Re: [newbie] md9.0rc1: mandrake control center not appearing

2002-09-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > > I keep advising y'all to lurk on the cooker list, or at least >check the archives if you use cooker ;) > > > > > I downloaded M9.0b2 , found it would not recognise my usb printer like previous mandrake releases used to, wanted to report it, was even exto

Re: [newbie] md9.0rc1: mandrake control center not appearing

2002-09-04 Thread tek1
hi dale and all. yes, the pathname was wrong. thank you for your help. :) At 11:15 02/09/04 -0500, you wrote: >Hope I'm not missing the point, or saying something obvious, but I've had >a similar problem in several incarnations of Mandrake. The problem (in my >case, at least), is that the pa

Re: [newbie] md9.0rc1: mandrake control center not appearing

2002-09-04 Thread tek1
thanks for your reply. i tried su'ing to root, even logging in as root, but couldn't access the mdr ctrl ctr. fortunately, 9.0rc1 was a clean install (not upgrading a system currently is use), so i'll use 8.2 until 9.0 final is released. thanks again for your help. At 20:49 02/09/03 -0600,

Re: [newbie] md9.0rc1: mandrake control center not appearing

2002-09-04 Thread Derek Jennings
Does this happen when in Gnome or any other Window Manager other than KDE, but KDE works OK? And do you get the same symptom when trying to open any other 'drak' tool? If so it is a bug I reported to Cooker in 9.0Beta2 but no one else seemed to have a problem with it. When I upgraded to Beta

Re: [newbie] md9.0rc1: mandrake control center not appearing

2002-09-03 Thread Miark
That happens to me, too. My feeling is that it's a result of one of two things: 1) Upgrading to KDE 3.0.2, or 2) messing with Ximian Gnome before there were Mandrake-specific RPMs available. I can still run the M. Control Center from a terminal after I su to root, so I'm just waiting for 9 final

[newbie] md9.0rc1: mandrake control center not appearing

2002-09-03 Thread tek1
i installed 9.0rc1 and tried accessing "mandrake control center". after inputting the root pw, the dialog box for mandrake control center disappears and nothing happens. anyone know why this might be happening? thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http:/