kramsret

Well, I couldn't wait. I've already reinstalled, fresh. Pretty harmless. Yes, for the most part it works perfectly, and I have my home directory/settings intact. Even my MS Office and Adobe Photoshop came up perfectly after only re-installing crossover. Winex/Counterstrike is another matter. I'll have to work that tomorrow. I noticed Mozilla 1.31 on the Mandrake Update list. Is Mandrake Update (finally) including Mozilla in their bundle? If so, why didn't it get me to Mozilla 1.4?

Thanks much for the reply. I guess I'm fresh installing 9.1 this weekend. I'll wipe / and /usr, keeping /home, and reinstall my special stuff. Every time I reinstall, I learn something new anyway.

I have a separate /home. And separate /usr. Most of my crossover and transgaming stuff is in /usr. If I fresh install, do I ONLY keep /home, or do I keep my old /usr too? Oh...and why turn off supermount??

Would it make more sense for me to do a complete reinstall? I shutter to think of it--I have crossover office and transgaming windows games and all that kind of stuff that (I presume) I'd have to start over from scratch reinstalling (I have separate /usr and /home partitions). As for the NVIDIA, does it make sense that I can't even start X in VGA with my new Linux install? It references a 3DFX error (can't remember what right now), but shouldn't it start in VGA? Until Mandrake fixes this upgrade stuff, I'm going to consider my linux a static system. I regret upgrading ("downgrading") it this time. I'm an idiot.

My 9.0 was working fine, but I finally decided to upgrade to 9.1. Big Fat Mistake. Now I have two LILO linux choices: Linux and old_linux. The "Linux" choice can't even launch X because of some NVIDIA error. The "oldlinux" choice brings me to my desktop, but sound doesn't work anymore, and many links to apps don't work anymore. What must one do to get the new Linux working? Do I have to reinstall NVIDIA drivers (meaning I have to remember how I did it last time)? A little vent, because I'm steamed: I'm not a programmer or engineer, but I'm a super-duper user, and if they can't get these effing SIMPLE UPGRADES to work for ME, then they're light years away from getting this stuff to work for the average Joe. If you must be a computer genius to do simple Linux tasks (like upgrades), then Linux will have a lock on the computer genius market, but NOWHERE ELSE. I hate to say it, but the thought of returning to Windoze--which I've been fully off of for over a year--has entered my mind. I'm damn sick and tired of having to recall complex command line procedures every time I want to do what should be a simple task. It was fun at first, but its getting tiring. Please forgive the rant, and a point in the right direction would be appreciated.

OK. Figured it out. One of my tabbed home pages has had a java fault for a long while. Now, visiting that page causes mozilla to crash. I disabled java, started mozilla, removed that page from my homepage lineup, and it works now. I thought it was too weird. It was.

My Mozilla stopped working in mid session. Now it won't launch. Not even after rebooting. I was browsing, shut down Mozilla, played a game of Counter Strike/winex (I play all the time), and when I ended the game, clicking on Mozilla does nothing. A quick taskbar process, then dead. No Mozilla processes are running. Typing "mozilla' in a terminal gives me "command not found" It's only bad for my user. Log in as another user, Mozilla works fine. Very weird. I wasn't changing configs or anything. Anyone?

Buy a router, wireless is best. It'll handle the ppp connection. Then you can connect you puter using DHCP LAN connection.

I turned off alsa, rebooted, checked my control center, it had no sound card installed. Then I ran draksound. Yipes! I got this: [root@localhost apa]# draksound Saving mixer settings aumix: error opening mixer Starting ALSA version 0.9.0rc2: (nm256) [ OK ] /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/nm256/snd-nm256.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/sound/pci/nm256/snd-nm256.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod snd-nm256 failed insmod'ing module snd-nm256 failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/modules.pm line 55.

Great work, I'm sure. But damn! I'm "smarter" than 95 percent of computer users out there, I've been with Linux for over a year, I want NOTHING MORE than for Windows to go away in favor of Linux. But Linux WILL NEVER GET MINDSHARE when you have to have an engineering degree to install a media player. Period. Let me know when there's a "click the file and it installs" version. Or even a normal RPM or tarball install. :roll:

Thanks. But nope, doesn't do it. Interestingly, I have no "dev/dsp". I have a "dev/dspW". And I have no "dev/mixer' And I was doing the whole sndconfig in root anyway. According to my control center, my soundcard is installed. It appears to be the correct driver for the card I have. (MagicMedia 256AV). Weird. :(

Unless doing this gets what I got. My Inspiron laptop sound didn't work. I used sndconfig. It found the right card (neomagic), but when it tried to test the sound, I get: Unable To Play Audio The following error occured playing the sample: sox: Can't open the output file '/dev/dsp': Permission denied. I'm in root. I don't understand. Waaaaaah. Anyone?

Why would you need oo if you have soffice? Just wondering.

Thanks for the info and link. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't noobs especially have to beware of updating the kernel, particularly using Mandrake update, as it will render your system unbootable without some rescue disk action?

You're way beyond me then. Again, my problem is NOTHING happens when I click a link. No browswer, no Mozilla, no Konqueror, nothing. I'm still stuck.