Okay, I've given it another try and spent yesterday on re-installing Mandrake and trying to tweak. Not very successfully, but at leat I understand a little more of Linux now, I believe :-)
Three main issues remain unsolved for me, and I'd really, REALLY appreciate any help on them, as I'm quite keen on getting at least a Linux system I can work with for the beginning on my iBook2: - The text cursor still tends to jump away to where the mouse cursor is, which is REALLY REALLY annoying when typing text. As I want to use Linux in order to write research papers and theses on Lyx, I somehow have to resolve that issue. Could it have anything to do with poor trackpad control? I.e., that I possible touch the trackpad lightly while typing and the system interprets this as a mouse click? How could I find out if this is the case and possibly fix it? - I've followed Sylvain's HowTo on changing the keyboard layout. The result was that NEITHER the alt nor the Apple/AltGr button produced any secondary signs like @, EUR etc. My problem was not the keyboard mapping in itself - that's basically identical between PC and Mac in Germany (perhaps I've expressed myself unclearly previously) but the function of the other keys, ESP. the alt key and the wonderful signs it produces in MacOS. Is there any way to change it (I know, it might interfere with lots of shortcuts) and how do I do it? - My printer still doesn't work, and I don't know why. It's a Lexmark Z 42 which is supported by Gimp-print. I could chose it in the printer menu in the Mandrake Control center. I tried chosing all the USB ports (actually, it's in USB #2), several resolutions etc., but to no avail. I don't get any error messages; Linux seems to be under the impression that the printer works, there are no print jobs on queue left when I check, but no printed page cames out. The printer works perfectly under MacOS, so I'm a bit at a loss. Being able to print would be quite important for me... I'll try Stew's suggestion re the CD-drive as soon as I've booted Mandrake again - at the moment, a huge download is running under MacOS which I don't want to interrupt for too long. Modem is fortunately not so important for me (anyway, not Mandrake's fault it doesn't work), I've got ADSL, which works just fine. I haven't tried burning CDs yet - I hope that works without too much hassle? Mandrake obviously recognizes my CD-RW as a Sony RW XYZ, so that seems to be fine. Johanna
