Dapper Dan

Don't listen to Jim, he's drunk! Seriously, Mepis is good and has good hardware detection. Apart from Knoppix, it's probably the most user friendly Debian spinoff there is out there.

When you start to configure that mouse, just remember: At a terminal as root: mousedrake [enter]

My wife and I have a Toshiba Satellite using Morphix-Gnome 4.1 with an Orinoco Gold card. Everything works perfectly except the 56k modem which we don't use anyway. Maybe it DOES work with Linux, but I'm afraid we've never looked into it.

This ought to help on the 2wire issue.

We get an awful lot of posts like yours on "10." Do a search here on "Mandrake 10 install", and you should have an array of information on this problem. Personally, my advice is to go to Fedora Core 1. Good Luck!

What do you need icons on your desktop for? One of the reasons IceWM is so fast is you're not bogged down with a lot of extras you really don't need, (like desktop icons.) Everything you'll ever need can be programmed right there in your menu, just a right click away. You can use the Mandrake menu editor to set up your IceWM menu the way you want, but it was always a little squirrelly in Mdk 9. They may have gotten it fixed. To configure IceWM, I use Icecc, which can do everything from changing the background to setting up your menu. The guy who created it, Vadim Khohlov is really nice and helpful, and appreciates feedback from users, (when worded courteously). As far as menu entries go, Its real easy to do that manually. using your favorite editor, just go to: ~/.icewm/menu If the icewm menu is not there yet, edit one entry using the Mandrake menu editor, or icecc, and it will create ~/home/.icewm/menu for you. Here's a screenshot of my first IceWM DE way back when I was using Mandrake 9.

Have you run mousedrake?

The first place I always used to look for additional software when I was using Mandrake was rpmfind.org.

Thanks for sharing that, in order to help someone else. You can also use vi. Both emacs and vi have their advocates.

I just changed mine up from 32 to 250. Man what a difference! It IS a lot faster. This is now the fastest browser I've ever used, except for links-graphic which puts them all to shame as far as speed goes.

IceWM is already included with Mdk 10, along with a nice configurator called Icepref. As root go: urpmi icewm [enter] It will beg for your install CDs. Then do the same with Icepref urpmi icepref [enter] After installation, IceWM will appear in the KDE sign in thingy, (KDM), under "sessions." Just choose it and you're off! If you need more info on IceWM just ask. It's a very fast desktop environment, and highly configurable.

I can't imagine why you're having problems, unless Mdk 10 has done something funky that I'm not aware of, which I doubt, or your card isn't prism based. If it is prism based, you shouldn't have to build anything as the “drivers” for it are usually included with every major distro. Exactly which PCI card do you have, the Gold or Silver, or something else? I'm not familiar with the PCI versions but the pcmcia cards are notoriously easy to get going under Linux. See this thread for a little more info..

I wish I could help, but I know nothing about these things. I do know many of these cameras come with a Windows program so you can download your digital images and view them on your computer. If it's just a matter of mounting the picture files location via USB then that wouldn't be too difficult. Have you had a look at this post? It might be worth a shot to try something like that. If you can get the picture files on the camera mounted, then it would be a matter of just copying them over to your /home directory.

Have you tried commenting out the respective line in your /etc/fstab? It likely begins with /dev/sda1.

Sorry to hear of your problems. I'd be pissed too. I installed Mdk 10 twice to have a look at it, and although I had no problems with my USB mouse, it did do crazy things with my HP Deskjet 5550. Every so often it would just spit paper out for no reason. On two seperate installs this happened! If I may make a suggestion: Fedora Core 1. With the updates, it is very stable. In fact, It is more stable than Mandrake 9.0 was for me, and I bragged on it too! I've looked at Core 2, and though it is impressive in many ways, my personal feeling is it ain't quite ready for prime time, but I'll give it a few months. I just don't know what's happened to Mandrake. I know a lot of users like it a lot, and I'm not taking pot shots, (I'm still a member of Mandrake club), but 9.1 and 9.2 were a huge disappointment for me after the stability of 9.0. 10 seems a little better, but in my opinion Fedora has it beat by a mile! If you are thinking Debian, you might want to have a look at Mepis. It's install is very easy, and it has good hardware detection. Knoppix is also a fast and easy way to install Debian. Sorry I couldn't help more..

Hi Motionman04. I have used IceWM for almost two years now, and can probably point you in the right direction on getting it installed and configured. First, tell me what distro you're using.

I've never used Suse, although a friend of mine is going to let me borrow his boxed copy of 9.0 in a day or two. I hope I'm pleasantly surprised! I can tell you about Fedora though. If you like Yast, you would likely also like apt-get rpm for Fedora. I think it works pretty much the same way, and I've not experienced any problems downloading packages nor with up[censored] my system with apt-get. I like Fedora precisely for the reasons you mention. If you're not in a hurry, I can get back with you on my thoughts about Suse after I've had time to smoke it over.

That is what this post was all about. Thanks!

When I created a persistent /home directory with the Kanotix live cd on my usb reader/writer stick, it formatted it with ext2 rather than the fat32 it came with. This is great because I much prefer ext2. I also have other files on this device that I wish to access from my installed Fedora Core 1. In Core 1, when the reader/writer was formatted with fat32, and I had it labled as fat32 in /etc/fstab, I could write: mount /mnt/usbstick in my .bash_profile, and it would mount it when I logged in to my desktop environment. Since it is now formatted as ext2, this no longer works. Here is it's respctive line as it presently appears in /etc/fstab.. Code: /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick ext2 user,noauto,umask=0 0 0 When I try to mount it using kwikdisk, or from the terminal as regular user with: mount /mnt/usbstick/ I get: Code: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, or too many mounted file systems Although if I do as root: mount/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick It gets mounted and I have access to it at /mnt/usbstick, even though I haven't mounted /mnt/usbstick! This has got me confused. Does anyone know whats going on here, and can someone suggest how I can get /mnt/usbstick to again mount automatically like when it was formatted with fat32? Thanks for your help.

Then try it with: winex3 whatever.exe

It's just mysterious how he knew which character I was talking about.

I had the same problem with a new Dell PC that had on board video with Mandrake 9.0. I too could only get 640x480 resolution. I decided rather than try to fight it, to go with a new Nvidia card with 128 memory. Not only would I get better graphics, but the card itself would help ease the machines resource use. Now I don't know if that is even an option, because I know absolutely nothing about laptop hardware or even if there are Nvidia cards you can install into one. And I sure wouldn't know how to install the hardware either! If that IS an option, I've installed Fedora Core 2 on two boxes with Nvidia cards and have had no trouble from either. If you can't get the on board video running, and it's possible to do it, I'd snap in an Nvidia before spending too much time and frustration trying to get it working.

Just throwing out an idea here. Does it freeze in generally the same place? If so, it may not be a bad burn, but rather just a bad cd either from the begining, or you could have accididently scratched or smudged it somehow. I found even the smallest injury to a disk can cause big problems. I had Mdk 10 Community burned and it worked fine, then suddenly I started getting a freeze at a certain location on subsequent installs. The face of the CD looked fine, still it wouldn't work. I still had the ISO's on my HD, so I burned another, and everything was fine after that.

Fedora Core 3 is now out for testing. I'm downloading it now. Here's a list of mirrors. When finding a nearby mirror, look for the "test" directories, and then the "2.90" directories to find it. Edit: Sorry Philipp. I saw where you had already posted about this in the News section only after I made this post.

I'm not familiar with that installer, but if /usr/local/games is where the Call of Duty directory and it's .exe is installed, you need to go find yourself in the same directory as that .exe and go: cedega whatever.exe That should start it. Will Call of duty not install without that installer by mounting the Call of Duty cd and finding the install.exe and running it with cedega?