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You may get the Cooker ones and rebuild them. That's what I've recently done.

The second options is much less preferable than first - Mandriva's kernel is heavily patched, and you risk breaking a lot of things using vanilla kernel. There are several additional options : - Compile new alsa drivers by hand; copy them exactly over the old ones; re-start "alsa" and "sound" services or reboot - Compile new alsa drivers by hand; copy them into some dedicated place within /lib/modules/<your_kernel_version>; remove the old drivers manually; restart "alsa" and "sound" services or reboot - Get yourself a source RPM for "multimedia" kernel from cooker, recompile and install it; it should contain newer version of ALSA; - Tweak the config spec of Mandriva kernel source RPM ( not kernel-source-..., but rather kernel-2.6...src.rpm ), so that it fetch newer ALSA; rebuild it and reinstall it.

Run "alsamixer" in console. Unmute every channel that seems relevant to you, such as "Master", "PCM" etc.

For system-wide aliases, you need to modify /etc/bashrc or /etc/profile as root. If you modify .bashrc or .bash_profile, there is no need to be root ( unless you want to modify root's .bashrc etc), but the alias would be defined only for the user whose .bashrc is modified.

I had a similar problem, although with an Nvidia card. Occasional hangup here and there, most of the times with a possibility to ssh in. It was actually a memory problem - one of the DIMMs was faulty. Replaced it - and no hangups since. There, of course, are problems here and there ( I'm pretty heavy tweaker with strong inclination to break things sometimes), but hangups - none. So, running memtest86 for some day or two should be actually one of the items in the troubleshooting list.

CUPS actually is what Mandriva uses by default. Windows sort of supports connecting to CUPS servers using Windows IPP support.

Actually, no reboot is required. To reboot would be just the easiest way for a newbie. For an experienced one, "exit and stop X" - "modprobe -r nvidia" - "depmod -a" - "modprobe nvidia" - "restart X" would fully suffice.

XMMS has some "digital CD audio extraction plugin" and employs it when you instruct it to open (configurable) CD mount point - in spite of that no CD is actually mounted. Look at its configuration options.

It doesn't seem to be expected. My rather wild assumption is that the error message you mentioned is shown all the time, and that you observe it only after the console is closed. As far as I may guess, this error message ( being a modal window ), and not the console is what causes the panel to be "locked". Try minimizing the console instead of closing it. Do you observe the error message? Press OK in it. The panel should be "unlocked" then.

Read this thread : https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=28962&st=15 MDE site includes instructions about adding it as a repository and installing the RPMS.

There may be yet another reason for what you see, namely, that MCC lists all the hardware it recognizes, regardless of particular modules being loaded.

Your using a proxy may definitely be the problem. Urpmi should be specifically configured to use proxy. "man proxy.cfg" in a terminal ( or "man:proxy.cfg" in Konqueror) will show you some information about configuring urpmi for that matter.

This release is not marked "newest", that's what really irritates. It is clearly marked "bugfix". Old bugs out, new bugs in.

I've recently downloaded and installed OpenOffice.org 2.0.1, from the OpenOffice.org site. The first weird thing I've observed is that there is no "kde-integration" RPM. Several KDE-related files are there within openoffice.org-core* packages, but KDE integration seems to be missing. At least, it doesn't seem to work. Is that just me and some problems with my /dev/brain? Is there someone else having experienced similar problem?

You may click an ellipsis button near the MD5 sum field, and then you're prompted to enter an MD5 sum to compare with. Otherwise, the big green "V" at the left of this very field is a bit misleading as it means just that the calculation itself is successful ( and not that the image is all right ). It wasn't until KDE 3.smth that KDE started supporting XDND properly :) As long as both toolkits support XDND, there should be no problem with "drag & drop". Has "Emulate3buttons" option of X been cancelled recently? :) No need to remap, just press both buttons simultaneously, and voila - middle button is emulated. Try kamix for a change - it allows configuring which channels are displayed. And do believe me that I'm equally eager to see some normal mixer for SB Live! / Audigy cards. Just like one Creative provides for, sad as it is, Windows. Shouldn't it be rather "paid"?

I hope that my explanation of the reasons why this should work, was not very confusing, and that you did understand what the problem really was, and not just used the solution :-)

"su" does several things, the following being among them : - change real/effective user ID - source bashrc / bash_profile / etc for the new user I suspect that "run as root" mechanism of the menu does only the first thing and not the second, and the script runs with ID of root but with a regular user's environment, including the PATH variable. Now, "ifconfig" is located in "/sbin", which is never included by default into a regular user PATH. So, here are two "quick and dirty" solutions : - put the following line at the beginning of the script : export PATH=/sbin:$PATH - replace "ifconfig" with "/sbin/ifconfig"

No ppp0 - weird. This one seems all right. Most chances are that you're right. Unfortunately. What seems to me most probable is that pppd drops the connection after some time, but it doesn't somehow get felt by kppp, so the route table is not modified upon disconnection. Unfortunately, I finished all my dealings with pppd about two years ago and have forgotten most of its quirks since, so I don't remember them all by heart :( Try "grep"-ping "pppd" out of /var/log/messages and post the output. Additionally, try to define the connection via "drakconnect" instead of "kppp".

May you give more details and be more specific? What are the exact messages given by the browser? Open a terminal, and issue "ifconfig" as root. What is its output? Issue "ip route show" as root. What is its output? Copy all the outputs and post them here.

Just to make your words more exact - "external sort connecting to COM-port". It seems to me that there are external USB Winmodems.

Open the KDE control center. Find "File associations" there. You need "inode/directory" associations. Find "Amarok" in "Applications Preference Order" list (it must have been the very first entry), and either move it down or remove it altogether. Find "Konqueror" in the same list and move it so that it be upmost.

You shouldn't download EasyUrpmi - it's not a program but rather a tutorial. I don't think you should use it either - gcc should be there on your installation CD. Go to "Start menu" - "System" - "Configure your computer" or run "mcc" as root. Once in the Control Center, go to "Software Management" and choose "Install software". This will launch "Rpmdrake". The rpmdrake window contains, at its left, the list of all the programs available for installation. Find "gcc" there. Mark it, confirm the installation of the dependencies. Press "Install" button, insert your installation CD as required. Alternatively, if you're not afraid of CLI, run "urpmi gcc" as root.

Don't think - check :-) And share the results with us here :-)

It doesn't matter. Both "gcc -o outfile infile" and "gcc infile -o outfile" are good.

Install gcc-g77 package. It contains the Fortran compiler for gcc.