> The other day, I gave up on Windows 98, and installed Linux-Mandrake > 6.5, and let me say, first, that I LOVE it. It is SO much more stable! Glad you like it. Also, while the box says 6.5, it's acutally Mandrake 6.1. > That said, onward . . . (1) I've no sound, except rare beeps from the > main computer when I click on something I'm not supposed to click on. I > can't hear anything at all from the speakers; Mandrake 6.1 doesn't configure sound during installation, so you'll have to configure yourself. However it's really easy. Open up a console, and type "su" to get to root. Then type "setup". You'll see an option for sound configuration, so run that. Now you can have sound. (2) How to get "out" of > KDE into basic text=driven Linux to run command lines; On the taskbar there should be a button somewhere that runs xterm, a Linux terminal. Just click on all of them until something that looks like a DOS prompt comes up. You can also hit Alt+Ctrl+F2 to change to a full text-console. Hit Alt+Ctrl+F7 to get back to the GUI. (3) Gnome runs, > but the keyboard dies in Gnome; No idea what's wrong. (4) how to decompress *.gz files, and > install, because I wanted to upgrade my Netscape to a 128 bit > encryption, and I don't know how; gunzip uncompresses it. So "gunzip the_file.gz". I'm pretty sure that's it. Also if i'ts a *.tar.gz file then its "tar -xvzf the_file.tar.gz" to uncompress and expand it. (5) how to work with WINE - I got WINE > in a RPM format, ran it (via "root"), and it said it installed, but I > couldn't find anything to click on, and never knew how to access it; (6) > I tried to install gnucash and xaccount, and the OS called for > libXm.so.1, libjpeg.so.6, and libXXm.so.2, which, upon research, I found > out to be "Motif" files, not that I know what that is, of course (I > don't); (7) I searched "Motif" and got a page about it that totally > confused me, and by then I was bummed out big time; (8) how to access > emulators, install DOS programs and run them via same, etc. Where are > the DOS emulators? What are they called? I can't find them. Everything else I don't know. -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
