[newbie] OpenOffice.org starts in different language!

2004-10-24 Thread Andrew Konosky
I installed OpenOffice during the installation, and everything else installed with English as the default languae, but for some reason open office opens in something thats similar to spanish. I went to the language setting and tried different versions of English EUA, Canada, Australia, etc, but

[newbie] Sound & DVD problems

2004-10-01 Thread Andrew Konosky
I can't seem to get my sound to work on my old computer. I did a fresh install of Mandrake 10.1 community, but the sound doesn't work. I had this same problem under Debian 3.1 on this same computer. The chip is just an onboard Creative PCI128 and uses the kernel module es1371. I was trying to p

[newbie] Updating the system after install

2004-09-30 Thread Andrew Konosky
Hello, I just downloaded the 1st install CD of Mandrake 10.1 community because I wanted to try out this distro. I have an old computer that some other distros seemed to have some trouble with, but MandrakeMove booted fine from CD, so I deciced to try the full OS on it. Since I only installed pa