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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.

Thanks for the responses; I'm just reading them now. I'll try a few things. I'm using KDE 3. I can't find anything in Evolution that defaults any browser. The thing is, NO browser opens. Nothing happens when I click an Evolution link. There's an easy answer: start using Mozilla mail. But I'm trying to figure out Evolution.

And dont forget mp3 sharing: Limewire.

Yes, it seems oo and soffice are pretty much the same, although I definitely think that soffice is cleaner looking and feels more professional. The big diff that I like is that I use soffice in Linux and Windoze. I want to be on the leading edge of any suggested migration at the office from Windows to Linux, and these are the apps I think will make the case, so I want to be familiar. I just bought soffice on a whim at Best Buy a few weeks ago. Darn, I wish I had thought of doing the Mandrake Club thing, I woulda done that.

I've been using Evolution and Mozilla for a year now, and I've just been living with this problem: When I recieve an email with a hyperlink in the text and click on it, nothing happens. Even a right click, "open link in browser": nothing. Something's not configged right. Any suggestions?

Thanks much. Cannon, your solution worked. My disk drive, it ends up, is not broke. Funny, I had already tried every step you posted, except I didn't format /s from the boot disk. Based on my limited knowledge, I can't see why that would make a difference, but it did. Although, the Windows CD would not setup normally still. It gave me an error like "disk compression is enabled, unable to continue". But when I booted with CDROM support, and ran setup.exe, it installed fine. Thanks again!

I've dual booted Win98 and Linux for a couple of years. But now my Windows is broken, and I cant fix it. I wanted to do the semi-annual Windows reinstall, because it needs the cleansing. For no reason, from within Linux I deleted all the files on the Win C: drive. Then formatted it. When I booted the Win98 CD, it wouldn't recognize the C: drive, saying it had to fdisk the entire drive. When I press the key to do that, Windows gives me: "A disk error was detected while writing a new boot record to your first hard disk". My only option is to end setup. When I do, I get: "memory allocation error. Cannot load COMMAND. System halted." I've tried using Win fdisk to delete ALL partitions on disk 1, then reinstalling. Everything fdisked fine, but same problem in the end. I also repartitioned using diskdrake. Same problem. Lilo boots to Linux (which is on hdb), but Windows is no way nohow going to load itself on my hda. Anyone?

Thanks! God, I've been wanting to do that for MONTHS. But that's not a very intuitive place to do that. Worked like a charm.

Any way to change the default view in Konqeror from icons to "detailed list"? I can't find it in any of the options.

Everytime I use Konq to list my files, it defaults to the icon view. I like the detailed list view. I can customize about every other feature of Konq, but can't find the way to default to detailed list. Anyone?

Is it a good idea to force the fontastic install? I installed Corel, but got stopped at the fontastic force. I'm not comfy with forcing. And now the Corel uninstaller won't work, so I have it installed unnecessarily. Can anyone with experience comment on the forced fontastic install?