[newbie] KDE is hiding in LM8.1?

I just installed LM8.1 with many windows managers including KDE. However, when I boot up KDE is not an option. Is KDE hiding there? Or do I have to reinstall that part? What steps do I need to follow? Thanks, Rod. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mand

[newbie] 3D is so slow with LM8.1

Just installed LM8.1 on my PC with (AGP) ATI Radeon AIW 32MB. Normal applications seem fine but 3D app.s (i.e. games) are incredably slow (P100 kind of slow). The 3D tron-clone is achieving 1 frame/second and TuxRacer is also unplayable. I selected X 4.1.0 with 3D acceleration at installation an

RE: [newbie] Video cards - Radeon

ATI Radeon 32MB DDR is an excellent card but - beware LMD8.0 drivers will have major problems. Solutions have already been on this list but I'm waiting for 8.1 - next week (should work "out of the box") At 20:51 17/09/2001 -0400, Charles A Edwards wrote: > > -Original Message- > > F

Re: [newbie] alternatives to windows programs

If CMYK is the only (?) drawback to GIMP, How hard can it be to implement? E.g. if you have an RGB bitmap, how easily could it be transformed into a CMYK bitmap (or bitmaps for each of the colours)? (Is it true that there are some patent/rights tied up with CMYK and printing these?) Cheers, R

Re: [newbie] Proxy Server

Maybe a dumb question, but... (Apart from using a Linux box as your home network gateway) what do you use a proxy server for on the same machine as you access the net? Cheers, Rod. At 13:23 04/09/2001 -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: >Squid is great. http://www.squid-proxy.org. Mandrake c