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I'm watching this thread, as i need a wireless PCMCIA card as well. How about D-link cards? Would they work?

the intel centrinos can get fantastic battery life. suspend-to-disk and suspend-to-ram work in a few lucky notebooks, but i've had to manually patch my kernel to have it work. I always use hibernate now :) edit: deleted the note about wireless after reading iph's post

wow, AI, how did you make gnome 2.8 look like that? I like the floating desktop switcher :)

faster on win98 SE? a virus/trojan/spyware-free win98 SE? wow. I didn't think such things are still possible. you see, I got the unfortunate job of being the resident "computer doctor" of my friends' computers...

Mandrake 10.1 powerpack is good for beginners. Mandrake is good for beginners, period. Mandrake is good, period. (though i dont use it anymore...)

Dillo. really, really fast and light. not yet full featured but good enough for some browsing. www.dillo.org Now can someone please tell me why Mozilla needs a chat client and html editor? Firefox is great, but it would be nice to have some more options out there.

are you sure it's POP3? if it's mistakenly set to IMAP it really won't delete the emails. I use IMAP myself.

copy your working kernel's config file (/boot/config-2.6.x) to /usr/src/kernel-dir/.config and use that, just subtract the ALSA via module and add the OSS via module(say Y, not just M) HTH

do an 'lsmod' as root and check whether it's really the other module loaded. then check your sound volume, run aumixer if this doesnt work try recompiling the kernel without the ALSA snd_via82xx sound module, and compiling in the OSS module.

when you do a fresh install of mandrake, in the options screen afterwards (where you set up graphics, lilo options, timezone, etc) there's a button for sound. In the setup you can choose between the sound modules "snd_via82xx" and "via82cxxx_audio" and you should choose the latter. The default "snd_via82xx" doesnt work.

arriaga...you still haven't posted your hardware specs....how do we solve hardware problems without knowing what the hardware is? also, please include as many details about the problems as you can.

I would disagree, his opinions count as much as anyone elses (regardless of the authors ignorance) however the statement says more about the author than the choice of operating system. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> he is entitled to his opinion, but his opinion holds no authority due to his ignorance. that's what i meant. everybody is entitled to their opinion, but whose opinion holds most authority is a different matter altogether. btw, he was talking about $189 being one-time investment, the rest being freeware...does he know that many of those things are under GPL (Bloodshed dev C++, OOo)? and I don't think I can operate a Windows system entirely on freeware. Maybe he's a software pirate. that would even be worse. but let's not make speculations...

if the usb icon appears on the desktop just right click it and click "unmount volume" and you can safely unplug it.

$189 is nothing? he's too ignorant that 3 billion other people, maybe more, don't have that kind of resources. therefore his words hold no authority whatsoever.

Ah, if you're doing a fresh install of Mandrake you don't need to compile the kernel at all. When you come to the comfiguration setup screen (network, graphics card, timezone, sound) just click the 'setup sound' thing and you can choose between the 2 modules snd_via82xx and via82cxxx_audio. Of course you should choose via82cxxx_audio. Easy, sound will work like a charm :)

you have to say 'N' to the ALSA via module in the kernel config, and say 'Y' or 'M' to the OSS via module. I've also tried unloading that snd_via82xx but it can't be unloaded as far as i've tried. Sorry I don't know a thing about FC, i've heard rumours that it's crappy with multimedia. My experience only extends to Mandrake and Gentoo. It should be the same though :unsure:

i have some ideas about the kernel thing...but that might involve recompiling the kernel. you see, OSS was the main sound system on 2.4, then they changed to ALSA on 2.6...for me it's not mandrake's fault, but rather the kernel developers. My sound still works best with OSS. Changing to a 2.4 kernel might solve some of your hardware problems. You can just browse the software directory in Mandrake Control Center, 2.4.27 should be there. Install it and boot to that kernel and post what happens.

well, as a first step, the categories should be created...that way all the new tips and tricks are posted in the right place, assuming a constant flow of new HOWTOs. then people can start marking and moving the old tips and tricks to the correct categories. I usually find myself wandering around there trying to find links in answer to questions on the forums. this could help somewhat.

er, as i said, i don't recommend the nitro patch, it's very experimental and possibly very unstable (i haven't had problems, but I could just be lucky)...but if you want to continue then here it is: you should get matching vanilla kernels and patches. 2.6.9 from kernel.org should match with 2.6.9-nitro1 patch, NOT 2.6.9-rc4-nitrosomething. You can also find 2.6.9-rc4 in kernel.org under pre-releases, and matching nitro patches. untar the kernel source in /usr/src and cd to it, then apply the patch using 2 possible commands, depending on the file type of the patch: patch -p1 < /path/to/patchfile or bzip2 -dc /path/to/patchfile.tar.bz2 | patch -p1 But I'd really recommend you try to make a working vanilla kernel first. Pre-patched versions don't exist, unless you use gentoo.

just an update. sound works great with 2.6.9-nitro1. This kernel is blazing fast too, for you performance obsessed people out there. volfro, you can try to compile ANY kernel (whatever kernel sources you already have) but be sure of these following options: ALSA support: N OSS Support(deprecated): Yes -then pick the VIA sound module under PCI in the OSS list of soundcards. Once you've mastered kernel compiling you can go back to ALSA using the -mm or -nitro patchsets. Or hopefully the vanilla kernel developers would have fixed it by then. Hope this helps

buy a PS2 B)

Now I've noticed a lot of questions on the board which already have an entry in the Tips and tricks. However, tips and tricks is a huge place, and includes some articles dating back to mandrake 9.1. It's a formidable repository of knowledge and HOWTOs, and we're not getting its full potential. My suggestion is to categorize the tips and tricks section into these: 1) software and kernel HOWTOs 2) hardware HOWTOs 3) networking HOWTOs 4) desktop/eye candy HOWTOs I think 4 categories is enough...but please feel free to suggest some. This would a) lessen duplicate questions on the board, B) make it easier to keep documents/HOWTOs up-to-date c) make it a much better browsing experience :) whatcha' think?

You're welcome. :) It's also because i have the same soundcard. link 1 link 2 The comments on those posts also contain useful info. You can also look in the FAQ section on this board. Anyway, I tried the 2.6.9 vanilla kernel and the 2.6.9-mm1 patched kernel, and it's a no go. Sound skips terribly. I'm staying with 2.6.8.1-mm4 for now. I'm trying different patchsets like 2.6.9-nitro1 (but they're not recommended for the casual user) You can find the kernel and the mm kernel patches in www.kernel.org NB> The kernels 2.4.27 and 2.6.8.1-mm4 have good sound under ALSA. But if you uncheck ALSA support in the config and check OSS support, maybe you can use a vanilla kernel. Don't use the mm-patch for now, it's highly experimental. make sure to run LILO after you install your kernels (it's something I keep forgetting) ps. yes, you can install a non-mandrake kernel in mandrake. It's essentially the same, maybe even faster.

trust me, I'm having the same problems with a vanilla kernel, and I'm currently working on a solution. One thing I found out was that sound only works perfectly with these: a 2.4.27 kernel with OSS support, and a 2.6.8.1-mm4 kernel. It's actually rather strange, since the mm4-kernel uses modules with the same names. I'll try to track this down further... Meanwhile, I recommend you try installing a 2.4.27 kernel from the Mandrake RPM repositories and try that. Or if you want to stay with 2.6 then you can apply the 2.6.8.1-mm4 patch (mm-patches are experimental patches released by kernel developer Andrew Morton) but being new to linux it would be more difficult. Try to make sure with the 2.4.27 kernel that the module via82cxxx_audio is being used not snd_via82xx. BTW, I used the vanilla 2.4.27 kernel, I have no idea how mandrake's patches would affect this... I'd better write this down somewhere...

have a Knoppix CD handy, it's really useful for moving files around and creating/changing partitions. now there are 2 files you have to be careful with: 1) /etc/fstab 2) /etc/lilo.conf. MAKE SURE that they point to the right partitions after you fiddle around. (sorry for shouting) As before, Knoppix will be useful if you aren't careful with these files, if the system becomes non-bootable, just fire up knoppix and edit the files correctly. trust me, I've been there before another tip, of you run Knoppix, open a terminal and become root, you can run QTparted (just type 'qtparted'), which is like Partition Magic. it's an excellent tool for what you're about to do. Have fun :)