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Done, no luck :-(. Still get this message Does anything else need be done? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I just figured this one out on my own (OK, so I am proud of that fact - so shoot me!). First, why did you manually download the win32 files? Assuming you have urpmi set up, just look for xine-win32 - I already had xine installed, so I don't know if it's actually needed, if is is, go ahead and install it (why not?). Totem is based on xine, and by default looks for it's plug-ins. Installed the file mentioned above, and xine, mplayer and totem all began to play any and all .wmv files without a hitch (none of them had played all of them before). Second, firefox only defaults to totem because that is the way you have is set up. Go to "Configure Desktop" -> "Components" -> "File Associations" -> "Video" and alter which player is brought up for which file.

I am well aware of the hardware support problem, or better put, the hardware manufacturers total reliance on Redmond to get their bits of silicon to actually do something - I first experienced this when was running OS/2. I get two different answers from scanModem and listmodem both as to what type of modem I have! Not only that, they have different answers. As nearly as I can determine, from these two sources, as well as checking out the HP.com site, I have an HSF modem with a device ID of 24c6 (which gets 0 hits on google), and a device name of "ICH4 <AC `97 Modem>". Windows claims it's a "Soft v92 Data Fax modem with Smart CP". Believe me, I know that google is a good thing! If I had to pay them by the hour for the last few days, would probably have to just sign over my paycheck. I find drivers for different kernels, or that I have to pay for. I was just hoping someone could point me to a driver (even a windriver that is not an exe file - ndiswrapper seems to work quite well in LE2005!) that would give me functionality without having to kick out any $. Nope, no videoX file is created when it is plugged in. I sincerely doubt I can get it to work, but have found that asking doesn't cost much, and I often get very good help here. When I plug it in the USB cable, the camera screen blinks and asks "Mass Storage or PC Cam". If I select Mass Storage, an icon pops up on the desktop and I can get my pictures off of it. Nothing seems to happen when I select PC Cam. Out of curiosity, the camera also has a video-out port (though I do not have the cable with me, nor a video-in on the laptop). Would there be any way to get it to work that way?

Seems to be from www.tuxmachines.org (google is a wonderful thing!)

I successfully installed LE2005 on both my laptop and desktop. Granted, on the laptop I had to do it more than once to get the Linksys wireless card working correctly (I hope I will remember to ALWAYS do updates before setting up something that is not in the base install!), but once I did that, it was an easy install and it is working fine now. I've gotten pretty much everything done without troubling too many people with stupid questions - only asked one about the install thus far... I do have two hardware questions though. I have what seems to be a conexant dial-up modem in this HP ze4911us laptop (am on the road now and cannot remember what the desktop has - wouldn't surprise me if it was similar though). In the reading I have done here and other places, it seems that without paying Linuxant for what IMHO should be a free driver, I will not be able to get it to work - at least not as a fax modem. Now in the 6 months I've had this box, I have only wanted/needed dialup or fax twice, but it would be nice if I could get it to work, if for no other reason than it should. Is there a way with my kernel to get the modem alive and working like it should without paying for a driver? (And no, my need is not great enough to buy an external modem and pack it around the world everytime I go to work) I also have a cheapie digital camera that I bought in Hong Kong - a Z-Cyber PiXo 5.5 This camera can also be used as a webcam under windows, but would like to have it work under Linux as well. (I was very happy when it needed no software to look at/download the pictures using Linux - did on Windoze) If anyone can tell me where I can find something that might work as a driver, or that I should just forget even trying - either way I would appreciate it.

That did it. I actually found this in another thread, tried it, it worked. Not only do the user ions show, now have actual pictures of each user showing instead of a mdk icon!

you should click the button below that says "administrator mode" then enter the root passwd so you can do some changes on that I did click on Admin mode, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to make any changes at all! This is one thing that is not like editing lilo.conf by hand, and forgetting to run lilo-v afterward - no changes can be made at all unless one goes into admin mode. (Something more than one person - present poster included has been guilty of!) That does not change the fact that ALL the various options listed in the help file are not all there. try KDM That's what I have selected. I did get the "use graphical theme" working. It was weird - the box was checked, but it didn't allow a selection of "LILO with graphical menu". Since it was already checked, I didn't change it (at first). I tried unchecking the tick box, and saving it, then later, checked it again. When I checked it, it said I needed to install a package, and pick a video mode - did, and now the box boots with a graphical display instead of just scrolling all the things. Don't know why it was checked, and not working by default. edit: and I think its not Lilo user login, its your Desktop Manager User Login, since in lilo, there's no user there, thus are only options to boot, either to a different kernel or to your windows if you've dual boot <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That didn't work either - Aussie John posted in another thread what I needed to do. Edit a file a later poster in this thread mentioned, and change one line.

I get two blank lines, asking for user name and password. Below that I get a choice of session themes/types (i.e. KDE, Gnome, etc.), and a boot choice menu (Shutdown, Restart, etc.) When you ask what packages I have installed, I am not sure what you are asking - installed where? If I look under MCC->System->Display Manager I have GDM, KDM and XDM available to choose from. If I choose MCC->Boot->Select Graphical Theme I have "mandrakelinux" chosen (the default). I just want the user icons to show selected users and make it easier for the ladies here to log in.

Well, I have successfully installed 2005LE on both the laptop and desktop. I rsycn'ed to a USB drive, to save all the pictures and such that I had, and was very happy that ndiswrapper that is now built in, properly configured my wireless card. OK, I have a couple of issues left to resolve, but this one is driving me buggy! I was used to having the user icons show as a selection on the user log-in. No matter what I try, I cannot get them back. (It's for the desktop, not the laptop - makes it easier for my grand-daughter and wife to log in). First, I do not have a choice of "LILO with graphical menu" on the desktop, though I do on the laptop, which I find strange, since I installed them both from the same 3 CD's I downloaded. The option just flat isn't there on the desktop. Second, when I go to "Configure your desktop"->"System"->"Login Manager", I do not have all the options that the help file says I should see. (On either machine). In hopes someone can spot what I'm missing here - here is my lilo.conf: # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file default="linux" boot="/dev/hda" map=/boot/map install=menu keytable=/boot/us.klt compact nowarn timeout="100" message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image="/boot/vmlinuz" label="linux-nonfb" root="/dev/hda5" initrd="/boot/initrd.img" append="resume=/dev/hda6" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe resume=/dev/hda6 devfs=nomount" read-only (and yes, except for once, I've remembered to run lilo, or lilo -v as root after any and all changes.) If anyone can help, please let me know

When MCC sets up the printer, it specifically says there is no need to run scannerdrake, as a matter of fact cautions against it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I got the scanner running, can use either Xsane, or "acquire image" from The Gimp2. There is a very readable help file: /usr/share/doc/hpoj-0.91/index.html. After reading this it was as simple as typing ptal-init setup as root. I *knew* it was something really simple!

When MCC sets up the printer, it specifically says there is no need to run scannerdrake, as a matter of fact cautions against it.

I have a HP PSC2175 all-in-one. I *was* able to scan with it with The Gimp under MDK10.0. I've upgraded to MDK10.1 (both official), and am now unable to scan, and can only "sort of" find it using "sane-find-scanner". I recall the 10.0 did not scan "out-of-the-box" either, and someone, somewhere gave me something simple to do to get it to run. Unfortunately, not only can I not remember what that simple trick was, but I can no reference to it here, or the other forums I haunt. When I say it "sort of" finds it... This is what I get when I run sane-find-scanner: [karl@localhost karl]# sane-find-scanner # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x03f0 [Hewlett-Packard], product=0x2b11 [PSC 2170 Series]) at libusb:002:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Not checking for parallel port scanners. # Most Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports # can't be detected by this program. [karl@localhost karl]# IIRC, this printer does not need sane to scan, nor does sane (at least directly) support it. It uses HPOJ, a driver supplied by HP to run the scanner. If anyone can provide some guidance, it would be appreciated.

I had gone to the HP site, I just didn't poke around enough. There is apparently no way I can install the driver for the 2175 that I could see, *but* they had a suggestion for an alternate driver to use. In this case, the driver for a Deskjet 550C printer. This was in the "Printer wizard" list in windoze and after installation, fired up wordpad, and printed. Problem solved. Now if I could figure out how to flag this thread "resolved" before I start another thread about getting the thing to scan...

I have a HP PSC2175 all-in-one printer connected via USB to a desktop computer that dual boots between MDK 10.1 official and XP Pro. The printer works great from the desktop under Linux, though I have been unable to set it up to scan in 10.1. I had it scanning under 10.0, but getting it to scan under MDK 10.1 is a subject for a different thread. :) I also have a HP laptop that dual boots between 10.1 and XP Home. I rarely use the windows partition on either computer, but unfortunately, the company I work for has a web site that *requires* I.E. to access fully, and they refuse to change it. (People with MACs also have some problems - even *with* I.E.) I can do quite a bit with Konqueror "faking" as I.E., but not everything - I tried cross-over but I screwed something up, ended up deleting it, but may try it again at some point. I have looked through this, and other forums trying to find help in what I want to do, but it seems that almost all of the posts I've read are trying to get help in getting a Linux box to print to a Windows box/printer. I want to do exactly the opposite, I want to be able to boot to windoze on the laptop and print to the desktop computer as it's running Linux. I have it set up right now that if both are booted to Windoze, it'll print just fine (did this more or less as a learning experience, and don't intend to do that much, if at all). I have Samba installed on the desktop, and I am able to see the MDKGROUP, the LOCALHOST, and even the PSC2175 printer under windoze. The problem I am running into is when I go to install this printer under windows as a network printer, it tells me I have to install a driver for it. The choices on the windoze "Add a printer wizard" does not list a driver for my printer. I have the installation disk for the 2175, but cannot seem to find a file that windoze likes as a driver. I am under the perhaps mistaken impression that I should be able to use the printer as is, via CUPS, and not have to install a separate driver for it, but cannot figure out how. The windows drivers do exist on both the laptop and the desktop. Plugging the printer into a laptop USB port automatically sets up the printerr under windows (without putting the install disk in), and when I installed the printer as a network device under windows->windows, it got the driver from (I'm assuming) the desktop. I really don't care if I install the driver again under windoze, if I could just find it, or if I can set CUPS up so a driver is not needed, I just want to be able to do my thing on the company web site on the laptop, and print from it to the desktop while it runs Mandrake. If anyone can tell me where to find a driver that windoze likes, or how to configure CUPS to use the printer "as is", I would very much appreciate it.

That is set correctly (or should I say the way I prefer it?). When the dates are imported via a CVS file the birthdays and anniversaries come out formatted the way I prefer (mm/dd/yyyy) - but - when I open one of those contacts with the editor, ("edit contact"-"details"), the birthday shows properly, but the anniversary does not show at all. The anniversaries *do* show on the calendar/alerts properly though, even though it is not shown by the editor! When I manually enter a birthday (either by editing an existing file, or creating a new one), it comes out in the desired format (mm/dd/yyyy), however, when I enter the anniversary in exactly the same manner, it comes out formatted as yyyy-mm-dd. My question is, is there a separate place to format (the anniversary) date *within* Kontact/Korganizer that is not affected by the system setting, and if so where is it?

I am putting my contacts (e-mail, snailmail, phones, b'days, etc.) in Kontact, but can't seem to figure out how to set the default format for dates in Kontact. I've tried to import all the data using a CSV file I saved from a OpenOffice spreadsheet. Cutting and pasting the info from various sources into the spreadsheet, saving to a CVS file and importing that into Kontact resulted in 4 different date formats being used by kontact. All the dates in the CVS file were in mm/dd/yyyy format. When I open the contact (edit), the birthday shows, but the anniversary does not, though both show in the summary, and in the calendar/alerts. When I try to simply enter a date in the "New Contact"-"Details" as mm/dd/yyyy it refuses it saying that I must enter a valid date. Where do I (or can I) set the default date format for entries in Kontact? I would prefer mm/dd/yyyy, but am currently getting yyyy-mm-dd, dd.mm.yyyy, mm/dd/yy (wrong century), and one other I forgot what is/

It is not a stupid question, it wouldn't be the first time I have screwed up that way. I took the laptop to my son's apartment, plugged into his router, and everything worked like it always did, Linux and windoze. Since I was out of things I could do (or maybe I should knew *how* to do!), I simply tried resetting the router to it's factory defaults. Presto, it worked again! I have no idea why it didn't work when I got home from my last trip when it had worked perfectly before I left. The only person in the house while I was gone was my wife, and she does not know how to access the router setup, so it wasn't changed. I can now access the router with either the wireless card, or the cable.

I am reasonable sure the card and cable are making at least a partial connection. In poking around at it, I changed DHCP to fixed, and put in the same IP address and Netmask that the desktop uses. After reboot, watching the verbose mode, it gave an error saying that IP was in use by another host. If it made no contact at all, it wouldn't have "known" that. Set the IP to the next available IP address, and the verbose mode showed it connected to eth0 "OK", though of course it wasn't. Also, went into the set up mode of the Belkin router, and it showed two computers connected, the laptop and the desktop. Curious.

I've got one of those problems I have sometimes in Linux that makes this icon apropo: I have 10.1 installed on my (new) HP laptop, and have been using it to connect to the `net literally all over the world with both the wireless card, and when wireless is not available, a cable. I just got back home after *way* too long away, and when I plugged the computer into the Belkin router via the cable, eth0 failed to connect. I had used the cable before, and I even unplugged the cable from the laptop and plugged the cable into the desktop, worked fine, so it is not the cable. It doesn't work with windoze either. (though the wireless card works with either OS) I've tried "ifdown eth0", followed by "ifup eth0", it tells me: Determining IP information for eth0... failed. (The wireless is eth1, removed for all of this) I've tried resetting the modem and router (though the desktop connection was fine), tried deleting the connection and reinstalling it, same error. Tried "/etc/init.d/network restart", "ifconfig eth0" gives me this: ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:5D:C2:14 inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:fe5d:c214/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:176 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:11 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:27215 (26.5 Kb) TX bytes:2430 (2.3 Kb) Interrupt:10 Base address:0x7000 I've tried setting a new connection (after deleting the eth0 connection) as both a cable connection, and a LAN connection in MCC. Nothing I've done seems to work, though before coming home, I had run with the configuration I had in several hotels on a couple of different continents. If anyone has any ideas, I'm open to them.

[root@localhost]# urpmi faad The following packages contain faad: faad2 faad2-xmms gstreamer-faad gstreamer0.7-faad libfaad2_0 libfaad2_0-devel libfaad2_0-static-devel vlc-plugin-faad xine-faad [root@localhost]# Which one, if any will have Amarok play m4a files? (BTW, why does a search here using the keywords "m4a", and/or "AAC" not return any results even when I've put this as the topic?) I did urpmi mplayer, but apparently it did not give me the gui (gmplayer), just the command line, so I get this when I try to run it: [userl@localhost]$ mplayer MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.1 © 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium M Banias (Family: 6, Stepping: 5) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal! To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection. 77 audio & 188 video codecs Usage: mplayer [options] [url|path/]filename Basic options: (complete list in the man page) -vo <drv[:dev]> select video output driver & device ('-vo help' for a list) -ao <drv[:dev]> select audio output driver & device ('-ao help' for a list) vcd://<trackno> play (S)VCD (Super Video CD) track (raw device, no mount) etc. etc. All I want is a player that will come up with a play list, and will play m4a files. I tried to get Juk, but am told I am missing a library "musicbrainz.so.2" IIRC.

m4a/acc refer to the same type of files I believe, hence the title bar... What is faad? A plugin? An engine? Yet another music program?

I've been googling, as well as searching this site and others like it (linuxquestions, e.g.). I can find a little info on m4a files on linuxquestions, but a search here turns up nothing. I am running both a laptop and a desktop with 10.1 Official, and was recently given some music in the m3a format. Amorok, which might be good once I use it a little more and figure it out, does not seem to be able to play m4a files, nor does anything else that comes with 10.1 out of the box. I've also installed xmms, which I understand has plugins for these files, but I haven't found them, or don't know what to do with them (yes, I am a relative newbie!) I am currently urpmi'ing mplayer, but am not holding my breath that a) it will install properly, and b) it will play m4a files if it does. Can Amarok be configured to play them? Any other suggestions? I would prefer something that supports at least a basic playlist, but am open to suggestions.

I might have been hitting the scroll area on the mouse pad a little too hard, haven't had that problem since I posted.

I just installed mdk10.1 official on both my laptop and desktop computers. I installed Mozilla 1.7.2 (which came with 10.1) both browser and mail. I have two questions that a couple of hours of searching haven't resolved for me... One, it seems the included (on the 10.1 official install disks) version of the mail program does not have a spell checker built-in. It seems to me the one in 10.0 did, but then again I *did* upgrade Mozilla there... So the obvious first question is: How do I install a spell checker in this version of Mozilla Mail, or do I have to d/l and install a newer version? I've been using the laptop quite a bit more than the desktop, so I do not know if both have this feature/bug, but when I scroll down a page, it keeps asking me if I want to search whatever URL the cursor is on. How do I disable this? If I want to search for something, I'll do so, and find it annoying that the program keeps thinking I want to do a search when all I've done is scroll down the page.