If you can offer the vital cue on how to get Skype going on PCLinuxOS Jennifer, 'twould be grateful. I have garbled sound and am hoping the cue to do it isn't too techy! Any pointers??

Phidor.

Depends on the Sound Card but I did actually get it to work nicely, You have to turn off the Mix Settings they seem to mess things up with my Audigy 2 so turning off the Mix or What you hear made it really nice, I talked with a Friend on it while getting my Mandriva Power Pack re installed and working. While getting it we were talking, me with headphones, so did the Alsa Mixer GUI and turned off the Mix and it cleared it all up, though I have a Full Professional Audio setup, it might be different for you.

Thanks Jennifer . Have a ‎C-Media Electronics Inc. CM8738 sound card that I gather is fine for Skype so I'll have another crack. Do you think broadband makes it any easier? I'm on dialup.

Thanks again,

Phidor.

Dial up won't do on Skype only Cable or DSL some might get it working but have patchy hookups. Also got most of my Mandriva Setup again, will have more time tomorrow when I am not djing and have to use my Windows system and can boot to Mandriva and get the updates working again. Then new SATA cables too, 6" ones since 36" ones are a bit long and block airflow. SAM Broadcaster does not do well on Linux and a 250.00 package is ahrd to just toss out the window, so for now uses XP Pro for my DJing and then Mabndriva for my serious fun. though I would go crazy not djing since I love music.

Ahha thanks for that! It is always satisfying to know why something will not work so thank you for the trouble to comment further. Agreed, 'tis hard to get off Windows altogether! We made it in the end here but had very little expensive software to dump.

Cheers, Phidor.

You are welcome got my Mandriva system working again mostly. Seems the new Compiz Fusuion is broken and I can not get Beryl to install at all. Asked on mandriva's site as I have at least 2 months of Full Support there, I do not wish to Format and Reinstall again to get it running again, I spent too many long hours just getting it to work and boot with out complaining anything. This is a Great Linux my Fave now but Breaking things just after I buy the DVD!!! this is Crazy. Be good, you can Buy the DVD and install it but on Dial Up getting updates would be crazy. Would take days just to get 3 files. DSL is pretty cheap for an always on so would suggest you look into it.

Broadband in New Zealand is just not fast stuff here, hence dialup used by 51% of NZ users. Recently a slow up in the rate of new broadband connections was reported in the media. Agreed dialup's pathetic - 15 hours to put in the Gnome desktop in PCLOS and then it didn't work! Updates on dialups are pipedreams, yes. Will look at changing when we get decent broadband speeds.

Phidor.

Well actually would benefit more than you think even now, as an Always On Connection rather than click here to stay on every 30 minutes. Just my experience.

There is no "Click here to stay on" every thirty minutes, the line is rock solid... but... you've set me thinking...

Smiles, Phidor.

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Although one may say that Linspire and Xandros are smaller players Suse for sure is not. Mandriva has been thru bankruptcy and has little commercial support. Red Hat will be next.

Linux has failed as a Client OS because of no standards except for the distros who write them. Xandros is the most free flowing migration from a pure Windows enviroment to Linux. Microsoft will prevail as it sees the greater good for the computer user therefore the greater good for Microsoft.

you are welcome, yes sometimes a dial up can fail at the most inopportune time. darn things DSL at least stays on while the modem is on. Check and see smiles.

Plese nopte Windows is failing, Linux is growing. Vista has issues worse trhan Linux, and from forum posts I get they have the worst Driver set around for Vista and its not the Card maker but MS and Vista. Time will tell and one day the convergence will be like a Linuxsta or Winux where the 2 are combined and there is no line of difference. I give it about 5 years

As we look to the future, thanks to Windows Vista, anybody running common x86 hardware, whether a Windows users or not, will find hardware is more expensive, less reliable, more difficult for programmers to handle, more difficult to support, more
vulnerable to hostile code and a potential quagmire with unpredictable incompatibilities. That end users, even those with zero zest for Vista and not seeking the content-protected material in the eye of its storm, should suffer reduced computer stability is extremely disconcerting. This titanic struggle to force a Microsoft-centric mentality knows no bounds: The pillars of the PC revolution, the open specification of computer hardware and drivers too, appear to be under threat in Windows Vista's vicious vice. Consumers will see it. They are not stupid. To say Windows is failing is an understatement.

Phidor.

Very true and am finally back on this Mandriva PP system again, Had to kill it since the Beryl / Compiz Fusion broke it horribly, so much so I put Slackware 12 on here and in 20 minutes had a Desktop and the whole thing installed, where installing this PP took about 2 hours total time for less to install. Anyway PCLinuxOS on my other system will be updated after I get my RAM and other Video Card and Power Supply. Then have 2 64 Bit systems with Linux on one and Windows Linux on the other. Might just put one on this Windows, and on the 3800 Processor use Mandriva. Will let you know later.