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My USB Mustek 1200 scans so well I had to increase my temp file size to over 120 mb. It scans much better than it ever did in windows. I can actualy scan my own fingerprints but it takes forever.

Try using the 1200 drivers in Xsane and sane. They might work.

The scanner is so cheap how could you go wrong?

I found that a changing screen size is normaly a refresh rate problem. When I switch to a lower or higher resolution I need to change the refresh rate to get the screen to fill the monitor without having to stretch. Some resolutions use one rate and some another. Since I don't change often its not a problem.

Have you tried updating SANE? Mandrake might not be on the latest version anymore.

Jonathan

No need even give him the time. He sounds like just another Linux means free and free means I don't have to pay for it. All the excuses of I don't want to pay for it twice or I'm looking for the PERFECT OS or why should I have to pay or how could I be part of bringing a company I like down? I didn't have anything to do with them? No amount of explaining simple economics will change his mind. I believe nothing has value untill you have to pay for it. Something is only as valuable as what you will pay for it. If you don't pay for it then it really has no value.

I would love to see games for linux on store shelves but I can't see that happening yet untill linux makes a bigger market share. It's just simply that and no more.

The best thing would be if every games maker had in house linux developers. But I don't think that will happen untill the linux porting companies can prove that just about every game they port out makes at least 100,000 bucks US. Just about enough to pay for a programer counting benifits.

I think that once India starts putting out linux developers a dime a dozen then we'll see every game come out in linux at the same time as the win version comes out. A company in India ( or anywhere really) will have to become trusted by the game makers so that the maker can give the linux developers the info at the same time as they make it. Then every game will come with both versions included. Maybe the MAC world can help in this now that they are working in the *nix world.

Please keep up your good work.

Pat

Driver?

Try downloading open office and installing it. I've never had a problem with the download version. I think the 2.0.5 version is just a little buggy.

Befor trying that board I would look around and see if anyone else has everything on it running in linux the right way yet.

I think I've seen a few posts about the vidio and modem chipsets already.

If you did the graphical install then the genaric drivers the distro choose to do the install should have worked to get you up and running.

I have never worked with an ATI card before so sorry I can't help any more than that.

Try to boot just into the comand line and editing the XFree86 file.

Try to find a disk checking utility from the hard drive manufacturer. If the boot sector on the disk is bad there are ways to use the disk as storage, just not a bootable disk. but thats the worst case.

Have you tried removing lilo totaly and reloading partitioning?

Make sure the cable from the cdrom to the sound card is attached. You need it to play directly from the cdrom.

I've never setup SMB from the comand line but I think when you reboot you loose the config file and samba rerights it for the "new" samba shares that it finds.

Try rewriting you config and not rebooting.

I'm not sure just a guess on my part. But what the heck, it's worth a try.

The Mustek should work Mandrake found mine(1200 UB) no problem. If you can try restarting the machine with just the scanner pluged in. mandrake might find it then.

I've never used any but there are free trial versions of several partitioning programs out for download. Just look for a few and try one.

I've never looked.

Not emolation. but just the only one put out for windows that I have that runs in linux. Or will go through the effort of getting to run.

Do you have a disk in the cdrom? It will only mount if something is in it to read. mounting accualy 'mounts' the disc's file system. It realy doesn't turn on or mount the drive.

Is it on the same IDE controler as the hard drive or another cdrom? Sometimes linux doesn't like it if they are on the same cable.

And I ran across this on before. Are the pins on the back of the cdrom set correctly?

Right now the best if not almost the only way to get anything linux is by download or mailorder. The wait in shipping is no problem!! I just like the idea of dedicated publications in linux.

Almost all the games I have now for MS I have found can be made to run in linux in some way or another. Id's software is the only stuff I even want to try emulating in linux. Quake rocks!! Writing to the companies asking in nice ways for linux realeases sounds quite reasonable for me to do.

I haven't checked out your web site yet but do you or will you have a list of your favorate linux games maybe listed as linux environment games, MS ports only sofar and others that can be made to work with effort.

I'm not b-tching obout the low choice of games in linux, it's just something that takes time to build up. Heck the first comps I used were networked HP's with the green screen and princes phone modems! Now talk about a lack of games! TRS80's were the thing because we could make the printer play kids songs.

I will be ordering all of my linux games online no matter what just to get counted.

Thanks for the info though and keep up the good work.

Try to just do a minimum install and only tell the Mandrake GUI installer you only have the first disk since this one works.

Do a md5sum check on the downloaded cd iso's.

This could be a bad burn on the second disk. Some media is just not as good as others.If everything else checks out try reburning it.

Make sure you have plug and play and shared vidio memory turned off in the bios.

Sorry, what I mean is can't they just put everything you need for the game to run on most linux systems right on the game disc without you needing a separate copy made for a different OS?

If your going to be buying the game for linux off of a store shelf and not downloading it.

I know the company that made the game is still getting the cash for the game but just how hard is it to do this?

Dosn't buying a game that runs in the windows OS still support windows in the end. Isn't the company that made the game in microsofts OS somehow in someway still paying them to use the tools at least to program in their OS.

I can understand needing the cdkeys and maybe the main game engine IF you downloaded it off the web. I would like to see the game on store shelves with the words "made for linux" on the cover. I'm sure Wall-mart would love to have games and other software all packeged and ready to go made just for the Wall-Mart/Linux computers. The best selling insentive we could have for linux is when people go into the store and finally SEE software made just for linux. It puts the final proffesional touch to the whole " linux is a viable alternative" thing. Does it realy matter if the same engine and main graphic files are the same ones as for windows. Its the look we need, not the content. We all know the content is what counts but we need the people who controle the buisiness spending to see the products when they go X-mass shoppong for their kids.

Well now that you've at least got a running Mandrake system you can put the origional cdrom back in and finish installing the other packages via ftp.

After that you could run another check on the cdrom to see it it reads other discs well or not. If not then its no real hurry to put a new one in. You can always connect to the win box and use its cdrom.(I think, don't have NT to check)

If I do need it at least its a step forward, just not as big a step as I had hoped for.

Stand alone games are the best way to finaly put the hurt on windows. Then even the teenagers will be trying it out.

I think i'll join anyway. Supporting the cause is in itself enough incentive. The last time I paid M$ I paid 150$ each for two win 95's. Thats the last time they got my cash. I did buy mandrake 8.2 at Wall-Mart though.

Maybe if I can get the stickers made up cheap I'll find a way to get them out.

Hey DOIson! Is anyone out there working on a universal game environment for linux or something to that affect? I've never looked into it but the idea sounds pretty good to me.

I just found NWN for windows in my local toys-r-us. I hope I don't need a win copy to run this game. I looks to good to pass up.

What do you get?

Extra support? A fancy new sticker for your car? Or just the pride you get in supporting your favorate distro?

have you tried rewriting anouther cdrom disc? maybe this disc is a little buggy. I know I've had a disc or two turn out unreadable in an old drive and still work in a newer drive.

Then again it could just be a big dust ball in the cdrom drive!!! :D