RedTurtle

uhm, ok i'll do that, sadly i dont have internet at home either :(, so only tomorrow probably.

as for the mouse set, its this one.

I installed MDK 9.2 but since the installation process didnt recognized my usb mouse i switched to PS/2, wich went fine, and finished installing. The problem is, i cant keep it like that, i need to have the keyboard/mouse plugged by usb,but, sadly the mouse doesnt work. i've tried chaging the configuration in everyway possible but it still doesnt move, the strange thing is that the keyboard, wich is connected the exact same way, works perfectly. its a microsoft weirless mouse/keyboard combo. any ideas fellas?

thanks Steve.

i cant seem to find the id file and i have all binutils installed, anyway, i installed a newer version of rp-pppoe wich replaced the adsl-start script and that problem seems to have disappered. still cant get the damn thing to connect, but at least i got rid of that annoying 'root' problem :)

Just installed Mandrake 9.1 and, as usual everytime i do a new install, i'm having a lot of trouble getting my speedtouch modem to work. So, i did all the usual stuff and when i try adsl-start i get:

/usr/sbin/adsl-start: line 1 /usr/bin/id : No such file or directory

adsl-start: You must be root to run this script

well, i AM running it as root :? all the permissions seem fine but still, it doesnt start. help?

XMMS for mp3s, XINE for DVDs and mplayer for other file formats.

i was planning to use it mainly on gaming and to try some win apps (mainly quicken) but as i couldn't get it to work i ended up subscribing to transgaming winex. Two hours later i incidently got winex cvs working, so i got both now :D

thanks ramfree, but i took a look at DOlson's tutorial and followed it, according to him, this is a NVIDIA card problem related and,even though i don't have a NVIDIA card, it worked :shock:

anyway, its compiled and installed, just not working yet

Installing winex from cvs i get this error during compilation:

In file included from d3dgl_private.h:5,

                              from caps.c:20:

../../include/wine_gl.h:31:20: GL/glu.h: No such file or directory

make[2]:*** [caps.o] Error 1

make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/eduardo/wine/dlls/d3dgl'

make[1]:*** [d3dgl/libd3dgl.so] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/eduardo/wine/dlls'

make:*** [dlls] Error 2

I don't have any clue about this, can anyone help? oh, im using 9.1 rc1 ...

alright o/

too bad CM4 is about to be released, not enough time to play them both properly :(

i have the exact same problem, has anyone been lucky enough to have this sorted?

well, thanks for the help guys, but after trying all sorts of combinations i have given up and reinstalled both XP and mdk. i got rid of that first partition and put linux in the first partition of the second disk and it all works well now.

redturtle might be aiming for the setup wherein you can reinstall windows to your heartscontent and it wont be able to erase your bootloader because its not placed in the MBR. i tried doing that and failed miserably

yes, it makes two of us :)

i tried to run lilo as ramfree said, it all goes well until:

Boot other: /dev/hda5, on /dev/hda, loader CHAIN

Fatal: Partition entry not found

i dont get it...

I tried that, but no luck, i still don't get a XP/windows/NT/whatever option in LILO, just linux. :( Thanks anyway.

I have installed mdk 9.1 rc1 and i also have XP running but something is wrong with LILO as i dont get the option to boot windows just something like this:

linux

linux-nonfb

failsafe

floppy

I have messed around with LILO and edited some lines but it obviously didn't work as i still have the same menu, LILO looks like this now:

boot="/dev/hda"

map=/boot/map

vga=normal

default="linux"

keytable=/boot/pt-latin1.klt

prompt

nowarn

timeout=50

message=/boot/message

menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw



image="/boot/vmlinuz"

label="linux"

root="/dev/hdc1"

initrd="/boot/initrd.img"

append="quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"

vga=788

read-only



image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="linux-nonfb"

root=/dev/hdc1

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"

read-only



image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="failsafe"

root=/dev/hdc1

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"

read-only



other=/dev/fd0

label="floppy"

unsafe



other=/dev/hda1

label="XP"

table=/dev/hda



image="/dev/hda1"

label="xp2"

root="/dev/hdc1"

initrd="/boot/initrd.img"

append="quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"

read-only

I have two disks organised like this:

hda - small partition just for the boot manager

hda5 - windows XP

hdc5-FAT partition

hdc1- linux /

hdc7-/home

So, i was wondering if someone could tell me what did i do wrong in that lilo.conf file.

thanks anon. i now know what to do with my week off :)

Are the 3 cds necessary for installation, or the first two are enough?

limitated downloads suck :(

Thanks MottS, i thought of trying that, but somehow i had the feeling it wouldn't work, it did afterall :D

im probably being a bit dumb on this but, i've downloaded a couple of KDE icon themes and i can't get them installed. In the site they say to go at KDE Look n'Feel>Icons>install new theme, but there is no 'theme' file to choose from, just some readmes and the actual icon files. I hope i dont have to install and configure them inb the right place one by one? :?

I had this same exact problem with 8.2, also retail cds and i never was able to solve it until i got new cds. :(

what i used to make my speedtouch work was this.

pretty simple but it worked fine, it emulates an ethernet card but i think the way this works may vary from country to country.

victory o/

i couldn't do that urpmi thing (dunno why...) but eventualy downloaded the fontconfig rpm and installed gkrellm.

thanks all :wink:

thanks a lot , i'll try that.

well, dont ask me bvc, i know shít all about this :D

thanks, but now i get libfontconfig.so1 missing :(