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I ran into this just yesterday when trying to install Mandrake 9.1 on my Dell Inspiron 7500. I pulled my Orinoco based wireless card out of the pcmcia slot(leaving it empty) rebooted the computer and it booted fine. I reinstered my card and configured it properly from with in gnome and everything worked fine. The computer even boots fine after this. If you have any cards in your slot take them out! Then try booting it. As for your partition issue. How did you go about repartitioning your OS? did you create two partitions from cratch and install a fresh copy of WinXP? Partition magic? If it's a fresh install the only thing I could suggest is to try it again. If you used partition magic unfortunately there isn't much you can do unless you created the partition magic rescue disk. If you did put that in. If you didn't your more than likely SOL. I have run into partition magic on rare occasions corrupting the partition some how. Hopefully some of this info helps you out. Unfortunately I'm still not God, as hard as I try, so I don't know everything. If any one else has more info or ideas please post!!!

Are you trying to change a setting when this change in mode takes place? If so what setting and in which piece of software?

Trans gaming costs money. If your game can run in an opengl mode you might try original Wine with GL support. It's free. Wont cost you a dime and it's not terrible to setup. Go to http://www.winehq.com and download the GL enabled version. I usually go to the 'Data Party' mirror and download there nightly CVS rpm install. Seems to work pretty well for me.

GL would be cool. Does the port still maintain the voice taunt feature?

That seems odd seeing as how neither of those things should be coupled. It might be helpful to know what type of equipment your running on since a situation that seems to link network(netspeed) and video(framerate) would almost definately be a hardware/driver issue. If your using Nvidia hardware you might want to make sure you are running the latest drivers.

well beowulf is one of the most commonly used clusters but openmosix is quick takeing the top spot. You can read more about clustering at http://www.openmosix.org If your running some flavor of redhat I got at least the master server working by simply installing a pair of rpm packages. I never did take the time to hook up additional machines to see if it was truely working but I assume it was because the monitoring tool was properly showing cpu and memory usage for the machine. One thing you should know is that most of the easier clustering options only deligate individual processes to the best possible machine for the job. It doesn't do true parallel processing. Basically if your 'server' machine is the most powerful of the bunch and you start a program in wine then that program will be contained in that one process on that one machine and will never move. In other words you wont see a performance increase. But if you run a program like the Maya rendering software for linux. That acctually spawns more than one process. Those processes would then be delegated out to the best possible machines for the process. If you want true parallel processing then you'll probably need to find some other projects around the web. Try a google search. In my limited experience these type of clusters appear to be a lot more involved. You have to recompile kernels, edit large sums of config files and do all kinds of crazy complicated things. May be try openmosix and if that goes together easily for you and you feel comfortable then you could move on to the more complicated versions of clusters. Good luck with it!

I had done a quick search earlier and the first few links were nothing but message boards and people making references to 'magic modules'. Uppon doing a search for 'linux magic module' on google the very first link turned up a possible beta driver for one of these things. I'm not 100% certain though because the site is not entirely in english. However the driver is listed directly below an SDK for the magic module that states it's for linux/win. Here's the link: http://www.magictrance.nl/english/Software.htm Give that a shot. That's the only thing I've found with the exception of a spanish page that even seems to have hard information on this peice of hardware. It looks to be fairly non-standard or just not often used.

I do realize yours in not official. What I was asking is weather or not the install from your site that runs around 300mb if it's that large because all of the data contained in the cloop file is all ready in that package?

Sweet. I was just starting to take a look at the live cd to try to figure out how to tear it apart. Looks like you beat me to it. Any idea what the deal is with them having a linux version but not releasing it for normal download and install? Quick question on your army ops installer. It's 3xxmb is this a package that contains the entire game then? Thanks for the installers!!!

Did you try to use the version of apt that I linked to? It's been rebuilt with some other repositories that are more up to date and geared towards multimedia. Might get you straightened out. If you did and it didn't work then unfotunately I'm spent. Good luck with it man. May be in a couple weeks when I recieve my copy of suse I might be able to help more.

First tip is nothing amazing but might help some people out a little performance wise. Note: Only try this if your video card was part of the default list of cards when you installed/configured X. I dont know what it'll do if it wasn't directly supported by your distro. If you open up your XF86Config located in /etc/X11 and scroll down to the 'device' section. Add a line to that section just before the 'endsection' line. The line should look like this: option "accel" This will make X render windows faster. It does not! make applications acctually start faster. The second thing was touched on lightly in a previous post. It's the use of hdparm to tweak out your hard drive. I'm running a newer maxtor 40GB drive with Redhat 9. Redhat did a good job of configuring my hard drive but I did manage to squeeze and extra 6mb of transfer speed out of it. Check out the following links for the low down. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html and These guys seem a little paranoid but they do give a good reference list of basic options for hdparm. http://www.linuxnetmag.com/en/issue7/m7hdparm1.html And of course you could always type: man hdparm If you've got other good ideas post them here. If you acctually know what "accel" does, post that here too. I'm pretty sure it hands x to the video accelerator rather than the processor.

Just posting a follow up. Apparently just not to long ago on this very list a solution was posted. http://www.unixodbc.org/doc/OOoMySQL.pdf

I've got a nifty little link for a copy of apt-rpm (apt-get for rpm packages, for the uninitiated). This particular one has lots of resources for multimedia packages due to the fact that a large number of the people at the mythtv project use it. Enjoy! http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/52949

Make sure you install all the source packages from the mandrake source cd. Should have some check box's for that in your gui package manager. If you downloaded updates or installed updates to your kernel you may need to download the appropriate src rpm's directly from mandrake. You might have to hit the ftp directly for that kind of thing. It should be to tough to get those and get them installed.

Acctually you should just edit the xstartup file in the .vnc hidden folder. home/.vnc/xstartup. The second post on this link has an example xstartup config. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/52949

Well honestly it all comes down to preference. In my case I'm some where between a newb and a power user. I enjoy redhat for it's ease of use and large share of the market. That means most if not all things work with it. At the same time as being shiny on top I can still get down and dirty with it with out worrying if I'm going to run into to many issues. But that's just me. Oh yeah and I'm studying to become an RHCE which I suppose makes me partial. BBIAgent still rocks my world though!

These guys seem to know a thing or two about those apps and how to make them work. I got XAWTV running under linux very easily by installing Apt-RPM from this site http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/ once that's in place run "apt-get update" minus the quotes of course and your all set to go. Run "apt-get install xawtv" it should download and install xawtv and all of its dependencies. Good luck!

well part of the answer to your question is right here http://www.linuxvalley.it/encyclopedia/ldp/manpage/man1/newaliases.1.php Looks like you need to configure some sort of mail settings to make it work right. More info on what Amavis is would be good too. Thanks!

The response....sort of....basically with linux you can setup a regular dial up connection with your isp. You can do this with the MSN service but only if you have the correct information before hand. The information for setting up such a connection can be found in this document from microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/default.asp...;NoWebContent=1 In your case instead of using Windows 2000 you'll be using Linux. It's extremely easy to setup a standard dial up connection under newer distro's like Redhat9 and the newest version of Mandrake. Hopefully that gets you into linux on the internet and away from that Win...stuff. :-)

Well heck I'll risk getting a little toasty with the flames that will no doubt ensue. All though I do have to give these forums props. It's not nearly as bad here. I have to agree it was a bit harsh the way it was worded, but, every one is entitled to his/her opinion. Secondly the comment before mine made no sense. You said you learned Win3.1 by poking around but you read all the way through the book before installing linux. Seems to me you learned something earlier about how to go about things. May be the person that you were kind of harsh to is that 5 or 6 year old who is poking around? Were large user bases available to ask questions to when you were on Win3.1? No. Would you have gotten on a message board and asked how to do something in win3.1 had you had that option. Probably. Point being learning is different for every one over different time periods. Yes your entitled to your opinion but it doesn't hurt to not be so harsh. Ok I'm done with my opinion now. :-) Props to xfrat for sticking out this linux thing. Hang in there buddy it only gets easier from here!

Thought I'd share this. Might make your life easier when it comes to dependencies. The Debian distro uses this for package download and management. It automatically tries to find, download and install dependencies. It's called Apt-Get. They've gotten it working for rpm's on Redhat and Mandrake. Instead of pointing you to the original version of the software that has kind of a lame set of repositories I figured I'd point you here http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/ to this copy that has repositories setup for stuff used in the mythtv project. They gotta have all kinds of video related stuff around for the project. Should do the trick for you and make life easier.

Are you looking for the UI functionality or the Dbase functionality? You might try MySQL and any one of it's many visual front ends?

Kill two birds with one stone. Support linux and do things easier by using WineX. WineX works well for both games and applications as it primarily is just wine. Give it a shot. If your all ready down with the compilation thing you can grab wineX for free from cvs. www.transgaming.com

I think that the problem might be with mime types. Try making sure there is a mime type setup for your excel spreadsheets. Might try looking at the open office mime type and matching things up for the two settings. Go to 'Start Here' and then double click on 'Preferences' then 'File Types and programs' from the list you should be able to look at how the open office files are associated to pen office and then setup a mime type for the excel files. Hopefully that helps.

Are you just trying to install it so you can view web based java animations/games? Trying hitting up the netscape web site and the plugins section. There's a web installable .xpi that should get you going with out that script hacking.