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It's been a while since I've done this so it may not work so well anymore but, in terms of upgrading hardware, it should just be a case of doing it and letting harddrake pick up the changes. If that doesn't work then changing your graphics card should really just be a case of reconfiguring X. Try it via MCC first and if that doesn't work run xfconfig and make sure you have technical details of your card, monitor etc to hand

adamw that's what I have been doing, but I'd rather find a less geeky solution which my wife can use - or prefereably not even have to worry about...

I use reiserfs...

There is a tutorial on DOlson's website here

Yesterday I set up a directory called /shared and gave a group called shared ownership of it. I then put myself and my wife in the group and gave us full access permissions (with some help from fissy on #musb ) My only query now is can I set it up so that any files created or modified automatically belong to the shared group? As it stands, anything I create or my wife creates seems to belong to that specific user - thus reducing the full access I'd like us to both have... Hope the question makes sense...

Yes it does work and yes it is as simple as that. I've been using Telewest and Linux for quite a while now. The only thing I would mention is that they may have changed the modem that's used - bt if they say that linux should work then that shouldn't be a problem. Also - you may need a windows box for the engineer to perform the initial set up... I connect via nic - no idea whether USB works or not...

Well done :D

Did you ever try this one yourself? Did you notice any improvement?

a reboot should indeed cause the mouse to be picked up - but it's a fairly rubbish fix since it would be quite an arse to have to reboot every machine you wanted to switch to. Just to clarify - when you say you use an external power source, do you mean something like an a/c adapter?

It's a problem with your KVM switch. It's not specific to 2.6, but it is worse (perhaps oddly) than 2.4 ever was. A solution that I have heard of, but never tried is that if you use an external power source for the switch (i.e. not just powering it off one of the PCs) then that can fix the issue. Let me know if you get a chance to try this and if it works. As I say, I never actually got round to trying this fix and I'd be really interested to know one way or the other.

cool. I installed beta 3 and haven't encountered any problems at all yet. Looking forward to final and getting spearhead working as well :D

Is there a final release of MOHAA yet? I have now bough the game (along with spearhead and breakthrough) and was trying to figure out how to get them to work. I have (I think) the non US version so the ravage installer won;t work for me...

Good news - if you could post a few of the main things you did whenever you get the chance - it would be of help to others with the same problem who might come across this thread.

Good news :D It has just occured to me though, that if all your internet traffic is coming in via this proxy then you gotta wonder what a firewall is going to do for you... Unless there's someone on your local LAN you don't trust...

The easiest solution is to simply trust the ip of your ISPs proxy in firestarter. That's pretty easy to do - jsut add a new rule. Obviously that's only worth doing if your ISPs proxy is trustworthy...

I think I spotted the problem. If you look at the section of your path pointing to your java install there is no leading / on that entry. That's causing it to fail to find your java and then it (presumably) defaults to looking in /usr/java

You can use xorg - jsut make suer it's not the very latest release. The newest version has some bugs.

If your path points to your $JAVA_HOME/bin directory then you shouldn't have any problems with java being located. If azeurus (or any other app) is looking for java in a particular place then it's badly written. However, since I have run azeurus and have java installed in my home directory also - I know this isn't the case. Did you log out and then in again after changing you env variables? What do you get when you echo $PATH - is the java bin directory in there?

The problem may well be with either the kernel version or the version of xorg you're running (if you're running xorg) Try either upgrading your kernel to at least 2.6.8 or downgrading xorg (if you're running xorg) The reason I think this may be the problem is that I had exactly the same issue and one of these things fixed it. There is a bug in the latest version of xorg so it may well be that...

actually - building your own can improve performance - but it's not worth trying until you are a bit more comfortable with linux generally. So I'd agree with going for the mandrake default to get you started

If you look through some of the samba how tos there is at least one which tels you how to log onto an existing windows domain - I can't remember exactly where it is. Either try google or the samba website (samba.org?)

Just stopping and restarting the network service will achieve the same thing: /etc/init.d/network stop and /etc/init.d/network start or indeed: /etc/init.d/network restart

Congrats on getting it up an running! My only suggestion is to be cautious with updates. Arch can be fairly bleeding edge and, occasionaly, an update can break things. Not very often though - I generally find it very stable

yes you can - just rename it to /etc/x11/xorg.conf You may also need to change your keyboard driver to kbd

Welcome :D