> > How do I adjust the volume in Mandrake Linux? I'm running KDE. The startup > sound always blasts out of my speakers when I login.
KMenu>Multimedia>Sound>Soundmixer Set the volume level you like and File>Save current settings as default > > Is there a "Task Manager" in Linux, like there is in Windows2000? I typed > "top" but there are too many processes to display in the window. How do I > see all the processes? KMenu>Applications>Monitoring>KDE System Guard select the process table TAB > > When it crashes, what do I do? Hit the reset button? It crashed, and I > didn't know what to press. Crashes? That's a Windows thing. Linux doesn't crash. (well hardly) Applications can crash. If one does hit Ctrl+Alt+Esc and when the little skull+Crossbones appears then click over the crashed application and it will die. Alternatively looks at KDE system guard find the process ID number you want to kill and in a root terminal type 'kill idnumber' If KDE itself crashes, then hit Ctr+Alt+Backspace and KDE will die and return you to the graphical lockin. If you are in a full screen game and it locks up the Ctl+Alt+Back space sometimes does not work and the keyboard does not respond. In this case kit Alt+SysReq+R this should put the keyboard in Raw mode Then hit Ctr+Alt+F3 (or anything from F2 to F8) This should give you a console login. Login as root and then type shutdown -r now for a graceful system restart. If that does not work and you have another computer you can remotely log in with telnet, ssh, or a shell command in webmin and type 'shutdown -r now' Finally if NONE of these techniques work Hit Alt+SysReq+R go to raw mode Hit Alt+SysReq+E close open applications Hit Alt+SysReq+S Write all unwritten data to disc VERY Important Hit Alt_SysReq+b Reboot the computer immediately If you find yourself doing this procedure very often I suggest you make sure you are running a journalling file system, Ext3, XFS, or Reiserfs (I use XFS) these file systems are not vulnerable to 'non graceful' shutdowns like the default Ext2 system is. > > Is Kmovie buggier than hell? It won't play most of my music videos, and if > I choose to open another movie file when I'm playing something, it crashes. > Is there a better movie player for Linux? Try Mplayer or xine. There were posts on where to get them yesterday I think > > Why can I only use traceroute when I'm logged in as root? How do I allow > normal users to use traceroute? Because traceroute works by manipulating the IP packet headers to 'spoof' the hop count. This requires something called 'raw headers' and is only possible under root. Windows XP allows all users to use raw headers. For a tirade on why this is really dumb go to www.grc.com > > When I click on the "Home" icon in my home directory, it goes to > "/mnt/cdrom2" for some reason. When in Konquerer, and I click the Home > icon, it goes to my home directory though. How do I make it so when I click > the desktop icon, it goes to "/home/ddeham"? Dunno > > Finally, I know this is asking a lot, but is there any way I can watch TV > with my ATI All In Wonder Radeon card in Linux? Whaddya mean watch TV? You mean with a TV Tuner card? For sure you can. There is an application to do it. I dont remember the name. Try seaching sourceforge. There are gazillion projects there to do all sorts of things (There is a bookmark for it in Konqueror) If you mean watch web TV then get RealPlayer8 community edition. It works under Linux. Also go to www.codeweavers.com and get their crossover plug in demo, which will install Apple Quicktime for you, and you can watch TV in that. (They charge for the full version :-( ) > > Answers to any of these questions would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Daniel
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