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Not! :P

I've had the exact same thing happen. I used the boot cd, went to rescue mode and as root did chown -R (user) /home/(user) then restarted. HTH

Don't worry ramfree. I'll keep gramps away from it. :P

you can also do it by editing /etc/lilo.conf and then running lilo as bvc said.

:D how true! I live in Texas but I'm not from here and I'm married to a East Texas country boy. Took some times to figure out what he wasy saying. Gotta love those Texas expressions! :P

I moved cybrjackle's post to Tips N Tricks.

Mandrake 8.1 - 10 CE Suse 9.0 Pro Fedora Core 1 Gentoo

yes it is bvc. Fortunately the problem was solved easily by restarting alsa sound.

Thanks! I'm getting a strange error message at boot tho. /etc/asound.state unmute card?

Well something I did got the sound working. My only problem now is there's no gui for mplayer so I can't turn up the volume.

Great article. I've managed to get one of my daughters to switch to linux. After using windows for quite some time she had no problem making the transition.

Yes it's alsa sound and it has been started bvc. Sorry, chrisz, I tried what you said and there was no device using the sound card.

I just got thru reinstalling gentoo. I've had no problems with sound in the past. But this time when trying to use mplayer I got the following message: Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy) The sound server will continue, using the null output device.Sound server informational message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. I tested sound in the kcontrol center and it works fine. Any suggestions?

No telling where they were really from. Just some stupid jerks with nothing better to do I guess.

LZ wrote a great tutorial on it Here

Both links work fine now. Thanks for posting it! :)

I already compiled it yesterday. :D

Looks like I'll have to give crossover office another try.

One of these days I'm manage to get a new kernel installed before you cybr! :P

Show off! :P

OK, I hope I remember this correctly but I think i changed in the KDE Control Center > Panels > Appearance > Button Backgrounds >K menu.

Here's a link to the FAQ iphitus is talking about. http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=10615 It's very well written and easy to understand. Good luck with your installation!

I'd go with 9.2 and wait for 10 Final. 10 CE is still pretty buggy for me. I never had probs with 9.2.

I took one from my icon theme and replaced the menuk-mdk.png. I replaced it for both the 32x32 and 48x48 sizes. I also went into the kde control panel and changed the blue color around the .png. The pngs are located in usr/share/icons/crystalsvg/48x48/apps and 32x32/apps.