Thorvan

Alright, got on the net ;) Ran kppp from a terminal, connected fine but after I was on I closed the terminal and kppp is gone from the ... systray! Its still connected, so no huge deal ... but how can I get it back? And is there a way to launch kppp without the terminal stuff? Also, what is up with my clock? Windows displays it fine, the system clock is right in the bios ... yet when I set it to my timezone it goes totally out of whack. Its about 23 hours fast ;) Its meant to be Thursday 5 4:20 yet it displays Friday 6 3:20. Any ideas? Probably something extremely simple. Thanks in advance! Btw, sorry if this is in the wrong forum, just didn't really know where to put it exactly ;)

Here this helped me. It's in the docs. http://doc.mandrakelinux.com/MandrakeLinux...ml/xfdrake.html You can only run it from root so thats why you gotta go su (set user?) with nothing else to choose root, then type in your root password. Then do what good ole Steve said. Read the doc if you like!

I'm very new myself ;) But I do believe you are logged in, just still in console. Try typing startx :)

Got it to work Thanks guys. Was sort of a "duh of course" situation on my part ...... Well now thats out of the way I'll tackle sound tomorrow, or today, seeing as how its just about 5am ... Thanks again

Heyas, sorry if this is posted before in advance if it is. I tried looking at the documentation on disc 3 but it kept spewing me an error saying its not the right disk ......... though it had no trouble recognizing it was the right one in the install! Basically I can't get into a nice shiny desktop environment, I type startx and it spews errors ... that I can't fully read! Which leads to my next problem: I can't see all the text, it cuts off the start on the left side. I guess I didn't quite configure something right ;) Its a SIS Real 256E Graphics card onboard my mobo ... any more info you might need lemme know. Anyway, any pointers on how I might be able to fix it would be great, especially the missing text, then I could post the full errors ... Fairly long errors, too ;) Thanks in advance for any help.

Hm ... well food for thought, I suppose. I just don't really wanna spend the money on something that won't work thats all ;) I'm looking at Soundblaster LIVE! At the moment, but that will cost me 68 bucks ... Scratch that, if I want surround I'll mooch off my parents surround sound system in their living room hah! So I'm looking at Soundblaster Vibra 128. Would that work well?

Yeah ... I was sorta turned off at how unprofessional the board itself looked by biostar. BAH! I think I'll have a closer look at the ASUS boards I can get, then get an audio card that is suported ... any recommendations on supported soundcards that wouldn't break the budget too much? Thanks.

Yeah I would have tried that, but I don't have the mobo I'm in the market for a new PC ... so I can't really try knoppix on it, I don't have it :) I think if I downgrade the ASUS board it still has the same AD1888 chip, which isn't much help. I gotta go up market to get the 1980 which is supported according to the ALSA pages ... but that mobo doesn't come with a serial port for my modem so I'd have to fork out more money for a PCI serial card so itd probably end up costing 60 more bucks ... which may not sound like much, but I'm a uni student :P Anyone know if "BIOSTAR" is any good? It had an S3 video and Cmedia audio card onboard, I'm pretty sure. But then again I'm downgrading RAM support and support for faster CPU's if I wanna upgrade ...

Yeah I feared that ... I read in one spot that it "should" be supported by ALSA, but theres a difference between should be supported, and supported ... One place said ADI1816 based chips, if I have the number right ... I'm on a budget so was trying to go to something that would work without going overboard on the mobo. I was hoping someone might be using the mobo in question, never know I might still get lucky ;) -- Hm just found what seems to be a driver for AD1888 SoundMAX http://www.asus.com.cn/support/download/se...nux.zip~zaqwedc I don't know why I didn't think of searching google/linux earlier ... Confirmation from someone more in the know than I would still be greatly appreciated on the video/audio on the mobo.

I hope this hasn't been covered before, I didn't get any matches ... but sorry if it is! ;) I'm getting a new computer soon and wish to have Mandrake 9.2 installed on it ... and was wondering on the compatibility of the ASUS P4S800-MX SIS661FX motherboard. In particular the sound and video on board ... The video is SiS Real 256E Video and the audio is ADI AD1888 SoundMAX 6-channel CODEC according to the ASUS website, the place I'm buying it from also lists it with AC97. Would I be safe in assuming those would work in Mandrake? Its probably stated somewhere, but from what I've seen I just can't find a straight answer ;) Thanks in advance.