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lee quick wrote:
Yay got it to work now have Office 2000 on my KDE toolbar! Been browsing with internet explorer on the linuxformat site (big smirks)
Hmm, reminds me of something someone said about elephants walking on their hind legs. Emulations and rehashing interfaces rarely produce good solutions, Word Perfect for Unix was a classic example. I've just installed Mandrake 8.1 download edition (I've had the CD for months but somehow never got around to trying it), and was just admiring the bundled KWord, simple but all most people need in a word processor. "Quanta plus" looks like the kind of HTML editing tool I could come to love, if I'm ever mad enough to try writing substantial amounts of HTML (unlikely). I ought to write a proper review for the site. Although I think the one CD download edition is probably going to be unfairly compared to the umpteen CD SuSE Pro edition - like where is the 'Wireless Tools' rpm? Anyway quick question - my mouse died. Mandrake 8.1 loaded and the mouse and Xfree86 worked out of the box, hardware support looks really good, the tape driver worked when I loaded relevant modules, no kernel fiddling, the wireless lan worked when I built the wireless tools and created the /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia settings. Although I've still to master one or two subtleties of the PCMCIA start up (Some module loading combinations seem to cause a panic). However on booting once I tried interactive mode (Held down 'i'). It ran Kudzu and DrakConf (I think), and somewhere in one of those screen it told me it was doing something to my mouse configuration, and it has never worked since. The device files look okay for the mouse - I've run 'gpm' and 'mev' against the relevant com port and nothing - zilch - just a dead mouse. mouseconfig runs but nothing happens when I try and test it. Any idea what I might have done? Sure it is simple, but it is eluding me today. Simon PS: The Kmail with 8.1 Mandrake does have IMAP4 support, so it did come in on KDE 2 sometime. I can't figure out how to do LDAP support in this version of Kmail though. Ximian however looks like it will support my mail needs - so I'll see how it compares to Netscape 4.x, or try a later Kmail if I can find one. I still think Kmail is more what I want in a mail client, Ximian is overkill, and too much like Outlook, it'll be sending copies of Klez out next ;) PPS: All this to run GNU Chess on freechess.org ;) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.