Wel,

Someone plese convince me that Linux is better than Windows 2000.
D/load MDK 9.1 distro.

Hmm, lets see. Whats up with it?

Not allowed to configure my Mustek 1200UB plus scanner.

Logitech QuickCam pro 3000 is inoperable. For some reson it is in Scanners.
When I plug in my Olympus digital camera, the system freezes.

My Xerox Docuprint M750 is crap quality on Linux. More like a dot matrix.

WINE is a dissapointment, getting loads of 'L' errors. Can only get Realplayer and Netzip Classic to work. (ikernel probs with most) using Codeweavers WINE.

Does not show me a way of connecting to the net with my modem, however my Broadband is ok.

My Aiptek Tablet does not work.

Not to happy with Linux at the mo. as you can see.

Any suggestions?
Please keep them clean...LOL

well, you could try other distributions, such as redhat, debian, or suse , MDK isn't the only distribution out there.
as for wether or not it's better than windows, well that's a matter of oppinion, as both have their advantages and disadvantages, although i personally prefer linux to windows and woudn't touch windows with a 10 foot pole if i could avoid it , there are documents (and links to documents) on this verry bullitan that has information on reasons (legit reasons that is ms does this and it's bad because..., not half baked, i hate ms because it's bad albeit there is a bit of that to here) which is compelling to not use windows agian, but as for actually chosing a platform, only you can decide for yourself, cheers

well forget about wine and you'll do a lot better. use a native application where possible (99.5% of the time) for one, realplayer has a linux version ready and waiting. if you want to keep running windows programs, keep running windows...

as for scanner, it's beta support accoring to the sane website, http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/gt68xx-backend/ with that driver

most people who are not impressed by linux basically aren't trying to... perserve a little and you'll love it. just need to stop trying to clone windows.

acid where is the realplayer for Linux? I can't seem to find a Linux download on there website.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/realpl...22%2C128%2C113

You can always check freshmeat for packages

Cool

Thanks for the suggestions, however I hve just destroyed MDK 9.1. Not because I wanted to, but because it crashed when I clicked my (Linux)Yahoo! Messenger mail tab.
Now when it boots up it will only boot to windows
Before it did that it booted to a black screen asking for my user and pass but no KDE.

Well you must have somehow switched your default runlevel to 3. After you type in your username password try typing:

startx

Don't give up yet!

My XeroX DocuPrint M750 (notorious b*astard in windows/general) works fine with Mdk9.0, CUPS printed a lovely test page when I installed it, so it was configured from the start

Check for drivers or kernel options maybe for your Aiptek Tablet.

I'm still with 56K but I'm 99.9% sure your modem will work in linux, someone point him in the right direction.

My Linux is completely shafted.
Tried the startx command in the black login screen
Got this and more from the system...

FATAL SERVER ERROR
NO SCREEN FOUND

[R200setup] Xfree86 version mismatch Detected 4.3.0 required 4.1.x
Failed to load module "fglrx"
Fatal IO error 104 on x server ":0.0"

I think it is shafted.

It is Yahoo! messengers fault. All I did was click the mail tab

well, don't give up, although my personal experience is with redhat and debian, i'd reccomend redhat, but acid is right, if you expect linux to be sortof a clone of windows, you're infor a dissapointment, linux is entirely it's own beast and should be treated as such. i have wine, and never got it working (didn't try hard either), but if you give linux a chance, not only should you realize how little like windows linux really is, you'll realize how bad windows is.

Well if he is stuck in runlevel3, someone remember which file to edit as root to restore him to runlevel5

I have re-installed MDK.
The installation does some how seem different.
Such as application on the Start menu. There don't seem to be as many. All of the printer utilities are not there.
Never Mind. Got a spare 10G HD and Red Hat 8.1 to look at.

I had something similar when I selected server mode, not stand alone pc. Sure you picked the right thing? I read my manual a bit after my first mistake

Try SuSE Linux Live-eval CD. Get it here:

www.linuxiso.org

Your hardware are similar to mine -> should run withour any problems ;-)

My updated SuSE Linux 8.1 is way much better than win2k. I dualboot it with winXP tho ;-)


Have a lot of fun :-)

Thanks aherm, got the Eval CD. I think SUSE are a bit on the tight side. I called them up about SUSE on the hard drive and they said there would be no point selling it if people could download it for use on their hard drive.
Not exactly going by the FREE LICENCE rules now are they.
Hence, now I will not use SUSE.

I will however quite happily contribute to a distro that allows workable versions on the HD.

Anyway my MDK 9.1 has shafted again so I might burn it.

Cheers then, and thanks for your suggestion.