution - and the same hard lock occurs. Anyone think installing the nForce2 drivers will help? Anyone have any similar situations?

A similar situation happened to me. I restarted and everything was fine. Weird huh?

Is it simple to setup like Azureus? I hate compiling stuff...

At Iomega, we quote customers that the drive should be similar to 52x speeds realized by the fastest burners. 52x52x52x is what is even printed on the older boxes. As a level-2 tech at Iomega, I can tell you that these speeds aren't often realized, but its definately quite fast.

Using MDK 9.2: When I use the Azureus BitTorrent Client everything runs snoothly until my screensaver comes on. Then the whole system locks hard. I'm using the latest version of Azureus, and for the most part, can work around the problem by simply turning the screensaver off. The problem is, however, I'd like my screensaver to remain ON. The screensaver I use is the most basic of screensavers, integrated within the MDK 9.2 OS. Its just a black screen that comes on after three minutes. Anyone have any ideas as to why I get these lockups?

I used to be a Gnome advocate, but managing themes was quite difficult. Since I moved to KDE, everything works, especially my beloved themes! :D

9.2 works beautifully on this machine. 10C can't mount a cd without locking up. Vote? 9.2 all the way.

That's what I'm thinking, maybe use the command line and get those drivers in there. MagicDev just looks so much more professional than supermount, and I really don't wanna give up on it yet. Then again, I could just wait til Final rolls around and see where that takes me.

As much as I do not like HP's overall design of PC's, they do have some great ideas.

No matter how hard I try, if I try to use a CD in Mandrake 10C - under the KDE desktop - , the system locks hard. For instance: 1. I've tried to install OpenOffice from the install cd's and it allows the cd to mount on the desktop, but then it begins to copy the files and it just hangs. 2. I've tried getting some drivers off of a CD I created in 9.2. (I figured it might be a problem with the nForce2 drivers, so I was going to rpm --rebuild...etc). It mounts the cd on the desktop fine, then I open it and begin to transfer the files from the CD to the desktop (or home directory) and it fails. Another hard lock. I've tried the CD in both Windows XP and MDK 9.2 and it works fine with them. I've downloaded the MDK 10C cd's 3 times, each with a perfect checksum. The only thing I haven't tried was to 'rpm --rebuild' from the command line for the nForce2 drivers. Do you think this is a problem with MagicDev? Could it be motherboard drivers? Looking for some input...

Can anyone offer any insight as to why my Mandrake 10C install hard locks when I try to install anything from a CD. It works just fine if I try to take some information off of a backup cd-r, but the minute I try to install Open Office from the control center, I get a hard lockup. I'm using a Lite-on 52x32x52x burner, which worked fine in MDK 9.2 I tried reburning the install cds on 3 different brand of media. Nothing worked. I even went as far as to reburn my 9.2 cds, and they work fine as well. So its not the burner. Whats going on here? Oh, and a litte more info: For some reason my Disc 1 is not bootable (I have to boot with disc 2) I got errors on the install when I selected Office Client (I installed 3 more times without anything but KDE selected)

ugh, terribly sorry. I didnt realize I was using the wrong installer. Corrected it by using the latest driver.

ERROR: The kernel header file '/lib/modules/2.6.3-4mdk/build/include/linux/modversions.h' does not exist. The most likely reason for this is that the kernel header files in '/lib/modules/2.6.3-4mdk/build/include' have not been configured. ERROR: Installation has failed. Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details. You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com. I have the kernel sources installed though... Why am I getting this error when I try to install the latest nVidia video drivers for my GeForce FX 5200 128MB?

Tried both KDE and Gnome. Gnome first, then KDE. KDE gets the nod since its better equipped for handling themes and theme changes.

After much crashing of my machine...literally...crashing...a huge candle came crashing down on my tower after it slipped out of my hand, rendering my machine useless. (On bootup I got 01 01 01 01 01 01...) So I reinstalled, and just now configured xmms-alarm. The thing works PERFECTLY now. I'm not sure what I did wrong before, but its workin fine now. Thanks again!

Knoppix. It's saved both me and the neighborhood on several occasions. :D It's Crock's official disaster CD.

Yes, download and install the kernel source. Use RPMseek to find your kernel source

Iomega does not offer any type of 'formal' support on it, but their HDD's work in Linux.

Just wondering how many of us use Mandrake (or any other distro) EXCLUSIVELY as a main os. How'd you do it? What made you decide to use it? What do you do about Windows-only apps? All interesting points, I'd like to see where I stand when compared to you all! :D Me? I use XP and MDK 9.2 XP for games only Why? Too many email worms and insecurities in XP.

Wine will let me install games but will not let me run them from the cd. Keeps saying to insert disc. Here's my fstab /dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=udf:iso9660,dev=/dev/scd0,--,nosuid,ro,nodev,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount fs=ext2:vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,--,nosuid,codepage=850,unhide,nodev,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,ro 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0 and my mtab /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=udf:iso9660,dev=/dev/scd0,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,nosuid,nodev,fs=ext2:vfat,dev=/dev/fd0,--,codepage=850,unhide,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/win_c ntfs ro,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs ro,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0 ALSO, here's the wine configuration file. (The relevant part) [Drive A] "Path" = "/mnt/floppy" "Type" = "floppy" "Label" = "Floppy" "Device" = "/dev/floppy/0" [Drive C] "Path" = "/home/crock/.wine/fake_windows" "Type" = "hd" "Label" = "/home/crock/.wine/fake_windows" "Filesystem" = "win95" [Drive D] "Path" = "/mnt/win_c" "Type" = "hd" "Label" = "/mnt/win_c" "Filesystem" = "win95" [Drive E] "Path" = "/mnt/win_c2" "Type" = "hd" "Label" = "/mnt/win_c2" "Filesystem" = "win95" [Drive F] "Path" = "/mnt/cdrom" "Type" = "cdrom" "Device" = "/dev/cdrom" "Filesystem" = "win95" Can ANYONE tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm so stumped...

I responded to your post at linuxiso.org with the same instructions. Have you tried this yet? This may be what your looking for. You want to rewrite your XF86Config-4 file to include an option for your mouse speed. You can do this by adding a line to your mouse configuration called Option "resolution" "X" Where "X" is a number. The higher the number, the faster the speed. Here's what the mouse section in mine looks like. Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "resolution" "70000" EndSection Simply add that last Option to your file and you should have a nice, swift mouse pointer. Mine is a little faster than the pointer in Windows.

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'm not sure what direction I'll take on this yet, but if I find anything interesting, I'll let you guys know.

Anyone know of a GOOD Alarm program for Linux? I need it to be able to play a music file (mp3) at any given time. I tried the XMMS alarm plugin, but the time is completely messed up. (I schedule it to go off at 12:34am and it goes off at 2:40pm) I tried RPMS of Khrono and can't find the executable (not in /usr/bin or /bin) as well as Cloxen (RPM and source tarball, which are both a miserable failure) I tried checking out http://www.kde-apps.org and nothing there will work. I also tried sourceforge and googling for one. Anyone have any ideas?