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Fluxbox - I've tried others, but have got so used to organsing my system (and my life) via slit dockapps - that I can;t live without the slit now...

Good job - I'm assuming since you see a perfomance change that you actually recompiled the kernel as well as just re-configuring it ;) It does sound like that jump in FPS means your video card is working - not much else would explain that...

I really like Arch. I've tried it several times and now am settled with it. Mu only complaint is that the community built around it (in my experience) can be a little bit elitist and not very helpful - not always I've had some great help form some of the guys on their forum, but often "archers" seem to not actually want anyone else to use their distro so that can keep it small and how they like it - I don't know why, insecurity maybe ;) Edit: as you can see from my sig - I much prefer using arch to gentoo. For far too many reason than I can be bothered to list right now...g

Don't forget things like Linux is case sensitive (unlike windows) and the slashes go the other way ;) / not \ otherwise should be fine - what are you specifically trying to set? Maybe we can spot an error in your .bashrc that you haven't spotted... It might also be worth logging out and then in again...

It should be pointed out that it is not advisable to do exactly what you are doing. Logging in as root is dangerous because it is very insecure and also allows you to break your system very easily. Using the su command as mentioned above is a much better way of doing things with root priviledges than to log directly in as root. Hope that makes sense!

Easiest way is to simply edit ~/.bashrc Add in there things like: export JAVA_HOME=where ever you put it... This will then be loaded as as variable for every console/terminal you open as a normal user

My suggestion for recomiling the kernel is - have a go: experiment. As long as you keep the original kernel then you will always be able to boot back into a stable system. To do the configure do: cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig And work your way through that little lot... It may also be worthwhile trying to find out if someone has posted their kernel .config file on the internet - one specific to this laptop. You can then use that as a base and only have to make a few minor edits - if any at all...

no-onre tried this in wine?

Xmms might be a good one to take a look at

:o The Friendly Englishman takes his friedliness to an international level. <whisper>I guess it helps that he lived here for a while.</whisper> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nie man, Je maak nie a sambriel oop in a man se gat nie! (Finally I got a chance to use that in real conversation!) Shhhh! They were all impressed with me until you said that! (Assumming they didn't just think I was spouting nonsese)

I guess it's possible that I'm not fully using the power of my card - but I have never been dissapointed with it's performance (the opposite in fact) and I have never had any trouble playing any games - including OpenGL ones on it. Maybe the driver could be better - maybe even Nvidia cards are better, but the people here saying that ATI cannot be used on Linux or are rubbish on Linux are just plain wrong. My card is fantastic (even if it could be better) and I've been really pleased with it.

A friend of mine recently walked me through using SAge to do my business accounts and I was pretty impressed - especially when I realised it cuold do my VAT returns for me! Does anyone know how well it runs under wine - or of a linux alternative? I have seen Jalia and am going to download an evaluation, but I wondered if anyone knew of any alternatives...

I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 and it works beautifully with Linux. Not certain about the modem as I haven't tried it, but everything else works like a charm

no - you can get an ATI and play 3D games in Linux - I do it all the time with excellent performance!

whole bunch of games including RTCW and nwn ( there are some issues with nwn, but it's generally very smooth and apparently less problematic than a lot of nvidia users have found.) Tuxracer is also very smooth Framerates are good in all the games I've played but my glxgeas framerates are always about the 4000 mark

nonsense (in the politest possible way ;) ) - my 9800 pro absolutely flies under Linux. I get fantastic frame rates

OK - kind of bumping this and also going to include a screen shot so you can see exactly what I'm talking about.

English works fine for me I can speak Afrikaans as well, and the odd few words of Sotha and Zulu... :deal: yebo!

I agree and encourage others to do the same - my only regret is that I didn't say that but said that I thought I'd play it even though I'm pretty sure I won't...

Lay down your drums and then get everyone else to play the other stuff at the same time. Finish with vocals and then any solos or anything. Go back and re-do the drums if you need to so that the drummer can "feed" off the other tracks. This'll make it sound tighter and enable you to record it into your computer with a mixer. Plus if one of your trakcs is vocals then this way requires no more than two inputs at a time anyway... If you try and od vocals with drums and other stuff then some of the tracks will bleed into the vocal. Another tip - leave reverb off everything and then add it to the final mix. That'll sound much more authentic.

I did the same although, to be honest, I kinda feel bad that I did. Simply because I also doubt I'll ever play the game even though I said on the petition I would. I did this because I felt my signature was unlikely to mean so much if I signed but said I wasn't going to play the game. It occurs to me that people signing a petition who aren't going to play the game are not helping unless they admit that. If a company sees 5000 signatures and ports a game and then only 100 people buy the ported game then they are unlikely to bother porting anything else. I therefore, think I shouldn't have said I would buy it and apologise to the community. I guess it's too late for me to edit my entry on the petition...

no - you can use it with a 2.6 kernel - this is exactly what I'm doing! You just need to get the kernel source installed... Make sure it's the source for exactly the same version of the kernel you are running

ok - the kernel is the core of you operating system - it is Linux if you like; everything else is just software that runs on linux... To check what version of the kernel you have enter in a terminal uname -r This will tell you what version. Probably 2.6.x and a mandrake specific release. You almost certainly don't have the kernel source installed unless you did it yourself - which I'm guessing you didn't. This is quite probably your problem. Their is a kernel source rpm available - although I don't know exactly what it's called, perhaps someone else can help there? Anyway, in the meantime do a search for kernel in the software part of the control centre and see what you come up with.

I have an 9800 working beautifully in Linux with a 2.6 kernel - getting consistently around 4000 fps This isn't in mandrake though, but gentoo. It's possible that the problem is with the mandrake kernel, but this seems a little unlikely to me (I could well be wrong though...) Do you have the kernel source installed? This would be required to make the driver. Another thing you can try is to download and compile your own kernel - although this can be intimidating if you're a newbie. It's not hard though...

The player is called BinkPlayer and you can get it here You have to play all the movies manually from the command line - but that's not a real hardship