scarecrow

What type of partition it is? If it's vfat you need a "codepage=8859-6" argument, and for ntfs an analogous nls one... No need for such things for ext2/3 and reiserfs partitions.

I use nano (small, functional and you don't have to remember all that strange vi key combos). Simply "nano /etc/fstab" as root. Alternatively, you can use (almost) any liveCD and edit it. If you use LILO, then do remember to do what adamw suggested, else if you use Grub it ain't necessary.

rpm --rebuild is part of "Linux for Dummies" lesson number three, but anyway, there are ready 1.0.2 RPM's for MDK 10.1... http://rpm.nyvalls.se/10.1/RPMS/ or http://norlug.org/?op=rpms&rpm_func=rpm_index&cat=5 What do you mean "you cannot find moziilla- firefox anywhere"? Open a bash terminal and type in "locate mozilla-firefox" You will likely get plenty of hits...

Untick "detect dial tone before dialing", and also if you have an ethernet connection running do an 'ifdown eth0" before. This is a known issue with many Smartlink and Agere winmodems- they simply refuse to connect if another net connection is running.

Firefox 1.0.2 comes at the main repo of 2005LE, and not at the club repos. This binary may or may not work with 10.1, but I cannot see why the ftp.mozilla.org binary shouldn't. Also getting the source rpm(s) from official/2005/SRPMS/main/ and doing the custom "rpm --rebuild mozilla*.src.rpm" should work.

K3B also installs kdelibs and kdebase (else you cannot run k3bsetup). You can simply change your initialization files and use gdm instead- in most distros this is done by editing /etc/inittab, but some differ. But since you seem to use Mandrake, you can use mcc, which has a login manager module- there you can pick between kdm, gdm and xdm. In Mandrake, the file which decides the login manager is /etc/sysconfig/desktop kdm isn't much uglier or less secure than gdm, in fact all login managers suck. Just use level 3 at bootup and edit your ~.xinitrc to get your fave window manager after "startx".

Run "alsamixer" in a root console, and check if the above inputs are muted. Can you post/attach your /etc/modprobe.conf please?

Strange... is the sane-backends package installed? I have a dual interface (scsi/usb) Epson Perfection 1640 scanner which has absolutely no problems with all MDK versions since 9.2. If it still insists not finding a scanner you might have to create a node yourself, although strictly speaking scsi scanners shouldn't be udev's business. BTW a scsi scanner must be powered on before the system boots, but I guess you already know that. I also assume that ths SCSI card bios sees the scanner at startup.

What's the output of "sane-find-scanner" on a root console? Do you have a "scanner" group or not?

You can already install 2005LE in a relatively easy way if you have broadband, no need to wait for anything. Just get the minimal 15MB ISO from one of MDK mirrors, say ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Li...images/boot.iso ...and the rest aren't too complex.

It works fine here (installed from scratch). If you updated from a previous version, try removing your user settings.

Try booting from the second CD, or boot with some -noacpi switch. Not 100% sure your problem is ACPI related, you could also try other boot parameters.

Yes, it's fstab the one you should edit.

Try mounting your partition(s) defining the UTF-8 charset, something like /dev/hda8 /home reiserfs iocharset=utf8 0 0

K3B has severe problems with kernel 2.6.8, and minor ones with 2.6.9. All I can suggest is getting a newer 2.6.10 or 2.6.11 .src.rpm from 10.2/2005LE or Cooker, and make a fitting kernel for your system with "rpm --rebuild kernel-blah.src.rpm". It will take some time and CPU cycles.

You need Acrobat 7 to view pdf forms. kpdf has improved a hell of a lot, but still it's not suitable for the job. Your Linux experiment will improve dramatically as soon as you drop crippo Fedora.

It worked for me, putting aside "updates" which had wrong path for hdlist(but very easily fixable).

hotplug, dbus and hal are system daemons, not a directory! "sudo urpmi dbus hal" (if your urpmi dirs are up-to-date), although I have no idea whaat's happening with 2.6.8.X, the most problematic 2.6.X series kernel ever...

First time I tried it on 2005LE (built from the Cooker boot.iso) it quitted with an error message, and after that it could only be fired via "kdesu mozilla-firefox" and not as a normal user. For some odd reason the hidden mozilla directory on /home/user had wrong permissions. Deleting it (as root) and restarting firefox as a normal user resolved this strange error. I did run firefox the very first time as root... Anyway, it's Cooker, such things happen!

If you want to taste apt-rpm/synaptic on the current Mandrake release instead of urpmi, it's quite easy (some MDK based distros use it since quite some time ago) but I don't see any advantages over urpmi worth talking about.

The modern way to handle USB storage is via hotplug/dbus/hal, and optionally ivman. Best results with current kernels (2.6.10 or later). With them there's no need to touch /etc/fstab yourself, nor use submount/supermount and all assorted oldies.

What sort of mobo chipset, and/or IDE controller are you using?

I used to have constant lockups under Linux (and I mean any Linux) with older BIOS revisions of my MSI 865PE mainboard. Windoze weren't working perfectly either, but way better anyway. Since the last BIOS revision they didn't appear again with any Linux I've toyed with.

KDE 3.3 was indeed in CD4- albeit built on the foot/ full of bugs.

I have already installed it on my laptop (not full monty,I used thac's packages for KDE 3.4.0) and it works fairly well, I like toying with it- no more those stupid RC* kernel panic problems at shutdown. On my desktop the only Linux that has a reason to exist is Arch Linux.