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aye it is, I'm used to Nero though which has an "mp3 cd" option along with "regular audio cd" I thought perchance that an mp3 cd had some kind of special database file for the mp3 cdplayer to read which had to be created by the burning program. I'll burn one tonight with k3b and see what happens.

I'll give that a shot, thanks John...my understanding is that any NT version can be healthy on an extended partition as long as the bootloader is installed on the mbr of the same drive, have'nt gone back to my dual-boot tutorials yet though so I may be mistaken. (this is how mine used to be set up before things went awry). I'll have to take some time to fix my setup, no internet connection so I have to make sure I have all of my Win drivers and upgrades on cd before I start the process, but I'll be sure to post back and let you folks know how it turned out. I'm not in much of a hurry either way, I barely ever boot into windows and mandriva works just dandy. A further question which was sparked: is there great advantage to using grub instead? I've never used it but imagine it's basically the same thing.

I'm having the same issues though I should note I never had these problems with mdrake 10.1, only after I upgraded to 64bit mandriva did I start getting this copy protection crap. Like you I have installed all necessary packages (dvdread, css, recompiled xine etc.) and pointed to the correct device with no result. I am curious to know if you are running a 64 bit distro, if this problem might just be some development lag.

Is this how one would burn an "mp3 cd" (one which could be played by an mp3 cd player) in k3b? Just making a data cd full of mp3s? I haven't seen any reference to how or if such a thing is possible or if it is.

my setup is as follows: hda (first hard drive)-Linux(mandriva) and where lilo is currently installed hdb (second drive)-win2k (an old clunky installation) hdc (third drive)-win2k (new, working version that won't boot) Everything looks kosher in lilo.conf, the root and table paths are correct for every boot option. The windows installation that won't boot is on hdc1 (table hdc) and is listed correctly, but for some reason when it is selected in lilo it boots the hdb win2k installation. I used to have lilo installed on hdc (before I nuked "/" for mandrake 10.1 to make room for mandriva 2006) so I'm guessing the mbr from hdc is missing and lilo is finding some old link to hdb in there and presenting it as "win2k" regardless of which drive (hdb or hdc) it boots from. My assumption is that the only way to fix this is to restore or replace the mbr from hdc but I can't think or find of any way to do that other than to nuke the partition and reinstall win2k...something which I had hoped to never have to do again (service packs oh joy!). I'm sure this problem doesn't come up often so I'll just bite the bullet when I have a few hours to make a new windows installation work. Thanks for the help anyways, good to know what lilo.conf should look like for future reference.

If this type of thing has been covered before I apologize for the repeat, haven't found an answer yet... I recently reformated my mandrake 10.1 "/" and installed mandriva in its place, while doing this i moved Lilo from the mbr of an old Win2k installation to a fresh one on a different drive. My issue is that the 'fresh' win2k installation is no longer booting, somehow Lilo is booting the same win2k installation (the old one) from two different partitions. It is as if the new Lilo installation is reffering to the old Lilo installation on a different partition as to where it should look for windows... Now, I assume if I could remove the old version of Lilo and put the windows MBR back in place then the 'new' Lilo would recognize that windows installation correctly and be able to boot it. Unfortunately the utilities to do this don't seem to offer an option as far as "where to find the Lilo installation to be removed" and it always points to the one I want to keep. I could just shoot and ask questions later but I'm afraid I won't even be able to boot mandriva if something slips up. Mind you these installations are spattered over three hard drives so It can be a little confusing in the case of "what is where", either that or booting from mandriva install cd is giving me different partition names than are listed in the normal UI partition tool. a little confused here, sorry if that didn't make any sense. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Regardless of how it is released I'll buy it. If the system requirements on the box require a human heart I will murder a drifter and stuff his throbbing meat pump through the empty floppy bay drawer in order that I am able to play this game. :woops: If you haven't played any of the previous numbers in the series before drop some cash on morrowind, it's pretty cheap now and is considered (not just by me) a benchmark for what a game should be: Epic, Fun, exciting, occassionally thought provoking or funny and likely to last you a year or more before it gets boring.

When we have a cross-platform alternative to directx/d3d (other than glide which in my experience is even more messy game to game than any debaucle msoft has offered up) then we'll be home free. Though it is true that some big names are pushing out linux-ready versions (sims2 for example) it seems to be easier, or even prettier, to run the same game under some kind of NT kerenel. To hell with it, I'm off to best buy to trade in a kindney for an xbox 360.

The only movement I am interested in being an active member in is the one affecting my bowels; whichever platform allows me to accomplish this without getting red-faced and soiled is my top choice. No idealism here, I only switched to linux when microsoft finally made it too much of a hassle to steal the next windows version for the average lazy and unapologetic computer user to bother trying.

I heard good things about the audiophile, by "doesn't work" do you mean it's not supported by ALSA yet? Audigy looks really fancy, but yeah, so does it's pricetag. I need to upgrade my six dollar mic too, any recommendations? any bass levels going through that thing sound like a sloth choking on an apple.

I depend on rpmfind, and haven't ever had any problems with it, all i do is sift down my search to "mandrake 10.1" and have never gotten the wrong or broken package. The fact that it tells me what dependencies I need is also a godsend, I should note: not only do i not have broadband I don't have DIALUP. That just happens to be available to me down the road wheras I have to go 20 miles away to access broadband. In a few cases, yes, faking an urpmi to disk and then burning all the crap it gives me makes sense, but if I can find it in an rpm why would I bother? Even if I did break down and have a phone line installed I probobly would continue hitting up rpms for the size/time reasons mentioned by yinyeti. It's the difference between getting what you need, along with a bunch of other stuff or getting only exactly what you need. Big difference on dialup where a few 300k files means an extra half hour of your life is gone and you'll never get it back.

I'll give this a shot when I'm feeling ambitious, rpmfind and rpmseek have been saviors (if incomplete) in the meantime. Someday someway I'll get a phone line installed, heres to living in the middle of nowhere.

wasn't getting static when not recording, but i fixed the problem...or rather circumvented it. I disabled ALSA on boot and am now static free, but now I'm missing out on all the cool little ALSA sliders. VIA audio has always been a headache for me, time to start shopping for a decent pci audio card methinks. Ah well, art comes first. It will all be worth it once I get that record contract

I've started trying my hand at some home-recording using audacity, which works quite well except every track picks up a lot of static. In fact just monitoring the mike input i can see the red bar vibrating without even making any input. heres what i have: mandrake 10.1 mixer: kmix recorder: audacity (whatever version came with mdrk 10.1 community) amd athlon 950, 256 sdram, via chipset AND onboard sound (supported by ALSA) I'm dual booting with win2k for the few things mandrake can't do for me (like reliably play a lot of games) and under windows the recording doesn't have the same staticy problem, so i have to assume it's something along the software translation line that it's occuring any ideas?

No question mandrake is more stable (in that there is no such thing as a "critical upgrade"), and thus far any issues I've had have been fixed with a little forum searching and tinkering. Mostly I'm just interested in having more to play with, considering how easy it is to backup and restore I just installed everything available in one go and am whittling away at the packages through discovery. How much do distros tend to change between versions? Meaning, for an average home user (word processing, image editing, video/music, a few games) how often is that next six month upgrade worth downloading?

cool cool, I had assumed it was an issue with cdrecord not the frontend. I'll give an upgrade a shot.

Yeah thats what I figured...I have no net connection at home at all, and the only one i have access to in order to download files is a dialup averaging 33.6, painful to sift and achieve through, especially when a bad download corresponds to a waste of a night tying up someone else's phone line. I thought maybe there were distro packs out there with software that fills some gaps/upgrades those included in mandrake, seems what i'm reffering to does exist it's just called 10.2. perhaps i'm still a bit too used to windows.

I've tried to figure this out, but usually whenever urpmi gets brought up someone goes rabid for "easyurpmi". This is all well and good for those with their linux box hooked up to the 'net, I don't have that luxury unfortunately so it does little good for me to have some command line text pointing to file servers. does anyone put out basic downloadable packs of commonly upgraded programs/files (besides waiting for the next version of mandrake)? Or is sifting through ftp lists of things like "starbzn-0.11.2.44.0skir15.bz2.txt" just part of the joy of using linux that I haven't adapted to yet? ...Let it be known, if you find yourself moving out into the @#%$ wilderness try and find a wilderness where people demand broadband....

Like a lot of people I ditched my floppy a long time ago so I count on being able to swap multisession cd-r discs around. I've never had any problems using multisession discs between Nero and Roxio, but cdrecord doesn't seem to be cross-compatible...If anyone knows of a burner program for kde that CAN read and write to nero/roxio multisessions please spread the word. I have'nt tried it in the other direction (creating the multisession structure with k3b) but I imagine the effect would be the same. As it stands I just resort to booting into windows to use Nero...I've been using Mandrake 10.1 for two weeks now, kind of makes me sad to run into something I actually need to touch Lilo for.