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i can goto any webpage in the world including about:blank and about:config and when ever I middle-click i get taken to http://www.gnb.ca/. I've looked at every single thing in firefox that i can but nothing refers to that website! I often use the wheel to scroll through a webpage and i occasionally get a little rough and middle-click. I'd much rather middle click did nothing.

Think I got it!!!! typed "linux acpi=off ide=nodma". I was browsing around and ran into a few parameters for passing to kernel during boot time. and this is was the minimal configuration that gets me to the installation window asking for my prefered language! I'll be gone for the next week, so I might not be able to post whether this worked fully or not. [edit] saw a typo right as i clicked post...

Got past the "trying to access cdrom" but it fails the "loading program into memory" but I think that has to do with the CDs being burned faster than 8x. Think I did those at 48x.

haha. No I don't think so. lol. I typed the equal sign the first time but not the second. Give me a minute to make sure. I'm assuming that if I did type it wrong I wouldn't have gotten a message of any kind say it was invalid?

Are you using the same CD? Could be a bad download or burn. Only thing I can think of that would follow you to a new machine. But you say you've tried other distros. Odd...very odd. have you tried both of your cd-roms drives? I noticed you said the dvd-rom was from the previous machine. other than that I can't think of anything.

I have a old laptop. For the longest time I could not get the cdrom drive to read burned cds. However I recently discovered that it would indeed read them if i disabled DMA first. Now I'm trying to disable DMA when I boot the Mandriva 2005LE cds, but it doesn't seem to be working and it freezes when trying to access cdrom. I also have a Gentoo Install CD, I disable DMA with "gentoo-nofb ide=nodma" at the boot prompt. i apply the nofb since the max res of my laptop is lower than what gentoo uses but the "ide-nodma" doesn't seem to work for mandriva's install cds. Is this right or is there another parameter i need to enter.

Here's my ugly desktop.....I like my BG picture though. As you can see I am using the dinky sysmon and weather piece for gnome. I'd like the expanded flavors that Bossieman and FX have.

Well...There are a couple of things I see around here that I've seen before but I just can't figure out how to get them. 1: Bossieman) How did you get that sys monitor in the lower-left of your desktop? I'm stuck with the one for Gnome's Taskbar. 2: FX) The week's weather forecast. All I can get is that dinky one for gnome's taskbars. 3: mystified) Transparent windows? Also I'm a stupid noob so if this concerns compiling anything I'll require super detail instructions. ...I need to get back on that LFS build on my old 333Mhz PII...I was beginning to learn how to compile stuff right and use some of the linux commands...Then a power failure F'd me real bad. Haven't picked it up since. Oh well. [Edit] I'm using Mandriva 2005LE and Gnome. I'm a stupid noob so everything is whatever version it is on the download DVD. I'd prefer RPMs if at all possible. Yeah I'm a windows user, power user more like. Only reason I still use windows is because of PC Games. Any they tend to have windows only stickers, atleast the ones I play. Only one that isn't windows only is NeverwinterNights and I have never bothered to setup it's linux piece. Wine doesn't handle my games well and I rather not pay for celdega (SP?).

Apparently I wasn't very clear because I fail to see how looking for a ppmmake rpm package falls into art and design but it not my decision so I'll go with it. I have webcollage installed because it comes with the xscreensaver rpm package like you said. My problem is that I cannot use it since I do not have the software application "ppmmake" which it complains about requiring before it will run. Even once I get that application into a runable binary form i must get in to the $PATH variable. I wanted a RPM package to handle all the details since I'm a noob. Although I'm willing to learn how, it is still a bit over my head.

I would like to use the WebCollage xscreensaver but it complains about being unable to find ppmmake in the $PATH variable. I searched the computer and couldn't locate it. I haven't been able to find a package on the mandrake cd to install it. Anyone know where I can find a prebuilt package for mandrake? I'm too much of a noob to compile it myself. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Man this has been a hectic month. School got the 440 tablet pc they ordered and i have been to busy getting those ready for... well... today when the got handed out. My high school is starting a one-to-one tablet pc for students and staff. As a one of the two techies i got to image them, and wonder why our server started taking 48 hours to image 3 laptops with 6gb images when before it would do 30 pc in 2-3 hours with 6gb images... Turned out to be a failing scsi drive (what sucks was it was brand new, but the good news is since it was so new there was nothing but a copy of the image on it). got a new scsi drive and imaged 34 laptops in an hour flat . Too bad we only discovered that the hdd was dieing just this sunday.... At least one problem down. Now for my getting my tuner to work in mandriva.... I still got nothing after reinstalling. I'm using the default all-in-wonder driver that come with mandriva 2005LE. If that means anything.

I have a "Asus A7n8x-x" MB with a "ATI Radeon All-in-wonder 9200" Video card. I have tried going into the mandriva control center and attempted to open the tv tuner config in the hardware section. But the tv tuner piece never loads. I started to load the tv tuner config, left for work and came back 9 hours later to it still "loading". I can't seem to find anyware that provides the necessary help to manually configure the tuner. But I think i need to reinstall mandriva 2005LE. My "Mandriva Menu" application Icons are disappearing/duplicating themselves at random. the internet section is empty and the office section has three copies of everything. I'm going to reinstall mandriva and see if that makes a difference. Be back tomorrow with either results or a headache.

Man...10.2 is great! With such low memory I fugured the gui would run poorly if at all. It actually runs as well as win98SE. Opening up a new application takes a while but once opened it runs fine. So now I'm asking how to start the gui by default and log in a single user.

Well the install is complete. actually it finished 20 minutes ago including the post-install config. I turned it off when it rebooted after completing the install. it's 10:30PM here and I'm going to bed. I'll test it tomorrow at work if i have some free time otherwise I not get a chance until around 6:00PM. I have it defaulting to no gui at boot up. in case i can't run the gui. if the gui does work fine how do i make it default to loading the gui? nevermind cross the bridges as they come. Though during the post-config. Mandriva would not see my sound card. Dell Latitude CP docs say my card is a ISA Crystal 4237B. I'll see what luck i have with "alsaconf" and "sndconfig" before I ask for help.

oops appears i never did get back to you guys on the 10.0 network.img and pcmia.img. well they didn't work either. for some reason they would not see the card even though i was using the correct driver. well i believe i was the two drivers i tried both had xircom in their name. Only thing is I think the mandriva install gonna take more than a hour to finish...Unless the count down timer is really a count up timer... I've gone from 57Min to 1:05 since i started typing this. Oops nevermind dropped back down to 58 min. musta been a big package for that 233Mhz proccessor. Man I hope the processor requirement plumented like the ram did. otherwise I'm running console only :(