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How am i supposed to use them then? You just put the audio CD in the drive and run a CD audio player like CD Player (the program is actually kscd). Glitz.

The problem you have on shutdown is a common one on LM9.0. Someone posted a "real" solution to the problem. It involves loading up one of the system services sooner (I don't remember the specifics). The "kluge" workaround is to disable APMD. Glitz.

I tried 3 different ways, when i went in Konqueror to /mnt/cdrom it says i dont have the access rights,when i try to play it throuh KsCD the timer works and it recognises the tracks on the CD but no sound comes out.When i try to mount it in the Konsole it says "mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /mnt/cdrom mount failed. Okay, that's what I thought. You don't mount audio CDs (in fact, they can't be mounted). You just stick them in and then run a CD audio player. I've never tried KsCD so I don't know the program. However, since the track display comes up and counts then the CD is probably being played correctly. The problem must lie between the CD drive and the output of the sound card. I assume you made sure that the mixer is turned up and that the correct channel is enabled. Secondly, you have to have an audio cable installed from the CD drive audio output to the CD audio input of your sound card. This fact is often overlooked since windows media player extracts the audio digitally and plays it and therefore doesn't need the cable. I don't know if any linux CD players exist with this capability yet. Glitz.

Hey, my board works just fine thank you. Once those DIMMs are seated properly they work great. :wink: Glitz.

Just as an aside: Yes, you only have to wiggle very gently. You just use the play that is already provided by the connector. It's much less stressful on the solder connections and traces than plugging the RAM in again. I found that simply unplugging and plugging the RAM back in did nothing for me. Every time I unplugged it and plugged it back in again the pins were just being pushed out of position again. Glitz.

How did you try to access the audio CDs? Glitz.

Probably nothing will happen but if it does then I think it will simply cause the system V APIs to be written out of the kernel (if it can even be shown that SCO has a right to them). I'm not familiar with the specific functions affected but I think there already is an option in the kernel to enable and disable them. It may just be a case of some old code that is getting a little long in the tooth being kept around for some obscure compatibility reasons. I did some digging and apparently 4.4BSD shed all code infringing on Novel IP in 1994. Also, the rights to the "UNIX" brandname and the Single UNIX Specification (of which the system V APIs are undoubtedly a part although I haven't confirmed this) were transfered to X/Open in 1993 by Novel. Novel sold its UnixWare business to SCO in 1995. Therefore, I think the system V APIs are free to be implemented by anyone but any code from the original implementation (from Novel going back to the AT&T days) might possibly have to be rewritten to avoid copyright infringement. The API itself can probably be legally implemented by anyone. http://www.unix.org/what_is_unix/history_timeline.html Glitz.

Try: supermount -i disable Then reboot the computer. Glitz.

That reminds me...I saw a linux game a while back that was like doom only it actually used ascii graphic characters on an 80x25 text screen. I totally forgot about it. I'd love to see that just for kicks... Glitz.

Just a long shot but you don't have any firewalls that have closed the port for X11 access do you (I don't recall off hand what the port number is)? Glitz.

Now that sounds like a game that is more my cup of tea! Glitz.

Thanks for the links BlackSnow. Glitz.

DDD is pretty good (it's a graphical frontend to GDB) in my limited opinion. You can find it on your Mandrake disks if it isn't already installed on your system. Glitz.

Your best bet is to find an old copy of wordperfect for linux and use that. If that doesn't work and you don't have to convert all the time then maybe just find someone that has wordperfect for windows and use that to convert the document to rtf, or dos text, or (heaven forbid) word format. Then you can load that into Openoffice or whatever. Glitz.

This is a long shot but I had trouble installing memory on my motherboard when I tried to increase the memory after having the motherboard for about 2.5 years. The bios, however, did all the complaining. It turns out that the memory connectors were the problem. I figured out that the memory wasn't making proper contact with the socket. If you gently wiggle the memory back and forth in a front to back motion (with the power off of course) and listen you may hear some crackling noise. This is caused by the little metal fingers of the connector popping into place. Wiggle until you don't hear anymore crackling. Then turn on your computer to see if the problem went away. Glitz.

Okay: 1) Make sure X windows is not running when you install the drivers. 2) Make sure you uninstalled any previous versions of the nvidia drivers before installing a new version. 3) In XF86Config-4: a) Make sure "nv" is changed to "nvidia" B) Make sure there is: Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so" c) Delete: Load "dri" d) Delete: Load "GLcore" e) Delete any screen section containing: Depth 32 f) Make sure the resolutions in the other screen sections are valid and add any missing resolutions you want. 4) At this point, if X will not start using startx then continue below: a) Make sure /dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidiactl exist. If not do the following (as root): i) mknod /dev/nvidia0 c 195 0 ii) mknod /dev/nvidia1 c 195 1 iii) mknod /dev/nvidia2 c 195 2 iv) mknod /dev/nvidia3 c 195 3 v) mknod /dev/nvidiactl c 195 255 5) At this point, if X still will not start then continue below: a) As root, edit /etc/modules.conf and make sure the following line exists: alias char-major-195 NVdriver 6) If it still doesn't start then there is something really wrong. For more detail, check the README.TXT file on the Nvidia site. Glitz.

Konqueror works fine for me when I access this site. It must be a configuration problem or something. Glitz.

Does anyone know if the drivers actually download the fonts used to the laser printer or do they still just use graphics mode? The reason I ask is because my LaserJet 3 prints downloaded fonts in higher resolution than its highest graphics resolution and the ghostscript driver does it no justice. The 1MB memory also wont store a full page of graphics either so downloaded fonts are the only way I can print out full page documents. Glitz.

Bigsky30, will those ATI drivers also work for the Mobility Radeon 9000? Glitz.

Silly me, DDD is included with Mandrake as well. You just have to make sure that when you compile the source code you have the compiler include debugging information. I think all that is needed is to compile with the -g option. Glitz.

I use something called DDD. It has all the basic features that Borland does such as setting watches, viewing local variables, single stepping, viewing assembly (if you want to). I think it is available under the GPL. I got mine with a MacMillan edition of C-Forge. Glitz.

Well, my experience is simple. If you turn on antialiasing then use scalable fonts. If you don't turn on antialiasing then use bitmapped fonts. Whatever you chose, do the same thing in both KDE and Gnome so that all your applications look good. Glitz. PS. You can tell which are scalable and which are bitmapped by looking at the font in question at 20 or 24 point. The scalable ones are absolutely smooth. The bitmapped ones are a bit blocky.

XFree didn't support suspend mode last I checked (which was a while ago) so the video card registers are not restored when the unit is brought out of suspend mode. That may be why your screen is messed up in all but text mode. Glitz.

No, I think what JaseP means is that Toshiba will put into their EULA something like: "If you do not accept the Microsoft EULA you must return both the software and the hardware to Toshiba". Glitz.

It worked great for me right out of the box (NVIDIA card). The only thing that might throw you for a loop is that the installer seems to access my floppy drives for every file it copies off of the CD during installation. Don't mind this though, the installation works fine. Oh, you may have to disable supermount before installing it. I have supermount disabled by default so I don't know what nastiness it would invoke if it were enabled. Glitz.