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Changing from KDE to Window Manager like Blackbox ?

Maxwell Rain

Hello, I've installed Mandrake 9. 2. on a Toshiba Laptop 490XCDT, PII, 64 RAM, 2 GB hd Now, I've also installed OpenOffice (I've just before on Windows98 and am very pleased with it). But my system slows down immensly when using OpenOffice.

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Last reply by Maxwell Rain, 2004-02-01 19:00

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[M 9.2.] Toshiba Laptop Screen error : turning screen off/on

Maxwell Rain

I'm not sure this qualifies as general Linux, if not, feel free to tell me so. Mandrake 9. 2/KDE 3. 1 on Toshiba Laptop 490XCDT I have a problem with my screen : when I turn of my screen and then turn it back on, i get a f$cked up screen.

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Last reply by Maxwell Rain, 2004-01-31 22:28

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Help installing Xwindows

Psion

I've been trying (unsuccesfully) to set up a hardware firewall/router/proxy - see this thread Since I am completely new to Linux, I haven't a clue. . . ;( I have the basics of Fedora Core 1 installed but no graphic desktop, so I'm sitting here staring at a flashing cursor and not a foggiest what to do next.

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Last reply by Psion, 2004-01-31 16:31

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AutoMounting windows partions in read-only mode

admpablo

Hi, i'm running mandrake 9. 2, and i need to know how to automount any windows partition in read-only mode, When i install Mandrake 9. 2 automount all ntfs partition in read-only mode, now FAT and FAT32 are not automount in read-only mode, but you can choose to mount them during the installation with read-only, but ...

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Last reply by admpablo, 2004-01-31 02:56

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Help insalling tokenizer extention module for PHP

scriptz

Hello All I am running Mandrake 9. 1 and need to install the tokenizer extention module for PHP but am unsure on how to do so. PHP is running as a Apache 2 module and I have PHP's sources. What do I have to do? Greg.

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Last reply by admpablo, 2004-01-30 07:59

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Recovery problems

Jabird

alright, i am in the system recovery place and i went through all the crap. well now i am at the screen where about 3/4 of it is blue the rest black, it says: Your system is mounted under the /mnt/sysimage directory When finished please exit from the shell and your system will reboot.

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Last reply by Dapper Dan, 2004-01-29 23:47

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I'm starting over...

Maillion

OK, I had some problems: My bootloader failed, and nothing that I tried to install seems to be able to replace the bad bootloader. I have deleted everything and will soon reinstall Windows on a fresh ten gig hard drive (Maxtor ATA).

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Last reply by bearcat, 2004-01-29 23:20

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Mozilla crashed when access chinese Web Page?

mfengwu

When I use the mozilla to visitt the chinese Web Page, It always crashed. And my OS is Fedora Core 1. All the website which associated which. cn is can not visited and will crashed. For example the www.

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Last reply by mfengwu, 2004-01-29 09:12

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Gentoo Trouble - kernel download - emerge...

nu2linux

I'm tring to install Gentoo. So far I've gotten the latest set of portages, bootstraped, chroot to /mnt/gentoo, updated the environment var. , I got to the point where I install the kernel source. I typed in: Code:emerge usepkg vanilla-sources There are lines before this, but they're the usual environment checks.

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Last reply by blueworm, 2004-01-28 21:29

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Newbie needs some help

jgrigg

ok, i have recently installed mandrake 9. 2 on my machine and nee dsome help with a couple of things. . . . 1. ) how do i activate telnet?? It won't let me in 2. ) i am using apache as a webserver. .

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Last reply by jgrigg, 2004-01-28 17:53

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Hi all... Newbie here...

disgrace

First of all i want to say hi to all of you guys. As you can clearly see by the title of this thread i'm a COMPLETE newbie on this linux things. I've dnl the distro from Mandrake 9. 2 and burnt the ISOs to cds.

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Last reply by Dapper Dan, 2004-01-28 16:36

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What should I do?

bearcat

I need to get linux. I'm thinking either mandrake 9. 1 or 9. 0. Is 9. 1 similar to 9. 2? How stable is it? I've had bad expirences with 9. 2. . . .

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Last reply by bearcat, 2004-01-28 05:51

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what major distros are using 2.6 kernel now or soon?

midas

hi, im a novice linux user just looking for a good new distro im particular to redhat, but open to anything, except mandrake that is (no offense) but I am more in particular looking for something 2. 6 out of the box im using xandros right now, and although its nice and all for such a newb like me, i find it almost ...

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Last reply by souldreamer, 2004-01-28 01:23

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Unused SWAP :-(

locasiopeiuss

I have installed RED HAT 9. 0, and it works fine for a time. . After using some applications my memory decrease so much that my OS isn't working properly any more. . When i boot 'swap' is activated and enabled,but when i type 'free' at a command shell it shows me that swap is using 0MB !!!! I have 513 MB ram and 10 ...

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Last reply by Dapper Dan, 2004-01-27 19:20

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Is it possible to repair damage to partition caused by Fdisk

PC-Janitor

Well, caused by me really :x Big woops, I was playing around with on my Main machine while trying to establish a way to transfer files off of an old Compaq 386 (used Linux in the end, but was trying to work out a way to get Linux onto the machine with only a 5 1/2 disk - eventually took the drive out - If in doubt ...

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Last reply by PC-Janitor, 2004-01-27 17:17

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What does everyone use for dvds/videos

matttah

What does everyone use to play dvds in linux? Thanks. Daum.

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Last reply by matttah, 2004-01-27 05:33

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Linux boot disk?

matttah

Heya, I just upgraded my linux 9. 0 to fedora(redhat). . . i use win me and it kept eating the boot menu so i used a boot disk for 9. 0, and when i went to make boot disk for fedora i guess it messed up and did not create one.

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Last reply by matttah, 2004-01-27 00:33

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Fedora install problem

will2g

On Dell dimension 8300 : P4 2. 8c Mhz 1024 Mo RAM dual channel bus 400Mhz Firewire ati radeon 9800 1 pionner a05 dvd-rw writer IDE 1 samung dvd (cd writer) IDE IBM IDE disk Maxtor IDE disk SATA controlleur off in bios hypertrheading enable So.

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Last reply by will2g, 2004-01-26 23:59

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Firewall

Blaktyger

Is there software firewall like Zonelabs, available for Linux or Do I have to manually configure it on Linux. I used the mandrake control center to set up the firewall but all my tests failed on grc.

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Last reply by Dapper Dan, 2004-01-26 20:37

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Modem problem in new kernel(2.6.1)

outstream

hi all I encountered some problem when i tried to install my modem in newly comiled kernel. (i. e kernel 2. 6. 1) the error messages i got while i was compiling sources for my modem is: Code:To begin compilation of lt_modem.

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Last reply by danleff, 2004-01-26 02:28