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| | I want to build my own PC that will work for DV Capture, ether through a TV Card or a Video Capture Card (don't mine ether way). The problem I have is that I don't have much money, I have a PC but it is now so old I really …  |
 | Please be gentle, very new to this site... I wanted to try out KDE and I happen to have an older copy of Mandrake 6... I have never installed it... Do I want to do this or do I want to use a different distro...? Can someone provide a link …  |
| | my system fails to boot through to graphical interface. near the end, it reverts to text, making me log in as single user. what do i type in at the prompt to remedy the problem. i am using 10.1 community. |
| | ambient v92 external 56k modem will not operate after filling in all boxes in the config section. I am a classic newbie, but not totally in the dark as far as computers are concerned. Is there someone out there that could offer the required fix, or should I just buy … |
| | When I'm in linux(mandrake 9) I cannot use the touchpad on my laptop but I can use the mouse. Anyone know how to make it to were I can configure it for my touchpad? |
| | Ok, I have a iBook G3 800MHz with just Mandrake on it, it has a ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 video card in it and I've been tweaking the XF86Config-4 file for days now and it kde continues to refuse to work :(, I've currently got it to start up but … |
| | i was curious are there any benefits to linux that i dont know off over windows? i know the obvious ones like open source and stuff. i have downloaded and installed redhat8 as a dual boot with xp. windows sorta didnt like it but i manage to get them both …  |
| | I don't know how to install an ISA soundcard (Analog Devices AD 1815/1816) under Mandrake 10 Linux. Thank You all for any help!  |
| | hello folks I've had XP and Mandrake 9.1 dualboot on my machine for a few months, grub is my bootloader. I recently attempted to create a new NTFS logical partition on the hdd. On completion, this needed a reboot, which I started, but now the grub bootloader isn't working. Usually …  |
 | So on my pc i have vmware installed so i thought i would try out some linux programs... i loaded mandrake on vmware 4.5 and is working nice, only think is i can't figure out how to get the network to work for mandrake. i have it set for bridged. … |
| | aight, so i'm installing the vmware tools in mandrake 10, and now its asking where is the gcc located.. can anyone help me out on this one... thanks. |
| | Hello all, I've installed a new 80GB HD in my PC with Mandrake 9.2 Linux. The hardware is detected but unfortunately the Diskdrake cannot see the disk (hdc). So, I'm not know what can I do. I've tryied to write in fstab and mtab, no success. Please could some one …  |
| | I have tried to install Mandrake on my system and when everything is done I can not see the GUI screen. I get a console but no GUI, I don't know what to do? I have a P4VMM2 Motherboard 2.4Ghz 533Mhz Samsung 153v 15" Any help? |
| | hi, I made the boot floppy for mandrake 10 with the options "mkbootdisk -- kernelargs /boot/vmlinuz 2.6.3-4mdk"but after booting there was error message:"could not find kernel image:linux" and a boot prompt"boot:" plz write me the correct parameters for making a bootdisk my root partition is /dev/hda8 and boot partition is … |
| | I had the new distro of Mandrake 9.2 and decided to install it on a spare HDD I have. The HDD is slaved to my Windows HDD it runs WinMe. When I went to install the distro, I tried to do it in windows to the spare drive, but it … |
| | I'm running Mozilla 1.3 on Mandrake 9.1, and I have a very hard time reading the text on web pages. Since I'm running a very normal screen resoultion (1024x768), I just increase the text size in Mozilla, by hitting View -> Text Zoom -> 120%, which works fine. Now to … |
| | Hi all, sure hope this is the correct forum for this question.. Not being a C programmer myself, I sure hope someone here can give me some insight into this problem. I have tried to install the Oracle forms./reports toolset on a variety of different Linux distributions, only to encounter … |
| | Hey I don't want to sound like a total noobie so forgive me but here goes: I'm really new to this - just installed Mandrake 9.2 a few days ago. So far so good, except I can't seem to change the screen resolution. It defaulted to 1280x1024 and that ran …  |
| | [size=2]Mandrake Linux 9.2 Kernel sources are installed 2.4.22-10 kernel Open log with Wordpad or Gedit [/size] |
| | Hy everyone, I have a problem in installing Linux (Mandrake 9.2) on a IBM T40 notebook. I'd like to install linux on the secondary HD, in the modular bay. Of course I can utilize only a modular bay device (HD or CD) at a time, so I can't install from … |
| | Hey, I cant seem to get any sound on my sys with mandrake 2.0. My motherboard (a7v266-e) has onboard sound, but i recently purchased a soundblaster audigy 2 which i obviously use instead. Manrake recognizes both soundcards in the config, but i think that its running primarily through the onboard. … |
| | I installed Mandrake 9.2 on a Laptop. It didn't detect the sound but I used sndconfig and configured it. I guess the problem is I don't get sound as user. What can I do? |
| | Server is as follows: gig of RAM, running Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/2.0.47 (Mandrake Linux/6.3.92mdk) mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.1 PHP/4.3.2 JRun/4.0 Sun-ONE-ASP/4.0.0 Here's the problem: I use the server-status script a lot to watch what's happening on the webserver in a pseudo-realtime manner. There are 4 normal states for any given request to the server - … |
| | Hello all, I'm new here and need your help for a litle thing. I'm trying to install a vmware 4 on Mandrake 9.1 Linux. But, the installation freeze after the message that show two different identifications to my kernel. One 2.4.x and other 2.4.x-mdk. IN fact I think it's the … |
| | i just installed mandrake and when i boot my machine it jsut sits on the background of my desktop and would not load or give me the log in screen any suggestions???  |
| | Since I can access FAT32 filesystems from Linux Mandrake, I wondered if the reverse was true. I soon found out that it is (too a limited degree), with some freeware generously provided from [url]http://ext2.yeah.net[/url]. However, you will notice some limitations in writing data and that prevuiously hidden files (prepended with … |
| | ok. This may seem odd, but I was just looking at mandrake 9.2 on ebay, and a screenshot showed WinXP running in Mandrake. How do you do this? I'm increasingly impressed with Linux, but I want to use XP for gaming. Thanks.  |
 | Hey folks, wonder if someone could help me here? I have a system with 3 seperate hard drives, and the first one is split in 2 with 4 GB per slice. I have windows 2000 on the first partition of that drive and was trying to install Redhat linux 9.0 … |
| | well i am at the point where i will upgrade agian. so which distro should i try this time. currently useing suse 8.2 important features support for the 64 bit CPU's (athlone64) easy to use price or avalible ISO support stablility though easy to use is starting to fade with … |
| | I have Windows XP Home and Linux Mandrake 9.1 Dual Booted on one Hard drive. My Windows XP Home partition is NTFS based, but Linux refuses to remember this. When I boot Linux it tells me the partition is the wrong FS type, yet I'm sure it's set to NTFS. … |
| | i plan to run a file server useing Linux, hey i have more luck with linux than windows. I want to know the basics of doing so. this is a home network and thus security is not a major issue of mine. What distribution should i get? i have been … |
| | Hi guys. I use Mandrake 9.1 in VMware 4.0.1 and it runs great. The only problem I have is that every time i suspend the virtual machine andthen resume it like the next day, the darn system clock is does not update itself to the present time. Its still stuck … |
| | hey everyone im trying to get my web site up and running i can access it from with in the lan but i was wondering if i could have one of you guys test and see if you can access it from across the net. thanks alot if you try. … |
| | What is everyone's opinion on Mandrake (9.1 and 9.0 specifically)? I've heard opinions on nearly every other major distro but this one. How is mandrake from a newbie perspective? Thanks for any info :) |
| | i want to downlaod one of these distrobutions. suse, redhat or mandrake. and i want it to be an image that can be burned to a cd. sorry i dont want to complie anything. however all the sites i have tried have been horrible as far as downloads. useing a … |
| | Can anyone please tell me just how the hell am I supposed to deal with " screens found but non have a usable configuration" error?? I won't let me use the gui. I tried "startx <numerous window managers>" but none of them work. It just gives me 6 choices with … |
| | It's 4:30am and I'm trying to install Linux Mandrake 8.0. Yes I know there is a 8.1. I'm taking a UNIX/Linux class and only went once so far and I taking it because I dont know shit about UNIX/Linux. Everytime I want install I keep getting a freaking error and … |
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