aRTee

Yesterday I got an epson 1660 photo scanner, and I didn't edit anything, just mcc > hardware > scannerdrake, had to select manually, it did find it (something) at my usb-port /dev/usb/scanner0 ; then I indicated the scanner model. After that, all was fine, I could start with the desktop icon and use all features, even the photo-negative backlight.. So maybe you have to run scannerdrake again, and make sure you select manually, then indicate the right port (/dev/usb/scanner0 or whatever), then indicate the right model by hand....

I think contrib repositories (or was it on the club) have something like mandrake-media (urpmi mandrake-media, ) which contains 3 normal case front and back images, 3 slimcase images and 3 fold-em-yourself paper case images, I used the latter. But they don't have any cdlabel, and yours looks really cool! So thanks! (btw I also like the japanese style black leaves, but green is cool too)

You could, for now, just start a terminal window, su to become root, then mcc to start it. As to the real problem, no clue....

Good idea to make copies via the harddisk, this is how I do it too. I just setup scsi emulation for my dvd-rom to have the possibility (hey if it can be done in windows, why not in linux?) and as a nice side effect I found that (unlike before, don't know why) I can now eject my dvds with eject /dev/scd1 (ejecting the cd-rw drawer already worked, of course that one is also working via scsi emulation). Steve, think you are right. Meaning: I just don't have any errors. Good for me ;) Anna, about the master/slave thing: the manufacturer probably wanted to save some money (2 dollars) on the cable (in case you got it with one hd and one cd/dvdrom, this way he only needed to use one cable). I'm sure this is easy to live with. In time, you're going to want to do something about the /home though.... ;) (whatabout just emptying (or reducing in size) your win-d e or f drives and changing that partition type to /ext3, then setting it up for /home, then copy/move all files from your current /home dir to it; most of this you can do with the diskdrake, except for the copying/moving)

Do an md5sum check on the drive you're trying to install it with. Also, you may want to make sure you set up the BIOS the right way. plug and play OS: no shadow video bios: no (and then possibly some more that I don't remember) Make sure you don't overclock the system in any way.

I haven't gotten any of those .xsession-error files... unless they are not in /home/[user]/ nor in /var/log/ (didn't look anywhere else). Anna, just some quick comments (quite unrelated) to your fstab: You seem to have no /home which may be problematic if you want to do a clean reinstall (mdk 9.2 or beta's and release candidate testing) and your cdrom (dvd?) seems to be slave to your hd; normally it is recommended to put your dvd/cdrom as a slave to your cdburner (it would be /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdb ). Also, if you want to copy directly from your dvd/cdrom to your burner, you may have to turn on scsi emulation for it too... So if you feel like it, some small things to improve.... ;) (Not sure if you really want to go through the efforts though, minor gains only, but you said you'd examine your system in the next weeks... ) Ps 'sfer' doesn't show up in my Dutch dictionary, 'sfeer' does.. and yes this board has lots of it (note to self: got to mention / link it more on my site)

Ok, seems that may be some indication,.... could you post your /etc/fstab here? Wondering what you have in there.... ;) BTW I don't have this file .xsession-error so that tells me something... you do have some slight problem on your system/setup... Since I have no real clue, I do hope some other guys will tune in too..

I just timed: opening opera from konsole or panelbutton: less than 4 secs (had already been open), including loading 8 pages from cache. (see sysspecs below, athlon xp 2400+ with better clocks for faster mem access, but actually a slightly underclocked pci bus; I get hdparm of ~40MB) I don't bellieve your diskspeed is the culprit here, and I do think your system should do better than 5 secs to launch opera.... Starting konsole takes less than 2 secs (more like one), konqueror takes 3 secs the first time, less than 2 after that. Any messages when you start anything from konsole/xterm? BTW: Hmm, get some new friends ;) (not instead, just extra... )

Just a little thought on the side, can you start those slow programs from a terminal (konsole) and see if it gives you some more info?

Nothing I miss, apart from the great virus support of Windows that linux really has crappy support for.... ;) Annoyances I do have: with my graphics card, I got 6 discs with games. Installed and played aquanox for a bit, never got round to any of these other discs -- haven't booted windows this year (last boot must have been around early december 02)... Hugerobot I agree wholeheartedly with you. I did play StarCraft via wine (which now doesn't work anymore, but haven't had time or desire to play for some time), but now just decided to get linux games (ordered 3 last week, hope they arrive soon - should arrive in 2-3 days, has been 7). I do miss a lot of linux things when I'm in windows (nt, at work) -- windowbehaviour is crap, no shell, no gkrellm, no good way to kill processes, no copy-paste with select-middlemousebutton,... luckily most I do is use reflection to connect to the unix stuff, where at least I have proper windowbehaviour and nice copy-paste...

Thanks for the tips guys, I had the same problem (well, I just copied the link over, don't get so many via mail anyway, so never bothered to look for a solution).... In my case, .gnome/Gnome didn't exist. It did after playing with gconf-editor a bit though. BTW I couldn't find where to change things with gconf-editor, so after I saw the .gnome/Gnome file suddenly existed, I edited that one and voila, all is well. ;)

No, you're not sounding pedantic, it is of course completely true what you say. I didn't express myself correctly, I meant: it's not theirs ALONE to sell.... And the major benefit I had from the club are the special ftp servers when all public servers are overloaded and I want to get my NewReleaseShot... ;)

ral, do I understand correctly that the highpoint drivers only work for standard (stock) RH versions? What if RH users recompile their kernel for some reason? If you can't recompile the highpoint drivers, I don't see the point to have them at all. Stay clear of HPT. If you can, you can use them on Mdk too. I think you tried to convert things very fast, understandable it didn't go smoothly, but still a pain that you didn't get what you wanted from linux in the end... Instead of buying copies of Mdk or becoming a club member, there are plenty of other things that you can do. For me a clubmembership is peanuts, but wages on the Philippines are no doubt not what they are here; if I take my girlfriend out for dinner it's (sometimes) more expensive than a membership. If it comes close to a days salary, things are very much different. Other things (that just cost some effort and time) to repay for using a free distro (and not paying) are for instance: sending bugreports, helping with translations, promotion (for me, I decided to help colleagues convert; they wanted more info, I wrote long emails,... then I thought: might as well stick it on a website...etc), helping out people on forums, etc. It makes sense that for your shop you take what helps you make the most money. Doing anything else is bad management. However, keep an eye on what is really cheaper. If not today, linux may be really cheaper tomorrow, taking into account all aspects (acquisition, maintenance, personnel, whatever). The more you motivate your personnel to play with linux, the less the conversion may have to cost when the time comes.... BTW the freebies can't end, it's open source. If mandrake stops being free (which for me is one of its greatest 'selling points'), I'll move to debian or so... Maybe I'm ready for LFS.... ;) although my girlfriend already finds I spend too much time with my computer...

I agree with Torvalds. Selling subscriptions to software is doomed, Linus just wants to kick MS a bit here... ;) Don't mistake the software subscriptions with, for instance, the mandrakeclub, where you subscribe to a club that gives you a certain service. (most of the software that's on mdk cds is just OSS, not mdk software, so it's not theirs to sell. Also the mdk software is OSS too) And keep on posting if you feel like it, no worries (I just got here thinking: hey, RAL is back :) )

Read my successful transition article. In some cases it does not make sense to use linux on the desktop. The standard home desktop can often be run with linux, if all necessary tools can be had for linux. First use the stuff on windows that is available on linux: OOo, mozilla (web and mail). Then it should be little hassle to migrate. I don't see the problem with linux in an internet cafe, for the users (I realise it is costly to convert software and/or retrain staff): put 4 icons on the desktop, nothing else, labeled Web, Write, AudioCD or whatever. Users should hardly notice what kind of OS it is running, just that it doesn't crash. If you are migrating for the right reasons, you can make linux work. That it's cheap is not necessarily the right reason. That it's free is (free speech), and many other reasons. Linux is not there to keep MS in check, it is there for those people who care to replace MSWin. If linux only has 5% of marketshare in 2005 it's still fine with me. I will be among them. With that kind of marketshare all hardware makers will have to provide drivers or info to make drivers. That's all I want, to be able not to check before I buy hardware if it's supported under linux. It's going the right way, linux was ahead of windows for bluetooth for instance, and also on dvd+/-rw. If >90% of the computer users want MSwin, fine with me too. Not in my house though. Linux is not for everyone. Nor is MSWin. Nor is MacOSX. Nor is UNIX (whatever flavour). Linux is for me. At work I have a win pc connecting to the unix domain with reflection. In 2 years I will have a linux pc at work. 90% sure. RH, Mdk are not too early? Why do you say that maybe devvers jumped the gun too quickly? Maybe it was you who jumped too quickly? (I'm not trying to lay any blame on you or so, it's an honest question) Linux is perfectly suitable in many cases, server and desktop. But you have to know what you are doing... In an internet cafe, I would not know what to do, I don't have a clue what people do there. But my bet would be to have a mix with XP and linux, see how it goes... BTW I disagree that you have to pay more and more. You don't. At least, I don't.

Yeah, I just posted to /. See if they place it. (BTW would be fun if my provider would get /. due to my site,... but they host thousands of sites, and have pretty good systems/setups,.. debian linux) I got more than 3000 hits in less than 2 days. Until then I only had 1850 hits... Ral, I'm not sure what you are saying,.... my article is intended to help people determine what they may get out of linux, and yes, I have addressed the point of being free... What companies do depends on their policy makers, who will only cave once their bottom line gets affected, which is money. And the more stories about savings with linux, the better; the more their competitors gain an edge through savings with linux, the better. This is happening in a way that is not so visible, but it is happening. Anyhow, it is not something that I can do something about in a single article.... BTW read the final version here: http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/switchsuccess.html

Sorry I stepped in and posted my website, which now happens to stand at no.2 for mandrake distro links..... :lol: For comfort, I am linking to this forum all over, and will (deep)link much more in upcoming changes and additions (saves me loads of typing)..

Steve, nice you got it working,... my next recording drive will be a dvd+rw, so good to know that's ok. Did you mail the guy of the chalmers website about it? It would help others to avoid this problem... BTW are you sure it is not enough just to have the append part added to lilo.conf and then go from there?

check my website (links below), I explain (configuration page) and have the scripts online (sysspec page, also see my sig) how to do things for an MX700,... extra buttons on other mice may need slight differences, but the idea is there. You need the packages: X11R6-contrib and imwheel, the first contains the xev binary. Then you can use the stuff on my configuration page and the scripts to set things up. Hope this helps, aRTee

For all those who missed it, my page just got linked on PCLO and LinuxToday. Strange that Eugenia from OSnews didn't link to it,... she seems to link to everything else.... Next: where can I try to get the article linked for people who may be interested but are not using linux (yet), so who may not visit pclo or lt..? Any hints or tips?

Hehe... rtfm,.... but you always have to know what is there... and no-one else here mentioned that one, so I just didn't know. I will have a look, and see if the original idea is feasible (mostly: if it is doable timewise for me). Thanks a lot for that info. ;)

Before knowing about plf etcetc, I always used the RH stuff from www.freshrpms.net, got xine there and mplayer. Greeneggs, you do know that place..? Ok, it was a bad habit, since I often installed with rpm --nodeps but it worked fine for me. Note: that was on Mdk8.1, 8.2. So mdk and rh are (were) enough alike to be able to do that. Since mdk+urpmi and knowing plf, I haven't done that, never had to force a package with mdk9.1, never had to use a package from outside plf, contrib or whatever.

I guess I should RTFM... Just had a look here: file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/Clone/introduction.html pretty good stuff. Goes to show, you are (I am) never too experienced....

How long did you wait? BTW that icewm font error also shows up on my box, everything works though... normally I use kde, which also works, so I'd say this icewm font warning is unrelated. Can you make a completely new user (under icewm if you have to) and then log into kde with that one?

I have come across divx movies that had colour problems in mplayer, but played perfectly in xine (maybe lib differences), and vice versa. Try them both. Actually, I use them both, gmplayer for divx and xine for dvd's, but if one fails in some way, I switch to the other. mplayer (start gmplayer on the cli) has very nice direct chapter access for dvd playback, but no menu support. Also, if you change language or subtitles, it jumps back to the beginning of the chapter.