Hi Anne ... ... nice to be here, I'm really really green, nothing but MS windows experience ...
... no don't need any game stuff ... ... typed XFDrake, got "command not found" ... ... nosing around, found the following KDE files in /usr/bin (number is filoe size): kde* 24bytes kdecode* 31512 kdehelp* 194640 kdesetup* 1121 kdesu* 27288 kdf* 109516 kdm* 136956 kdmconfig* 122740 kdvi* 203452 kedit* 135060 ... checking the install.log file in /tmp, I find " installing ..." kdeadmin kdegames kdegraphics kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdesu kdetoys kdeutils kdf kdpms ... on the hi-jacked thing below, no, I didn't do a return on that message (did that last night, didn't work) ... did a return from one of the newbie messages, that did work ... I just included that as info ... HK -----Original Message----- From: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Feb 15, 2005 2:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [newbie] How get from "dos" mode into KDE mode? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 19:07, h k ball wrote: > ... sent this last night, but think to the wrong place Hi, hk, and welcome! > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--------------------------------- so far I have: > > (1) made a 2.5 meg Linux Ext2 partition and a .5 meg Linux SWAP partition > with Partition Magic ... > > (2) Using the Mandrake installation disks, got to "Congratulations > installation is complete!" ... installed about 400 meg of files, including > KDE, GNOME and associated graphics stuff ... > > (3) have successfully logged on into what I call the "dos-like" mode, > been able to use > > ls /bin -al |less, |more > linuxconf > man man > cd, su, exit > Xconfigurator (struggle picking a comparable video card, finally found > one) > > (4) can reboot back and forth between Windows 2000, XP and Linux on same > machine with no problem, everything still works just fine ... > > (5) have not been able to get out of the "dos" mode and into the > "windows" mode, namely KDE ... how do I do that ?????? > The most common cause is video driver problems. Try running XFDrake to see if that helps. > (6) 700 mHz, 256meg ram, 20 gig hd, Nvidia Vanta video card, Intel ... > Without the proprietary NVidia drivers you will not get hardware acceleration, but looking at the rest of your spec you are probably not wanting to play the latest games <g> so it probably doesn't matter. Let us know what happens when you type XFDrake > hk ball > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Feb 14, 2005 6:58 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Welcome on list newbie > > Welcome to the newbie List. > ======================== > > You have just subscribed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read this e-mail, and keep it for a future reference. This indicates that you have 'hi-jacked' a thread. To better understand why this (and several other things) is a problem, read http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette Let us know how you get on. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCEk45kFAvMr/nNX8RAs30AJ9Zb29zu4viTB5NU4ViDapR7+r8KgCdGNmz RGTDiNJnU6X9mZTQ5/XSVEk= =3ucp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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