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There are a number of programs that came installed with Mandrake that just flat out won't run. find the program in the "start" bar, open the program, it appears in the start bar at the bottom, loads, and then dissapears, the program doesn't appear, it just dissapears from the start bar after not showing up.
I also can't get a number of office programs to start,
And whenever I attempt open the system configuration, it just ignores my Microsoft USB intellimouse, and my generic USB keyboard.
KDE/Gnome comes with links to a large set of programs, even if you don't have these programs installed, the links are still there. Perhaps these links you're clicking on point to programs that you didn't choose to install when you were picking packages during setup.
Just because a title bar shows up in your task tray dosn't mean that the program is loading, or that it even exists.
For xine and some others you have to load the GLcore and dri modules in the XF86Config-4. Just edit and restart your xwindows. Had the same problem with xine.
Originally posted by vbmark I was frustrated by this same problem with my first Mandrake install. At that time I had only installed the KDE interface without Gnome.
I had to reinstall Mandrake at one point (for other reasons) and went ahead and installed Gnome with KDE. I also installed all development tools.
I found that this fixed all problems with programs starting. Also, compiling programs from scratch was real easy too.
I tried reinstalling and it just made things even worse, but now that you mention it, I did not have both KDE and Gnome selected and I did not have the development tools checked.
Seems pretty buggy that this should make a difference.
I'm new and pretty disappointed with all the trouble I had with 10.1 Official on a plain-vanilla machine. I may try again later after I've seen more information on getting it installed and working without tears.
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