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  1. Thanks for the info on autologin. What is strange is that, the first time after install, it asked for my user name and password, and the second time it didn't - although I never touched the configuration for that. This one may be a bug when it is installed from the live CD. The keyboard problem is not because it is misconfigured. I was using it for over an hour until I rebooted the computer. I suspect that the installation of vmware (version 1.04 which I have not used before) corrupted the keyboard interface in it's attempt to virtualise it. I'll have to reinstall it sometime. Luckily I was just testing the new spring version, and didn't disturb my main 2007 install (or my ubuntu install :-))
  2. I booted off the Mandriva 2007.1 One (live) cd, and it looked OK, so I installed it to a spare disk/partition. It came up fine so I installed a few apps such as Thunderbird Krusader and I also wanted vmware, so I downloaded the rpm from their site, and ran the setup script. It needed to build a new vmmon module and so I added gcc kernel source and it built and worked fine (in fact it starts very fast compared to my older version). I added some of the other drives in my system to fstab (including on NFS drive on a different computer on my network) All was looking OK, so I tried a reboot. First thing I noticed is that it didn't ask me to login this time, just went straight into KDE. First thing it did then was to notice that I had a USB printer, and tried to install it (no drivers so I cancelled out) I opened a terminal and started to type. It was ok for a few keystrokes, then the keyboard started repeating endlessly. I typed another letter, and it changed to a different (wrong letter) and kept repeating. I booted back to my old Mandriva install (luckily <ctrl-alt-del> still worked), and it was OK again (in fact I am using it to type all this). I unplugged the printer (in case it was causing problems - even though the keyboard is NOT a USB type) booted back into 2007.1, and this time I opened kwrite. I got about 5 words typed, and off it went again!!!! So something in the new install is not reacting nicely to my typing. :-( Anyone seen anything like this before? Also, as a side issue, why does it not ask for my username and password like it did the first time only?
  3. Brilliant. I switched back to the Mandriva theme and it works. and as a bonus, it fixed Firefox. Firefox was crashing when I tried to drag and drop an address onto a menu bar (same error about gtk). It too is now stable. Thanks!
  4. More info. It works if I log in using gnome, but not KDE!!
  5. By running it at a command prompt, I find this... # rpmdrake examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation DVD.cz] Gtk-WARNING **: Theme file for default has no name Gtk-WARNING **: Theme file for default has no directories Segmentation fault I uninstalled it with urpme and reinstalled with urpmi, and behavious is still the same. What next?
  6. I can do anything involving installing, or removing of software packages. If I try to install new packages, for example, I see a please wait message while it reads the database, then it quits back to the control centre. I turned on the logs, and it reports rpmdrake starting but not error when it fails. The same thing happens when I try to run this stuff from the System>Configuration>Packaging menu. I tried running rpm --rebuilddb, hoping this was the problem. This command completes without errors or comment, but the problem remains.
  7. I tried, but found nothing there. Maybe because it's not an easy thing to search for. Oh well, maybe next version...
  8. This is weird. I have a mount point /mnt/data to which I have mounted a large 250GB drive (under Mandriva 2007, file system ext3). I have shared /mnt/data as a Samba share called 'public'. On a Windows 2000 machine I can connect and use this share, all except for one directory on it. This directory is named data, so it is at /mnt/data/data and should be at public/data on the Windows machine. Except it is missing. All the other directories and files are there. Now here's the really weird bit. If I rename the directory, from data to data2 (or anything else I have tried) it immediately becomes visible on the Windows machine. If I rename it back to data, it disappears !!!
  9. Well OK, but let me throw this one in as well. If you want to reinstall a different version, or even, a different distribution, you can backup your home directories and copy them over, and retain most settings (not just for firefox), but when you make your home huge but filling it full of binaries, it becomes harder to do this
  10. There's no need to put all the binaries etc in your user home, in fact it's wrong because other users will not be able to use it unless you grant them rights to your home. If you had put the contents of the firefox 2 download somewhere common, like /usr/local and and grant world read, then everyone can run it. When you, or any user, runs it, it will find your setup in your home and use it, so you will still retain all your setup.
  11. I have tried k3bsetup. In fact, the first difference I noticed after upgrading to Mandriva 2007, was that, when I first ran k3b, it popped up a warning that cdrecord (I think) would be better run as root and it ran k3bsetup for me to correct it. As for the drive firmware, it has worked fine for a couple of years with Mandriva 2005le and 2006. I would be surprised if the problem lies there, but I guess anything is possible. I will look into later versions of dvd+rw-tools.
  12. It gives me # hdparm -d /dev/hdc /dev/hdc: using_dma = 1 (on) So that looks OK?
  13. Not at home at present, but I will check when I get back there. They are 2 mpg files, about 2GB each. They burn fine, as soon as I do the test burn of the small file to the +RW disc (and that's WITHOUT the -Z option).
  14. Now this is just weird. It was refusing to write a DVD+R disc just now. I tried about 5 times, with and without the suggested -Z option. For some reason I decided to try a DVD+RW disc. I removed the -Z option and replaced the 2 large files I was trying to write, with a small text file, to run a quick test. Well, it wrote it to the +RW disc fine (after asking if the disc should be overwritten). So I immediately swapped the text file for the original 2 large files, and put in the DVD+R disc. Now it is writing the disc perfectly!!!! So, it's probably not intermittent, as I said in the first post, just that it is in a state (immediately after power on and bootup) where it can't start writing the +R disc, and somehow, weird I know, but somehow, writing to a +RW first, get's it working. I hope some guru can see what is happening here. :unsure:
  15. I concur, I can run either, at will. The dumped the firefox 2 download in /usr/local/bin/firefox2 and run it with a menu item that calls /usr/local/bin/firefox2/firefox %u That's all you need.
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