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The hdparm output shows: AdvancedPM=yes Could this be a BIOS Power Management setting that maybe you could disable? Is the BIOS set to perhaps power down the hard drive after a certain inactive period to save battery power? Just a wild guess. Might be worth checking around in the BIOS settings. EDIT: The BIOS settings might also have options to disable DMA access or change access mode.

I don't know if it's on the download .iso, but it's on the mirror sites; for example: ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mandrak...2-3mdk.i586.rpm

This might help: http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/BootSplashHowTo

Boot to failsafe mode, which will bring you to the command line prompt as the root user. Then execute the XFdrake command. This will allow you to reconfigure your graphics/monitor setup. Then run the Test menu selection to verify that you get a good test pattern. Reboot normally.

Idea - if you think you might want to experiment some with different distros and/or versions, consider using that spare space for that purpose. Depending on the size of your hard drive, it may be wasteful to use it all for just one Linux install. One general recommendation is that the root partition doesn't need to be bigger than 6 gigabytes.

Check this out: http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/HowTo and these: http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main...Network_with_No http://www.zebulon.org.uk/cooker_guide.html

This is from the OpenOffice 2.0 User Guide (available for download in PDF format): Inserting Special Characters This is how to insert special characters (such as check marks, boxes, telephone symbols etc.) in text: + Select Insert -> Special Characters. go view the selection of characters available. + In the large selection field select the desired character or more than one by clicking with the mouse or by navigating by keyboard in succession. The characters are displayed at the bottom of the dialogue box. Upon closing the dialogue with OK, all displayed characters in the selected font are inserted in the current document at the cursor. + If a special character is required in any text input field (such as in the URL field of the function bar or in the input fields in the Find&Replace dialogue), press Shift+Ctrl+S to pop up the Special Characters dialogue.

See the Easy-Urpmi link at the top of this web page. For Updates, see Step 2: 2) Select a mirror for each source you want Be sure to check the Source Updates box. Likewise, configure your sources for all the others: main, contrib, jpackage, plf-free and plf-nonfree.

Many people find that using the following boot options helps: boot: linux acpi=off noapic nolapic apm=off To get to the boot prompt from the boot menu, press the ESC key, and then you get the boot: prompt where you can enter the above boot options. Also see this post: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...ndpost&p=213250

Here's a link to Mandriva's hardware compatibility database, which you can query: http://www.mandriva.com/en/hardware/ I don't use wifi myself so I can't give you any recommendations based on my experience.

Here's a useful guide: Installing and Configuring Software Games will be one of the groups under install software when using the rpmdrake utility that's described in the guide.

I haven't done it myself, but here's a promising looking guide: http://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?tools=...+or+List+Guides Note that you can select the type of format conversion you want and under the "How to Category", you can filter for just Linux tools.

Is it possible that part of the discrepancy could be due to shared video memory, thus reducing the amount of memory that Linux detects? Is your video device integrated on the motherboard - if so, how much RAM is devoted to video (you can tell from the BIOS settings and possibly the boot up messages)?

Also, I would try failsafe mode which will take you to the command line interface as the root user without network support. Is system stable? Then, if stable, you could type init 3 at the command prompt and go to run level 3 which would start network services. You could run the non-graphical lynx browser. Is system stable? If system is stable in command line mode, maybe you've got a problem with your video setup. You could type XFdrake to re-configure video. You could start with a generic driver like VESA and go from there to try to pinpoint where the problem might be. Also, you could run one of the memtest utilities that are available from the Ultimate Boot CD and probably also from the Knoppix LiveCD.

It's unstated, but I would think this needs to be done either by booting from a LiveCD or a different Linux install on the machine in question. Also, might be better to do this in stages. Stage 1 (Convert /home): "move all data from /dev/hdb (/home) to another machine on network." Convert /dev/hdb (your /home) to reiserfs (drop, re-create) Move /home data back to /dev/hdb Edit fstab for new fs type Reboot Verify that it worked ok Phase 2 (convert root file system): Do the root file system conversion.

Wouldn't this work? Not an in-place conversion to reiserfs but if this works it would avoid having to do a complete re-install. Do a backup on the partition in question Drop that partition Recreate it using reiserfs Restore your data from the backup Edit /etc/fstab accordingly Edit /etc/lilo.conf accordingly Run lilo to recreate bootloader Reboot

I voted 2006 on the poll but I also have LE2005 and 10.1 installed on different partitions and/or machines. I want to keep those earlier version for now, especially since my USB scanner works with xsane on LE2005 and 10.1 but not on 2006.

This thread is devoted to that question: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=17980

I have 2006 installed on two different computers each dual-booting between Windows XP and Linux and have had no shutdown problems either with RC2 or 2006 final release. One has an ASUS k7S8X mb and Athlon 1900, the the other has an IWill KK266plus mb and an Athlon 1300, and each with 2 Maxtor IDE hds. No shutdown problems whatsoever. EDIT: Haven't installed 2006 yet on a different computer that has only SATA drives.

Yes indeed, there is a lot to like. I have done both a new install of 2006 and an in-place update from LE2005 to 2006 and both went very well, so I echo your sentiments. BTW, do all your USB devices work ok? Several people have reported problems with some USB devices. For example, both AussieJohn and myself (and other posters as well, here and elsewhere) have mentioned problems with USB scanners not being detected.

Try this. It takes any file that ends in xx.jpg (where xx is any two digits) and renames it to linux followed by the filename stripped of the first series of alpabetic chars up to the first digit. It should work for the examples you gave - for example: Original filename: mandriva01.jpg Renamed file: linux01.jpg There are probably more elegant ways to do this, but this should work. #!/bin/sh for I in `ls`; do if echo $I | grep -q '[0-9][0-9]\.jpg$'; then mv $I linux`echo $I | sed 's/^[a-zA-Z]*//'` >/dev/null fi; done Note, however, that if the filename has any numeric digits embedded in the alpha characters before the final xx.jpg, this won't work right, as shown below: Example: mand01driva12.jpg Renamed file: linux01driva12.jpg

I have to use Windows for work, so I've never tried any of these VMs on Linux. I dual-boot each of my machines so I can have access to various versions of Windows and Linux available. I do find rdesktop to be VERY useful on Linux, so that I can login to another Windows box on the network from Linux. I installed vncviewer on WinXP so I could login to Linux from XP, but I don't use it much. May also install putty or some other ssh-compatible app on XP one day.

Perhaps a lock file is left out there somewhere. I'm not in Linux right now but I'd suggest checking for a lock file somewhere in /var or /etc/ppp or /home. Delete it if found (probably will need to be root to delete it). BTW, kppp can be configured not to use a lock file, if desired. See the kppp configurations screen or file /etc/ppp/options.

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Regarding just the part about why the IP address works but \\tas-02 doesn't: you probably need an entry in the Hosts file to relate tas-02 to the IP address of that machine. The Hosts file should be in the Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc folder (assuming this is an XP machine). The entry would look like this: <ip-address> tas-02 example: 192.168.1.101 tas-02