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Do all your regular updates. Then proceed to update your kernel As root, type this: # urpmi --update kernel Then install the kernel-source # urpmi kernel-source Then install ndiswrapper and follow the instructions on the Readme to make it work. In short, you will have to modprobe the new installed driver and then configure the card. # modprobe nameofdriver Go to MDK's Control Center and configure your card. You could also buy a supported card and avoid all the above hassle. Linspire's website has a decent list of supported wireless cards in its knowledge base. Those will work fine under MDK. Good luck

Make sure to do your updates after installation. Also do a google for "easy urpmi". You will be glad you did.

I seriously doubt that your disk was damaged. The konqueror issue is a documented error with a documented fix. Simply do your updates after installation. If you are still convinced that your disk is damaged, feel free to send it to me for "service".

I am a little confused. i thought that you were supposed to be doing the updates to Community 10.1 from main and not from cooker. Can someone please provide an authoritative answer to this issue? Thanks.

Sorry I didn't make myself very clear. I didn't want to completely redesign my desktop or to suggest that anything like it be used by default. Lazyness got the best of me. :) I did want to suggest the provided color scheme for the desktop as default as well as the other suggestions I already made in writing. I find Noia very complete and very usable, but I'll take yoru word for it about the missing icons.

OK, I took your suggestions for the background and used #506294 and combined with #1D2D36 to create this: http://www.mialug.org/downloads/images/dis...ts/Mandrake.png http://www.mialug.org/downloads/images/dis...s/Mandrake1.png http://www.mialug.org/downloads/images/dis...s/Mandrake2.png The only thing I would change in the above shots is the size of the deskstop icons. They should be smaller for general consumption, although I like them fine that way. Specific suggestions: *Improve Mandrake's Control Center, particularly the Internet configuration center and the font installer leave a lot to be desired. *Make Noia the Default Iconset. *Provide better backgrounds. I emailed Mandrake offering a free set of backgrounds with pictures that a professional photographer friend of mine had taken. Mandrake never got back to me. If anybody has a way of reaching mandrake, let me know through my site: http://www.porcel.net *Make Plastik or .NET default Style *Make Plastik or MDK square default window style. *Make fonts bigger all around. The first thing I always do is go to KDE's Control Center so that the fonts become legible. *Place dictionary and desktop access applet on Panel by default. *Default Icons should be: Desktop Access, Home, Browser, Email, IM, Application Button that provides access to the Office suite. *Provide by default some of the very useful KDE service-menus available at kde-look.org *Beyond looks, test, test, test, test, test, test, test the heck out of the release. There should be no obvious bugs. I love Mandrake. These are all just friendly suggestions.

I find what you are doing utterly irresponsible. Mandrake Community release is meant as a testing distribution for those that want to live on the bleeding edge such as myself and many of the folks in this forum. It is absolutely not what you give a customer. Either give them a patched 9.2 or get a club membership and give them MDK 10 official.

Do you have libdvdcss installed? Tha's all I needed to install to get DVD playing going smoothly with Totem.

Sagittarius, I am a little confused by your post. Should we used your rpms to install kde 3.2 on Mandrake 9.2 or should we use Mandrake 10 Community rpms? I am just a bit confused by what you say in your web page. If we should use Mandrake's 10 Community rpms, how do we add those to the list of repositories? Are they any negative side effects to just installing from your rpms?

What you want to do doesn't make any sense. Why? Because the cheap raid that comes with the SATA chipset is not really hardware raid. The Windows driver is doing all the work. Thus, Mandrake gets confused when it sees the odd partition layout that the sata-raid driver presents. Secondly, Raid 0 is a waste of time and potentially of your data unless you do tons of video-editing. If you want to do Raid properly, get a 3ware controller. The drivers are part of the kernel and work perfectly with all OSs. I always tell people to avoid getting Raid or SCSI built into the motherboard. Save the money and invest it into a card that you can take with you when you upgrade boards/cpu.

Don't leave any USB devices attached to the computer until you are passed that stage and see what happens.

Dear Mandrakians, After being unable to play DVDs by using the Ogle rpms available through plf, I decided to do a little bit of research. Now I have perfect playback and I thought this info might benefit other folks. To get Ogle to play in Mandrake 9.2,you need to install the the following package from the third CD of the download distribution: XFree86-compat-libs-4.1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm Then, Go to this page: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/redhat.shtm Where you will find a convenient link for the following rpms: libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.fr.i386.rpm libdvdread-0.9.4-fr3.i386.rpm ogle-0.9.1-fr3.i386.rpm ogle_gui-0.9.1-fr2.i386.rpm I used the freshrpms link for each of the above. Make sure you download theactual rpm and not the devel or source package. Install each the usual way,i.e. rpm -ivh "nameofrpm" That's it. Enjoy perfect and beautiful DVD playback in Mandrake 9.2. But it gets even better. Once you install the above. Totem, the media player included with Mandrake will be able to play your DVDs too. So now you have mp3, DVD, CDs and mpeg playback from a very cool looking app. I am having fun and enjoying this new release. Ps: The plf packages for Ogle are junk. I repeat junk, so don't bother using them. And I was using the 9.2 plf available through easy urpmi. Anyway the above works perfectly.

Dear Mandrakians, After being unable to play DVDs by using the Ogle rpms available through plf, I decided to do a little bit of research. Now I have perfect playback and I thought this info might benefit other folks. To get Ogle to play in Mandrake 9.2,you need to install the the following package from the third CD of the download distribution: XFree86-compat-libs-4.1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm Then, Go to this page: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/redhat.shtm Where you will find a convenient link for the following rpms: libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.fr.i386.rpm libdvdread-0.9.4-fr3.i386.rpm ogle-0.9.1-fr3.i386.rpm ogle_gui-0.9.1-fr2.i386.rpm I used the freshrpms link for each of the above. Make sure you download theactual rpm and not the devel or source package. Install each the usual way,i.e. rpm -ivh "nameofrpm" That's it. Enjoy perfect and beautiful DVD playback in Mandrake 9.2. But it gets even better. Once you install the above. Totem, the media player included with Mandrake will be able to play your DVDs too. So now you have mp3, DVD, CDs and mpeg playback from a very cool looking app. I am having fun and enjoying this new release. Ps: The plf packages for Ogle are junk. I repeat junk, so don't bother using them

I am generally very impressed with Mandrake 9.2. It seems more stable and faster than any other edition I have used. For instance, using my external USB2 drive used to lock the computer hard. Now it works perfectly. It is however not without problems. Among them: *DVD playback. I added the plf source to urpmi and proceeded to install Ogle, which has always run great. Now, opening a DVD causes the program to seg-fault and quit. I just discovered the included Totem Multimedia player that appears to be able to play DVDs. What do you have to do to make Totem play DVDs? Alternately, is someone using Ogle successfully with 9.2? If so, how, and where did you get your rpms? Finally, Totem plays music CDs perfectly, it even grabs the CDinfo from the web. KSCD will "play" them, but it produces no sound. If you can throw an light on the above and how you went about resolving it, I'd be thankful. Good day.

From http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2624.html Ok, so I am not going crazy. I did read about the eight bit encoded of filenames, but I was under the impression that the latest versions of NFS actually supported it. What is a little puzzling is that I am sure NFS is being used to share files in Spanish speaking countries, so there has to be a work around. By the way, I can live without the accents on filenames perfectly fine, but the "ñ" is absolutely needed. Not to put a fine put on it, but the difference between "ano" and "año" (anus) and (year) is just that one mischievous letter. Thanks for your help. I also found that there is an internationalization option for Samba where one can specify the character set. Unfortunately, this hasn't resolved the issues for me yet either. Anybody else? Is there no resident Spaniard in the house?