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Check in kmix, there's a tab on the left side: switches. Make sure your Audigy Analog/Digital is on, or just play around with these. I have an Audigy 2, and it always takes some fiddling after a clean install, and then I forget, and 6 months later it pops its ugly head up again...

Note that you can use the built in manpages, works fine on the command line: man urpmi (use u to scroll up, space or d to scroll down, q to quit). There used to be a saying: rtfm - read the f* manpage / manual I'm sure with a bit of perseverence you'll manage, init 3 is a fully usable mode. Note that if you have a network, you can logon from another machine with ssh, and do all your management from there, including graphical interfaces, just start mcc.

If you can, stay away from winmodems (HSP or whatever) - the clue is if the box says it needs a PI 150MHz or so, don't buy. If it needs a 486, it's ok. The low requirement means it doesn't offload signal processing to your cpu (HSP = host signal processing), more cycles for eyecandy or whatever.. :)

Can you print to file, it will be postscript (.ps), open with kghostview to see if it's the same as you have on paper?

Note that this type of formatting is not low level and will not harm your hard drive (hardware), just the contents/digitally stored information. Actually, hard drives are designed to have information written and erased/rewritten many times, this is normal operation. A regular format just puts certain markers/blocks into place at required intervals within the partition. To the hardware, this is the same as any data write action, just as any file save.

Extra remark: all the fuzz is about in terms of signatures, is that if it's not properly signed, you can't trust that it's really based on the source code. Since you want to install realplayer, for which no source code is available, why worry about signatures? You're already installing black box stuff on your system.... Or maybe I'm just cynical...

BTW you guys know that you can burn the 12MB boot.iso image in the /images (?) folder inside the iso and use that too boot, then point to the iso images on your local harddrive, and install from there? (That boot.iso supports all installation methodes, http, ftp, nfs, local hard drive.) Using a cdrw this works great.

Thanks for the reply Romano, and for the info. :D

I'd think pmpatrick is most likely correct, read my site, config page for more info. Enjoy Linux!

Small info related to the start post: I just updated from kde 3.4 to cooker's kde 3.5 and did the urpmi from within kde, no problem at all. Linux works with inodes, which link to the files on the disk, and which are unique for each single file. If a new file overwrites a file in use, the old name is disconnected but the inode (reference) remains, so any program that needs it will get it. Any program that gets started later will only get the newer version of the file/lib/program. This is one of the reasons Linux doesn't require reboots often, contrary to MSWin for instance, where you can't delete a file that's in use, it will be locked. On Linux, the file name reference will be deleted, the inode will remain until the program that uses it stops using it - the kernel keeps track of this.

Instead of that, you could have abbreviated with this: chmod -R 777 /dev/dvb/adapter0 to recursively make all devices read-write-executable. BTW, be careful with making things not executable, if a folder is not executable you can't read the listing inside.. Anyway, welcome to the board edc! Enjoy Linux!

You can also select all in kpdf, and copy-paste as text, and you could also use koffice, it can import pdf.

Thanks for the update John!

John and Jon, could you please let us know if you run into any problems? I may have some time next week and I'd really like to have KDE3.5 - but I currently don't have any time for any adventures...

Thanks for the free ad. Darn, I knew I should have put ads on my site... :D Small comment: the Free edition isn't entirely GPL, there are some other parts, for instance OOo is not GPL. However, it does not include any proprietary software, which is the next best thing to being completely GPL if you ask Free Software buffs...

Instead of using some converter to print to PS from the PDF file, you can just print to file directly, it will be PS. Also, you could try kpdf or xpdf instead of acrobat, or the other way around. That is, assuming you can print at all, and just have trouble with PDF files...

You can also tell the system not to start the controller at boot, AFAIK, by modifying the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 which in my case (incidentally for the firewire on my audigy2 soundcard) contains this: Just change the 'yes' into 'no'.

Ah, that explains a lot! Nice to know it works, enjoy Linux!

In terms of data security, it's an external drive. It may get dropped. Such is the nature of external drives - not having your data backed up elsewhere is madness, no matter what the filesystem. For internal drives, I wouldn't actually like to have one with FAT32 just in case of a system reset/crash, because you may have to wait a long time if it needs to get checked. Have you considered to use a small (relatively speaking) FAT32 partition (10GB) and a large ext3 partition - the FAT32 just in case you (or friends you're visiting at or so) want to write on it from within Windows (yeah, I know about the ext3 driver for windows, but I wouldn't trust windows with any data anywhere,... the best security from windows viruses and such is if windows can't actually see my files. Well, easy for me to say, I don't have windows..) To make the ext3 partition read-writeable to everyone, you need to create directories in the partition and change ownership of those to your regular users. man chown for more info. Basically, it will be like a Linux partition, so with all attributes that you can have. You can of course create a dir that is r/w to all: man chmod for more info.

Wow, strange it doesn't work - I have used lots of USB storage devices, since the 2.6 kernels it has not been a problem, and since Mdk 10.1 it's been rather smooth sailing. I've used Cutie external cases with laptop sized drives, and other cases too, small and large... I actually didn't know some devices didn't work properly. Normally, when it says: needs no driver for WinXP, it is usb-storage compliant, and should work fine with Linux. Anything that does need drivers in WinXP may be problematic. What does the box of your case say?

I'm not sure about the microphone - never used it, it does show up as mixer, but I have an external one, which I actually also don't have any use for... but the video (VGA, 640x480) is fine on mine: pwc750 (which is essentially the 740 with a nice stand).

Does windows work fine even with lots of programs open and heavy use for prolonged periods of time? (Hint: 1 day may not be enough to test, try 2 or 3.) Maybe John's advice is good in your case - it accounts for many different issues/problems sources. But windows uses the memory the other way around, so it could be that too. You could try running memtest86 over night (5 hrs or so should be ok) just to be sure. To install: urpmi memtest86 (I think). It will show up in your lilo bootloader/selector.

Look in the ftp server main folder, and find out. Main holds 3.8GB of packages - quite a bit more than what fits on 3 cds... (You could use the commands cat, ls and diff to have a look which files are in main but not on the cds, and the other way around...)

Your system responds that it doesn't know multisynk, so I think you have to set up urpmi first, click the easyurpmi link at the top and follow the three step instructions. For more info, see my site or search these forums.

Did you try as another user? Create one if you have to, and give it a try. To debug, it helps if you start the problematic program from the command line...