Dapper Dan

PCI NICs are cheap as dirt, and many, if not most of them will work with Linux. I would just go down to your local computer store and pick one up.

You may enjoy some of them but the only games I've found on recent Linux distros that are fun are, Tux Racer and Frozen Bubble. If you're interested in FPS and multi-players, check this out from Morphix... You can run these games after booting the Morphix-Game CD!

When using 56K, I don't think you can beat the Actiontec V92 external serial modem. It works with Linux right out of the box, no configuration necessary. Hope this helps..

Something is wrong. I voted hor Morphix, and my vote came out for Suse. I rechecked and I definitely voted for Morphix. ;( I haven't checked out Mepis, though I will now! Morphix in my opinion absolutely rocks! I have it installed on my wife's laptop, and it works perfectly with all the hardware except the winmodem. Setting up wireless pc card was a snap! Morphix, doesn't go with the "one-size-fits-all" philosophy of live CD creation, but rather offers the user several different versions of iso's to download that best suits their needs. There's Morphix-Gnome, Morphix-KDE, Morphix-Lite, Morphix-game..etc. Check it out! http://morphix.sourceforge.net/modules/news/

As with Windows there is a "start" menu at the bottom of the screen. If you're seeing a "K" then you are using KDE as your desktop environment. If they are installed, you may want to experiment with Gnome and IceWM which are two other DE choices at the login screen. Yes, the "K" is where you would start the process of looking something up in your menu. Did you go to the command line and type "aumix" and enter? If nothing came up, maybe it is not part of Mdk 9.2 as it was with 9.0. In that case, look for a program that controls sound and volume either in the menu, or in the KDE control center. There should be something there that will let you configure sound.

Sorry I wasn't able to catch you before the install. You probably have a / partition and a swap partition which is fine. I would have advised also creating a seperate partition for /home. It's ok, and in fact, preferable to have seperate partitions in Linux. As for the sound, In your menu, look for "aumix", or pull up a terminal and type aumix and press enter. Make sure the volumn control there is turned up. Do you have a NIC in your computer? If you do (and of course have high speed internet), the card should almost certainly work. Go into the Mandrake control center, and go to internet configuration wizard to get it working. I've not used Mandrake for several months now, but if you choose mostly the default settings here along the way, you should be able to get it working. Also in the Mandrake control center, you will see a screen icon labled "resolution". You can change resolutions here. Those four boxes at the bottom are just workspaces. If you clutter up your screen or have work going on in one that you don't want to close out, just click on 2 and you'll get a clean screen to clutter up again. I never use it. Take your time, and explore. There's nothing you can do that another re-install won't fix. Good luck.

danleff, I think maybe his best option at this point is to do a re-install, this time choosing x windows and graphical login, what do you think? Newtothis, would you be up for that? How much space is on your HD? If you have a good bit, I would just install everything available, (check everything). You can always uninstall the programs you don't want later. Are you doing a dual boot with Windows? Are you using onboard video or do you have a pci or ddr card installed?

Newtothis, I've really been sick and must go to bed now..I'll check with you in the morning. Don't worry, we'll get it figured out.

Quote: Where it says LOCALHOST Login: I type in root name then password comes up and I enter the password. Then I get Last login: fri. Dec. 12 on VC/1. [root@localhost root]# Do what you wrote here again, and only this. Once you get to...Last login: fri. Dec. 12 on VC/1. [root@localhost root]# type: startx and press enter. That should give you the desktop environment you chose at install time. If not, let us know.

Let's make sure we're doing this right. Where it says "login" You are typing "root" and pressing enter. When it asks for root's password, you are then typing in what you have designated as root's password and then press enter. You then get a # sign whereas before it was a $. At the blinking cursor you are then typing: startx and pressing enter? (edit) ...and you are using lower case? (except of course if your root's password has caps in it?)

Then you are logged in as root. Next type "startx" without the quotes and press enter. Do you get a desktop environment now?

So it's not going into kdm, but hangs at the command line asking for username and password? When it gets to this point again, wait a little while and see if kdm comes up, (the graphical thingy that asks for username and password). If it does, type in "root" as your username and root's password. Then after root's desktop environment comes up, check in the Mandrake control center and look for "users." Check and make sure your username and password are correct. If not, change them to what you want. If you can't get your desktop environment to come up at all, that will necessitate another line of attempted solutions.

http://www.redflag-linux.com/xiazai/index.php

Quote: Yes, the ones that flash by as they load from the CD's. The ones loading from the Knoppix CD's? I'm afraid I'd be at a loss to tell you how to get all that stuff printed out to look at. Seems I remember there is a way to view that stuff line by line and interact with it, but I can't remember how... Anyone else?

Are you talking about the boot up screen when you turn your computer on after having installed an operating system, or the packages listed as you are doing an install? Mandrake has a pretty good installer that gives a breif explanation of the packages being installed.

I'm using RH 9 and am going to wait a while. I think there are some issues with Fedora that need to be resolved before I'll feel comfortable upgrading to it. Here's a good thread over at linuxquestions.org...

Bob, can you be a little more detailed? What version of Linux are you using? Are you seeing these things in an actual download from the Internet, or just when you are trying to install packages? Are you downloading and installing RPM's, .Deb packages or tarballs, (packages ending with tar.gz etc.)? Someone here will probably be glad to help if we have a little more information.

No one? ;(

..indispensable site for winmodem use with Linux here...

Admiral LSD, I'm starting to get the idea you don't like RPM based distros! It all depends don't you think? You obviously have had an unsatisfactory experience with RPM based distros. I, on the other hand had a very unsatisfactory experience with Slackware, and did everything just short of slashing my wrist trying to configure, make and install packages without dependency problems running out of my ears. I've never tried Gentoo, though I hope to try it on my "experimental box" soon. I understand the compiling process takes a while, but in the end it is easier than Slack, and package management is uncomplicated. I'll be calling on you for advice when I begin the experiment! I've compiled my share of tarballs, and have been in the depths of RPM "dependency hell" while running Mdk. I probably would not have switched to RH 9, had it not been for apt-get. Have you ever used it? It makes installing and uninstalling packages effortless, giving one more time to do other things. I love Red Hat 9 and find it a very capable, dependable and easy to use distro. I certainly think it would be a far easier first distro than Slackware, but, hey we can disagree can't we. So what's your take on Debian?

Open a terminal, become root and type: kppp [enter] If it doesn't come up, you should easily be able to find it for your distro at rpmfind.net.

http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html

I presume you are using Netscape/Mozilla? You can configure Galeon to use Evolution, besides Galeon is much faster.

I've used Mdk 9, 9.1, 9.2 and Red Hat 7,8 and 9. Of these, I think for a first distro, RH 9 with apt-get rpm is the best way to go. One of the major reason's new users get upset with Linux is trying to solve dependancy problems. It almost made me give up! apt-get-rpm will download and install your packages for you and solve all the dependancy problems in the process.

There is a far simpler way. You can download almost all the distro's ISOs off the Internet the same as the rest of us do..