After weeks of fighting to get TurboLinux 6 to work correctly (too many problems to list) I dumped it and went to Mandrake 7.1 What a difference! In 2 hours, it was installed, the printer was working and I was on the internet without a hiccup. Now I can spend my time trying to learn Linux instead of trying to debug a distribution. What problems I have are so minor that I could live without solving them if I had to. But here goes: 1 When booting up I get a message about failing to detect the USB interface. That is because I do not have USB on this PC. How do I stop Mandrake from looking for the USB? 2. Even though numlock was selected to be on during install (I think), it is not on when KDE is up. How do I correct this? 3. On shutting dows, I get a message that it failed: "saving mixer settings: error opening mixer". What is that? I do not have sound configured yet. It is the one thing I could not get to work. I have a Sound Blaster PNP Pro 16 with Interrupt 5, DMA 1, DMA 16 5 and MPU 330. Even though I entered these numbers, still no sound. Any thoughts? 4. I have a PS/2 microsoft intellimouse. Yet when I select it as the one to chose (both as root and as user), the selection does not "stick" and when I reopen the config tool I see that it is still at generic PS/2. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for any help for these relatively "minor" problems. Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux user 183185
