RDM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, here goes, gang . . . I'm a 42 y/o (male) RN on my 5th or 6th
> computer, now. (So much for knowing computer programming, etc.) I have
> done Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, & 98, and some version of Mac once, on one
> "Macintosh" I had (at home), and Windows NT at work.
>
> I understand basic options, with Windows, for management, scandisk,
> defrag, Norton's Utilities, etc.
>
> 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!
>
> 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;
============
Tried sndconfig ?? That can usually get sound going. From a command line,
type it in as root.
============
>(2) How to get "out" of
> KDE into basic text=driven Linux to run command lines;
============
You might try logging in with "linux 3" (w/o quotes, of course). That should
boot you into a CLI.
============
>(3) Gnome runs,
> but the keyboard dies in Gnome; (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; (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.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Robert, South Carolina, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=====================
Robert, I suggest checking the appropriate documentation. I also suggest
picking up or borrowing a good solid Linux book, such as, Linux for Dummies by
Jon maddog Hall, or Running Linux by Walsh, et. al., published by O'Reilly.
You'll find the answers to these and many more questions in the documentation
and these books.
Mike
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Benjamin Frankilin
____________________________________________________________________
Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at
http://webmail.netscape.com.
