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Thanks for an answer. I will look at the Sony-internetsite. I did this already at the AIWA- internetsite. Are ther any other suggestions?

There were 12 people who rode my message, but no one reply. Is there nobody who could help me (please)?

Hella, Last week, I buy a set of new speakers from Aiwa, UZ-US201. The speakers must be connected to a USB-port, instead of my older ones that were connected to the line-in jacket. After I connected my new speakers to a USB-port and started my PC with Linux, I went to the Mandrakelinux Control Center and selected hardware. In the item for look at.. and configure hardware my speakers were found under the item: Unknow / others as USB audio DAC. Still, I hear now sound although the soundcard is functioning well. With my old set of speakers I heard sound. Who can help me with the configuration so I can also here sound via my USB speakres? Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the advice. I have setup de repositories and was able to select (via /.../main) and install kdevelop....and 88 dependencies. Does anyone if the doc's for kdevelop (in HTML) are also available in pfd-format?

Hello, Recently, I installed a new version of Mandrake Linux; I went from 9.2 to 10.2 (LE 2005). In this distribution kdevelop is not included, so I downloaded a rpm from a mirror site. The rpm is: kdevelop-3.2.2-1mdk.i586.rpm After adding the rpm-file via "Media Manager" I try to install rpm-file via "Software Package Installation" (Both under "Software management" of the "Mandrakelinux Control Center"). When I select the rpm-file I get the following message: Sorry, the following package(s) can't be selected: kdevelop-3.2.2-1mdk.i586 (due to unsatified libkdewidgets.so.0) Does someone know what that means and what to do? Do I have to install a library or file before installing kdevelop? If yes, which one?

Sorry, that I did not mentioned earlier, but I had already found the properties windows. I set the option for write-access? but without results: when I want select a FAT32 partition I have even no read acces. See the attached snapshot of my system. I do not know what is set when the write option is selected, but not something that has to do with read/write acces.

Oke here is the output of ls -l /mnt: [nicky@localhost nicky]$ ls -l /mnt total 20 drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Aug 23 20:35 cdrom/ drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Aug 23 20:35 floppy/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Jan 25 2004 win_c/ drwxr--r-- 32 root root 8192 Jan 1 1970 win_d/ drwxr--r-- 7 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 win_e/ dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Aug 1 20:36 win_g/ drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Aug 23 20:35 zip/ [nicky@localhost nicky]$ Could you also explain what the lines above does mean? I wonder why there is no GUI-based tool to make the changes,instead of change in command-line mode? [formatted by spinynorman]

First, sorry that it took a little before I came with a reaction. I was a couple of day from home. Here is the fstab file: /dev/hda7 / reiserfs notail 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda10 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_g ntfs ro,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda9 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 Is it not possible to change the userrights concerning read/write rights within KDE? Must one still change one or more text-files within LM 9.2?

My HDD does not only have Linux partitions but also some Windows partitions. These are two FAT32 and one NTFS (WinXP) partitions. As a user I cannot access these partitions, because it is refused. But as root, of course I have access. Within LM 9.2 I work with KDE 3.1. How can I change the user rights, so that the user can read/write to those partitions?

Kieth, Thanks for your explanations. Instead of pressing 'next' the 'OK'-button must be pressed. Finally, I was able to modify the boot-list.

Ixthusdan, I will try the option you suggested. Thanks so far...

tyme, There is indeed a button 'advanced options'. When pressed extra options in the window shown up, like to enable 'compact'and other stuff, but no list with boot options that is shown in LiLo to modify.

Hello, I want to change the boot options of LiLo (that is the list of options to boot; Linux, Failsave, Windows, Floppy, etc,), the boot manager I use. Where, in KDE 3.1, can the list with that boot options be modified? Or is there another way to modify the list? I use LM 9.2. I tried the mandrake Control Centre, the section 'Boot', where the selection can be made which bootmanager want to use (LiLo or Grub). But could not find a way to modify that list.

Hello, On my PC, with LM9.2, I use rfbDrake 0.9. and use it as a server. With my laptop (Win98) I use VNCviewer to work remotly om mine linux-machine. When VNCviewer is started I select full screen . But the screen of the monitor of mine Linux-machine is not totally fiiting on the screen of mine laptop. Mayby, because the screen-size of the screen of the Linux-machine (1280x1024) is bigger then the size of the screen of the laptop (1024x768). Is there a way to get whole screen as full screen on the display of the laptop?

Hello, Recently, I downloaded the rpm-file of VNC 3.3.7 from RealVNC. As I want to start the installation of VNC (with rpm -i -v vnc<version>.rpm) I got the following message: error: Failed dependencies: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 is needed by vnc-3.3.7-1 Which package do I have to install, because I can not find libstdc on the installation CD's? I run LM 9.2

I have an internet connection (telephone line)but don't know where to click to start it in LM9.2. I will try what Chris Z' mentioned. Thanks for the info by so far.

Recently, I installed LM9.2. During the installation I choose to connect to internet via a modem (56k5). After LM 9.2 was installed, I installed Mozilla 1.5 successfully. Now I want to finish the configuration so I can go on Internet. Where can I find the dialer (not on desktop)?

I will try this. But can someone tell me how to place an icon (link) of the application on the desktop?

Hello, Recently I installed Mozilla 1.5 on mine LM 9.2. Now, I want to put Mozilla in the program list or menu of KDE. I started Menudrake, created a new folder and tried to add an application to it. One should fill in a title (e.g. Navigator or Mozilla) and a command. In the last entry I filled in: mozilla; that's the file to start Mozilla. After I saved it I go in the KDE-menu to the menu item for running Mozilla. But when I select Mozilla nothing happens. So my question is 'how can I add an application to the KDE-menu or program list using menudrake?' Another question is 'How can I create a icon to my desktop for starting the application?'

OK, I'm back at the point where I installed WinXP succesfully. The situation now is when I start my machine the MS boot-loader appears. From there I can start either WinXP or Win98 without problems. It seems that, for some reason, MS claims the MBR for booting WinXP (?), because I had to use FixMBR (and afterwards unhide the NTFS partition) to bring back WinXP alive. How can I make it possible to use LiLo to boot Linux, WinXP or Win98? What I do now for sure is that simply using the command /SBIN/LiLo is not enough.

Here is how my partitions are organised: hda1 --> primary, Win98 hda2 --> primary, was OS/2, is now WinXP hda3 --> extended, contains the partitions for Linux and two FAT32 partitions (hda5 to hda10) In the past I had three OS (Win98, OS/2 and Linux) which I could boot whit LILO without any problems. As I installed WinXP (on the partition, which contained OS/2), the installation-program automatically searches the disk(s) for other MS installations. It does it all by itself, without giving a user a choose whether or not to install a bootloader. So, the installation-program of Win XP stores the bootloader with some boot-files on the partition of Win98 and overrides the MBR. As I restart my computer the bootloader appears with a selection of either Win98 or WinXP. Both OS could be started; no problems. Because, I wanted have the choose of booting Linux a boot time also and LILO worked fine, the logical thing to do seems to set back LILO. That means overriding the MBR with /SBIN/LILO. The result is when the computer restarts, LILO appears. When I choose Linux, it boots without problems. When I select the former Win98 option, the bootloader of MS appears with two options: WinXP or Win98. Selecting Win98 within the bootloader, start Win98 without problems. But here it comes: when I select WinXP it starts to boot WinXP. But halfway it hangs with the error-message I described in my other two messages. What I don't understand is that MS bootloader obviously finds the right files and partition to start booting WinXP, but than stops with a message that a file (autocheck) not could be found. This is strange. So, when the bootloader can be started from the MBR, WinXP can be booted successfully. But when it is started via another boot manager, it is able to boot WinXP but when the process is almost done it hangs. This problem drives me almost mad and makes be a bit angry.

I don't have a problem with the fact that when I select Win98/WinXP in LILO the bootloader of MS is loaded. The problem is when I then select WinXP it starts-up, but half-way hangs with the message as described in my first message. My question is: how can I fix this problem?

On a free primary partition I installed WinXP, besides Win 98 and Linux. Now, with LILO as boot manager, WinXP does not boot well. It starts to boot, but in it's second stage (where the 'knight rider' bar is shown) suddenly a blue screen appears with the message: "autochck program not found - skipping AUTOCHECK". I have already search on this forum for help and found some messages. The conclusions in these messages were that when the MBR is overridden with that of Linux (LILO), the partition of WinXP is no longer recognized. The NTFS partition becomes hidden and one should unhide this partition with a tool like FDISK or Partition Magic [PM]. I did this with the DOS-version of PM. But without results. The problem still resists. Please give me useful information or better a solution to solve this problem! The situation: Win98 is installed one the first primary partition. On the third partition, an extended one, Linux is installed. Lately, I installed on the second (also primary - NTFS) partition WinXP in place of OS/2. Before WinXP, I was able to make via LILO a selection of one of the three OS (Win98 - OS/2 Warp - Linux MD 8.0) to boot. Worked fine without any problems. After I installed WinXP, Microshit (I'm sorry Microsoft) overrides the MBR and installs his own boot manager with the selection of Win98 and WinXP professional. Till so far also no problem, because at that level I was able to boot both OS. The action was to bring back the LILO boot manager. I did this with '/SBIN/LILO' as root. I can boot Linux. When I select win98, the MS boot manager (or boot loader) appears. Within this menu selecting Win98 boots Win98l, but when I select WinXP, it start to boot but halfway it hangs. See describtion above.

Recently, I posted a topic about which developement-tool to use for programming in Linux. After the huge responces I decide to use KDevelop. I have MD 8.0, standard with KDE 2.1, but upgraded to KDE 2.2.2. Can I still use the version of KDevelop that was shipped with MD8.0 to write application with a GUI for KDE 2.2.2? If not, what do I need to install additionally? Do I need Qt 3? Or can I easliy write applications with KDevelop with a GUI (for KDE 2.2.2)?

A lot of reaction, but also different meanings and preferences. The main stream is either C++/Qt or Kylix(pascal). Is this right? What I'm looking for is an IDE, in which I can write, compile, link, run and debug an application. It must be (littlebit) friendly to use/work with and for free of course (just for the hobby). Just to write common application, nothing in particalar. The IDE and/or language must be for allround developement purposes.