[expert] Anyone get flash player 6 working under mandrake 9.2?

2003-11-09 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I downloaded flash player 6 from macromedia download site and install it on mandrake 9.2. It used to work on mandrake 9.0 with mozilla 1.1 but not 9.2 with mozilla 1.4. Anyone get this work? Thanks, - Yahoo!

[expert] mandrake 9.2 nVIDIA nforce board problme?

2003-11-04 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I just upgrade to mandrake 9.2 and got little audio problem here. I compile and install nforce driver from nVIDIA and modified /etc/modules.conf. First, I removed 'snd-slot-0 i810_audio line' which generated during install and replaced with 'snd-slot-0 nvaudio'. After reboot, mandrake 9.2

[expert] freeswan 1.9x on mandrake 9.2

2003-11-03 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I tried to get freeswan work on mandrake 9.2 but not so lucky so far. I am not familiar with freeswan 2.x yet, so I tried to install super-freeswan rpm from 9.2's contrib directory. But super-freeswan package complains about KLIPS version and refused to install. Rebuild rpm got the same

[expert] HP PSC 1210 on mandrake 9.0

2003-11-02 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I just bought a HP PSC 1210 multifunction days ago. It's strange that scan is ok but not printing. I use printdrake to install and setup printer. Everything sent to cups are always pending and never print out. cups and hpoj both are running. Anything I can do to get printing work?

[expert] install from hard disk?

2003-10-26 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all It already bothered me for a while since mandrake 9.0 to current 9.2. Usually I mirror a copy of mandrake linux and install from that hard disk partition. I works well and really fast. But when I tried to add some package,software manager always told me that file was missing. If I change

[expert] mandrake linux wireless problem?

2003-10-26 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi all, I just installed mandrake 9.2 but a little confused about wireless setting. My AP activated WEP and my notebook running windows xp can connect to AP using WEP key (26 hex digit). When I look at the examples in wireless.opt,they all looks like 13 alphanumeric. Can I use 26 hex digit as

[expert] where are mozilla,xine stuff in mandrake 9.2?

2003-10-23 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I just got a copy of mandrake 9.2 download edition. It's very easy to perform a new install. But I found some of my favorite apps like mozilla,xine,etc in 9.1 are missing after login, are they in default installation of power pack or prosuite? I know package management can add those

[expert] strange sound system problem?

2003-10-21 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I got a strange sound system problem here. If I login from local console,the sound system works perfectly. But if I login from remote X session,I got sound device permission error. It seems that sound device owner is root during system start but KDE will change owner to those who try to

[expert] nforce2 ATA problem?

2003-10-21 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I got a new nforce2 mainboard recently and attached an old hard drive which BIOS identified as ATA66 drive. But according to dmesg output,it's ATA33. Using hdparm utility, it is a udma2 drive. Isn't ATA66 drive be identify as udma4? I am totally confused now, what speed my hard drive is

[expert] mandrake 9.1 reboot problem?

2003-10-16 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all It have been a while. Sometimes I do'nt have any menu options after logout from KDE and try to reboot. Sometimes I get a menu to choose windows or linux. When I do'nt get a menu, I have to switch to console and reboot with command line. Another problem here, console display something like

[expert] tightvnc startup problem?

2003-09-16 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I installed and started a tightvnc server on an IPC. I can connect to this IPC from another workstation with no problem. But only icewm is available. If I put the following line in xstartup: exec /usr/X11R6/bin/icewm I got a windows manager after connection established. exec

[expert] nforce2, I don't know how to use it or a bad choice for linux?

2003-09-16 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all My old VIA mainboard was gone weeks ago and I bought a nforce2 board to replace it. I got a lot of situation with this new board: 1. usb mouse won't work during mandrake 9.0 installation event I set it to USB 1.0/1.1 only,but it works ok after new system start up. Is this a hardware or

[expert] via82c686 sound problem?

2003-09-13 Thread Vincent Chen
Dear all, I have a desktop based on nforce2 chipset and sound system works ok after I logon. Another IPC I have equipped with via82c686 sound chip but I can't get sound system work for months. Recently, I found that via82c686 driver loaded ok during startup device owner is root. I look at my

[expert] linux multitask performance?

2003-09-10 Thread Vincent Chen
Dear all, Recently, I bought a CDR. While burning CD using xcdroast at 48x, I can barely move my mouse or do anything else. It is still very smooth burning cd and surfing net under windows 2000. How should I tune my mandrake 9.0 for better performance? Thanks,

[expert] english user interface but can process chinese

2003-08-25 Thread Vincent Chen
Dear all, I use mandrake 9.0 for a while. The only reason I didn't upgrade to mandrak 9.1 is I can edit .i18n to have english environment but still can use chinese input method and display chinese content. After upgrade to 9.1, I must set locale to zh.TW to have chinese input work correctly. But

[expert] mandrake wireless WEP problem?

2003-08-14 Thread Vincent Chen
mandrake 9.1 and what's the format? Thanks, Vincent Chen - ¨C¤Ñ³£ Yahoo!©_¼¯ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - À°§Aºâ¥X³Ì¦X¾Aªº¨D¾¤è¦V http://fate.yahoo.com.tw/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] Is there any GUI front end for wireless?

2003-07-21 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all Is there any GUI front-end that can help to find available access point and get more detailed information for wireless connection? I am using asus wl-100 on xp and bundled GUI front-end is very impressive. I wonder if I can get similar one for linux? Thanks,

[expert] wireless tools doesn't work?

2003-07-14 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I have a pcmcia wireless network adapter, the card manager will start it up and bring up eth1 during booting. When I try to ues iwlist,iwspy,etc tools, those tools response 'not supported' or something like that. How can I use thoese tools to monitor wireless status? iwconfig works ok ,

[expert] asus wl-100 wireless pcmcia card

2003-07-05 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all is anyone using this card on mandrake 9.1? i plug it in and card manager told me that this card not supported. how can i configure it to work under mandrake? btw: which chip this product using? prism2? Thanks, - ¨C¤Ñ³£

[expert] alsa vs. via686 sound

2003-06-09 Thread Vincent Chen
Dear all, I have an IPC equipped with via686 ac97 sound. After alsa start, it seems ok. Here is info I got: --- lsmod output --- snd-seq-midi5024 0 (autoclean) (unused) snd-seq-oss31104 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 5640 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss] snd-seq

[expert] wrong CPU speed?

2003-06-06 Thread Vincent Chen
Dear all, I have a IBM ThinkPad 560Z notebook equipped with PII 300 CPU. It works reasonablely under winodws 98 but really slow under mandrake linux 9.1. And I got the following kernel message: --- kernel output --- Initializing CPU#0 Detected 75.588 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device

[expert] mandrake 9.1 vs. VIA sound

2003-05-27 Thread Vincent Chen
Hi, all I have a IPC which has sound system base on VIA 82C686. I add the following the to modules.conf alias sound-slot-0 via82cxxx_audio kernel seems recognize it: Via 686a/8233/8235 audio driver 1.9.1-ac2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:07.5 to 64 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: