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From a terminal su then after the root password run konqueror. Also kdesu konqueror will do it, you will be prompted for the root password.

How have you set up the printer on your Linux system? Have you installed and set up Samba? Please post more details.

Another plus for Epson is their Iscan package. I use a Perfection 1660 Photo and have never had a problem with it. Iscan hsa some very nice options, especially for scanning negatives and slides.

I recall seeing Lexmark printer problems on the board. You may want to search for them to get some suggestions. I do recall something about their drivers. Do the board search and also use Google. It is odd that Lexmark doesn't have the printer model listed. Could the same printer have two model numbers? Did you install the printer on a Windows system? If so how did it show up (model number). That's all I can say now, good luck. Just did a google, got a Lexmark page with drivers for the E234n laser printer. It has Red Hat and Suse drivers. They may also work for Mandriva. lexmark drivers

Printers are usually either parallel port or usb. Is your printer supported in Linux? If Cups does not have drivers for your model you may have to find one somewhere. You may want to Google for your printer and Linux support.

If you upgrade via a fresh install of 2005 you will need to reinstall everyhting. As you have 10.1 up and working I would second jboy's suggestion of using it and getting comfortable with Linux. The key issue here is do you NEED gnumeric in its newer form? If it is only for regular spreadsheet stuff you may not need a newer version (I don't know gnumeric as I use OpenOffice Calc). If you want the most cutting edge now you may want to try out Ubuntu. Also 2006 will be out in a few months.

You are best off setting up your repositories using easy urpmi . I'm not sure what the newer gnumeric needs, but you are stuck with dependencies that are probably caused by trying the newer version with your system which has older libraries. 10.1 -> 10.2 involved a total upgrade of gnome applications and libraries. If you have to have the newest version you may want to consider using 10.2 (LE2005).

It says 1.0.6 because that is how it is identified for themes and extensions. The 1.0.2 of Mandriva is the 1.0.2 with all security patches and as far as I know that is what the updates to Firefox are about. There should be no difference between Mandriva 1.0.2 and Firefox 1.0.6. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

Are you saying you want to login to KDE or Gnome or whatever as root? Why would you want to do that? There are rarely times you need to be root and that is best done from a terminal. It is just plain bad habits to have root wide open to anyone, whether you are the only one who uses your machine. Good security habits are a pain at times, but so is locking your car, your house, etc. As a good habit don't log into X as root. Probably your display manager is actually being kind to you by not "remembering." Don't mean to sound preachy, but the distiction between a regular user and root is a key to Linux security and it should be appreciated as such.

did my own test (2005LE vs Win2000): win2000 quite a bit faster, using cable.

Superdoyle, if you got an install error on a package you have a bad burn. My experience is that burns over 4x are error prone.

What I'd recommend is getting Thac's packages. If at work put them on some sort of disk and when you put them on your system set up urpmi local repository (as root urpmi.addmedia local file://<path to rpms>. You can then put whatever rpms you want in that directory and use urpmi at will. It will then pull whatever else it needs from your other sources. It's best to use Thac's and follow his directions, not all rpms work for all systems.

Following aioshin's advice, when you boot to failsafe you will get a prompt. It is a #. You then can add yourself as a user as follows: #useradd -m yourname (the -m option will create a home directory for you) #passwd yourname (you will be prompted to enter and confirm the password) #passwd root (same as above) You really need to have a password for root, just as important as flossing and brushing your teeth. Then you can reboot via the reboot command and login as yourself. If you haven't set things up for a graphical login, which I assume) after your login you will get a $ prompt (signifies a regular non-root user). Then you can enter the command startx. This will get you into the graphical mode. Then from your menu go to the Mandriva Control Center (MCC) and choose the boot options and set auto login and grapical interface. Good luck.

When you say you have downloaded lots of software the question that first comes to me is what software and from where. Linux software comes in many forms or packages and you have to be sure not to mix them up. If you have downloaded Mandriva rpms onto your hard drive you can set up a local repository for urpmi (urpmi.addmedia local file://<then the path to the files>. When you are asked to insert a cd it means that there are dependencies on the cd that need to be installed for the package. Unlike Windows a software package does not necessarily have all the libraries, etc that you will need and will need to get them. If you have high speed internet access I would recommend adding the urpmi sources you can find in easy urpmi. You can add the main and contrib sources and forget about the cds. Also there are some packages there that could not fit on the cds. Hope this helps. If you still have problems give us more info on what you are trying to install and where you got it. Good luck.

A big problem people have with burning iso's is the burn speed. Burn at a very low speed, assuming md5sums are ok. By the way, I have never had a download where the md5sums were bad. Has anyone else?

How did you install? It sounds like you had problems in the installation. Did you not choose graphical boot? Did you set up a regular user on installation? You will need to give us more informatin on how you did your installation and what your system is like.

Best bet is a clean install, just don't format your /home partition when you install.

I'm running 2005 on two systems: a 533MHz PIII with 512MB ram and 700MHz Athlon with 256 Mb ram. Both run quite well in KDE, but as you wuld expect the 512 is snappier. If you can get another 256 ram you will be fine, but if not you should have no problems.

First off welcome to the board. Next, have you installed and set up Samba? In MCC you can set up file sharing if you have not already done so. More details on what you have done and how the network is set up would be helpful. Good luck.

If in KDE go to "configure your desktop" -> components ->file associations. You can then set an application to be opened for a file type. I don't know the Gnome stuff, but there's a similar way of setting associations.

smiley, regarding your tars i'm 99/100 sure they are binaries. check the names of the files in the extracted tars. you may want to look over a book such as "running linux" (from o'reilly by welsh et al) as a way of familiarzing you to how linux does things. also "linux in a nutshell" (also from o'reilly) has a good listing of most linux commands, but nothing beats the man pages even though they are often not written well. tars are archives (from tape archive), a way of putting together a number of files in one "archive". they may or may not be compressed, hence the .gz. actually there are a number of compression options in linux. you can simply uncompress using the gunzip command and you are then left with an uncompressed archive. then you have to extract and then have the separate files to work with. if you have the source for the program you should see the files needed to compile along with the README which you should always read before compiling as it has the information needed for successful compilation. i would recommend that you stay away from compiling from source until you are more familiar with how linux sets things up. hope this is helpful, good luck.

I've been away from this thread for a while, but as I look it over I'm a bit confused as to what is going on. Looks a bit like apples and oranges. Questions: 1) the tarballs you downloaded, are they binary or source? 2) why not take the simple route and install the Mandriva evolution, etc from your Mandriva sources (DVD or repositoies for main, contrib, and update_sources? When you log in you are in your home directory. You can do a listing of its files and will see you downloads and extracted tars. Go to the folders for these tars and let us know what is there. You can do this with cli or in Konqueror. When working with tars you have to cd to the folder with all the extracted files. My main suggestion, though, if all you need is a working evolution install it from MCC.

Assuming you used Lilo for Manriva and XP, you can install the others and make sure they put the bootloader on their boot partition, not the MBR. Then boot into Mandriva and add them to the boot sequence using MCC. In the past I've had problems mixing Lilo and Grub (which FC and Ubuntu default to) so I've done Ubuntu with Lilo without trouble.

Welcome to the board. You can edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file in the Monitor section. You will see there the lines for the monitor.

Your path is probably wrong. You should check where they are. Your post notes /home/smiley and /home/wyman. Be clear what the paths are to the files. Also as Heather noted you have to be root to do this.