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You only need linstalled lilo (and use it for the bootloader) and point the message=/path/to/boot/message in lilo.conf to one of the message files that you've download, to change the face of the lilo bootscreen. But for the boot-splash, the recompiling patched-vanilla-kernel is mandatory, except you use the kernel from Mdk (since 9.2 and later I think). After recompiling you have to "attach" bootsplash-image to the initrd. The http://www.bootsplash.org's instructions are comprehensive enough even for newbie like me.

Check the volume also, maybe it's muted. Those commands will help you: alsamixer, aumix, kmix, alsamixergui.

Why don't you try this: /dev/hda8 /moltar vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0

A little late to try, but it's work for me too. :)

never meant to be rude, but maybe you have to search in the archive first. just a hint, try to browse Art & Design forum

The installation look for CD4 because defaultly, the installation program assuming that you have all 4 CDs, this is happened when you choose the standard installtion. But if you choose expert installation you would have a chance to tell the program how much installation CDs do you have. Btw, your installation is just fine, just some packages that you choose to install won't be installed if the source is in CD4.

Just try to answer this section. Try to run "updatedb" with root privileges, of course, but just before that unmount the slack partition. And in my experience this will prevent the updatedb to index the unmounted partition. After that you can mount the slack partition just like usual.

KDE for president..... :D

Hello too, John. I just trying to help, and hoping that everybody would love to help me for my problems.

Try this: http://www.73lab.com

Hmm let me join this topic. But I can't talk anything about your problem with root-privileged user, since, if you really wanted that you could simply using root from start. About su thing, I experienced this problem sometimes ago, and finally found out what the problem is. Try to do this command ls -al /bin/su* and if it gives you something like this -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95564 Peb 19 2003 /bin/su I think this is exactly your problem. Executing this command chmod 4755 /bin/su by root user should fix your problem, and will give you something like this -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 95564 Peb 19 2003 /bin/su I hope this helps.

Hmm OK, but I see from your post that the problem is when restoring volume. Did you ever try to do it "manually"? I forgot the command but with --help option should give you enough info /usr/sbin/alsactl --help

but what when you use the default 10-OE kernel (2.6.3-7mdk), is it give you the same thing? Because you said it works when you use the 2.4.25.

You mean you want to move /var/lib/mysql to somewhere else? I want to do the same thing sometime ago, but I found out that I have to compile mysql by myself to do that. I don't know if there's some other way. Is there anybody experienced with this?

As long as you just deleting your own files (not system files) and it's not important archive, I think it's OK deleting some files. But of course you have to know the consequence.

I'm glad too :-)

Try this command (on console with root privileges): mousedrake and choose "generic ps2 mouse" if none of them fit with your mouse. But I can't understand why it didn't work, since you said that you're new to Mandrake I'm pretty sure that you use the mouse for the installation. And it suddenly not working in the installed OS. Anybody know something about this?

Maybe you should post your hardware configuration here so we can figure out what happened. Because Mdk-10-OE shut my computer down perfectly. But anyway, you said the "shutdown function" on KDE didn't work. Try to execute this: shutdown -p -h now or poweroff Of course you'll need root privileges to do that.

Hi, How can I apply the second patch of an old but terrific game Heroes of Might and Magic 3? It always give me a Segmentation fault error.

Try to remove ~/.kde* and ~/.qt It will send your KDE settings to the default. CMIIW, someone.

Try here: /usr/share/mysql In my download edition, the direcory above is containing: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 773 Feb 23 18:02 binary-configure drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 7 10:41 charsets/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 482 Feb 23 18:02 Description.plist drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 7 10:41 english/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1081 Feb 23 18:02 Info.plist -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8105 Feb 23 18:02 make_binary_distribution -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1912 Feb 23 18:02 make_sharedlib_distribution -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4702 Feb 23 18:02 mi_test_all -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1365 Feb 23 18:02 mi_test_all.res -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4866 Feb 23 18:02 my-huge.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4842 Feb 23 18:02 my-large.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4825 Feb 23 18:02 my-medium.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2410 Feb 23 18:02 my-small.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25277 Feb 23 18:02 mysql-4.0.18.spec -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 657 Feb 23 18:02 mysql-log-rotate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6271 Feb 23 18:02 mysql.server* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2694 Feb 23 18:02 MySQL-shared-compat.spec -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 431 Feb 23 18:02 postinstall -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 578 Feb 23 18:02 preinstall -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 460 Feb 23 18:02 StartupParameters.plist Try to read the my*.cnf file, so you can choose which one is fits your need, and copy it as /etc/my.cnf.

You said that you did fresh install Mdk-10, but in my cd (download edition 10-OE) it only has the 2.6.3-7mdk kernel and the 2.4.25. And it works great in my box. Except for some "choppy" thing when I run Heroes3 game. You use 2.6.3-13-mdk, where is it came from? Did you update the kernel after the fresh install? With urpmi or something, please let me know. I have experienced in using 2.6.5 vanilla on Mdk-10-OE and for the first time the alsa service can't restore the volume (error in alsactl), so I have restore it manually after the boot process is finished, and then everything is OK.

i use via vt8233, and mdk work fine since 9.1, 10-CE, and now 10-OE. i don't know what's wrong with your installation, but you can try this: # modprobe snd-via82xx or # service alsa start if you have installed alsa. or maybe you can try this command at first: # alsaconf of course you have to install alsa things before that.

Yes, Kmix is good except for not showing the value when we slide the mixer. Beside Kmix you can use aumix or alsamixer[gui] (if you using alsa). But of course you have to install them first

AFAIK, the .xinitrc only needed if the user executing startx or xinit. In my Mdk-9.1 (and previously 10.0-CE) all users don't have any .xinitrc since access to DE provided by mdkkdm. And I think that setting autologin in mcc is regarding to the mdkkdm. Or should I use other display-login manager, maybe?