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One good web source that I used for a Unix class I took recently is linuxselfhelp. I has some good advice for Linux in general, and covers advanced topics like an in-depth view of glibc, and good details on debugging with GDB: http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/cats/programming.html Two good print sources I have are: 1) The C Programming Language, Kernighan/Richie, Prentice Hall and 2) C A Reference Manual 5th ed Harbison/Steele, Prentice Hall The Material in [2] is somewhat similar to what you will find on linuxselfhelp, but it is a good text.

Nvidia realses a good driver for linux that works with pretty much any card. I have an old GeForce 4 that works realy well. The only potential problem with nvidia is with the much older cards which are no longer supported, none of these are sold any more as far as I know. So any nvidia card that is still sold should be fine.

The netgear wg311(version 1) is also good, it works with the madwifi driver. Any other card based on the atheros chipset is good; sorry, I can't name any others off the top of my head.

What does your entry for this device in /etc/fstab look like? I suspect that it should look something like this: /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 auto noauto,users 0 0 Then you should be able to mount it simply with the command: mount /dev/sda1 Another possible problem is that the mount command may be set to run only for root. To set mount to run as user type( as root): chmod +s /bin/mount chmod +s /bin/umount Then it should work as user.

From the look of this site suse 9.1 personal does not come with gcc or any ohter development tools. This gives some tips on gettting it installed, but if you read to the end you will see that he moved to Fedora core. If you plan to do a lot of installing from source that switch may be the way to go.

babbs, From the look of the FC 2 package list you already have Evolution 1.4. A new version 2.0.4 is available here although it looks like to download a precompiled version you would need a install tool from Novell. There is probably a way to get 2.0.4 from up2date, or apt, but I'm not sure, one of the FC users probably knows. Also, if you are coming over from Outlook, then evolution will probably be the most similar in use to Outlook, in my experience.

To edit your grub.conf you will need to open a terminal, get root prevliges with su, and then run a text edit to modify the files, it should go something like this: Quote: su <enter you root password> mount /boot pico /boot/grub/grub.conf <it may be /boot/grub.conf on your system> Pico is a symple text editor that comes with most distros that I have used, you might also have 'nano' which is a pico clone. to save a file type 'ctrl+o', and to exit type 'ctrl+x'. If you want to extend the time it waits at the selection screen, increase the value of 'timeout'. You have two choices to change the default boot order. With my current setup my system defaults to Gentoo Linux 2.6.10. If I wanted it to default to Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-rc4 I could change the value of default to 1, or I could move the entire listing for 2.6.11-rc4 to be above the 2.6.10 entry. Changing the default setting is probably the best option. Quote: default 0 timeout 4 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.10 root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10 root=/dev/hda3 gentoo=nodevfs title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-rc4 root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-rc4 root=/dev/hda3 gentoo=nodevfs If this doesn't work, let me know, and I'll to explain anything else I can. Also what distro are you using?

Which mouse model is it, and is it USB or ps/2. What distro are you using?

All you need to do is open a terminal, and type "su" to become root, then type "passwd" and it will prompt you for a new password.

The warning about local filesystems not mounting probably has to do with your /etc/fstab not accuratly reflecting how your hard drive is partitioned. If you could post /etc/fstab, and your hard drive layout we may be able to help find the problem. For the internet problem what type of network card are you using, and which specific kernel version are you using? One important file for you network config is /etc/conf.d/net. Could you post the contents of that file also? Once I can look at those I should have some more ideas.

That is much nicer than the printing guide, thanks for the tip.

Thats good to hear. Since it seems to be easier, how do use/get to an interface on cups with the config menu, I've only seen terminal interfaces for cups.

Since you mention emergeing I'm assuming that your running Gentoo. Have you installed foomatic, since you didn't mention it I just want to make sure you are working with The Gentoo Printing Guide. If not, then thats the place to look. If you have been working with that guide I'm not sure I can help you to much further, but I may be able to help you find what you missed with some more details.

I had a similar issue with shutdown hanging on my Gentoo box running 2.6.9, which was also fixed by upgrading to 2.6.10.

I've heard from several people who have had problems with the newer nvidia drivers related to glibc not haveing support for nptl. If you run one of your opengl apps from an xterm check to see if you get any output related being unable to load libGL.so.1. Quote: Initializing SDLGLDrv... binding libGL.so.1 appError called: Could not load OpenGL library