spiedra

And krellm as well, but glass is better looking.

bvc: :P

Do you have your firewall up? If so try disabling it.

Cool! Well Done!

Actually plf has the latest version of Apollon surprisingly. Usually it takes longer for the latest version to be available in rpm, but this time they jumped on it.

Perhaps try a different driver. You may get better performance. Uninstall/reinstalling won't work. That's the windows way of doing things. This is Linux, no need to do that. Try a different driver and let us know if that works.

ROX is really good!

Well your memory is low. kde is resource hungery. You probably made your swap too bug as well if it's 500 mb, but that's another story. I would recommend either upgrading your memory or use a lighter window manager such as XFce if you want that desktop feeling or Fluxbox if tyou want to try something different. For Open Office, in the tips and tricks, it explains a way to make Open Office open faster, but it is primarily a ram issue.

You type:

gdesklets

first to get the dameon up and running. Then if you type:

gdesk

and hit the tab key, it will bring up a list of different monitors you can add to it. i.e. if you want to add a system sensor, select:

gdesklets-add-sensor

and the senser will be added and so on. If you want it to start up when you boot into Flux, iphitus has an excellent tuturial on Flux you should look at as well as the Flux site.

It depends. If it's tar you extract the tar and go about compiling, if it's rpm, just use the rpm command. Both procedures can be found in the faq's regarding installing software.

Kernel souces you can find by adding sources to urpmi. See the faq's regarding urpmi. It wil walk you through this. Make sure the kernel source you add matches your kernel.

Those extra options such as failsafe are useful in case for some reason Mandrake was to crash or if you are try to fix an issue. I would kep them.

In your kde autostart folder. I believe it's ~/.kde/Autostart, you can link to the executable. Then when you log back in, it will appear, but you need to right click on the corner of gkrellm, and select stick, so it will traverse on all desktops.

Read the faq's regarding urpmi. Information about cooker and plf is available there. You'll find this will make installing software much easier. It will also walk you through adding ftp sources to urpmi.

Could very well be.

Can you tell us what version of Mandrake?

My last version with Mandrake didn't work with my asus onboard sound, but Mandy 10 plays nicely with it.

As for the modem, as it a winmodem? If so you'll need some drivers for Linux to talk to the modem. Check out www.linmodems.org to see if a driver for that modem is listed.

As for the graphics card, ATI's are a pain to get working. Try running XFdrake as root, try selecting the stock drivers and see if they work. If not, you can try the ati linux driver from their site. You can download it from windows and access it from within Mandrake.

It's available in rpm from either cooker or plf. That's the easiest way. I believe with Apollon, there is also another software you have to install which contains the libraries that Apollon needs to work. I believe it's called lib-apollon or something like that.

For the new firefox, it didn't create the executable in /usr/bin. It stayed in /usr/local. Post your results after you run slocate.

slocate firefox

Also where did you download the tar for thunderbird? After you extracted the tar, it would have created another directory. cd over to the new directory and run from a console:

./thunderbird

Or whatever the name of the executable is. You'll know if you see a file with a * next to it.

Can you print from another program like Open Office? Maybe the problem is only with the kde viewer, not CUPS.

Can you post the log? We can help you if we know what kind of output you are getting.

As for urpmi you can find info on this in the faq's

You have to create a link to where you installed firefox. I believe by default it's /usr/local/firefox/firefox-installer/firefox. You can search for the executable using slocate and it will tell you where it is at. Once you find it, you can link up to it using menudrake.

 

For thunderbird, you have to run the script:

./thunderbird

from within the directory that got created when you extracted the tar. Again, you can link up to it using menudrake.

If you want the transparency, gkrellm is a good alternative.

Firefox and Mozilla Mail.

Another vote for k3b.

If you are using kde, all you do it go into kde control panel, then energy or power mgmt. I'm not at my pc now so I can't tell you specifically where to go, but it's there. Or if you are using xscreensaver, just go into settings and enable power mgmt.