javaguy

Is there any way I can find out what process is changing the file?

It already says that. I can get the mouse to work, it's just that I have to re-edit the config file every time I reboot, and--dare I admit it--I sometimes reboot to, um, an Other Operating System to play a game that doesn't run well under Linux. ;)

Awesome! Thanks.

No insult taken, but when I look at my /etc/X11 directory, xorg.conf is just a link to the XF86Config.

I upgraded my kernel, and now whenever I reboot my mouse is dead. After the reboot I use the console to su to root, edit the XF86Config and sometimes see that a line Options "Buttons" "5" that was there before is missing. I put that back in, do a killall kdeinit, log into the gui and everything is fine...until my next reboot. Anybody know what's causing this>

You know how when you're at the logon window and click the thingy to shut down or reboot instead, one of the menu option you get, if it's a dual-boot system, is to boot back up into a different OS. How would one do this from the command line?

When I use Mozilla or Firefox, sometimes form fields are much smaller than the text they contain, and I can only see the very tops of the letters. It does this with buttons too--sometimes, for example, I'll get a submit button that is only a fraction as tall as it needs to be (though no problems with its length, just its height), and I can see just barely enough of the tops of the letters to figure out that it says "submit" (or whatever). Is this a configuration issue, and what can I do about it?

From the WC3 page of GCW: "No-CD & Fixed Executables for this game are not available @ GameCopyWorld. " :(

Can you point me to one that works? I found one by "Amir Warez" that said to copy the entire CD into a folder and replace the install.exe with his. I ran it, and it seemed to work, brought up the install thingy, showed the license agreement, and when I clicked Agree it just went back to the install window and didn't install. I tried clicking Disagree too, to no avail. I'm a little wary of downloading cracks anyway, so any advice on this front would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Yes, I've tried it with cedega directly. As with p2p, it installed just fine but said CD not detected when I tried to run it. ...And yes, the CD was mounted, and I could view files on it. :)

Yes, I can see all the CD files on /mnt/cdrom. I've tried configuring p2p for different Cedega versions, with no luck. The game installed okay. I'm willing to try copying the CD in its entirety, but will that really "look like" the CD to the W3 client? Thanks again, Sam

Well, I hadn't tried that, but now I have. Same result, though. :( And here's something else wierd. After I tried that I looked at the permissions for /dev/hdd, and they had changed back to brw-rw----. WTF? I did a chmod to make them brwxrwxrwx again and tried again, still with the same result, but it looks like something is playing with my device permissions. Is this a Mandrake 10.1 behavior? 'Cause I do not like it.

What it says, with Mandrake 10.1. I think I've tried to figure this one out before. Here's my drive info: $ l -la /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 2 javaguy disk 3 Feb 26 09:04 /dev/cdrom -> hdd $ l -la /dev/hdd brwxrwxrwx 1 javaguy disk 22, 64 Feb 26 03:15 /dev/hdd ...and also, just in case it's relevant... $ l -la /dev/scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 2 javaguy disk 3 Feb 26 09:04 /dev/scd0 -> hdd Been playing WoW a lot, and it's got me nostalgic for War3. Smile Now if I can just get it to work... Oh, I'm launching using Point2Play, if that matters. Thanks!

Solved! I edited the /sbin/dhclient-script and commented out the lines that insert the offending search into my resolv.conf. Thanks!

I'm using Mandrake 10.1, and my /etc/resolv.conf seems to spontaneously change, adding a search line at the beginning that makes web browsing really slow. I created a cron job to remove the offending line once per hour (it seem to reapear a couple times a day), but that's a silly solution. What exactly is changing my resolv.conf, and how do I stop it from putting in the search line? Thanks! Sam

Okay, I put a # in front of the search line, and that seemed to help. Later I rebooted and seemed to notice it was slow again. Sure enough, the old version was back. Any idea what process is setting up this file and how I can stop it from putting the search line in?

/etc/resolv.conf: search woh.rr.com nameserver 24.29.161.129 nameserver 24.29.161.137 nameserver 24.29.161.93 /etc/modprobe.conf: # This file is autogenerated from /etc/modules.conf using generate-modprobe.conf command alias eth0 forcedeth alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0 remove snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0 install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; } install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe ohci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true alias eth1 natsemi remove nvaudio /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove nvaudio install nvaudio /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install nvaudio remove ali5455 /sbin/modprobe --first-time -r --ignore-remove ali5455 install ali5455 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install ali5455 alias char-major-195* nvidia

Something I've noticed since upgrading to 10.1 is that web page load really slowly, no matter which browser I'm using. I mean painfully slowly. And one thing I've noticed is that every time it loads a page it says "resolving host whatever.com..." for a long time before it begins to load the page. It's not great that it takes a long time to look up a host's IP, but also, although I'm certainly not an expert, I was kind of under the impression that when I navigate to a web site it only has to look up the IP the first time and that, at least within the same browser session anyway, it would remember the IP for subsequent page requests to that site. Am I missing something essential?

Got it! On your GUI menu go to System->Configuration->KDE->Components->File Associations. In the left pane of the dialog that will open is a tree view of "Known Types." Open the one called "text" and click on the item called "html." It shows the "Application Preference Order," and in mine Konqueror was at the top, and Mozilla was at the bottom. I just clicked on Mozilla and clicked the "Move Up" button until it was at the top. Now when I click a link from KMail I get Mozilla.

How do I configure KMail so that when I click a link in a message it opens it in Mozilla instead of Konqueror?

If I'm opening a program from the command line, is there a way to make it open on a specific desktop? If a program is already open, and if I know the PID, is there a command line-ish way to send it to a particular desktop? Less importantly, but now that I think of it I'm curious, is there a command line-ish way to switch the user to a particular desktop? I can't think of any reason I'd need to do this but am curious as to how it could be done. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I have an Epson Stylus CX6600 (as you may have guessed from the thread title), and I'm using Mandrake 10.1 with KDE. I went into the Configure Your Computer utility and could not find the Stylus CX6600 listed, but it did have the Stylus CX6400, and when I set it up as that it seems to print okay. But the CX6600 is also a scanner. So I went into scanner setup. It doesn't detect any scanners attached to the box, and from there I'm stuck. Any advice? Thanks! Sam

Yeah, when I first saw this I thought MandrakeSoft had been bought out by a gangsta rapper label. Man-dry-vah!

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

You know that little icon in the system tray on which one can right-click and get a speed menu of different screen resolutions? It's cool because it doesn't make me log in again to see the changes. Is there a way to programmatically change the screen size like that? Like in a shell script? [moved from Software by spinynorman]