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lazygamer:
Oh yes, the Linux book. Well that will honestly have to wait. I have decided to try Mandrake again, so perhaps these other questions can be answered...

[ September 03, 2002: Message edited by: lazygamer ]

lazygamer:
Hmmm, well I actually found out the answer to the services. I used a search engine and found out mandrakeuser.org, quite a good site.

I just wish I knew how to back shit up. Oh well, armed with a list of what services not to fuck with(and what they do), that backup thing won't be so important.  

lazygamer:
The CD music does work in Mandrake. Problem is, the audio is so low by default that I have to crank my speakers up a whole lot, and that creates a shitload of background noise. There is some sound configuration program in Linux, but I must of clicked something and the whole panel went blank. I can't find away to unblank it. There is also another program for sound, but it doesn't have any options for volume. I am using a soundblaster PCI 128 that is detected, but acts wierd. It doesn't give an option for a midi mapper, I don't believe(not postive) that sound works in Falcon's Eye. I think I had sound problems with Falcons eye last time I had Mandrake on, but I have to check it again.

Ok, Tux Racer does not work, the program appears on the taskbar, but doesn't run. Falcon's eye hangs when you quit, I doubt that it's truly hanging Linux cuz it's susposed to be ultra durable right? So how do you close or switch out of a program in Linux?

I wonder for the soundcard, if I need special drivers from Creative... if they have Linux drivers.

Although I was able to switch off all un-neccesary services(with Mandrake working normally this time, woo-hoo!), thanks to www.mandrakeuser.org. This has an effect on boot time, but only like 15 seconds. It might have a minor-moderate effect on speed. Hopefully there is several things I don't know about that can be done to speed up Mandrake. If you know of any simple stuff, might as well tell me now.  

BTW, this time I said f0ck W98, im assuming I will someday master Wine, WineX, and dos emulation. So Linux gets a hearty 7.4 gigs of Reiser FS space.

Linux has a frustration factor not from being hard to learn, but wanting to do certain tasks, and having to learn a shitload of information as a whole before your able to do such tasks(or easily solve problems). Thus I have to ask simple n00b questions at MSE. Such stuff like how to fix your volume, soundcard, Tuxracer(I wanna race teh tux!), close a hanged program etc. could probably be learned by reading ALOT. But you contemplate all the reading before you can enjoy the tasks you want to do perfectly, and get frustrated. Maybe you just feel hopeless to. Like Tuxracer won't work and your like WTF?! You(Mandrake) say I have a voodoo 3, why won't you work? Do I have to download Linux compatible 3DFX drivers? Do I need some dumbass Linux 3D acceleration patch etc.

PS:Is it possible to get my Sidewinder freestyle pro working with Mandrake? It really scares me because it's MS, i'd laugh if they tell you on their site how to use it for Linux(im so hopeless about this venue that im not gonna even check). I also have a fear they might have something in it to prevent it from working with Linux, and/or all the Linux hackers hate Microsoft and don't wanna help their shitty hardware work with Linux.  :(

voidmain:
I don't know what GUI you use but I assume you want GUI answers since you are in the learning stages. In KDE "kmix" will contain your mixer/volumes. "kpm" is like task manager in Windows to see your running processes and kill them off (although I prefer ps/kill command line). But there are many ways of performing these tasks. As for Tux Racer, I have no idea, tried it once and it was a slow piece of crap, of course I wasn't really interested in it so I didn't give it a second look.

You shouldn't need special drivers for your sound card and I am pretty sure that joystick is supported by the Linux joystick driver in the kernel. You might want to search google for "linux joystick driver" and take note of the date on the pages you are looking at, as well as the kernel versions associated with it.

choasforages:
is it a usb joystick, casue if it is, a simple

modprobe joydev

as root, will make it work, atleast my $10 game pad did

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