Ralph , can't help right now , but i'll try to e-mail tonight (17/01/01)
with help. Meantime send info on your system. Regards
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From: Ralph Avery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 1:29 AM
Subject: [newbie] I'm completely lost
> 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?
>
>
>
>
