1) I have a 500 mhz processor but Linux shows it running at 475, should I worry? 2) I have one of those built in sound cards, with C-Media Electronics chips-ICM18738 which sndconfig found and set up but it seems that the window managers keep crashing the darn thing. The CD player works great but system sounds will work for about a dozen sounds and then silence(does not effect the cd player but does effect the mp3 player). The MP3 player works great as long as I have system sounds turned off. If I lose sound and log out and back into KDE sounds return until they crash again. Any ideas???? 3) I had to re-install Mandrake 7.0 once in the month I have been operating. I found out the hard way dont log in as root and leave it for several hours. A thunderstorm came through and momentary knocked the power off, just enough to reboot it. Now it rebooted fine and I worked on it for several hours that night, but in the morning I turned it on and while the boot seemed fine it could not run x. After trying everything I could think of I finally after two hours reloaded the system. More then likely X's configuration file was damaged and it could not load the right video driver. Even using the so-called rescue disk I made durring the first installation would not work. Now I was able to control the last part of the boot but I could not find a right combination of yes/no's that would get me into a non-graphical screen. Is there a way to do a safe mode boot?????????? 4) I have seen many people of the list knocking PCI modems, but many of us can't afford an external modem. I now have a PCI modem that works fine, it was the only external at Best Buy that had a Linux compatible label on it. Its an Actiontec 56k internal call waiting modem and come with instructions on setting it up for linux at the command line and also writing a new line to the /ect/rc.d/rc.local file so it will be auto configure on start up. No problems and it works fine , at least one company tries to support Linux. 5) Before I had to reinstall I had installed Acrobat Reader, but it had errors everytime I used it. Any thoughts before I try again? 6)Does the normal install have the c-compilers? Thanks for any help, Don Hensley
