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Greetings! I tried to install the nVidia drivers and yes, I followed the directions, nut now x windows doesn't come up at all. What file do I edit to set it back as it was?

Nice looking app, Konstruct. I noticed that using it without specifying an install location will install it into ~/kde3.1/ (that's in my /home/<my user directory> directory I assme?), but I already have KDE 3.0.5a and want to upgrade it. Where would I tell it to install for that? Many thanks

Don't know if this will help or not, but here it is: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=2473 Hope it helps.

Let me make sure you are saying what it looks like you are saying. You want to create shares on the laptops and Linux desktop, have the server mount those shares, and then share the shares with the server? What I *think* you want to do is create a share (or shares for each user) on the server, and allow that share to be mounted by the desktop and laptops. If this is the case, use Samba. One caveat: Having shares on the same box that is the gatekeeper (firewall) to the outside world is not really a great thing to do. If someone gets past the firewall with the right permissions, they'll find all your private secrets right there on the machine they penetrated.

I don't have the answer, though when you find out, post it just for the educational aspect. As to having both types of connections, why? Are they free?

Try http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/ It comes with most distros, but you will have to read the docs and do some manual work so it works with your specific hardware. For graphic output, try Gkrellm at http://web.wt.net/~billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html. If you use Windowmaker, there's a couple dockapps at www.dockapps.org that display lm_sensors output. Good luck!

How is your swap space set up?

I used Partition Manager. Worked perfectly,

Two drives is the best and easiest method. Before I bought a second drive, however, I partitioned a 20gb drive pretty much down the middle, installed XP on the first partition, then MDK9 on the second. If you don't plan to access anything from the XP partition with Linux, then use NTFS. Although MDK9 is supposed to be able to access NTFS, I'm having troubles getting it to work - though that's probably because I'm just learning. :shock: You should have little trouble unless you have hardware that's old or non-standard. Good luck!

I've been dual booting for some time now. First with MDK 8.1/2, then 9.0. Both with XP. I used Partition Magic the first time to size down the NTFS partition to only use half of the 20gb drive, then installed MDK on the second partition. MDK recognized everything nicely and at the end of the install I added "Windows" into the LILO boot config. When MDK 9 was released (and I saw it wasn't eating everyones computers willy nilly) I added a secon 20gb drive and put MDK there and gave the entire first drive back to XP (I must have my Everquest! :wink: :!: A friendly word of warning :!: Your problem may well be the downloaded software; or not - but with that you're playing with a loaded gun. I have seen remote control sleepers waiting for the command to join thousands of other "bots" in a denial of service attack, I've seen back door trojans, and software that looks innocuous but is actually recording keystrokes and web activity and sending it back to its origin. All of these from warez sites and a couple from Kazaa. I've a friend who used to download everything and anything, especially from Kazaa (ever see that commercial where the computer tells the guy "You have reached the end of the Internet"? It's because my friend downloaded the whole damn thing onto his hard drive!). :wink: At any rate, he brought his computer to me to fix and I found several viruses and one small program that was trying to send traffic to a remote location which turned out to be a cable modem. /em end warning mode /em gets off soap box At any rate, good luck. Post any problems you have here - there's LOTS of people with opinions just waiting to share. :P

I'm not sure if you can fit it on a drive that small - Mandrake (like most of the major distros) installs a lot of extra stuff even if you specify just a few specific packages. I installed Mandrake 8.2 on a 4gb drive and only used 1.5gb, though that included more than you're wanting to install and I wasn't too selective. Also remember that if the server will provide hosting for more than just you on your local network that memory (swap) will be an issue. If you try it, post back here and let us know - I'd be interested in your results. You also might want to look at Gentoo Linux. It's a distro that is designed for you to build from the ground up and only install exactly what you need. Not for the newbie, but they have a great installation walk-through. Good luck! :D

I have an SD card reader (USB) (Dazzle Multimedia). Works great under windows, but I use Linux much more. How do I access cards in the reader under Linux? Many thanks in advance John

Both, plus Gnome CD Player. :-(

Greetings! When I play CDs, I only get the left channel. The system is set up to dual boot and under Windows, everything is fine. Both channels also work fine while playing games under Linux. Using MDK 9.0, SB Live 5.1, and have loaded the drivers from Creative open source. I had the same problem before loading the drivers also. Any help is appreciated.