scarecrow

Some old things are certainly not better than the new, but they are quite frequently less buggy. To sum it up, if you have some level of self-confidence and a vague Linux experience, go on- else, stay to the solidity of 10.1 OE.

Devfsd is obsolete in the latest kernel revisions. Udev has taken its place, and as far as I'm concerned it works much better.

VMware has some "cheap" ( = not very expensive) educational licences, but for sure no free edition- so what you saw was warez. The current v.5 installer for Linux is circa 60 MB, and works fine on most mainstream distros, including Mandy- provided that you have $ 300 to spare for a licence.

As a normal user, type export KDEDIR=/usr (assuming that you run some Mandrake version), and then run ./configure normally. You may check if the system reports some basic paths normally by: echo $KDEDIR and echo $QTDIR You may also put the above export variable at one of your startup scripts, as it only lasts for the terminal session you're running. You may need some KDE devel packages, dunno which - just check the program dependencies at the site you downloaded the source.

That "probably" means that your CD-ROM does not support digital playback, and you have to use the analog output by connecting an internal cable from Cd-ROM to soundcard. You could also try to use the real physical device (something like /dev/hdc ) instead of /dev/cdrom which should be an udev alias. Please check your udev.rules ( or 50-mdk.rules or 00.rules or whatever name it has) under /etc/udev/rules.d/ You could also edit /etc/udev/cdsymlinks.conf to have your CD-ROM devices pointed to whatever device node you like.

On MCC, and at the last edition (2005) urpmi follows the sources sequence which shows up when you open the installer- so if a CD source is listed first, then urpmi gives it the preference over a net resource. But of course urpmi always likes to install the latest matching RPM versions. Oh, BTW instead of using your physical CD's as RPM sources you can also use your ISO images, if you have a couple of gigas harddisk space to spare. This way the installation will be faster, and you won't have to open/close your CD-ROM tray all the time.

Konqueror does have a two pane mode, but you'd better use Krusader or (when in console mode) Midnight Commander. If your urpmi repositories are set correctly ( say following easyurpmi.zarb.org ) then a simple "urpmi mc krusader" as root should fetch and install them.

Open MCC, go to the installation section, refresh your urpmi sources and install everything related to "ligjpeg" and "libqt3". Then try again (you might have more dependencies needed).

Kernel builds are cpu intensive for sure, and take some time to finish.

I have tried practically every distro around, but I loved few of them... Namely Mandy (since I got fed up with my purchased SuSE 3 years ago), Slackware since one year ago, which is dogz blx but its age shows at times, and finally Arch Linux, which is what I use and will use in the future, unless I switch to a 64-bit machine.

On kscd, enable digital output for your CD-ROM... if you don't use an internal analog cable to your soundcard (most people don't use such a cable). Some older CD-ROM's don't support digital output, or do support it but sound like crap, so you do have to use an analog cable connection.

Kill Arts, and use just ALSA and a soft mixer. It deserves it, it's nothing more than a pain in the...

He reported a few posts ago: yes login as root.. says' no such command' This means the NVIDIA* file is almost certainly not flagged as executable.

As root: urpmi nano (not mandatory, but it's a very easy to use console text editor). nano /etc/lilo.conf Midnight Commander is also a fine vi frontend for X-less environments (via pointing the file to edit and pressing F4).

Do you have the xorg-devel packages installed? If you do have them in and still encounter that problem, shoot out some export PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/include" before running ./configure at your console.

1.5.0_02 had issues with Mozilla and Firefox, and certain applets wouldn't run cleanly on Konqueror either, but update 3 works fine for me.

If you're using the nvidia or ATI driver it's likely a permissions problem for OpenGL applications. Does this happen with all screensavers, or just the OpenGL ones?

I guess the whole problem is because NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run is simply not set as executable.

Mandriva or PCLinuxOS, or if you are brave enough, Kanotix. Mepis is an ugly mix of Sarge and Sid with toys for kids, and immature kernels- I don't like anything in it.

Where did you install LILO? It should be installed at the MBR (likely at /dev/hda) if no other OS or third party OS loader is present.

Same problem here when I first installed 2005LE- however, an update solved the problem (likely a broken libpng3 package).

Add to that the fact cdrecord 1.11a32 is older that the great pyramid, and unlikely to work with any dvd+rw tools version, so DVD burning is right out of the question.

scsi emulation is obsolete/deperecated on 2.6.X series kernels, so you shouldn't use it. Are you running devfs or udev? (I think 10.1 community had switched to udev). If it's udev, then check your udev rules, the problem must be somewhere there. You can also try updating your 10.1 repos and then urpmi dbus hal HAL will take care automounting your disks.

First get sure your user belongs to the "audio" group, and second disable artsd, for better or worse...

Most obviously an installed extension (flashblock) fails to initialize, and should be removed.