I've been tinkering with this Linux for some time, but I still don't
understand it at all. I've read the posts on this message board (All 150+)
every day, but everyone's completely out of my league with their responses.
I have Mandrake Linux (I think 6.2). I managed to get it up and running, I
can even connect to the internet. I have no idea how I did it. I am trying
to get my sound card and NIC card to work. I downloaded some files that are
supposed to be the drivers. They're in tar.gz format. I've gunzipped them,
and even tarred them. I have a bunch of files now, and I have no idea what
to do with them. There's an Adobe PDF with one of them. I downloaded the
latest version of Acrobat to read it. It makes no sense.
When I log out of KDE (Or any other GUI) I often lose my mouse. The cursor
goes to the extreme upper right corner, and I can't do squat after that.
All I can do is hit Reset. The computer's not locked up, but it won't let
me do anything when I return to the GUI. I would imagine there was a
command that could be executed which would activate the mouse again.
Is there anyone out there willing to do some one-on-one tutoring, and help
someone who's really really trying?
