I could not get an answer to this in the newbie list and therefore thought to try the Expert list. I hope you will forgive the cross posting. Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Registered Linux user 183185 ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Linux Newbie Mandrake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 6:54 PM Subject: [newbie] Minor post install "problems" > After weeks of fighting to get TurboLinux 6 to work correctly (too many > problems to list) I dumped it and went to Mandrake 7.1 What a difference! > In 2 hours, it was installed, the printer was working and I was on the > internet without a hiccup. Now I can spend my time trying to learn Linux > instead of trying to debug a distribution. > > What problems I have are so minor that I could live without solving them if > I had to. But here goes: > > 1 When booting up I get a message about failing to detect the USB > interface. That is because I do not have USB on this PC. How do I stop > Mandrake from looking for the USB? > > 2. Even though numlock was selected to be on during install (I think), it is > not on when KDE is up. How do I correct this? > > 3. On shutting dows, I get a message that it failed: "saving mixer settings: > error opening mixer". What is that? I do not have sound configured yet. > It is the one thing I could not get to work. I have a Sound Blaster PNP Pro > 16 with Interrupt 5, DMA 1, DMA 16 5 and MPU 330. Even though I entered > these numbers, still no sound. Any thoughts? > > 4. I have a PS/2 microsoft intellimouse. Yet when I select it as the one to > chose (both as root and as user), the selection does not "stick" and when I > reopen the config tool I see that it is still at generic PS/2. What am I > doing wrong? > > Thanks for any help for these relatively "minor" problems. > > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Registered Linux user 183185 > > >
