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They won't and they can't, so don't worry. They case is pretty much dead, the only people that have not realized that is SCO themselve.

http://www.shockwave.com I have not really played any of the games available in linux, but I have used Mozilla to play the games and they work fine.

Actually, all it took was a quick little google search. Used "sony xmms skin" and I think it was the forth link down.

Another satisfied Linux customer, cool. Glad to hear you got it working. Yeah, urpmi is one of the best things about using Mandrake. (keep in mind that urpmi is a mandrake only thing so far) No more having to resolve dependencies, it just goes and gets the software and installs it all for you. And if you have the right sources there is not much that you can not install.

Hint: If you are going to be dual booting, always create an FAT32 partition for sharing user data between the two OS's. This will save much grief when it comes to solving problems and sharing documents.

Sorry about that. If you know that the machine is identical in terms of hardware, then yes, you can just copy the config file from a red hat machine over to your mandrake machine. Installing the NVidia drivers may help a lot. They seem to fix other problems. You are going to have to download the kernel sources from a mirror somewhere. Or, you can try this from a shell prompt. (That would be that little window where you can type in commands, a la the dos prompt or command prompt) try this series of commands $ su password: # urpmi kernel-source (the $ and the # are simply the corresponding prompts, not part of the commands) The first command is for 'switch user' and allows you to become root. The second command is the way that you can install programs onto Mandrake. All you are asking it to do is to install the kernel source. However, you may need to add some sources to urpmi before it can do this. (do a search through the forums for adding sources to urpmi or do a google search for easy urpmi) Once you have added the appropriate sources, the above command should install the kernel-source. Once that is done, you can then install the nvidia drivers. Another solution for finding out config settings is to download Knoppix http://www.knoppix.org and see how it configures your monitor. If it gets it right, then just use the config file that it creates.

Some links with more information http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/G.Wilf...d/Inspiron8500/ http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resources/de...ell-i8500-linux http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/i8500/ Hope one of them helps.

My first guess would be that the problem lies with Internet Explorer and not with flash/shockwave/java. The way that you embed plugins such as flash and shockwave into a web browser is different in IE and Mozilla. Therefore, my guess would be that what they really mean to say is that the games won't work with anything but IE. However, in their twisted little minds, this translates to 'won't work with anything but windows'. Cause as you know, everyone who uses windows uses IE. :P

From the sounds of things, you are either missing the C++ compiler or missing some much needed library files. I think the first one is the most probable. Once again try this: # urpmi gpp I think that is the C++ compiler. Or you could try installing something like KDevelop -- a C/C++ ide -- which should force urpmi to install all dependencies which should include all necessary compilers.

Cool, welcome to linux. Anymore problems, just shout.

Okay, dumb question, but you are aware that Mandrake has this really stupid habit of setting the default settings for sound levels to mute? Open Kmix and see where the sound levels are. Other than that, do a search on the board here, I know there have been at least one other thread about sound on a toshiba notebook.

Oops, you're right, I got them mixed up.

Welcome to the board. The video card is definitely supported, but I don't know about the monitor. However, the real issue that I am not sure about is the DVI connection. There have been at least one other post regarding getting DVI connections to work with Mandrake. The first thing that I would try would be to use the analog connection and see if that works. At least that will narrow down where the problem lies. If everything goes well, then it is the connection and not the hardware. As for the bootloader, which one are you using -- lilo or grub? Will it affect your windows install, I don't know. I have never used the rescue disk to remove a bootloader before. However, there should be a solution, so hold off on uninstalling Mandrake a little while longer. Edit: Okay, after doing a little bit of searching, it seems that the free nvidia drivers included in a base install of Mandrake may be the problem. Apparently, they can not handle the DVI connection. However, the official download NVidia drivers can. So, go get the real NVidia drivers from their website, install those and see if that fixes the problem. Check this out on how to install NVidia drivers: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=4567

hehe, just trying to up my post count, you know. :D :D :D

Best thing to do is to contact the developers of the software in question and ask them how they handle translations. They are the people who will know how that particular app deals with internationalization, and they would also probably greatly appreciated the new translation.

Downloading it under a normal user and installing it as root is how it is usually done. The problem is that in order to use the configure, make, make install sequence, you need to have a compiler on your system. (That is what make does, it compiles the software). Therefore, you need to come up with a different way of putting gcc onto your system. If you have no compiler, you will never be able to compile the compile so that you can compile other software. Got is? :D Anyway, try this $ urpmi gcc and see what happens. This should install a rpm based gcc that will then in turn allow you to compile software. (The dollar sign is simply the root prompt, don't actually use that as part of the command)

Found it http://www.1001winampskins.com/skin_detail...ml?skin_id=2728

I am not sure what the script does, but the only way of checking ram is from outside of an OS. Check this link out: http://www.memtest86.com/ This is a link for memtest86, about the best memory test program available. Take the program, burn it to a floppy and let it run for about 5 hours. This will give a very good idea if you have any problems with the ram. As for the rest of the hardware, the only real way to test the different parts is by switching new parts in and out of the computer and seeing what is leading to the instability. What hardware are you using? Another thing might give you a clue of what is going on inside the hardware is to run gkrellm with lm_sensors installed. This will allow you to see the temp of your processor, motherboard, fan speeds, etc. However, your motherboard must support the sensors. Good luck and more info would help.

I am a little confused as to what exactly you are trying to do here. The patch you seem to be attempting to install sounds like it is for the LG CD-RW problem. In order to download security updates, the best thing to do is to add an update source to urpmi. The easiest way of doing this is to visit the easy urpmi website: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ Just select the distro that you have and a suitable location and enter the text it provides into a shell as root. This will setup an update source in urpmi -- the package manager. Then you can use the Mandrake Update tool to download all the updates.

I think there is a tutorial on this somewhere in the forum. Check the tutorial section. Anyway, I am not sure exactly how to do this, but what I would do to start would be to not install a bootloader for Mandrake, but make a boot floppy instead. You may need to install Mandrake using the Export setting instead of the default setting. (search around for how to do this) Then, once you have Mandrake up and running using the boot floppy, you can look at ways of adding it to the grub bootloader you have for RH. Should be as simple as adding a few lines to the config file.

Which radeon card are you running? And which motherboard and which chipset for the onboard video? When the computer dies try hitting ctrl-alt-F1 (I think it is F1) and see if you can see anything. If so, write it down and post it in this thread. The above command changes the terminal to one that Mandrake uses for boot messages. Also, try pressing escape as it boots and see what is printed on the screen. When you got to the end of the setup, what did the configuration screen say regarding your monitor and graphics card?

Doesn't gdesklets(?) contain this functionality? At least I have seen something similiar on people's screenshots.

My only guess on the virus thingy is that it is programmed to recognize a windows based bootloader. Since it is most likely seeing lilo or grub in the mbr, it thinks it is a virus. That would be the only thing that would make sense to me. Can you shut it off? If you have a antivirus program in windows, then just use that.

Theoretically, perhaps. However, the parts are so speciallized that it probably is not practical to do. Either that, or the cost of acquiring the parts would be more than the cost of buying a new laptop.

Suggestion, buy one of those little firewall/router thingies from best buy and use that to share the internet. Fast and easy to setup and your kid will be on the net. To help with what you are doing we need more information, I am a little confused about your setup. You have a win2k box that is acting like a server and you are using it to share the internet? So, where does linux and samba come into this? List each computer on your network and what each of those computers is doing. Also, just to make sure, the computer you are trying to use to share the internet is the one connected directly to your internet modem and has two NIC cards in it? What kind of network are you running, how many computers, what are they doing, etc????