[newbie] ACPI

2004-04-07 Thread brife
During boot the 2.6 kernel tells me that ACPI is disabled because my bios is too old (2000). It also tells me that I can override this with acpi=force. Trouble is I don't know what config file this should go in. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Brandon

Re: [newbie] MDK 10? Hmm.....

2004-03-21 Thread brife
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 15:43, JRH wrote: just managed to finally get 10 Community up and running, and I have a question: On 9.2, the login screen gave me the opportunity to manually enter my username. 10 does not appear to give me that option. I used to be able to log into KDE as root,

[newbie] 9.2-10 upgrade advice

2004-03-19 Thread brife
Hi all! When I go home tonight I'm planning on upgrading my laptop from 9.2 to 10. I've never been through this process so any advice would be appreciated. I have a relatively simple configuration: Linux is the only OS on my laptop and I have a single HD partitioned into /, sv (swap), and /home

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-25 Thread brife
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 10:04, Weiers Coetser wrote: I'm sorry but I don't know if I really understand or if my problem is even the same. I'm running a Dual System mode - Windows XP and Mandrake 9.1 with KDE. This is only my second week that I am involved with Linux in any form. I manage to

Re: [newbie] Fixing the printers not showing up in Firefox and Thunderbird.

2004-02-24 Thread brife
Thanks for the tip, Steve. I noticed that the Print menu-item was grayed out in FF .8 the other day. Sometimes though one thing just leads to another. After changing the user.js file and printing a test page, I got a printout informing me that the Postscript interpreter in the printer was too old