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yeah, that is weird, but it also happened to me that i had once a bad burn and it booted fine, until installation began. then it was unable to detect my second hd and my second cd-rom drive. :blink:

errrm... just a stupid question. did this also happen with mandrake 10.0? i mean... using 10.1rc1 is not the best way of getting your system running a network, especially if you keep in mind that this version will be the community edition later, which means that there won't be as much network drivers as in official edition. so if you can, try mandrake 10.0 OE first. ;) assuming it worked under 10.0, please give us more info. e.g. your network settings, yout ifconfig-eth0 file, the output of ifconfig in console, etc.... :)

...well... for being a "total newbie" to linux you do know already quite a lot 'bout linux...

usually, mandrake automatically detects the cd-rom drives. i almost believe your cds are not that good. have you checked your cds properly (md5sum)? maybe they are a bad burn, maybe scratched, maybe bad download,... :unsure:

you can e.g. simply add the icon to your taskbar, thus you can make a screenshot by clicking on the icon. btw. are your display problems solved? or do you still have some of these or other problems? :bvc:

you can look in cooker-files (e.g. by setting up cooker via easyurpmi, but be careful not to "destroy" your base-system!) for newer kernels. the brand new 2.6.8 kernel needs to be configured by you manually. you can get it only as tar.gz file right now. if you want to compile the 2.6.8 kernel, be sure to have the latest compiling-libraries on your box and that you have enough spare-time. ;)

hi, hiltonizer and welcome aboard. :) in order to change the language of openoffice, go to the menu, select extras → options → languagesettings and select the language you need. i hope this is all you need to do (it always worked for me). good luck

in order to set up your networking, i suggest reading this useful and short manual. http://web.onetel.net.uk/~showerail/simple_net_setup.html good luck.

try to disable the mdk firewall first (can be done in mcc), then look at user permissions set by root. maybe your user-internet-access still needs to be defined in mcc. check all of your settings in the different sub-menus.

you can access the relevant thing you need in the following manner: open a terminal/a console (that is the black-monitor icon), type: su then enter the root password then type: XFdrake and select your monitor-resolution settings. keep in mind that everything you type in a console is case sensitive, so if you type xfdrake, the app won't open. ;) good luck

do you really think they are that intelligent?

hi, linuxpenguin. you can install it in a very simple way. open the mandrake control center (mcc), which will likely be called "configure your computer". when it asks you to enter a password, enter the root password. then go to software-selection [manage software] → install packages and select the desktopenvironments you want to install (which is KDE in this case). you can install nearly everything via the mcc but you can alternatively use the console (terminal program) and use urpmi to install packages (e.g. urpmi -a <name of application/desktop environment>). good luck. :) p.s.: hehehe.... devries was typing faster than i was... hats off! ;)

dunno... i hope the first one will be the case. i think the latter one is hardly possible.

yes, should, but it doesn't work somehow. don't ask me why this is so... i never found out. :blink:

i just read the whole topic and i must say... wow... you guys really changed the topic of this thread in less than two seconds. :lol:

type in console: rpmbuild --rebuild <name of the source.rpm with path> (e.g. rpmbuild --rebuild /home/me/myfolder/blah.source.rpm) make sure you have the development tools installed. good luck

there is an ALSA option in xmms. i a not in front of my mdk box right now, but simply browse through the options/preferences (or however they called it) in xmms. you should find it. i think i says OSS by default. so change OSS to ALSA. :)

hi. well, it seems that the rpm is probably the wrong one. as you might see, it is designed for i386. but mandrake usually uses some mdk.i586 rpms (i assume you are running mdk9.2 or 10). if you find some .srpm file, you can build your own rpm with it. otherwise, try to grab the sources in tar.gz format and compile it. if more info is required, please post your questions. :)

who's the man? bvc!

fedora 3, because i wonder if they finally manage to add to the nice appearance the speed that i always hoped for in fc1 and 2 but never got. also the installation could be better, as the administration... ah yes and the media issues (e.g. xmms/mp3). we will see, how well they develop. but fedora is imho definitely one of the most promising desktop-projects out there. didn`t vote mdk, because i didn`t expect big steps there (only minor improvements), and debian, `cause i never used it (and probably never will... but who knows?)

"LG LAM 200e ADSL-modem. Campatible with Windows/Apple/Linux."

yeah, it is pretty "old" and was published e.g. at yahoo and other popular sites. but nonetheless, i find it interesting that this story goes round and round in the net and gets published as "news". and it is even more interesting, if you look at it as a proof of the constant switching of microsofts policy. it looks as if they really don't know how to react to linux and linux based distros. are they unable to co-exist with linux and apple? it seems as if they don't want to although linux and apple are one of the best things to happen to microsoft, as they (ms) have to be creative again (something they forgot over time imho) and that they have to CARE about their everyday users. yes, it is a well known feature for linux-users already. but this is also maybe the best proof that linux and apple finally give microsoft a push in the right direction. now, you can say, in terms of competition that linux might loose one advantage over windows, but keep the big masses of windows-users in mind that are unwilling/unable to install another os on their box (as if they would know another os than windows...) but will get a better os due to linux and apple then. i don't think that adapting linux and apple stuff for windows will kill off linux. it never will (due to security reasons and money-stuff). linux will be there for quite a loooong time. but evenso, i think that it is not linux' primary goal to "erase" windows and replace it. no, linux-distros should be the better desktop and server solution that constantly shows innovation and thus pushes other os's in the right direction.

hi technodreamer. simply do the following: open xmms, open the menu for it, go to "preferences" and select the ALSA sound-output. that should fix it. :)

go along and read it.... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5614334/ and then comment it, if you like. ;)

hehehe... he tries to do that stuff as normal user and not as root. so ... it is quite logical that it doesn`t work. :lol: okay, before you do that stuff, log in as root in the console, typing "su", then at prompt enter the password. then it should work. :)