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Uh uh. I don't use the Control Panel (the only bad thing about Mandrake). But it's cool, I had a bad header, took it out, re-did the synthesis. Works now.

I have a directory full of rpms which I am trying to add to urpmi. I give urpmi.addmedia the command and it says it has installed the new source perfectly (including building the synthesis file). But when I try to use that source it says it has problems with the synthesis file. Any ideas?

Pressing F will toggle full screen and then there are other hotkeys for play, stop, etc. Check them out the in onfiguration gui.

The diverse horizon of the Linux universe is the reason it is so strong today. I say let there be a billion distros. If it wasn't for the slackware's, etc we wouldn't have had redhat and if it wasn't for redhat we wouldn't have mandrake. Linux breeds on diversity. It has the strongest "gene pool" of any Operating system. Standardisation may make your life easier, but will turn Linux into a cheap mimic of windoze.

Try disabling supermount: # supermount -i disable You might have to reboot after doing that. Of course, you will need to mount everything yourself after that... which is the way it should be, I think.

Linux does have a lot of options - which is why I ONLY install the ones I take a liking to and get familiar with them. So for mail, I ONLY use Evolution. Which is a great looking and very easy to use program. I'm not going to try and twist you into one desktop or another, that is a matter for personal preference, but my girlfriend hated KDE because of the "busy" desktop and preferred a minimal looking Gnome. My point: play around and remove programs not being used, etc. before breaking it on your wife and then tell her what programs to use for what and remove the rest. BTW: Gnucash is a great little money app that comes with 9.0

I think the very use of Mandrake should be enough of an incentive. Think of all the work, time and effort that has gone into this distro. Which we get for free? Hell, that deserves more then $60 I reckon. Although, I would love a "mandrake inside" or "windoze will crash sticker" with my subscription :wink:

Geez, it's not like we've been waiting for six months or anything.... It's better then not getting it at all though.

I can't get very technical about the changes (there are people here who could though) but I also used 8.2 and gave up with it after a while. Now I am on 9.0 and loving it. I think what got me going was an instant love affair with Gnome 2.0 (which has replaced my love of KDE). It also had better support for most of my hardware and urpmi seems to give less hassles. I also discovered this board, where help is only a few clicks away. The people here are great and will solve just about any problem you encounter. Of course some learning will be required (like with anything) but I'll think you'll find the learning to require less pain. Try it I guess. ButI don't think you'll have to wait for MDK 10 to start enjoying the distro, if ya know what I mean :wink:

Well, I have just recently sacked windoze once and for all. It's a good feeling. I have a girlfriend who uses my computer all the time - I sat with her and set up a cute desktop the way she wanted it (geyes and all - even Pink on the desktop :roll: ) and now she never asks for anything, just logs in and does everything she needs to without a worry in the world. We're talking about a girl here who cannot even spell pc. erm... So maybe your wife using Linux isn't so daunting. I don't know if you have used mdk 9.0 yet, but it is a big improvment on 8.2 and can be very "friendly" If, however, you decide to keep XP and do the networking option, Samba really is a dream and quite easy to use. So those are my thoughts.... :wink:

I was going to start a similar thread. If you want to say thank you to the people who made the World's coolest OS then join the club. You won't get much back except special "members only" offers from time to time and, of course, Star Office - I prefer Openoffice anyway....

Ok, let's sort this out once and for all and save you ten years on your life :wink: You only have to copy the first disc onto your computer (about 700mb). In the install, tell mandrake you only have the first disc (it can do an install + X with just the first disc). Once you have a basic install on the computer, you can at least boot into it and setup sharing properly, etc. or urpmi all the packages you need. This should be a satisfactory work around?

Ok. Remove the line from your hosts file: 192.168.1.1 kirstine.lombok.org.uk kirstine And save it. You are right: it is connecting to be denied permission. So back to Webmin we go! Are you exporting to "everyone" What kind of access are you allowing? Are you requiring a secure port? What happens if you try to ssh into your machine? Does it also deny access? Are you trusting root access? If you just fiddle with your nfs settings, you will get it right. Also try chmoding the mount point. # chmod 775 -Rv mountpoint If your permissions are not right on the mount point you won't be able to mount it remotely.

This two-ip thing bothers me. Please post your /etc hosts file here and indicate which host is your main machine. Also check your network configuration and try to figure out why you have two ips.

You might also have to redo the whole Nvidia kernel bit (only if you have problems though). Otherwise everything should go just fine. I have the same card (MX440) everyone slates it, but I've been enjoying it.

Your main machine has two ips because it has two network adaptors. I'm assuming you use one of them to connect to the internet and the other one to your LAN. Make sure you are using the one referring to the adaptor on your LAN. I have never done a remote install, but I am assuming that once you have done the minimal boot into the receiving machine it should have a hosts file somewhere. Mount has given me problems with machines whose host name can not be resolved, so look for the hosts file (usually /etc/hosts) on both machines and make sure that they have each other's host names and ip addresses added. You can also try mounting your NFS share manually to make sure it works: # mount -t nfs hostname:/sharename targetdirectory Or open up your MDK control Panel -> mount points -> nfs mount points and scan to see if it comes up.

The current release of Flash 6 for Linux is VERY shaky. I would stick to Flash 5 and wait for the final release of 6 (I honestly know one person out of a ton who have gotten it to work).

Or just type: # glxinfo |less and look for a line that says Direct Rendering: Yes or No BTW: I am currently having problems with the same card, please run glxgears and tell me what happens?

Ok, I've put my XF86Config-4 file here: http://www.simonfrost.co.za/XF86Config-4 And two of the log files I found under /var/log here: http://www.simonfrost.co.za/XFree86.0.log http://www.simonfrost.co.za/XFree86.9.log I'm a little clueless with the log files. Thanks for all the Help! :lol:

Hmmm.... it is listed in my webmin. Try re-installing webmin?

Ok, I downloaded the latest stuff from dri on sourceforge - crashed my X badly, my card is obviously not supported. Checked all my X log files - no clues there. Could this be a hardware problem? I thought of trying an earlier version of XFree (currently on 4.2.1) how can I do this? Would it be worthwhile trying another distro?

If it is great already, what exactly do you want to configure? Your sound server?

I didn't know that! Live and learn...

What I do is just use my editor (I use gedit, kedit is also good). # gedit [filename] This can create the file. Yip, text file which is actually a script (like .bat files in dos)

Unfortunately you can not change the mode of files on a fat32 partition. Root will defaultly own all of them, but the fat32 system doesn't gel well enough with Linux to allow chmods. If it were a journalised filesystem, you could use the command: # chmod 775 -vR [file/directory] This is the same as 777, but excludes users from the 'other' classification from writing. I would suggest that you change the fat32 to a Reiserfs or ext3 partition or move the files to one.