Re: [newbie] Scroll mouse, Windows XP mounts, Fonts, & Geforce 3

[Robin Turner]

-=Eric=- wrote:

Ok, I'm new to the list so please take it easy on me. :-)

I have a few questions for the list please:

1.    How can I get my scroll mouse to work? I'm using KDE as my windows
manager.

Go into the Control Center, select Hardware then Mouse. Cilck on the type of mouse and test if it works. Most scroll mice should work OK, though your brand may not be listed - try something like "generic scroll mouse" if it isn't.

2.    I would like to have my Windows XP partitions mounted when starting
KDE. I would love to have a simple icon (two actually, for my 2 XP
partitions) on my desktop so I can easily get to my files.

I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of NTFS, but FAT partitions are detected automatically. 9.0 by default uses supermount, so you shouldn't need to mount them. To create an icon, you can right click on the desktop and fill in the appropriate details. Depending on how you partitioned your disk, they will be something like /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2

3. I read on a website a while back how to make the fonts more like those of
(gulp) Windoze. I'm looking for something that's easy to read. I feel the
default fonts used in KDE leave something to be desired. They are hard to
read when viewing websites.

Again, from the Control Center, choose System then Fonts, then click Get Windows Fonts. You can choose which fonts KDE uses from the KDE Control Center (not to be confused with the Mandrake one). Enabling anti-aliasing in KDE may improve the look of things.

4. When installing Mandrake 9.0, it said something about my Geforce 3 but I
think it said something about generic drivers. Should they be generic
drivers or should I attempt to install something else?

The generic drivers work, but won't give you much if anything in the way of 3D acceleration. You can download and install nVidia's own drivers from their site (they aren't included in the Mandrake distro because they're closed source). If you have any problems instaling them, check previous posts on the subject in the archives of this list.

Thanks for your time and any help is appreciated.

You're welcome!

Sir Robin

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Robin Turner
IDMYO,
Bilkent University
Ankara 06533
Turkey

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