Quote:Mostly wife is happy with the system. One issue, if she leaves firefox running for any long period of time the entire system becomes unresponsive. Honestly it's faster to hit control alt delete for a reboot than go to control alt F1 login as root and try to kill firefox. You can do it but it's soooo slow. Some type of memory leak?
Ok this is possibly an issue with the 2.6 kernel, I encountered it as well, all you need to do is add "noinotify" to the kernel command line..
Open /boot/grub/grub.lst (or is it grub.conf?)
Look for the line something like
kernel /kernel-BLAH root=BLAH ..... noinotify
Add the noinotify to the end. This might fix the issue. Basically whats happening is that a wee program called gam_server is running away with itself and blowing up the kernel causing whats called a panic. Reboot is the only option after this.
Quote:1. Why wouldn't it be able to create the shortcuts? I notice that any program I try to install in wine fails to create shortcuts. Unfortunately this program is set up so if the shortcuts fail to be created as soon as you click OK on the error it begins uninstalling. I tried to get around that by not clicking ok but just killing the install at this point instead hoping that the shortcuts would be the LAST thing to install. But that's besides the point, seams to me the shortcuts SHOULD install.
Wine isn't perfect and a quick glance revealed that
does install doesnt work, I know yours seems like a different issue but it doesnt sound hopeful :(
Quote:2. The CD rom needs to be UnMOUNTED? Yes the CD ROM is in the drive and mounted. Why would the CD ROM need to be unmounted? Wouldn't it need to be mounted? Just curious. I believe you and will try it unmounted. Just want to know why it would need to be unmounted.
Coming from the Windows world you might be a little green to mount/umount issue because Windows cheerfully handles this end all by itself.
If the CD isnt umounted, then its handled somewhat like a read only hard disk and needless to say you cant simply withdraw them :)By umounting you effectively release the disk from linux.
Quote:Regards,Z
OI.. im the only z around here.. ... .. on no wait z0ny's here too.. BAH :P