Padma
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I had that happen to me a month or so back. I can't put my finger on *exactly* why it happened, but I had been messing around with my XFree86-4.config file, messing with video settings and such, so I just figured I had screwed something up, went into MCC, and fixed it.
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yeah. I use Kaudiocreator, ripping to ogg. (It *can* rip to mp3, but why? ;) )
I just built a music CD for my son, after his sister tried 3 times on her WinXP box. All the tracks from #4 on were screwed by her system. I ripped with Kaudiocreator, then made the CD with K3B, and everything was perfect! :D
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I'm not sure what you mean by creating "a user with all the rights". ;)
And are you logging in as that user or as "root"?
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I "buy" every couple of releases, and download in between. I bought a copy of 6, 8, and 9.2, and will probably buy 10.1 or 10.2.
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My 3.4G root partition was getting constrained, recently, so I squeezed a little more space out of my system, and added a 4.0G partition, and moved /usr to it.
One of these days I'm going to re-do my entire drive, and give over about 48G to Linux, instead of the paltry 13G i have right now.
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For email I use KMail. As part of the Kontact package, it is very similar in appearance to Outlook, which I have used for so many years at work that I am used to it.
(Let's face it: there is a "comfort level" involved in our software choices. I have used Outlook for so long that the interface is "comfortable". Doesn't mean it's the best, just what I'm used to. :P )
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Yeah, Mandrake Move is a live CD based on MDK 9.2. If I was switching between machines a lot, I would consider it, but I have my *own* box, so I just use MM (and/or Knoppix) as a "rescue" system. ;)
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Opera!
(Yeah, I'm the odd man out. I don't care for Firefox. So sue me. ;) )
I also use Konqueror occasionally.
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All I can think is that the official "paid for" version of Cedega includes many proprietary drivers/dlls that are NOT included in the CVS tree. If Ghost Recon is supported (check www.transgaming.com), then it may be a "free" versus "paid for" problem.
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MYSQL_INCS and MYSQL_LIBS are not files, but are macros in the makefile.
Just edit the makefile so the paths they display read "/usr/bin/mysql", like the MYSQL macro. (But don't delete the parts that say "-I' and "-L".) :)
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SAMBA is the open-source version of Windows SMB server. ;) It comes with Mandrake. I use it to access data on my wifes Win2K machine on our home network.
I can't tell you much about it, though. For me, "it just works". :)
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Count on tyme to be "johhny-on-the-spot". ;)
Here are a couple of articles in the FAQ forum:
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First, you will need a partition for Win2K. If you format that as NTFS, you will want *another* partition for the "dual-use" data, formatted as FAT32. Linux can read NTFS, but writing it is problematic. However, it CAN read and write FAT filesystems.
You will probably want at least three partitions for linux. One for the root "/" directory (the "OS" if you will...), one for "/home", where your personal stuff goes, and a swap partition. There are some good threads around here about partitionig. I'll find some and provide links. :)
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FWIW: Mandrake 10.0, plus the crazy guys here (including gigabytes of helpful advice just available for the browsing) are what finally helped me make the switch from another MS-slave to the freedom of Linux.
:D
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First, some background. ;)
Back in the mid-80s, I was tasked to become an administrator for a bunch of new Unix SVR2 machines we were receiving. Having never used Unix, I quickly ran down to the bookstore and picked up a copy of O'Reilly's Unix in a Nutshell.
Fast-forward to 1998. Retired from the military, I was now working on Sun/Solaris machines, as a software developer. At home, I was running that *wonderful* new OS: Windows 95. My daughter's boyfriend had picked up something called Mandrake Linux (release 4, IIRC), and said, "this looks like the kind of stuff you use at work."
I installed it on my machine, in the "run from within Windows - trial" mode. Neat. Sure *looked* like Unix. But having to essentially reboot to get to it, and not being able to really *do* anything with it, proved to be a liability, and I eventually removed it. After all, Windows did everything I needed, right?
Still, the idea of running *nix on my home PC intrigued me, and as time went by, and I upgraded my computer, I kept picking up (or downloading, sometimes) new versions of Mandrake, and playing with them - 6, 7, 8, 8.1. Each release seemed to be getting better. I also checked out RedHat and Suse. I was now installing to a separate partition, and booting to it occasionally to play around. By the time I loaded 9.1 and then 9.2, I was starting to think that this could be a serious contender for my desktop. But Windows Me was still doing fine for me. It did everything I needed.
Then my Hard Drive crashed. (Fortunately, *most* of my data I had backed up.) I bought a new drive, and this time, I installed Win2K Pro. Finally! A (reasonably) stable OS! Everything on my rebuilt machine just worked. None of this having to hunt down Linux drivers for anything, and maybe recompiling the kernal, etc. Win2K just worked right out of the box! :D Except.... I had to have MS Office to interact with other people I had to work with. (God! Is that expensive!) And I had to buy a virus-scanner, and keep it updated. And I had to get some anti-spyware software, and run it often. I *knew* Outlook/OE was dangerous, but what choice did I have? And I kept hearing bad things about IE. And why can't I set up my desktop the way I want it? Etc. Etc. My gradual drift out of the MS-camp was picking up speed.
I thought I'd take another look at Linux, just to see how it was going. Mandrake 10CE, with the new 2.6 kernel, had just come out, so I downloaded the ISOs, and installed it.
Holy Crap! This stuff is COOL! Why hadn't I reinstalled Linux earlier?!?
I no longer run windows with an occasional foray into Linux. I run Linux, and boot into Windows on increasingly rare occasions. :D
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I have nothing so dramatic to report, but my day WAS saved a while back by a live-cd. :)
I was running out of space, and looking at DiskDrake, I said, "Hey! I've got about 3 gig of unused space right here between my Win partition and my MDK partitions." So I formatted it, figuring I would use it as a download/storage area for things. Then I rebooted to see how everything looked.
Oh, wait. I didn't tweak lilo.config! Now I can't even boot into Linux! Smacking myself for being so stupid, I dug out my Knoppix CD, inserted it, and booted up.
My relief was palpable as I proceeded to fix my mistake.
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I bought Cedega for one reason: Civilization III.
Yeah, it's been out for a couple years, but it's the only real reason I was booting to Windows....
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I hate to agree, but I also think Mandrake is too slow for my needs. I've had 10.0, don't know which version anymore. Since it was.. free :)
Anyways, I don't like getting an OS which is totally configured by it's needs. When I installed Mandrake I got like 5 IRC clients, and 10 ICQ clients.. That's a bit overdoing it. Plus I totally missed a "emerge" or "aptget".
So that's when someone told me to get Gentoo. Which I am running a while now. I love it :)
5 IRC clients and 10 ICQ clients? I don't think I have that many. But then, you can always choose to *not* install everything. ;) Linux is about *choice*, after all.
"emerge"? "aptget"? What's to miss? Urpmi is great! :D
For myself, Mandrake 10 is the distro that finally nudged me over the edge. I used to run Win2K, and boot into Linux to play around. Now I run Linux, and boot into Win2K as rarely as possible (it's been over 2 weeks now! :D)
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"No non-trivial program is bug-free"
and the corollary:
"If a program is bug-free, it's trivial"
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You're actually pretty close, VeeDubb. ;)
The reference is actually to Maxwells Demon (google for it if you have never heard of it). It was coined by the developers of CTSS, and all of its derivatives, including Unix, have continued its use. Actually here is a good page about it. :)
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I like KDE. For me, it just works. :)
Although Iam considering giving Fluxbox a try - I DO occasionally like the minimalist approach.
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And just for completeness:
$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
client glx vendor string: SGI
client glx version string: 1.2
client glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context,
GLX_NV_vertex_array_range, GLX_MESA_agp_offset
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context
OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI R200 20020827 AGP 1x x86/MMX/3DNow!/SSE TCL
OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 4.0.4
OpenGL extensions:
GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,
GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,
GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color,
GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract,
GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_convolution, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array,
GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_polygon_offset,
GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap,
GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine,
GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic,
GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_vertex_array,
GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_MESA_pack_invert, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture,
GL_MESA_window_pos, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_NV_texture_rectangle,
GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGI_color_table
glu version: 1.3
glu extensions:
GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess
visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav
id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat
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0x23 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x24 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x25 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x26 24 tc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x27 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x28 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x29 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2a 24 tc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2b 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2c 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x2d 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2e 24 dc 0 24 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x2f 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x30 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None
0x31 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
0x32 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow
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$ glxgears
8037 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1607.400 FPS
8603 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1720.600 FPS
8601 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1720.200 FPS
8603 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1720.600 FPS
8601 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1720.200 FPS
8602 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1720.400 FPS
8600 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1720.000 FPS
This is in the default-size window when run.
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I got the same information on my research for Civ3: 'may need a "no-cd" patch'. But mine works fine with the regular CD, so....
I can't answer for the Spiderman CD.
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For IM, I use Kopete. Works great! :D
For IRC, my choice is KVirc.
(I happen to like it better than gaim.)