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I have mandrake 10.1 community and only have IceWM installed. How do I go about removing packages at the terminal while taking care of dependencies at the same time. Is it [rpm -e] ? Will I have to install some type of packaging management tool? I'd like to be able to do it all through the terminal. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

here's something I should ask before beating myself to death trying to get the ATI drivers installed. If I'm not planning on doing any gaming or anything that would need 3D acceleration like openGL is there even any benefit to installing the upgraded drivers? Otherwise i'll just wait until the ATI drivers are ported to Xorg.

thanks for the tips. I've reconfiged my .conf file a few times already and tried with and without AA (either to blocky or too blurry...lol), and with and without sub-pixel hinting (for my LCD). I don't want to steer this thread in the wrong direction though... Just wanted to add my experience with it's (10.1CE) speed both in booting and using. After additional research I've found that newer linux distros actually need a little bit faster hardware than the Windows machines...not what I had though originally.

I went from Winblows 2000 Pro to Mandrake 10.1CE. So far it's been interesting learning new stuff...but mostly it's been like a toy. I can't seem to completely switch over for two reasons. 1) Just looking at the gui (KDE 3.2) gives me a headache because of the blurry fonts everywhere, and also the somewhat messy layout. I've done about everything there is to do to attack the fonts issue and the "LookN'Feel" (it's a LOT better than it was at first) but the whole thing still looks "fuzzy" compared to Windows which was clear and had a clean look to everything. 2) It is freakin SLOW AS BALLS at EVERYTHING compared to any Windows machine I've ever used (3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, 2000Pro). Granted my computer is not cutting edge PIII 800 w/ 1.5gig RAM and fast HD, but it struggles compared to 2000Pro. I've also gotten more bugs/crashes in the first 2 weeks of Mandrake 10.1CE than I've gotten in the last 2 years in 2000Pro. Also: Why the heck does OpenOffice use about 120-130meg of ram when Word 2000 for Winblows only uses 8-30meg for the same document??? If the look and the speed could be improved, I could see myself sticking with it, but for now it's something to play with in my spare time. Other than these 2 issues I love the power (security?) and level of customization it offers. I'm praying 10.1 Official will be different... ok done ranting for today... hanez: mine boosts pretty fast though. I've got a Seagate 160gig 7200rpm 8MB cache drive which I think is also an Ultra ATA.

ok. thanks. next time I'll have to look at the log file when it happens. I think it is rewritten each time I boot. maybe if I'm curious I'll do it again with the same reordering just to see if I can replicate it. I'm looking at what I had changed it to...I may have left out one of the paths called "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" Would this have caused the problem? Guess it's no big deal since I know I can fix it if it happens again.

A small detail compared to the larger situation, but... I am currently using Yahoo messenger through Kopete. It's Mandrake 10.1 though so maybe that has something to do with it.

I've fixed the problem already , but I'm wondering what the heck actually happened. While trying to resolve some font issues, I rearranged the order of the font directories in my "/etc/X11/fs/config" file. Upon rebooting it got all the way to the point where the KDE GUI would normally appear and finish loading, but instead the screen fickered and it brought up the login prompt instead. Thankfully, I had written down the original font paths for the config file and was able to edit and resave the config file using "vim". After replacing the font paths to the original configuration it started normally. Does this really have that much of an affect on starting the KDE environment??? I'm still pretty new to linux. Jason

I was able to detect my modem using the MCC->hardware function (make sure to check "autodetect modems" also) or it won't even look for modems. It detected mine, but after the first reboot, it defaulted to /dev/modem when attempting ot dial. I had to manually change the configuration to /dev/ttyS0 for it to work (as already suggested)...of course this was after it was detected for me.

You can check my similar post for ideas. I was trying for a week to get sound w/ a Turtle Beach card and 10.1 CE. It may not work for you since it's a different card, but who knows. http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=20466

This is what I feel like right now! I'VE FINALLY GOT THIS JAHNKE TO WORK!! I've been trying for about a week to get some kind of sound from my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz (CS4630) soundcard using Mandrake 10.1 Community, and finally have clean clear stereo with mp3's and CD. This isn't fuzzy 3D sound or static sound, but good sound...lol Earlier I only had CD sound. I had tried everything including KMix, AlsaMixer, and application specific settings but to no avail. Forgive me if I misuse some terms, as I'm a linux newbie. Steps I did: 1) Check that the card comes up as CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] and uses the ALSA snd-46xx driver (not CS46xx) in the Mandrake Control Center ->Hardware, which is correct. 2) Close MCC and shut down any applications that may be accessing the sound driver. Make sure to check the taskbar for any running apps like Kmix volume level or Amarok... There's a command to check what apps are running, but I can't remember what it is. 3) Go to MCC->system->services and make sure the ALSA is running, if not stop and restart it. YOU MUST HAVE MADE SURE YOU DID STEP 2 OR YOU'LL GET AN ERROR. 4) open a terminal window (Konsole). Log in as "SU" 5) Type "cd /sbin" to go to the sbin directory Type "./lsmod" to find what sound module is running. mine had 'snd-CS46xx 81896 7' Type "./modprobe -r snd-CS46xx" to remove the sound module and change 'snd-CS46xx' to whatever yours is from the lsmod command if necessary Type "./modprobe snd-CS46xx" to reinstall the module Type "alsamixer" to start the mixer (don't do this from the KDE start menu but do it here in the terminal Check that the 'Master' 'PCM' and 'DAC' levels are turned up pretty far. Arrow right to move to the ones not shown on the screen. These three were the only ones I needed, plus the CD level. All the others could be muted. Actually making sure the two 3DContr levels were muted actually helped the sound quality. Use the 'm' key to mute/unmute. Press the 'Esc' key to exit. 6) Make sure whatever setting for the application your using are ok and it should be good to go. If you're using XMMS and the volume control slider doesn't change the level, go into XMMS Options->Preferences and configure the ALSA driver to use software volume control. Jason

ok tried the alsamixer (from the command promt and through the KDE start menu), but everything was unmuted and looked good. The Kmixer setting also were unmuted and turned up. One odd thing is that during the verbose system initilization it says it loads the ALSA drivers OK, but when I go to: MCC/system/services it says ALSA is stopped. Pressing Start will start it but there is no change. It's set to load on boot also. I finally tried to play a CD, which I have not tried yet, and it plays fine and sounds good. Yay, at least some sound is coming out of this thing! Just can't get mp3's or wavs to play no matter what application. ..XMMS, Amarok... I've double checked the input and output plugins for XMMS. Another of the Cirrus Logic chipsets that uses the same ALSA driver works so I thought this may also.. Maybe it just isn't possible without a lot of linux or coding knowledge which is what I don't have :unsure: thanks for the ideas.

yeah it never appeared in the start menu even though the install went fine, even after a restart. I had installed all the packages from the list. I had been looking for "soffice" or something like that for the executalble though. It was version 1.1.3 Regardless, I ended up doing (messing up) a bunch of other stuff (like fonts, ATI drivers, and sound drivers) that same evening due to my newbie status and therefore did a full reinstall of mandrake which [obviously] fixed the problem. I've learned a whole lot in the past week or so since I first tried linux though...which is good. Honestly, it hasn't beat out Windows 2000 Pro for speed or looks yet, but it gets props for "customizability". I've never had my Win2000 box crash anything for months at a time either..dual boot for now while i learn this thing. B)

thanks, I'll try those few things out and see what happens. I've already tried out every setting I could find in the MCC related to the soundcard in addition to playing with the Kmixer settings...but I'll double check and then try running alsamixergui.. I'm pretty sure the alsa drivers are loaded because when it boots up it loads them and says [OK] next to the line. offtopic(I'm going to do a fresh reinstall again since I managed to mess up something with the Xorg.config file (and probably more) when trying to patch some ATI drivers...really just need ATI to get off their butt with the official Xorg releases..) If this thing ends up working I'll let everybody know.. thanks

A while ago I uninstalled OpenOffice. Today I reinstalled it using [system->Configuration->Packaging->Install Software]. It asked for the various CD's which I inserted and when it was done it said everything was installed. Question is...Where the heck is it installed to and how can I run it? It didn't show up automatically in the start menu. I find a reference to openofice in the /usr/lib directory and another in my home user directory, but can't seem to find the "executable" file anwhere. thanks ------------ Mandrake 10.1 KDE 3.2

thanks Tymestream for the info! I'm a newbie to linux..never touched a unix/linux box ever before a few days ago when I installed Mankrake 10.1 community. I was able to fully follow your writeup with almost complete success. Only difference was I had to run "./make.sh" and "./make_install.sh" by typing "chmod a+x make.sh" and "chmod a+x make_install.sh" because it was giving me an error about permission denied even though I was root...could be permissions I guess...don't know how to change those yet. I get all the way to the end where I restart X, start a console and try to run fgl_glxgears and I get the following errors... Any ideas? AND also, how do I know if it worked...if it's actually running the new ATI drivers? [root@localhost bin]# ./fgl_glxgears X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX) Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent) Serial number of failed request: 31 Current serial number in output stream: 31