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Afraid not. It needs to install to standard KDE directories to work properly. Although I suppose I could copy the entire KDE directories over but surely there's a better way than this.

Hope this is the right forum for this, if not appologies. I have compiled some software (kopete) on my machine at home but now want to install it to about 7 computers at work. I assume that it is possible to install these compiled programs onto these machines but I am unsure how. Obviously, I don't want to compile the programs on the new machines (besides taking way to long a decent machine these are ancient beasts that would take an eternity plus they don't have the hard-disk space for it) so how can install them without recompiling them. Thanks

I'm not sure about the error messages you're getting, although some of them may be related to X. Hope someone else can help you there. However, you can get Mandrake Control centre running by typing drakcontrol in a terminal. From there you can run the menu editor, choose root and then save (you don't need to edit anything) and your menu's should be back. Hope this helps.

Thanks, but I'm afraid it doesn't work. Adding -Xinerama to exec /etc/X11/Xsession $* in my /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession file still has the problem and adds another one, I can no longer pick my desktop, but always use KDE even though I'm using GDM. I have tried adding the -Xinerama both before and after the $*. I have also tried adding Option "Xinerama" "true" to the ServerFlags section of the XF86Config-4 file as suggested by the xinerama HOWTO. Still no luck. It also doesn't work if I change to using XDM.

Thanks, that helps. I hadn't thought of using ctrl/alt/backspace to log out. However, I would still like to solve the problem properly. If you just need a second screen you might try disabling Xinerama. This gives you a completely seperate second screen, where logging out works. The problem is that you can't drag stuff from one screen to the other you have to start stuff in the screen you want to work on. The real killer for me is OpenOffice.org which will only run on one screen at a time no matter which screen it is launched on. I like to have my slideshow program (Impress or Powerpoint) on one screen with my word processor on the other. This isn't possible when running without Xinerama since second OOo window opens on the same screen as the first and you can't drag between them. But if you're programming you probably don't need OOo and this might work for you. So does anyone out there have a solution to our problem?

Having now successfully got my second graphics card working, I've now hit a second problem. When I turn Xinerama on the computer 'sort of' freezes when I try to log out. I say sort of because I can move the mouse but nothing else works. Not ctrl/alt/delete not ctrl/alt/F1 to get to a text login screen or ctrl/alt/backspace to restart the X server. The only things that work are the off switch and the reset button. I just get my default background colour and the standard X cursor when there is no window manager. This only happens when I enable xinerama, if I just have the two displays working without it, everything works ok. I can restart the X server before I log in (through ctrl/alt/backspace) so it doesn't appear to be restarting the X server that is causing the problem. The problems occurs whether I use GNOME or KDE and whether I use GDM, KDM or MDKDM (or whatever the mandrake version is called) and pretty much all combinations of these. I can reboot safely rather than logout. Any ideas? If you need the information I'm using a Nvidia GForce and a Matrox Millenium as my two graphics cards. Thanks.

Thanks very much for the help. I appreciate the time and effort it took. However, a guy from the matrox forum has solved the problem. It works fine if I set my matrox PCI card as the default from the bios, but not if I don't. Once again thanks very much.

OK, first thanks for the reply. Actually, I use two displays 0:0 and 0:1 since I have a 17" and a 14" moniters and run the displays at different resolutions but I've tried using xinerama as well (with same colour depth and resolution). I've tried lowering everything to 800x600 and colour depths of 8,16 and 24. None of them work, so I assume this is all ok. They don't list a driver for the millenium on linux. However, this is perfectly reasonable since the driver is supposed to form part of the XF86 base package. Thanks for the tip about the forum though, I've reposted my question there, (but I'm still hoping for some answers here). I'm not sure what you mean by a MOBO. The bus id's are all correct, I haven't swapped the cards since upgrading and the id's are the ones that WinXP lists. As for the IRQ detection I have no idea how to set this under Linux. Under WinXP both cards are using IRQ 11, I have no idea what they are using under Linux. If you know how to check and change these let me know and I'll have a look. (I do have a pretty full PCI bus, I've got a TV card, Sound card, DVD playback card and {obviously} a second graphics card, but it was all working under Mandrake 8 and all works under WinXP) Thanks once again.

I have a dual moniter setup using two graphics cards. One of which is a NVidia GForce AGP card and the other a matrox millenium PCI card (the original millenium version). This works fine in Windows XP and in the Mandrake 8 series. However, I have never been able to get this to work in any of the Mandrake 9 series. At the moment this is the one feature that is stopping me using Linux as my primary OS. I cannot even get my Millenium card to work on its own. Whenever I try to enter X with my millenium card activated it always flashes the lights on my second moniter like it's going to work and the computer freezes, I can't even use Ctrl, Alt, F1 to get to a new terminal or Crt Alt Backspace to restart the X server. Here's what I've tried: Using XFDrake both in a terminal and X mode, trying to configure both independantly, using Xinerama and one at a time. Using my old XF86Config-4 file from a working 8.2 configuration Trying to build a new XF86Config-4 file from scratch So far no luck. Has anyone been able to get a Matrox Millenium working with Mandrake 9 or have any other suggestions for me to try? Thanks

Not sure if this is the right forum or not but its about installing software. I installed 9.2 from a DVD from Linux Format which didn't claim to be a RC or Beta. However, I experienced the following problems when trying to install more software using rpmdrake. None of them is fatal but they are annoying and if anyone has a solution it would be useful. 1. I have a DVD-ROM drive and a CD-RW drive and by default it tells me to insert my DVD into my CD-RW drive. OK, so I go to the sources option and change /mnt/cdrom to /mnt/cdrom2. Fine, however this produces problem 2 and if I installed from a /mnt/cdrom2 is it too much to ask for this to be configured automatically. 2. Now every time I install an rpm using rpmdrake I get a message about the signatures not being valid. I can still install anyway but this is annoying, 3. Everytime I install a program using this method my K menu looses just about all of its programs. I had to manually add a konsole icon to the kicker and then launch menudrake from a konsole (no right click option to launch a konsole or xterm annoyingly) and rebuild the root menu. I also permenanly lost the OpenOffice.org icons from the Kicker (of course I could readd the manually). This works but is very annoying when I have to repeat this every time I install an rpm, is there a way round it. Unfortunately the whole problem is made worse by Mandrakes appalling default selection of software. No KPPP, Kate (even when installing development tools), xmms, epiphany (even though it supposed to be the default GNOME 2.4 browser), mozilla mail (even though mozilla browser and composer are installed). Other than that however, it still a very nice looking distro, which I shall continue to use.

While in principal I agree with this, they also release the download edition completely under GPL, which allows you (arguably enourages you) to share it freely no matter how you obtained it. I also have principals which say it is wrong to release something under a license and then add extra conditions. So while I can understand their desire to make joining the mandrake club worthwhile, I'm not sure about the way they are going about it if they want to restrict the way their users can apply the GPL.

I solved my own problem by checking Mandrake Bugzilla. Type the following in a terminal.

I have installed 9.2 RC succesfully. However, when I switch to the gnome login manager it all falls apart. It tells me there is no session data and will only log into a terminal. I use gdm because it has the facility to change the language at login in time which none of the other login managers allow. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Try mounting the floppy somewhere other than /mnt/floppy if you have disabled supermount. I don't know why this is the case but if I try to mount a floppy disk at /mnt/floppy without using supermount it always creates problems. Instead I create a directory called /mycomputer (mmm wonder where I got that from?) and mount my floppy as /mycomputer/floppy . Of course I also use autofs which is also far from perfect but seems to cause less problems than supermount.

I have this working the way I want it but it may not be the way you want it. Also I did this from a fresh install, I have no idea how to do it when you already have Linux installed. During the install when it asks you to pick a language select all the languages you want OOo in. After the install goto the control panel and the Hardware section, then select the login manager. Select GDM rather than the Mandrake one. You may now need to reboot. When you come to the login you should now have a button at the bottom of the screen that allows you to select which language you want. Now everything will be in that language including OOo. The only problem I have had with this setup is when I use the same account in more than one language the spell checking in OOo does not always default to the same language as the menus, but this relatively easy to solve, just go to tools, options and set the language you want to spell check in (all of the languages you selected should be available),

Assuming you have samba setup and running, which you will if you can access files on your linux box from windows. You have two choices either you edit /etc/smb.conf or go to http://localhost:901/ which gives you a web interface and lets you set up printers. If you need more help just ask.

What you need to do is set up your printer as a samba share. Then you browse to your linux box from network neighbourhood and double click on your printer from there. This should then let you setup your printer. If you need help setting up a printer using samba just ask. You do not need access to port 631 for this.

I also use both POP and IMAP to give my users the choice of what they want (I also squirrelmail for those that want it). There is however another problem with using the IMAP package. It lets the client determine what is a mail folder. This means that if a malicious user/hacker was able to get a hold of your username and password, it is not only your email which is at risk but your complete home directory.

Thanks, the su $user -c $command solution was what I was after. I want to run fetchmail as non-root because it ocassionally needs to be stopped and started by non-root users, so I have a seperate account with my .fetchmailrc file, so fetchmail needs to be run as this user. Once again thanks.

I need to run a program as another user from root. (The program is fetchmail {I want other people to be able to start and stop it but not have root access but it has to be launched at startup meaning it has to be launched by root} but the actual program is irrelevant so I'm not posting this to the network group). I thought this might be something to do with the superuser bit so I saved a script to launch the program as another user and then tried to apply the superuse bit with chmod -s test This didn't work. Am I doing something wrong or is there a better way to launch a program as another user when you are root. Thanks

I am using the source code. I have now got it to work by discovering how to install perl modules from cpan rather than just looking for RPMS. Thanks for the reply though.

I am trying to run amavisd-new virus checker. However, I am running into some dependancy problems trying to get it to run. I get the following error when trying to run it Can't locate loadable object for module Unix::Syslog in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl) at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 492 Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 492. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/sbin/amavisd line 492. From this I assume that I need to load the Syslog perl module. Trouble is I can't find one that comes on the Mandrake CD's. I have tried downloading a rpm called perl-Unix-Syslog-0.98-1.noarch.rpm but this doesn't work either (it installs the files in a different directory to my perl modules but it still doesn't work even when I copy the files across to my perl modules directory.) Does anyone know where I can get a hold of the syslog perl module that works with Mandrake or how I can get my existing version of syslog to work with Mandrake. p.s. I am using both Mandrake 8.0 (old system, can't really afford to take it offline to upgrade it at the moment) and 9.0. Thanks

I have downloaded chkrootkit and found nothing wrong. I can't find any suspicious references in any of the log files I still have.

Sorry, I deleted the log files, maybe I should have keep a hold of them but when they totaled 6GB I didn't really think I had the space. As for the 'cc' machine, I don't have any local dns servers running, but the weird thing is, is that it is not the ip address of the local machine but rather an external one. Anyway thanks for the tips.

To share an internet connection look in the Mandrake Control Centre under the Network section. There's a wizard there that should setup internet connection sharing, although I've never used it. To share files you could try NFS (Network File Sharing) which is actually very straight forward to use. If you need help setting this up just ask. You could also try NIS (Network Information Service) which allows you to share users and passwords between the computers, although this may be overkill for a home network (but then I'm the type of guy that likes playing with these things for fun :D). Finally if you setup your printer using CUPS and install CUPS on the second machine it will automatically be shared between the two computers.