[expert] Drives not unmounting cleanly everytime (& wordperfect update)
Hi, I've got a Presario 1640 notebook with an ide drive. About every third time I reboot/shutdown my machine when I reboot I get a notification that my drive was not cleanly unmounted. So far fsck does't seem to find any big errors My method of shutdown doesn't seem to matter either. (shutdown or shutdown&restart from kdm or crtl-alt-del). Any ideas other than upgrading to the latester kernel? Going down to 16bpp in X did the trick with Wordperfect. But I think I like Star Office better :) Neal Richter
[expert] PCMCIA problems
Hi, Here's a little word of warning. I've got a Presario 1640 laptop with a pcmcia scsi card & network card. Using the Mandrake 5.3 CD everything works flawlessly with no effort on my part. With the Mandrake 6.0 CD from linuxcentral.com,the kernel wouldn't recognize the pcmcia cards. With several Red Hat 6.0 CDs the cards were recognized but the scsi driver spat out error after error and wouldn't function. With the Mandrake 6.0 cd inside the Powerpack edition everything once again works flawlessly. Caldera 2.2 also failed as well.. actually craping out during the install! I tried multiple times with each OS version and got the same result. None of these OSs could see/find the cards during install, so I alwalys said I didn't need PCMCIA support during install. SUSE 6.2 was the only Linux I found that sucessfully found the stuff during the installation. Neal Richter
[expert] WordPerfect problems
Hi, I just installed WordPerfect off the Mandrake Powerpack 6.0 apps CD. None of the Icons appear in the program... I just get framw buffer noise where the Icons should be. Any idea? Neal richter
Re: [expert] KDE setups and RPMs
Hi, I've managed to get it installed correctly, and even used custom bitmaps for mail notification. So does the /opt/kde vs /usr issue mean that all RedHat packages should be inspected to see where they install by default? How are they still usefull for new users then? Seems to me that mandrake needs to address this issue somehow directly. The symbolic link from /opt/kde -> /usr seems the most tractable. Redoing all the RPMS that need '--prefix'ing seems dumb. Thoughts? I'm eagerly awaiting my boxed copy of Mandrake that should arive soon! Thanks Gael! Neal Richter
[expert] KDE setups and RPMs
Hello, I tried to install several KDE apps from Red Hat RPMs. After installing them I got strange behavior from them..missing bitmaps etc. I discovered that Mandrake doesn't use the /opt/kde directory as KDE's home. Does Mandrake have somewhay of correctly installing KDE apps RPMs from RedHat? The RPM files would need to be altered somehow Neal Richter
Re: [expert] formatting a disk?
Use mkfs (make filesystem) see the man page -- man mkfs example mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hda1 for /dev/hda? (IDE drives) & /dev/sda? (SCSI drives) use the same exact device string from the desired partition in fdisk. Good luck. Neal Richter
[expert] Knewmail & KDE wierdness
Hello all, I've been using 5.3 for some time happily and recently switched to 6.0 -- VERY IMPRESIVE!! While transfering some apps to the new system I tried installing knewmail from RPM. After installing I noticed that when I started the program knewmail was unable to find its graphic images for toolbar buttons, etc and kicked out error messages to the command line confirming this. Any Ideas? It works fine under 5.3. I also noticed these differences to 5.3 the /opt/kde/bin directory is empty except for knewmail. my 5.3 system has all sorts of stuff in there that I didn't install myself. The /opt/kde/bin directory is no longer in the PATH of either root or an example user of 6.0. It sounds like 6.0 expects its kde apps to be installed elsewhere??? knewmail homepage: http://www.slac.com/mpilone/knewmail_home/ Thanks! Neal Richter
