Aomighty

Yes, LE2005 seems to be a lot more stable and has some newer versions of things than 10.1. I switched to it from 10.1 and my version problems seem to be okay, I like it. You might try that, but you might not :). Debian's nice too.

I'd go Home, unless you're ultra-paranoid about security. If you need a firewall you can get ZoneAlarm. If it's just for gaming I don't think you really need Pro.

I think the versions are not always up to date because of dependent libraries many times until you'd have to upgrade the distro to have the newest version. I learned that trying to recompile a newer version of GIMP from source lol :).

Re-implemented the bootloader manually, and it starts up fine. I should think more before I post :(.

I have a boot disc setup how I want it to be, but my lilo is currently set up to be Windows-only, just wondering, how can I copy the version of lilo on the disc to my MBR so I can boot normally without the disc? Thanks.

Turns out the boot floppy I had worked when I thought it didn't. Problem solved.

Ok, so I was changing around some settings, and I accidentally killed lilo, replacing it with a Windows-only lilo. Anyway, I figured I'd be okay since I could just boot the first Mandriva CD and "restore bootloader." However, I did that, and all it did was it said "added windows *". I tried "restore windows bootloader" and then did it again, and it still did the same thing. My lilo.conf shows only windows, how can I boot into my Mandrake system to restore it? I can boot knoppix to edit lilo.conf and then re-run lilo, but I'm not sure what entry I should add. Could someone tell me what the correct lines to add to lilo would be? Thanks, I hope I don't have to use Windows for too long...

Ok, thanks a bunch, problem solved!

Thanks a bunch. Should I adjust the buffer to be low or high?

I'll try that, thanks.

I was wondering, is ther any way I can get sound to play in two applications at once and not lag? I have a sufficient quality sound card to do it... Is there any good multitasking sound wrapper? When I try to do two things at once with say artsdsp, it usually lags. Thanks.

You could try going into the harddrake and manually selecting what kind of mouse you have (for me for example, rather than Generic Wheel Mouse, PS/2 Wheel Mouse).

Mondo fixage... never mind. The culprit was the galaxy-gnome package.

After uninstalling various things, trimming it down to what I actually used, as a lot of stuff comes bundled with KDE, I noticed that all the system menus for KDE (like the menu editor and rpmdrake), suddenly took on a more basic GUI and got "uglier." Anyway, I'm not sure which package made it do that (I uninstalled quite a few), and reinstalling some obvious ones (kdegraphics-common for example) hasn't done anything. Just wondering: does anyone know what package would control the GUI? Also, my GUI everywhere else (right-clicking on the desktop, in programs, etc.) is still my theme. A screenshot of what I mean is included. UPDATE: Now Firefox is like that too! Help! Thanks.

I've seen this problem happen before (on a Windows machine), and updating never fixed it. It was with a laptop. I had no clue what was causing it either. Does it happen more with plugins (flash, java, etc.). On my friend's computer it seemed to happen mostly with flash.

Anything wrong with my graphics? I get around 10 FPS for glxgears, but around 100 with supertux and OpenGL enabled. Why is glxgears giving a (probably) incorrect result?

Dunno whether it would affect it, but make sure you have the correct kernel-source, cuz if you "urpmi kernel-source," I think Mandriva will install 2.6.11-12mdk rather than 2.6.11-6mdk. Also try a build just in case. Again, I'm relatively new, but just in case it might do something :).

Just wondering, every single time I rip a CD with kaudiocreator, both the CD and drive get quite hot (though they're not slow), and it keeps telling me that "disk damage is detected on this track. Risk of data corruption." However, I know my CD's are OK, because I can always rip them twice, so the CD's not damaged or anything. Also, the resulting audio file plays fine too. Any reason it does this or any way to turn off the warning? Thanks.

Just wondering, what is your dkms-nvidia RPM for? Easier NVIDIA driver installation? Thanks for the contribution of course.

Yeah, looks like I do need KDE 3.4.0 for that. Anyway, I figured out my problem. I needed to rename them to *.ogg. It wasn't recognizing they were .ogg files, and for some reason they weren't being ripped like that... Anyway, problem fixed. Thanks all.

KDE 3.3.2. I just updated to amaroK 1.3beta as well, so I'll try that. Turns out it won't recognize ANYTHING I rip, be it ogg, mp3 or anything. How can I rip directly from amaroK?

So I got amaroK up and working, and get kaudiocreator up and working, and start ripping all my CDs to disc. Trying to add /home/martin/docs/music to my collection (that being the rip directory), it says "building collection" and all and after finishing doesn't rip them. Adding my MP3 files from the windows partition has no errors. My collection is in ogg format, using the kaudiocreator ogg encoder. I checked to make sure, and indeed they are there. Also, if I try to play them from "Add Media" it plays fine. What could be the problem? Version is 1.2 included with LE2005. Thanks.

Just use "urpmi libstdc++.so.5." You need that RPM package to run it.

Well, it's rather irregular whether or not sound works, so I'll report back if it doesn't, but it seems to have worked so far. Thanks!

Here's how: su visudo Now you are editing the /etc/sudoers file (but you must edit it with visudo). Anyway, press "i" to go into vi edit mode, and go down to the part where is says "%wheel." Add the group of the user you want to go into sudo without a password, identical except for your user rather than "wheel." That way you can do sudo without a password (at least it works for me).