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win2suse

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Thursday, August 17th 2006, 9:51am

Tons of questions

Hallo all,
I'm absolute newbie in linux community. Yesterday I installed Bebian on my old Toshiba Tecra8000, and encountered many questions, and listed the critical ones below:

?(1. the KDE desktop window is not properly driven by the system. I guess it's due to the fact that I did not offer any info on the graphic card id and some related bus info for I have no idea how these infos could be found in bebian.

?(2. the cd-rom works weird, I could insert it once, but failed to take it out. why? Which command I could issue to see what's in the cd in a shell console? I tried with mount /cd, but nothing happens.

?(3. at startup, usb seems sucessfully mounted, but in KDE konqueror there is no such a folder. should I reconfigure somewhere?

?(4. normally under which directory is it recommended to install user program? after installation, how could I inform KDE in oder to include the newcomer as a normal application?

?(5. Is there any tool like Bebian aptitude that get the desired file and install it automatically?

?(6. How could I install some plug-ins, e.g. flash player, for the firefox in KDE?

That's all for today. wish any experts could give me a hand for them. Regards, win2s

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Thursday, August 17th 2006, 6:19pm

RE: Tons of questions

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?(1. the KDE desktop window is not properly driven by the system. I guess it's due to the fact that I did not offer any info on the graphic card id and some related bus info for I have no idea how these infos could be found in bebian.


What kind of graphics card do you have? I find it quite hard to help people with their graphics cards, since I have enough trouble to keep my ATI card working properly.

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?(2. the cd-rom works weird, I could insert it once, but failed to take it out. why? Which command I could issue to see what's in the cd in a shell console? I tried with mount /cd, but nothing happens.


Once the CD is mounted, the disc tray is locked, so you cannot eject it without unmounting the device first. You should use the umount command for that:

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$ umount /dev/cdrom

for example (I don't know what your CD-ROM device is, you can check that by executing 'mount' without arguments.

?(3. at startup, usb seems sucessfully mounted, but in KDE konqueror there is no such a folder. should I reconfigure somewhere?[/quote]

Have you already looked in media:/ ?

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?(4. normally under which directory is it recommended to install user program? after installation, how could I inform KDE in oder to include the newcomer as a normal application?


For applications which are installed behind the distro's back, it's generally recommended to install them in /usr/local or in some folder in your home directory. If the application does not automatically add a menu item in your K Menu, you should add one yourself with kmenuedit.

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?(6. How could I install some plug-ins, e.g. flash player, for the firefox in KDE?


Install the Linux Netscape Flash plugin from www.macromedia.com and put it in ~/.mozilla/plugins for example. Then go to Konqueror, enter the Settings menu and choose Configure Konqueror. In one of the last sections, there is Plugins. There you can search and it should find the plugins properly.
Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)