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I see that Gimp 2.2 is out, but that it needs various new versions of key libraries like gtk. Has anyone successfully installed Gimp 2.2 on Mandrake 10.1 without trashing the rest of their system? I would like to install Gimp 2.2, but my MDK 10.1 is set up purrfectly, and I don't want to mess it up at this point. Thanks!

For the nvidia splash screen "problem", most people wouldn't think it a problem! Who needs the splash screen. Nonetheless, there are two solutions to this problem: 1) My personal experience after installing 1.0-6629 on my 3 GHz machine was that I too did not see the splash screen at all. I wondered about it, but thought maybe nVidia had changed the default so as to not show it any more. I didn't worry about it. Then I started noticing the briefest of flashes as X was booting up - one day, in a freak timing event, the screen flash lasted just long enough for me to realize it was the nVidia splash. So, it had been there all along, it is just that things were moving SO fast that it wasn't hanging around long enough for me to see it. 2) As an alternate, you may have it disabled in your XF86Config (/etc/X11/XF86Config). Look for an option called "NoLogo" in the "Screen" or "Monitor" section of the file. You are looking for a line that says: Option "NoLogo" "1" If you see this, it disables the splash screen. If you REALLY want to see the splash screen, just delete this line and restart X. You will then *hopefully* see if, if the above speed related issue doesn't cause you to not see anyway!

If you are looking for a good dual pane file manager, I would strongly recommend Krusader, for which MDK has an available rpm. For the more xterm/konsole inclined, I would recommend the venerable and VERY powerful Midnight Commander (executable is called "mc"). Both are excellent dual pane file managers, a paradigm I find much more usable than the typical Windows single pane plus tree file manager. Konqueror will do dual pane too, but it is not as obvious - Konqueror will do multi pane in fact - it can be useful.

Can anyone describe what is new and better in the new drivers? Is there any compelling reason to upgrade from 6629 to the new ones? Thanks!

No need for file extensions in Linux. Save the scripts to two separate text files, called mount-zip250 and umount-zip250. You can place them anywhere. Personally, I collect all such scripts into a directory I created called /home/my-userid/bin (replace "my-userid" with whatever your userid is). Then make sure the scripts are executable via: Open Konsole or an xterm and type: chmod +x mount-zip250 chmod +x umount-zip250 Now you can try them out. The below assumes you are using KDE, by the way. Continuing with Konsole or an xterm, cd to your /home/my-userid/bin, place a zip disk in the drive, and type: ./mount-zip250 You should hear the disk spin up, and if all is well, it will mount properly. If you have a zip disk icon on your desktop, you will see it change, with a small green triangle appearing near the bottom and to the right - this is KDE's way of saying "its mounted". If you don't have a zip disk icon on your desktop, the simplest thing to do is to try to cd to the disk: cd /mnt/zip ls If you see the files you expect, all is well. Even simpler, if you are up for it, type the following and press enter: mount This will display all mounted disks - you should see /mnt/zip in the list. The output is ugly and poorly formatted, but quite effective. To unmount it, nearly the same thing: ./umount-zip250 You may hear the disk spin again, particularly if you have written to it, as linux updates the disk with what you have written. Again, if you have a zip disk icon on your desktop, you will see the green triangle go away. When all of this is working reliably, you can add it to the KDE menu, so that instead of starting a Konsole or an xterm, you can just select a menu item. Start by right clicking on the KDE menu button on the lower left of you screen (has a the big blue star on it if you are running a default Mandrake setup) and select "Menu Editor". Select any single item (for this example, it doesn't matter which one) and then right click. Select "New Item". You will be greeted with a dialog asking you to provide an item name. Type in something like "Mount Zip250" and click OK. In the next dialog that KDE presents, add in whatever descriptions you would like, and be sure that the Command field is filled out with (in this example): /home/my-userid/bin/mount-zip250 Disable the launch feedback checkbox, and save everything (click the Save icon on the menu editor - looks like a diskette). You will see a dialog saying something like "Updating System Configuration". When this completes, your new command is available off the main KDE menu. You don't have to exit the menu editor to try it (which is useful - if you have made a mistake, you can update your command, save it and try again - repeat until correct). Do this again for umount-zip250 and you are done. Ultimately, I created a new folder of commands called "Disk Management" and collected all such commands into it, just for convenience. Good luck!

Ok, here are the scripts I am using: To mount the drive, I have a script called mount-zip250, which appears below: #!/bin/sh # mzip - Shell script to mount internal ATAPI Zip 250 disk on Mandrake 10.1 CE # with 2.6.8.1-24 kernel # Usage: mount-zip250 sudo modprobe ide-floppy sleep 1 mount /dev/hdb4 # All Done! To unmount the drive, I have a script called umount-zip250, which appears below: #!/bin/sh # uzip - Shell script to unmount internal ATAPI Zip 250 disk on Mandrake 10.1 CE # with 2.6.8.1-24 kernel # Usage: umount-zip250 umount /mnt/zip sudo rmmod ide-floppy # All Done! That's it!

I too tried the idea of adding "modprobe ide-floppy" to my rc.local. It doesn't work. For whatever reason, Mandrake 10.1 (at least CE, which I am running) needs the zip disk to be in the drive before it will work. In my case, the ATAPI zip disk is hdb, and MDK will only create /dev/hdb4 if the zip disk is in the drive when I issue the modprobe command. So, I have created a little script, and tied it to a KDE menu item called "mount Zip Disk". The script simply does the modprobe, sleeps for a second, and then does the mount. Works like a champ. I created a similar "unmount Zip Disk" menu item that does a umount of /mnt/zip and then an rmmod of ide-floppy. This yields a repeatable set of commands that can be used over and over.

For my ATAPI zip-250, all that was needed was to modprobe module ide-floppy, and then mount it normally. I agree that the desktop icon is misleading and frustrating. To do this, open a shell window, su to root, and issue command: modprobe ide-floppy You should hear the zip drive get accessed right away. After this, you can mount the drive the normal way. To make this permanent, add this command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local, somewhere near the bottom. Why Mandrake doesn't do something like this automatically, I don't know... Enjoy your zip drive!

There is a new xfce release, just out, xfce 4.2. There is a live CD that you can download and try, without messing up your current installation at all. I have downloaded and tried the live distro CD and xfce 4.2 is really cool. I will be adding it to my Mandrake for sure. There is a Mandrake 10.1 package prebuilt and availalbe at the xfce site; this should save you LOTS of time. I am going to install it myself. I will let the forum know how it goes.

Exactly. I would recommend that you get Knoppix (the latest is 3.7) or the excellent little xfld (the latest is 0.2) and use it to remove the offending drives from /etc/fstab. I had a similar problem and resolved it that way. You MAY also be able to resolve it by adding the keyword "noauto" to the list of keywords in the fstab entry (the stuff right after the file system type). This should stop MDK from trying to auto mount the drive on start up. This SEEMS to work with MDK, but I have seen it not work with other distros, such as SuSE.

I have resolved this problem and thought I would post for other old DOS gamers on Mandrake. First of all, if you haven't tried dosbox, you should. It is an excellent x86 emulator that is totally focused on gaming. The design intent is faithful reproduction of a DOS hardware and software environment so that old DOS games will run properly. That said, the solution to my sound issue was to realize that if you have KDE sounds enabled, you run into trouble. KDE grabs the sound device and holds it for a configurable amount of time. One the sounds I had playing was a sound when a new window was created. Hence, as the dosbox window opened, KDE was holding the sound device and dosbox couldn't get it. Result was no sound. To resolve, simply turn off the "new window" sound, or turn off the KDE sound system entirely. I like the KDE sounds (I am running a hand installed KDE 3.3.2, and the sounds are WAY nicer than those that come with Mandrake's KDE 3.2) and so I kept the sound system on. I simply disable the "new window" sound when I want to fire up Digger, my favorite old DOS game. Hope this helps.

Tell us the make and model of your mouse. I had the same problem with my Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer. I made some changes to /etc/XF86Config and added an xmodmap to /etc/profile and all was well. I now get scrolling off the wheel and Forward and Back off the extra buttons on the mouse. Let us know your make and model. If it is a Microsoft Intellimouse, I will post the changes I made. Got them right here, from some friendly souls on the forum.

Hi, thanks for the reply. You make me realize that I wasn't very clear in stating my problem. My received video is great, it is the transmitted video that is the problem. The other end complains about jerky video. If I open the local video window in Gnomemeeting, I can see what they are complaining about. It is not a problem at their end. If I call them from my other computer, running either Yoper 2.1 or its SuSE 9.0 dual boot, they receive excellent video. I am speculating that maybe there is some sort of packet prioritization stuff in the MDK kernel that isn't quite right in Mandrake 10.1 CE perhaps, or maybe something else. I am kind of hoping that someone else has run into this already and knows what to do! Thanks!

I am having a GnomeMeeting problem that I wonder if anyone else is having? I am running Mandrake 10.1 CE, and the standard GnomeMeeting version that came with it. The problem I am having is that the video is jerky. Audio is wonderful, but video is quite jerky. It looks like it is sending about 1 frame per second at best, despite me having all the usual GnomeMeeting "video codec" settings set to request 8 fps. It is not an issue with my internet link, or with the parties I call - I can get beautifully smooth video with the sames callers by simply switching to my other computer which runs Yoper 2.1. Has anyone out there experienced jerky video with GnomeMeeting, and perhaps has some suggestions for how to improve this? Thanks.

IceWM doesn't have to be boring to look at! There are TONS of themes out there for it. I would personally recommend the IceQua them, which looks remarkably like MacOSX. Not that I am a Mac fan, but I do recognize a good visual theme when I see it. I ran IceWM with the IceQua theme for almost a year before changing over to KDE when 3.3 finally came out (it is faster) and I got a faster computer (yes, I know that KDE3.3 doesn't come with Mandrake - I installed it myself from source). Now KDE runs acceptably fast and I don't use IceWM any more. However, it is a good, fast, and very configurable Window Manager. You may miss icons on your desktop? Add in the program xtdesk, which will allow you to do this. There are several just like xtdesk as well, if you don't like it.

Hi, go to the following URL and you will find a complete run down on how to get your Audigy working. There is a driver called snd-audigyls that will do the trick. I have an Audigy and have been planning to do this myself, but Mandrake is successfully using the onboard AC97 I have, so my motivation has been lacking... http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-p...module=audigyls Hope this helps, and let us know how it goes.

Is anyone out there successfully using Dosbox under Mandrake 10.1? I have dosbox installed, and it plays my old DOS games really well, but I can't get any sound from them. There doesn't seem to be any way to specify which sound device to use, and it always picks a non existant one and then complains that it cant open it. With my config (just /dev/sound/dsp), it always complains that it can't open /dev/sound/dsp1. Feeling clever, as root I made a soft link called /dev/sound/dsp1 that just pointed to /dev/dsp (as does /dev/sound/dsp). Dosbox was more clever. The next time I started it, it said it couldn't open /dev/sound/dsp2! I created one of those; it complained that it couldn't /dev/sound/dsp3... and so on. Is there some dosbox option that doesn't show up in the man page or at their web site that would let me point it directly at a sound device? Thanks!

ohphone is the openh323 client for voice and video calling. It is analagous to Gnomemeeting, but with a command line interface instead of a GUI interface. I would like to get ohphone running so that I could have another H323 client that I can use to help sort out some Gnomemeeting issues I am having. I have a Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 webcam and use the new Saillard pwc driver for it. It works great in Gnomemeeting and in camstream (the pwc test program) but ohphone just doesn't seem to "see" the webcam. Instead, I get what looks like the old "TV test pattern". Specifying /dev/video0 doesn't seem to help. I am wondering if in Mandrake 10.1 CE, with the advent of udev, there is some other nomenclature I need to use to specify the video device for ohphone to use. I notice that neither Gnomemeeting nor camstream refer to it as /dev/video0 (although I can see that device in the /dev directory when the camera is plugged in); instead they show its full textual name "Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000". By the way, the problem I am trying to solve in Gnomemeeting is one of jerky video. Despite having lots of bandwidth uplink (I have 768K uplink) my transmitted video is jerky, almost like it is transmitting about 1 frame a second. I have adjusted all the video codec settings in Gnomemeeting to tell it I have lots of bandwidth and want at least 8 frames a second, but it doesn't seem to work. Wondering if there is a bug somewhere deep in the heart of Mandrake, I wanted to test out another H323 client and see how it performed. I used to use ohphone on another distro and hence the attempt. Any and all insights much appreciated. [moved from Software by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)]