Cannonfodder

A MANDRAKE HOWTO

The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to LINUX Mandrake 9.1

Part I - Introduction

http://mandrakeuser.cjb.net/

Another thing to look at, although it may be far fetched, is to turn off Video4Linux. 9.0 had a bug with this that I would experience where the screen woudl be black.

Su to root

Edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Look for

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension

Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

Load "extmod"

Load "type1"

Load "freetype"

Load "glx" # 3D layer

EndSection

Comment out the line using the # symbol

# Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

Restart..

I haven't seen this bug again with 9.0 so don't get your hopes up. If it doesn't do anything, just restore the line..

bvc, good catch, just what I was looking for..

If you open props for your panel, you have auto-hide and also display hide buttons (not iconds). Clicking hide buttons slides your panel into an icon. Sloooooww... In the gconf-editor (didn't know about that app :roll: ) is the panel_hide_delay property.

Thanks!

I haven't a clue. Totally forgot ISDN is still around. Is there a way to hook your ISDN to a router that you can then hook to, making it transparent to your linux system?

Not to play devil's advocate, I find it interesting to read about. We also have Aru's auto posting of Mandrake security. Never thought of an exploit that simulates a server for a heavily used internet game. I'm not ver heavy on security but still like the different insights I get..

Download AboutPHP.php and put it in your /var/www/html folder. Then chmod 755 the file so you can execute it.

Try to view it with

http://localhost/AboutPHP.php

Should either work or not. If not, your Apache configuration file is not setup correctly.

Some other things to play with..

1. Install webmin. Go to webmin's website and get the targz file and do the install.

2. Make sure your /etc/hosts file is setup correctly. Got a localhost entry?

3. Try this tutorial...

Other than that, I'm going to follow my own advice because while I have apache working with php, I do not have phpbb working..

I'm having a few minor problems with my Main menu bar. I pretty much created it myself and got rid of the default top bar (or was that 9.0?). In any case,

1. Frequently, several times a day, the auto-hide option stops working. If I open properties and unclick auto-hide and reclick it, it starts working again.

2. I have the Hide icons viewable. It slides the bar when I click on it. I find this annoying. Anyway to change the timing or have it just disappear?

I spent quite a bit of time searching the web and also grepping my gnome files, but couldn't find anything related to auto-hide in a text file. Any tips?

Reminds me of Mac OS Help Wizard :)

Good tip, thanks for putting it up.. 8)

Well, as a dissenting viewpoint, for journaling filesystems, I've used Reiser, XFS, and ext3, and Reiser is the only one I've had a catastrophic loss with -- but -- that was more than a  year ago, perhaps it is more reliable now (but I'll never trust my data to it again).

How did you figure it was a reiserfs bug (vs a hard drive, partition table, something else)?

Glad to hear, drakbackup's demon (pun) slowed my computer to a crawl!

I've been using it for a year and a half with no issues. Very robust, reboots quickly after a crash.. Plus its under plenty of development :)

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Check this out..

http://www.namesys.com/

http://bulmalug.net/body.phtml?nIdNoticia=642

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/libr...-fs.html#h23685

Drinking is bad for you, very very very bad

php is a scripting language. This board is written in it. A good thing to do is look for php projects that do much of your work. E.g. phpbb, phpnuke, many others.. usually allow you to take their code and do your own private modifications..

Deke,

I did a google on this..

terratec soundcards linux

and there's are sites that list compatible terratec sound cards. Go take a peek..

I think its more likely to be a partition table error. Window's use to corrupt my table anytime I had linux on it. If diskdrake sees something that it doesn't understand or doesn't pass verification then it often refuses to do anything (good move!) Usually the best fix is to remove all your partitions, zero out your partition table, and re-create them from scratch.

Didn't realize there were so many games for linux. I'm checking out gunocide!

Another way to handle the windows situation so you don't corrupt your installation is to copy it and use that. I have a partition where I just copied my win2k files into. Then I setup the wine config file to point to that. Codeweavers has one advantage of having a setup program but after using that I went back to wine. NO reasons really..

Regarding the games, use windows for the games, up to you. Use linux for your linux games.. If you are playing too much, you might want to re-evaluate your life

When you say changed, what did you change and how did you do it? What's in your /etc/fstab file? That controls mounting of partitions on boot.

If you haven't already, do a su to root and type

locate -u

Then

locate kernel | more

and see what pops up, maybe its in there somewhere..

You shouldn't be making the CD's "bootable", you are doing something goofy :o

I'm probably stating the obvious, but you did rebuild your rpm databases right?

Aru, windows can boot in an extended partition. There are some versions of windows such as 98 that can not (although a boot manager may overcome this).

Motts, if I got you right, you have 2 OS's stored on the same partition and want lilo to boot either one. H'aint gonna happen. However, you can try several t hings..

1. Make a new partition and reinstall one of the OS's there.

2. Use XP's boot manager to handle the two OS's on the same partition. I have no idea if that would work, but I bet there is a configuration since I've seen people install 2 window's os's on the same partition before. Then you would have lilo call XP which in turn would have an entry for XP and Longhorn.

Great! Didn't think you were working late. You sounded like you were waiting until 5pm so I was thinking hmmm what's way out there in la la land? Ramfree came to mind :)

Glad the tutorial worked. Let me know if you found any issues or bugs.

Me too, the M2 client seems to have settled down..

If you have the space, try setting up a separate 9.1 partition set so you can get comfortable with it and not lose your current setup.

Here's a faq on how to boot 2 distros..

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=5082