On Tuesday 16 January 2001 07:29 pm, Ralph Avery wrote:
> Is there anyone out there willing to do some one-on-one tutoring, and
> help someone who's really really trying?
Spend an evening, or 2, or 3 .... reading thru
http://mandrakeuser.org/
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
> 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.
>
