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Check this thread re system startup services and paring things down: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...&highlight=slow See also the following link for a description of the various startup services: http://www.kernow.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/adm.../aservice2.html I don't know what to tell you to turn off because I don't know how you are using your computer. Checking the above will give you some kind of idea what you can/should turn off based upon your needs.

In the Xine setup, under "input" I have the path for the local dvd device set as /dev/dvd which I beleive is the default setting. Check your /dev directory and see if /dev/dvd exists. If not, try creating a link to your dvd drive: # ln -s /dev/hdx /dev/dvd where hdx is your dvd drive. If it does exist, check to see it is properly linked to your dvd drive.

Dell's website lists your MB/Chipset as Intel 845MP which may suffer from the same problem with kernel 2.4.19(Mandrake 9.0 kernel) as Intel 845E and 845G. It's kind of a long shot but here's a link describing the problem and its solution: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...=639&highlight= You can tell if the above applies to you if you are getting the following message during boot: PCI:device 00:1f.1 not available because of resource collision and if you can not enable dma on your hard drive as discussed in the above link. The fix is to upgrade the kernel to 2.4.20 which you can get from Cooker in rpm form. I couldn't get my DVDs to play until I got dma enabled on my hard drive which I could only do with kernel 2.4.20( 845E chipset).

For Xine to play encrypted DVDs(most commercial DVDs) you need to add the xine-d5d plugin which you can download from Penguin Liberation Front: ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/9.0/i586/ Hope this helps.

I posted this on the old board and didn't want it to get lost since people keep asking how ot get rid of the top bar in Gnome 2.0 and create the start menu on the bottom bar. Here's how: Right click on the bottom bar, go up to "Add To Panel" on the pop up menu and then go down to "GNOME MENU" and click on it. A little black foot will appear on the bottom menu bar and when you click on it the entire start menu that appears on the top bar when you click " Mandrake" will be on the bottom bar. Go up to the top bar and delete it by right clicking and hitting "Delete This Panel". Don't worry; if you ever want it back (and I can't imagine why you ever would) just right click on the bottom bar go to "New Panel" and click on "Menu Panel" and it magically reappears on top in all its glory complete with dropdown menus "Mandrake" and "Actions". Also, if you want to autohide the bottom bar, you can do so by right clicking on the bar, and clicking "Autohide" on the popup window. Hope this helps. That top bar drove me nuts for a long time before I figured out how to get rid of it and get the start menu on the bottom bar. What on earth were they thinking!!

Press "q".

What program(s) are you using to try and play your CDs?

Sorry, read your post fast and missed that eth1 was not listed. Have you tried looking in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for an icfg file for eth1? You should have entries for eth0(icfg-eth0), and loopback(icfg-lo). If there's a icfg-eth1, that might be causing the problem. If icfg-eth1 exists, try editing the ONBOOT line from "yes" to "no" either that or just move the file or rename it badicfg-eth-1 and see if that helps when you reboot.

The only thing I would suggest checking is whether there is an BIOS update for your MB that might take care of the problem. A problem with the PCI bus initialization might be caused by the BIOS. While looking into your problem, I recall seeing a BIOS update to correct system hangs during POST dated 6/02, but I'm not sure it was for your board. However, I have Googled your MB and can find no reports (save one dealing with Md 7.2) of people having similar problems. I would think that if it was a basic hardware compatability issue there would be lots of reports. If your the only one getting this problem, it may indicate a defect on the MB that only appears to bother linux. Either that, or some quirk in your hardware setup. As for your USB lan adapter, I think that's going to be a tough one. Give it a try, see if its recognized and try to configure in mcc. You'll probably have to get on Google to find a driver for the thing.

You can do it in the kde Control Center>File Browsing>File Associations>Text>html. Click on html and in the right pane you can add your favorite browser by using the Add button if it's not already listed and then move it to the top of the list with the Move Up button.

Well, you've tried several NICs with identical results so the problem must be with something other than your NICs. I suspect it might be in the PCI bus. Are any PCI devices being detected? I ask because the PCI standard requires that all PCI devices have an indentifier hardwired in them. Even if there are no drivers present for the device, it will/should be properly indentified in the hardware list. Yours aren't showing up at all, at least for your NICs. Is the same true for your onboard devices that are on the PCI bus(e.g. sound) or any other PCI cards you are using? A couple things to try: 1. Right after booting, open a console and run the following command: $ dmesg less This will give you a detailed print out of all your boot messages. Look for anything unusual going on with the PCI bus. 2.To get a listing of all PCI devices your system recognizes, run the following command: $ lspci Post back anything you feel is relevant from 1 and 2 above. 3. If the problem is in the PCI bus, you may be able to correct the problem by going into your BIOS setup and changing your PCI configuration. Before you make any changes here, right down your starting settings so you can get back to square one if you need to. You can also try passing boot parameters. On my system, I get the following from dmesg relating to PCI: PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off I'm not sure exactly what this does but it might help.

Neworking is not my long suit, so I don't know how much help I can be. There is another thread on this board dealing with similar problems that you may want to check: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=1606 You may want to consider reposting this in Networking where you'll be more likely to get a response from people that know what they're talking about. I guess the first place I'd look is in mcc>Networking &Internet>Connection to see if eth0, eth1 and eth2 are up. If not, tick the Expert Mode button and see if you can get them up or try reconfiguring the NICs that are giving you trouble.

Try going into Mandrake Control Center(open console and as root type mcc <Enter>)>Network & Internet>Connection and see if your removed NIC is still listed as eth1. If it is, tick the Expert mode button then the button Configure Local Area Network. The popup window has an option for start on boot. Set this to No for eth1 and leave eth0 alone and reboot. Check back to see if eth1 has not started and, if true, whether this helps with your network problems.

There are reported problems with this MB/chipset. Check out this post on the old board: http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...9&highlight=sis It's not clear what you've done in trying to get your NIC configured. If you haven't already done so, open Mandrake Control Center( in the menu under Configuration or open a console and type mcc as root), tick Hardware then Hardware List and see if your NIC is listed. If it is, click on it and then click on the Run Config Tool button.

I don't know how to do the first thing but you don't need a bash script to mount and unmount a cdrom, even with supermount disabled. You can create a desktop icon that does pretty much the same thing as follows: 1.Right click on your destop and go to Create New>CD-DVD-ROM Device; 2.On the pop-up window, tick the Device tab; 3.In the Device field, tick on the arrow to reveal the drop down menu of devices available and select the device you want(e.g. /mnt/cdrom); 4.Tick the General tab then the OK button and the icon will appear on the desktop. If you insert a CD in the drive and click on this icon, the CD will be automatically mounted and the icon will chage to indicate the CD is mounted. Konqueror will come up to reveal the contents of the CD. You can also mount by right clicking the icon and selecting mount from the drop down menu. To unmount, right click on the icon and select either unmount or eject. Once unmounted, the icon will change back to its unmounted state.

If you want to remove the scsi emulation for hdd, you will have to edit your lilo.conf file. As root type the followng command: # gedit /etc/lilo.conf This opens up lilo.conf in gedit. Under the 'linux" label go to the "append" line and you should see the following somewhere in that line: hdd=ide-scsi Delete the above and save. Reboot and hdd will no longer be running under scsi emulation.

Agree with the above. I have a laptop with similar specs and use icewm with good results. One other thing I did notice that had a substantial impact on performance- disabling network starting at boot. I have broadband and it seemed that if I wasn't connected to the internet at the time I booted, performance suffered greatly when network was enabled at boot. This was true even for apps that had nothing to do with the internet; there was just a big drain on performance. You can disable it in Mandrake Control Center>System>Services. While your there, you might want to check to see if anything else is starting at boot that you don't need. Now when I want to connect to the internet with my laptop, I have to connect with mcc>Network&Internet>Connection but it's worth it.

Try running printerdrake from a console. Even if it doesn't run, it may give you some error messages which might be helpful.

He's also threatening to put Gates and Balmer on the naughty list. http://www.bbspot.com/News/2002/12/santa_linux.html

You can find out what driver your printer is using by going into Mandrake Control Center>Hardware>Printer. When the printdrake screen comes up, double click on your printer and the driver your printer uses will be displayed along with other useful info. As for software, my best guess would be CUPS. You can uninstall CUPS and the driver in mcc>Software Management>Remove Software. Also, you might want to take a look at your printer using the CUPS WWW Admin tool found in start menu>Configuration>Printing if it has been installed. Under the Help tab you can find some excellent documentation on setting up printers with a lot of command line stuff that might help locate the problem. As for the error messages, I haven't a clue. Printing and networking are generally related so one would have to suspect your network problems may have impacted the print services in some way.

I have an HP Photosmart 1000. I don't know if this will work for you, but when the print window comes up for my printer, there are two tabs, General and Layout. In Layout there are fields to adjust the margins. Mine are set to 0.5 inches by default.

Thanks to your links, I have successfully upgraded the kernel to 2.4.20. DMA is enabled with this kernel; can finally play my DVDs. In my previous attempt, I had neglected to uninstall my kernel headers and sources which I beleive caused my problems. Thanks again for your help.

From your post, I'm not sure whether you have Mandrake up and running yet. You can get a minimal install of Mandrake using only CD1. If you haven't gotten that far, try reinstalling in expert mode and tick only CD1 when it asks what CDs you have. Once you have Mandrake up and running see if you can read CD2 &3 OK. Then go in the package manager, add CD2 & 3 to your sources and see if you can install the additional packages you want from there.

Acronis has a free 30 day trial for their partition utliity which can handle NTFS. Never used it for that purpose myself however. Here's the link: http://www.acronis.com/

To get all your boot messages, immediately after booting run "dmesg" from a console.