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real old-fashioned Unix is CDE :P XFCE looks (at least looked) much more Unix(CDE)-like, since it was originally build as a CDE-clone (CDE is the classic GUI on many commercial Unixes)

I think you have a s-video-capable TV-out on your notebook, so my best bet would be just plug in a TV and look if you get a picture on the TV if it does not, there is a rpm called atitvout in the contribs section, while this was originally build for ati rage mobility cards it may work with radeon cards, too (at least the documentation in the package says so), it is a small command-line tool that lets you set and/or check the tv-out, maybe you can look in /proc/acpi/video/VGA/ if there is a folder TV, which should contain at least the files brightness, EDID, info, state, then your system seems at least to have detected your TV-OUT maybe there needs some configuration in your X.org.conf to be done, at least the v4l (video4linux) module should be in your x.org.conf That's how mine looks (automatically configured, nothing edited by me at the moment), the modelines for TV should be of interest # File generated by XFdrake. # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "synaptics" Load "glx" # 3D layer Load "dri" # direct rendering EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "de(nodeadkeys)" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "SynapticsMouse1" Driver "synaptics" Option "Protocol" "auto-dev" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "MinSpeed" "0.09" Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18" Option "BottomEdge" "4200" Option "SHMConfig" "on" Option "FingerLow" "25" Option "LeftEdge" "1700" Option "MaxTapMove" "220" Option "MaxTapTime" "180" Option "FingerHigh" "30" Option "VertScrollDelta" "100" Option "TopEdge" "1700" Option "AccelFactor" "0.0015" Option "RightEdge" "5300" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "Flat Panel 1400x1050" HorizSync 31.5-90 VertRefresh 59-75 # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1400x1050_120" 262.44 1400 1520 1672 1944 1050 1051 1054 1125 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1400x1050_100" 214.39 1400 1512 1664 1928 1050 1051 1054 1112 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1400x1050_85" 179.26 1400 1504 1656 1912 1050 1051 1054 1103 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1400x1050_75" 155.85 1400 1496 1648 1896 1050 1051 1054 1096 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1400x1050_60" 122.61 1400 1488 1640 1880 1050 1051 1054 1087 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1400x1050_50" 99.88 1400 1480 1624 1848 1050 1051 1054 1081 -HSync +Vsync EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "ATI" BoardName "ATI Radeon (fglrx)" Driver "ati" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1400 1050 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 1400 1050 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1400 1050 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1400 1050 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "SynapticsMouse1" "AlwaysCore" Screen "screen1" EndSection

just some things I experienced on my notebooks with Mandriva 2006 Suspend: often Suspend-to-RAM does not work at all, Suspend-to-Disk is less problematic you may need either the up-1GB or the multimedia-kernel for suspend to work at all install the suspend-scripts-force-rpm, although it just changes the basic suspend-scripts, which can be done by hand too cpu-frequency-scaling: powernowd-rpm works on intel-cpus too (it works on all cpus that support frequency-scaling, it does the same as cpudyn, but since I use powernowd, my system runs cooler) laptop-mode-tools may prolong your battery-life, but may need some tweaking if you have a sleep-button, you can configure it either for S-to-R or S-to-D by editing /etc/acpi/events/sleep: event=button/sleep action=/usr/sbin/pmsuspend2 memory is for Suspend-to-RAM event=button/sleep action=/usr/sbin/pmsuspend2 is for Suspend-to-Disk acme may let you use some of your multimedia-buttons if boot-time is very slow with lilo, you should add the entry compact to the general options of your lilo.conf

It is really not immeiately obvious, but you can configure a softwre-raid (even level 5) during installation of mandriva when you are at the partitioning step you have to go into expert mode, then you will get some additional options the partitions you use must be formatted as linux-raid (you have to choose this as filesystem), then you can add them together to a raid, you can even build a lvm on top of this, which is not bad, since you can later add additional raid-arrays to the lvm and you still have the security of your underlying raid-systems all this can even be done from a running system, too, e. g. if you just installed two additional drives, you can build a raid from mcc the problem is it was very hard to find, the disk partitioner should have an additional option like "create softwre-raid" and then guide you through it, I needed at least some trial -and-error to get it working. btw the performance of a raid-1 + lvm is not that bad at all (have it running on a p3 550 MHz, and it works)

suspend-to-ram does not work correct on many notebooks, most often only suspend-to-disk works, the used desktop environment is mostly irrelevant, sometimes you need another kernel for suspend to work. In my case (a somewhat elderly Omnibook XE3 and an Omnibook 6100) only suspend-to-disk works, but only after I installed the up-1GB-kernel. My Notebooks have a sleep-button, with which I can suspend-to-disk, I had to edit /etc/acpi/events/sleep though

are there media_info folders within the main and contrib folders ? on the mirrors there is a media_info folder containing additional hdlists in each the main and the contrib tree if there are such folders on your dvd you could try the hdlists in these folders did you try if the synthesis.hdlists work (just to check if it is a problem with the path) maybe you can just specify the path to the packages and let rpmdrake search for the hdlists (just uncheck the relative path), sometimes this worked for me

are the packages themselves in different subfolders ? (don't have a dvd at the moment, sorry)

sorry, was an answer to lynchmobs question :D

maybe the name of the hdlist on your dvd is different, the hdlists on the cds are hdlist1/2/3 for cd 1/2/3, maybe the dvd uses just one single hdlist ?

maybe you need to install them with the option --nodeps funny thing with the OOo-rpms is although they are not urpmi-compatible (no hdlists) I managed to install them via rpmdrake (got an error-message when I defined the rpm-source, but I could install them, now if I have new packages I can just actualize my rpm-sources and get the new packages)

you could use grip, too, it's a cd-ripper, but I misuse it as cd-player at the moment, since gnome-cd is broken (doesn't play cds some time, if it plays the sound is horrible) there are scripts to autoplay audio-cds/dvds, but I don't know from where I installed them, maybe the dynamic-rpm ?, only problem is they default to gnome-cd, but this can be solved by modifying the script

As I tested it after reading your post I have the same behavior, have configured it then to start via gksu as root, now it will ask me for the password at startup and I can access all processes (I'm just to lazy for the CLI :D )

knoppix is a linux that runs from cd you boot your pc from the cd, when it is booted up open a root-shell and type the command partimage there you can specify which partition you want to image and where to you can image to another partition or another harddisk on your computer or even to another computer through a network partimage even allows imaging through a ssl-connection over the network, but I haven't tested this function so I don't know how good this works

Sorry for answering so late, but I was away some time cpufreq-config: I use the config-file as it was installed by the rpm (sorry, can't get my hands on it at the moment, maybe I can post it later) cpudyn: This program control the speed in Intel SpeedStep, Pentium 4 Mobile and PowerPC machines with the cpufreq compiled in the kernel. It allows to reduce cpu speed in order to save battery and reduce temperature of the processor. It can also put the drive on standby mode. Tested with 2.4, Pentium 3 Speedstep Laptop (Dell Latitude), Pentium 4 Mobile Laptop (Dell Inspiron), AMD Power Now, Apple iBook, IBM Thinkpad. cpudyn is just a user space program, so it will work on every processor supported by the kernel's cpufreq driver. that's rpmdrakes package description, cpudyn scales your cpu-frequency down if your machine has nothing to do and scales it up when it needs the performance, I can see this very nice with the cpufreq-applet under gnome which shows my actual cpu-frequency cpudyn is a rpm for mandriva 2006, actual version is: cpudyn-1.0.1-1mdk, it should be located in the contrib-section if cpudyn is installed, you will get an aditional service in the service-section in mcc suspend-scripts should be installed automatically if you have acpi installed, suspend-scripts-force are in the contrib-section, you don't need the latter, but it is more comfortable, since it activates the suspend-functions (can be done by hand too) the suspend-scripts don't show up as services (they are just scripts), but if they are installed you will see an entry for the S4-suspend-command (suspend-to-disk) in the start-menu of gnome

you have to point the command to a partition (e. g. /dev/sda1) not the entire disk, since the dump command informs you about the filesystem (version, attributes and the like) not the physical disk, for info about the disk itself you can use hdparm or better smartmontools

acpi-tool might help (its available as rpm for mandriva, don't know wether in main or contrib) If you use kde maybe you've got the problem with kat (it uses cpu-power big time while indexing in the background) maybe open your system-monitor or gkrellm and look wether something consumes cpu-power my system normally runs between 35 to max. 55 ° (depending on what I do), my fan starts at 75 °, so I never have it running (that's the nice thing about that heat-pipe-cooler in my notebook, just keeps the system cool) for the shutdown problem I have no idea at the moment, sorry

I think there is already a poll, and that was what I tried to explain some people before, that this already existing poll is a better place for discussing x.org-problems Before there begins another argument: the x.org issue does not only affect nvidia and ati cards but also other cards, so please don't reduce it just to an ati/nvidia open-source vs. closed-source issue it is a general quality problem but not one related to open vs. closed source btw yast is open source now

seems that it is splitted into different toolbars, but you can still activate them and put them on the side (toolbars can be arranged on all sides of the window in OO2) Navigator can be arranged as you want just by dragging it to the right of the main window, there it will snap to the border, you can hide this sidebar by clicking the navigator button in the standard toolbar

have you tried to boot with the rescue option ? there is an option to reinstall the bootloader if this does not work or give an error-message you could try to mount your partitions while in the rescue mode then in the console type chroot /mnt and then lilo maybe this works

The x.org 6.9.1 that is in mandriva 2006 seems to have some severe stability problems, but afaik it was included to get the centrino-certification, because some newer intel-chipsets are supported only by this version, and since it is from cvs there where some complaints about this I had no problems so far, so I can't comment on what sort of problems there are

for ext2/3 you can use dumpe2fs, don't know about reiser, but there should be an equivalent command maybe fsck has some options that show these informations ?

Ok, so I think it was just a bit of a misunderstanding, since I thought you were referring to my original post I clearly agree that it was an idiotic idea to include a cvs-x.org, at least not without a stable-one as backup (using x.org 6.8.2 as standard, 6.9.1-cvs on the appropriate intel-chipsets, and give everyone who wants to bloody his nose the choice to use 6.9.1-cvs if he wants, would have been a good idea)

I don't think that the better speed of reiser makes a difference on a normal system, maybe on a server, but there I would still prefer ext3 over reiser, since I had some bad experiences with reiser (a totally screwed up file-system after a system-crash)

for streaming media there is the mplayer-plugin, which lets you watch wmv, real and quicktime in mozilla-firefox, real has its own realplayer (afaik this can be configured as browser-plugin too), if you want a wmv and quicktime capable media-player, you can install the mplayer-gui (mplayer itself will be installed if you use mplayer-plugin), totem or kaffeine (they are frontends for xine) or xine with xine-ui and the xine-win32-codecs from the plf-repository

I use 2006 and it works stable for me, but maybe depending on what you intend to do, better read this site before installing: http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main...Linux2006Errata I had the raid problem, because I forgot about RTFM :D