Dapper Dan

It sounds like X windows is not wanting to work for you. This exact problem was the first in a series which made me ultimately reject Mandrake 9.2 in favor of RH 9. What vid card are you using? Did you have "GUI" desktop environment before? If so, what do you think you might have done to cause this to occur? Are you getting any errors about user id or password? As root, run XFdrake (not sure if caps are in the actual command or not), and try to reconfigure from there.. edit: does it do this with other desktop environments? KDE? Gnome? IceWM? Can you get it to go into Failsafe?

If you cannot find a solution, you may want to consider upgrading to RH 9 which comes with Kdvi.

As a precaution, it may be a good idea to wait just a bit on upgrading to 2.6 since it is so new, because it may not work with your netgear pc card.

Found this for you...

Hoooray!!! We did it! (It wasn't pretty, but we did it!). The big thing is, you learned a great deal about how Linux works in the process! Congratulations! I suggest you take a break from this type stuff for a while... The next time you do something in Linux, you'll have a great deal of understanding behind you! Good Luck!

I hope you figure this out. I hate to leave things like this "dangling!" Good Luck..

You can delete all those libjavaplugin_oji.so by cding as root to the respective directories, then do: rm libjavaplugin_oji.so [enter] If you have a link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your /home/Neus/.mozilla directory that is a link to: /root/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/ libjavaplugin_oji.so and the permissions are set right, there is absolutely no reason I'm aware of why it shouldn't work. How are you testing it? After making the symlink, go here and tell me if you see a steaming cup of "java" in the upper left hand corner of the map followed by a animated "loop"

OK, I've found this and it is essentially the same directions I gave, only he gives how to create the symlink from the command line. It could be I'm not being clear or have not translated something well. Check this link out and try it. I would redo the java install and when it asks for where to put it, I would put it in /opt. At any rate, his description on how to do it should add understanding.

My ~/.mozilla/plugins directory doesn't have libjavaplugin_oji.xpt and everything works. I don't know for Mandrake, you could try it. By the way, that last set of directions for ns610-gcc32 I forgot to change it to use it from /root instead of /opt. There should be another j2sdk_nb directory somewhere else in your files. I have one in /root but also in opt. Does a ... locate j2sdk_nb [enter] only turn up only one for you in /root? Oh well, it will still work from the /root directory if that is the only place Mandrake put it, and you have permissions changed to : chmod 755 -R j2sdk_nb in /root.

It's Win4Lin, and will only work with Windows 98 type os. It will not work with xp type os. It isn't free, but is well worth it. It'll cost around 90 dollars, but it will run most all Windows 98 type software except games.

Quote: ;( ;( ;( whered ur post go? *EDIT* oops.. somehow my reply to the other post of urs in the missing icons topic got put here... 8) LOL! That's because I accidently put it here rather than over there, then deleted it here to put it over there! You must have seen it here and replied to it in the minute or so it was here before I realized my mistake! LOL!

You may have to do this again, but with an adjustment. From this point go... Bring up two instances of konqueror on your desktop and place them side by side. In one go to: /opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 (Notice everything is the same except you'll be using the plugin in ns610-gcc32 instead of ns610) In the other, go to: /home/whatever your home directory is called/.mozilla/plugins You will see the plugin in the java diectory called libjavaplugin_oji.so Now, click and drag it to your /home/whatever your home directory is called/.mozilla/plugins directory and release it. A box will come up giving you a choice of : copy here, move here, link here, cancel. Click on "link here."

So Mandrake put it under root. It should work ok there, but you may have to change permissions so you can use it. As root, go... cd /root [enter] Then: chmod 755 -R j2sdk_nb/ [enter] That should change the permissions to where you can use it. If this does not work, you may have to use the other plugin...(see next post..)

The next time you sign in, instead of using Kde or Gnome, try IceWM if you installed "other desktop environments" during install. IceWM is simpler, cleaner much faster and extremely configurable with "Icepref" which is right there when you right click on the desktop for the menu. Here's one of my old IceWM screens from about 9 months ago... http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-8/352713/DapperDanDesktop.jpg

Quote: The thing though is that I, and especially you are learning a great deal that will help make things far easier later on.

I'm really sorry! My mistake! I left out that you've got to change the permissions of the file before you can open it. The quickest way is from a terminal as root go... chmod 777 j2sdk-1_4_2-nb-3_5_1-bin-linux.bin [enter] It was late here, and I was a little bleary eyed from the weekend. I was afraid I was going to leave out something! I checked it 3 times and still did! sorry!

Neus, this is how I got java plugins to work for me in RH 9. I suppose you've guessed by now, that as we experienced today, things are often not the same between distros. This *should* work for you with Mdk 9.2 but we won't know until we try.. Download NetBeans IDE v 3.5.1 with J2SE v 1.4.2 COBUNDLE "Linux (.bin)" from here. Open a terminal and "cd" to the directory where you downloaded it, then, as root, type: ./j2sdk-1_4_2-nb-3_5_1-bin-linux.bin [enter] Follw the instructions for installation. After you have done the java install, you must now tell mozilla where the proper plugin is by creating a symlink between your .mozilla/plugins directory and the corosponding plugin in the java file. make sure you have a file named "plugins" (without quotes) in your .mozilla directory. If not, create one. You can do the following from the command line, but here's an easy way to create the symlink you need. Bring up two instances of konqueror on your desktop and place them side by side. In one go to: /opt/j2sdk_nb/j2sdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610 In the other, go to: /home/whatever your home directory is called/.mozilla/plugins You will see the plugin in the java diectory called libjavaplugin_oji.so Now, click and drag it to your /home/whatever your home directory is called/.mozilla/plugins directory and release it. A box will come up giving you a choice of : copy here, move here, link here, cancel. Click on "link here." Done!

Quote: thx, it shows the plugin as installed now... now just to get java up n running well, at least we r making progress But is it working?

And they installed without problems? If so, everything should work. I've installed these thwo rpm's on several RH 9 installs and have never had it not to work. Try the command again and see what happens. Sometimes you can accidently leave a space or something in the wrong place while typing, I've done it a million times. *A thought* If the RH installer seems to freeze while trying to install rpms, then do it from the command line instead. From a terminal as root, cd to the directory where both are downloaded, then: rpm -Uvh apt-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm [enter] Install the other in the same way... rpm -Uvh apt-devel-0.5.5cnc6-fr1.i386.rpm [enter]

Not all games will work with Winex3, but it does a great job when it will run something. Check here for a list of games winex3 will run and how well.

My Mdk 9.0 box at work did not have flash installed, and I had flash working in about 5 minutes this way. Let's hope it works as well for 9.2 *crossing fingers* Download flash-plugin rpm for Mdk 9.2. Pull up konqueror, (or nautilus) and go to where you downloaded it. Double click on the flash-plugin rpm package and it should install. Let me know if it complains about any dependencies, (it didn't in Mdk 9.0). If not, try mozilla out.. http://ruslug.mutgers.edu/macromedia/site_ru.html

I've got Mdk 9 on two computers at work and have to go there in about an hour. I'll fool around with urpmi and flash when I get there and tell you what I find out..

Quote: One more thing, Dan, could you please teach me how to install tcl/tk package. I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with that. Anyone else?

After downloading the two binaries, did you install them first before doing apt-get update?

Good move.