Dapper Dan

You also may want to check out GTK Gnutella.

Many of the problems associated with running StarCraft under wine can be resolved by using Winex3. It can be had for a minimal monthly fee, with a three month minimum. I think it's like $3.00 a month so three months would only cost $15.00 total. Under Winex3, StarCraft plays a little bit jerky, but other than that, there are no real problems and you can play it at full screen. I don't like paying for software to run Windows programs under Linux, but to me it's worth it to be free of Windows.

Hi all. Coming from someone who did his damnedist to work with WordPerfect 9, I can tell you that you're wasteing a lot of time on old and unsupported software. Move on! Linux offers great alternatives to what Corel offered back in 2000, and Corel will offer you no support. Save yourself a lot of headaches and move on to Linux alternatives. Just trying to save you a lot of grief! Cheers..

Read this. It looks like the guy at the end of this thread has the answer..

Never fooled around with an Audigy but there should be ample information on the net by now that tells how to configure it. I seem to remember you have to use alsa with it. Do a google on Mandrake 10 Audigy alsa And see what comes up. I've had problems with Totem and Mplayer under Mandrake and Redhat/Fedora. Not that they aren't good players, but Xine seems to configure more easily for me, and I think it renders as good as the others. I seem to remember it comes with Mdk 10. Check under multimedia and see if it is installed. If not, go as root: urpmi xine [enter] And see if it is available. I would use whatever version of Gnome comes standard with Mdk 10. If you try to go with a newer version not listed in Mandrake packages, you may be asking for a lot of problems.. Sounds like a pretty smokin' box you got there..

Did you use Kppp to configure your connection? You would want to dial up with a ppp frontend. Kppp is the standard. Check to see if it is installed. As root, # kppp [enter] If it comes up, it's pretty easy to configure your connection. If you don't have it installed, do: redhat-config-packages [enter] I'm not sure if it's under the KDE section or the Internet section. To access Windows from Linux, (and presuming your Windows partition is hda1), do as root: mkdir /mnt/windows [enter] Then: mount /dev/hda1 mnt/windows [enter] You should be able to access windows with Nautilus or konqueror by going into /mnt/windows. If you see your Windows folders in there, then you have been sucessful. If your Windows is on fat32 file system, you will be able to read/write to it as root. If it is an NTFS file system, you will be able to read and copy files over to Linux, but cannot write to Windows from Linux.

Yes, it makes sense. Apt-get will not work unless their is an Internet Connection present. Once you have it, begin at where I've written: apt-get update [enter] I'm afraid you're on your own with the Linuxant drivers, unless someone here knows more than I do about how to install and configure them. Good Luck!

i386 apps will work fine on i686 kernels. I run i686 and use i386 apps all the time including apt. For those Windows apps you need: You can run Photoshop under linux with CrossoverOffice (wine). If you're not doing any major work, the Gimp is really handy, capable and easy to learn. For MSN you can use GAIM, which is included in your distro. If it is not installed, run redhat-config-packages and install it from the cd, OR you can install it with apt-get RPM once you have that installed. I'm not familiar with "Skype" but there should be a Linux equivaleant. Games can be run using Transgaming technologies Winex3. I use it to run Half-Life and any of it's mods which all run 99.9% perfectly. You can use it for HL online shoot'emups like Team Fortress and Counter-Strike. I run Starcraft, Trespasser, and a host of other games with Winex3 which you can "rent" for a very nominal fee. Check this list for how well your particular games might run with Winex3. You can run Microsoft Office under Crossover Office, but I don't know of much that MSoffice can do that OpenOffice can't.

Go here and see from this list if you can determine which version of the DWL 650 you have. Is it one that uses the Prism 2 drivers? Which distro are you using?

I've run into that before. The best way to un-install packages that you know are installed is through apt-get rpm. If you're using Red Hat/Fedora, apt-get RPM will make your life MUCH easier. It works off the same principle as apt-get for Debian. Go here download and install the first and last .rpm as root. They will install without complaints. You can install them together thusly: # rpm -ivh apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm apt-devel-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm [enter] Once these are installed go: apt-get update [enter] Do the above again. Then do: apt-get install synaptic [enter] Then: synaptic [enter] You now will have the Synaptic front end for apt-get. In the search box in the upper right hand side, type in the name of the package you want to un-install and it should come up. Then un-install it. It's pretty easy to figure out. Apt-get will also assist you in installing lots of other packages, and will solve the dependency problems for you! What Windows apps are you needing to run? Some of them may run in Linux using one of the various versions of Wine. Also, which version of Windows are you using? You can access your Windows partition from Linux but not the other way around.

daleff, I missed that. It does sound as if Koba is going through a lot on unnecessary installing and re-installing. Koba, danleff and I will be glad to assist you in a dual boot setup like he mentioned. It's really not that difficult. Let us know..

I wish I could help you with those Linuxant drivers but as I say, I had no luck with them. I honestly don't think compiling kernels is something you'll want to get involved with right now. I would download the driver, or as we say in Linux, the "module" that will best suit whichever kernel you may be using, and try that. If it becomes too involved, you will save yourself a world of headaches by getting a Linux compatible modem. I'll be very honest with you. When you first take it on, Linux can be extremely frustrating. At times, you'll want to put a fist through a wall and say to hell with it. Hardware incompatibilities and permissions are two of the most annoying issues that drive users back to Windows. I know all of this installing and re-installing is a real bummer right now, but I'm afraid it's just part of the whole process of learning the OS. DONT GIVE UP!! In the end, when you get to where you know Linux a little better, you'll be very glad you did, and will be proud of yourself for being one of the few who stuck it out and didn't go back. If you are persistent and more importantly, patient, you'll get something working for you before you know it. If I can learn Linux, anyone can! Let me know if I can help further. Good Luck.

You can get drivers for your modem at the Linuxant site. They offer a "half" driver, meaning it will work half as well so you can determine if it works with your hardware. The "full" driver costs. I never had any luck with the Linuxant drivers with 56k modems, though some here have had luck with other drivers they offer for other hardware. If you can't get it working the way you want, I'm a big fan of the Actiontec 56k V92 external modem. It performs extremely well under Linux, and if you buy one, you'll notice a connection improvement under Windows as well.

I really don't think anything you can do will make konqueror work if they're only programing to suite IE. That means their site won't work with Opera or Netscape or with any of the Linux browsers. Terribly short sighted and lazy of them. I agree. I'd rather eat worms than use IE, but the saving grace is that you are using it under Linux! Think of it this way: You are making IE work for you on your terms, not Microsoft's!

On second thought, this may not be konqueror with java's fault at all. I was talking with a guy just last week who was telling me that Webmasters at many sites are just too damn lazy to make their pages work with anything other than IE. They figure that since 90 percent of users use IE, they'll make their pages work with that and not worry with making it work with any other browser regardless of operating system. If their page will not work with any other browser than IE as they state, then I'm afraid they're just being lazy.. If you just have to use IE, then you could run it using Crossover office. I've tried it that way, and it works pretty damn good.

That's pretty scary. I wonder what all I've been missing when I view pages with java! I'll have to look into this some more..

It looks easy enough to just do it from the command line.. http://www.patoche.org/LTT/sound/00000122.html

Is this what it supposed to look like? Sounds like you may have downloaded another version. It should have had a gui install that asked questions.

I downloaded it from the first link. The second seems to be broken. I got it up and running in about 2 minutes, so this should be easy. Download: j2sdk-1_4_2_04-nb-3_6-bin-linux.bin from java.sun.com 'cd' to the directory where you downloaded it, and as root do: chmod 777 j2sdk-1_4_2_04-nb-3_6-bin-linux.bin then: ./j2sdk-1_4_2_04-nb-3_6-bin-linux.bin The installer will come up. Follow the directions. Let the installer install to: /opt/j2sdk-1_4_2_04 After installation, open konqueror and go to Settings-Configure Konqueror, then in the left pane click Java & JavaScript. At the bottom where is says "path to Java executable, or 'java':" Tell it to use: /opt/j2sdk1.4.2_04/bin/java Go here to check. Done!

After using Galeon, Firebird/Firefox and Epiphany in that order for a little over a year, I am now back to using Mozilla. Of all of these, I liked Galeon the best when I was using Mandrake 9 and RedHat 9, but it doesn't come with Fedora Core 1, and it has proved to be so difficult to install that I finally gave up trying. Firefox is pretty smoking in many ways, but it irritates me in that I often like more than one instance of my browser open, and Firebird begs for profiles for different users. Consequently you cannot use the same bookmarks with each instance. Is there a way to disable this feature? Firefox also seems to have problems copying addresses from one instance and pasting them into another. Epiphany crashes about as often as Galeon used to, and seems to be a sort of thrown together version, or a poor attempt at copying Galeon. I tried very hard to get the Realplayer plugin to work with Epiphany, but never could. I also wish you didn't have to go up top and choose "Edit" to do your pasting. Right click and paste suits me much better. The best about each? Galeon hardly ever let a pop up bother me and is very fast. Firefox is fast and has a lot of good features, but again that profile deal makes it all not worth it. Epiphany is pretty quick and the fonts look pretty good. All of these complaints may be small, but over time they added up. Mozilla on the other hand, gives me none of these irritations. It may be a little slower, but I'm now believing it's worth waiting a second or two more to enjoy a full featured and easy to use Linux Browser!

Give me a link to the file you downloaded, and I'll play with it some to see if I can get it working.

Just let me know if I can help. Good luck!

Vermyn, was the Mplayer install on Gentoo very difficult? I used it regularly in RH 9 but had a heck of a time installing it on Core 1. I finally got it installed on Core 2, but it still wouldn't work properly. Xine on the other hand, built in seconds with apt-get rpm, using the Freshrpm repositories, and plays my new "Northern Exposure" DVD's lika a champ!

There have been similar problems installing Mandrake 10 with others who visit here. Do a search here and see if any solutions rise to the surface. I had no problems installing Mandrake 10 Community on a couple of different boxes. If Mdk 10 doesn't pan out for you, you may want to consider Fedora Core 1 or 2. I've tested Mdk 10 and Fedora Core 2, and in my book, Core 2 is by a long shot the better of the two.

I've been wondering the same thing. Since they changed to X-org rather than Xfree86, I wonder if we'll be able to install the nvidia modules in the same manner.