On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 01:25, Netsonic wrote: > I'm on a little bit of a buzz at the moment :O) > > After trawling through a dozen or so distro's I've finally found one that > actually works on my hardware 100%, which is Redhat 8.0 I went through a lot of distros, and then ended up back full circle at RedHat. When I actually have spare time then I plan on looking through more distros for something better (I envisage RH becoming to consumer orientated in the near future). > KDE seems to have improved no end since I last tried to use it seriously. > The themes and the whole appearance of it are just sooo much nicer than M$ > stuff IMO. Im just waiting for KDE 3.1 to be officially added to the Redhat > update list, which there site says should be in the next 4-5 days. I wouldn't have thought that KDE 3.1 would make it into RH 8.0 - but don't use KDE so don't really have an interest. KDE 3.1 is in Phoebe3 (the latest beta) > > The default driver for my video card (Radeon 8500) installed straight away > and has given me the full capabilities I need from the card, which is > 1600x1200 running at 100 Hz in 24 bit color. KDE looks absolutely crisp on > that :) > > In fact, the only thing I havent really tried using so far is infra-red, > which i normally use to organise my mobile and send text messages from the > desktop when Im at home. If anybody has any experience of using infra-red > under Redhat, I'd be interested in hearing about it. Not sure if it would work out of the box, but lirc.org would probably be what you are looking for. (Well there's not lirc* rpm anyway). > So far, my only (minor) complaint would be about the menus. They look fab > under KDE, but they just have absolutely no apparent organisation at all. > There are configuration tools all over the place, and although the menu > editor is very easy to use, for me personally, it lacks the configuration > options I would have liked (Or maybe they are there hidden away somewhere, > and I just haven't found them yet!). > The menus and their organisation caused a bit of uproar on the mailing list, but they seem easier to navigate in Phoebe. > Before I can do that though, I do have a large number of mp3's (around 5000 > or so) which I need to be able to read from an NTFS formatted disk, copy > across, and then reformat the disk with Redhat. I know the Redhat site > mentions something about read-only NTFS support, but I can't seem to find it > right now. I've had a look at the services, and been through all the > software package lists. > I'd be most appreciative if anybody could point me in the right direction > for setting up the NTFS access properly. https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-November/005510.html seems to suggest you need to recompile the kernel for NTFS support NTFS is something that I've never needed to mount, so can't really help. -- Regards, Adam Allen. adam@dynamicinteraction.co.uk pgp http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=adam%40dynamicinteraction.co.uk
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