polemicz

I did a fresh install of 9.1 from my 9.0 system and from the PowerPack cd's was able to install StarOffice. I just mounted the cd and used the rpm. It has worked fine from day one.

Is it a Kadoka motherboard? I've had trouble with them and Steve Scrimpshire has got to be the resident expert on these. I got Mandrake on my Gateway Athlon installing 8.2 with the alt2 option (install from disk two and choose alt2 which is a 2.2 kernel) and then building a 2.4 kernel. I got 9.1 on it before my son took it over and made it all Win 2000. I tried a standard Debian install and Red Hat, but neither would even boot from the CD. Try to get feedback from Steve if its a Kadoka mb.

What kind of motherboard? It seems to be an older system. I had problems with an older Gateway system with a Kadoka motherboard that wouldn't boot . With help got it going. Anyway post some more specs, such as motherboard. Hang in there someone will get you there.

Used to use Wordperfect in my Windows days, which I really liked, but for the past year and a half it's been Open Office and I've come to work well with it. I still have gripes and would prefer a direct way to wite pdf files, instead of to ps and then to pdf. I also have some gripes with calc that I've learned to live with. KOffice and Abiword are not so great. One big lacking is a filter for OO files. I hope that OO, or Star Office, becomes a viable alternative to Windows Office. Again and again I meet people who don't know that you don't have too use Office. And yes, I wish OO would open more quickly.

A friend was recently given an IMac and wnats to try to dual boot with Linux. Is there anything particular he has to do with partitioning, ie.e is there a partition tool for mac partitions on the PPC version of 9.1? Has anyone tried 9.1 on a Mac and can give some feedback on how it installs. I did read the review from distrowatch from a beta install, but from my own beta installs of 9.1 I know that the installation is vastly smoother in the final version. Thanks in advance.

Quicken mainly, it's what I run with wine. I also wish there were some decent chess software (such as Chessbase, which doesn't work with wine), xboard and Crafty don't cut it. If not for Quicken and tax software I would erase my Windows partition forever.

I've used Mandrake from 8.1 and have also used Red Hat and Debian. Right now I have cleared off Red Hat (8.0) and only have Mandrake and Debian. With the Debian Unstable I can be as bleeding edge as I wish, but just stay with Mandrake for all my basic work. The configuration tools are great. If they ever go belly up I'll probably switch to Debian. FYI I use KDE 3.1 on Mandrake and 3.1.1 on Debian.

i use an hp 932 which works just fine. my only gripe with printing from mdk is i can't seem to get below 300 dpi, which is a real ink waste for most of what i do. any clues as to how to get faster and coarser printing for drafts. sorry to veer off the thread.

it's actually pretty easy to get the unstable debian going. go to your apt sources file and add lines for unstable (I simply duplicated the stable lines and changed to unstable). then just use apt-get or synaptic for upgrade. I have both mdk 9.1 and debian. debian unstable has kde 3.1.1 and all the rest of the newest. i prefer to use mdk. i also just use reiser and have a few partitions i share between mdk and debian. but as i said i prefer mdk and haven't used debian for a couple of weeks.

I have an eposon 1660 photo, works fine both in 9.0 and 9.1. I wonder about the scsi epson line in your epson.conf file. all I have is the usb /dev/usb/scanner0 line. try commenting that line. I am under the impression that sane supports the 1260.

wonder if part of your problem is the upgrade from 8.2 instead of doing a fresh install. My 9.1 has Cups 1.1.19 and it looks like you have 1.1.16. The upgrade is generally a problem, especially from 8.2 to 9. Assuming your /home is on its own partition a fresh install should not be too big a problem.

Installations all went smoothly; I did a clean install on my regular system and an update from 9.0 on my laptop, which has no important data. The update actually worked! I did have to do some tweaking, though. The fresh install went smoothly. The only problem was it did not configure my usb epson scanner correctly. It detected it ok, but I had to edit the epson.conf file manually. Also I had to go to localhost:631 to get my printer, which is on a WinXp box to work, manually setting the samba url, but I have the same problem with 9.0. These last two problems would have driven me nuts when I first started with Linux a year and a half ago.

should the line /dev/usb/scanner0 line in the hp conf file be changed to usb /dev/usb/scanner0?

have you checked to see if your scanner is ok. if you are dual booting with windows try that. scanners do stop working, recently had to replace an HP4200 with an Epson 1660 Photo. The only problem I had with 9.1 and my scanner was its not configuring it prooerly, I had to edit my /etc/sane.d/epson.conf file.

run aumix, you will probably find, as I and others did, that the volume, etc is set at 0 or very low. my guess is that is your sound problem.

install went very smoothly and the fonts are a great improvement. some mess with open office, but I installed StarOffice from my 9.0 powerpack without a problem. No great speed improvements that I can see and KDE still takes forever to load. I have a Debian partition with 3.1.1 that seems to be quicker.

I've done two installations of 9.1, one an upgrade on my laptop from 9.0 and the other a clean install on some free disk space on my other system. The upgrade was extremely slow, although it did not freeze. The clean install was very fast and the only problem I had was its having an error trying to install one of the packages. I later installed it from the disk it gave the error from. Go figure. I assume there is some problem in the installation program as my disk is fine and as I said it installed via MCC without a problem. I was thinking of doing an upgrade on my other system, but with what you are saying maybe I won't. I'd love to hear other upgrade experiences because upgrade has been a mess in the past.

I just put rc2 on my system. The installation was slow, very slow. It seemed to take forever to install many of the packages and crapped out on three, but that may be my cd's, which I burned with cdrecord and I've usually had problems with cdrecord at anything but low speed. But now that I have installed it I love how it looks. So far things are working fine, but as I said the installation is slow. By the way I have a Linksys router that it configured perfectly.

Have you tried to use smbclient? I have had odd problems getting my Windows printer to get set up since 8.2. First: have you used MCC to check Samba mount points? With my problem MCC would not see the Windows box on which I had my printer, but I could see it via smbclinet. I could even print via smbclient. What seemed to clear things up was after all sorts of grief, powering down both machines, booting up the Windows system first, then Linux. This was a problem with 9.0 from the get go. My Windows system is XP SP1. There are some posts I had on the old board about this. Post more details. Good luck.

ndeb, It uses 3 650 MB disks. Downloaded and am running it. It does look good. So far so good.

I used OO for a long time and recently with my 9.0 powerpack have been using StarOffice. For my limted use I see no difference (I mainly write and do spreadsheets). As for the fonts since I have Win also on my box I have imported the windows fonts and used them for both OO and Star. Unless you have some pressing need I'd say you're best off keeping your money and using OO.

Did you do an md5sum check of the disks? I have never had any problems with OO in 9.o download. Maybe some other systems specs?

try going to console and running printerdrake as su. i had a similar problem to what you mention.

There are no Wordperfect filters in OO or StarOffice; the only way is to use Wordperfect for any platform and save as .doc and the open the .doc file. You can also save as rtf, but I've never been happy with how it handles some formatting.

I haven't tried yet, there is no booting off cd2 and choosing alt1 or alt2. There is on cd1 alt0, alt1, and alt2 images. Maybe I should see what they are, I'm not sure how to go about this as the boot from cd1 is the regular install disk boot. I'll play around and see what happens as the Gateway box is not my regularly work system.