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udev does not show up under services in mcc because it is one of the basic system-services that are always needed pcmcia-cards are not handled by the hotplug-package but the pcmcia-package, look if it is installed (there must be an entry in mcc/services named pcmcia and it should be activated at boot), maybe netplugd should also be activated at boot (can be activated in mcc/services too)

There is another guy, who is even worse: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,123555,00.asp Maybe a bit offtopic, but these reviews lead me to a question: what is so super-cool about ubuntu ? don't get me wrong; I like ubuntu; it has a nice different look, it mostly works without fiddling, but it's not perfect either: on an acer notebook with 1280x800 widescreen it insists on 1024x768, which does not look very nice except from that it uses gnome 2.12 I can see no improvement over the mandriva 2006 with gnome 2.10 I use on my main machine one feature of nautilus in 2.12 is even worse than in 2.10, you can't type in your path in the address bar

I don't think that installing fedora is more difficult than suse or mandriva, which ore often considered to be more beginner-friendly, it always depends on the user, if he is not willing to learn a bit he won't be happy with any os, even not with windows, after all one of the first things I do on every XP-Box after install is to deactivate a lot of unneeded services, so no difference between win and linux

There is a package called ximian-connector in the Main-tree of Mandriva 2006. That's what rpmdrake tells me about (just used the synthesis.hdlist, so no further info): Name: ximian-connector Version: 2.2.3-2mdk Architektur: i586 Größe: 3050 KB Medium: Main (Official2006.0-1) Momentan installierte Version: (keine) Zusammenfassung: Exchange Connector for Evolution Beschreibung: Keine Beschreibung Dateien: (Nicht vorhanden) ChangeLog: (Nicht vorhanden) Printerdrake is set up to look for network-printers conclusion: the guy didn't just look seems he just does not like Mandriva but has no real case why, so he had to find something for the exchange thing: if your company is such exchange-fanatic I would doubt that you are allowed to use linux anyway

I'm running 2006 Free on 2 ati-cards (radeon 9000 Pro and M6 Mobility) without real problems, I just took the drivers that Mandy offered me at Installation and that's it, on my Notebook I have no 3D-acceleration, but this didn't work from Mdk 8.2 up to Mdv 2005, the weird thing is, this only happens with the native 1400x1050 resolution of my notebook-display, but since I don't play on my notebook, this is no problem anyway.

I'm running Mandriva 2006 Free on two machines with ati-cards (a radeon 9000 Pro and a radeon M6 Mobility) and so far have not experienced any problems, even no high cpu-load at 4 AM, I just used the driver that mandriva offered me during installation

After resume I just have a locked screensaver which asks for my password (at least in gnome), but all my applications are there, for KDE I can't tell yet, since I don't use KDE very much I use gdm as login-manager, maybe it depends on which you use ? At least, I don't think it's normal behavior to log you out

another nice repository is penguin liberation front, at least if you want to watch dvds or are in need for some win32codecs

I got ubuntu 5.10 running on a PII 350 MHz w/ 128 MB RAM, surely it was a bit slow, but it worked If you really like to try Linux without harming anything at first, try some Live-CD Distro like Knoppix, and if you like the look and feel of Linux then install it on your box btw ubuntu has a live-CD too, I think it would be better suited to a beginner than knoppix another tip would be to go to www.distrowatch.com, they list a lot of Linux-Distros with infos and reviews

I've been running mandrake/mandriva since 8.1 mainly on notebooks but had never any showstopping problems, some things like the modem or suspend did not work properly from the start, the switch to acpi was a bit hurting at the beginning, but so far I can't tell mandriva unstable, I never had a real lockup, at least not if I didn't try anything really silly, this is something I can't say about the Win XP on my gaming box I cannot coment about the kat problem, because I did not install it (I must admit, I did not find it worth the effort, I still know where my files are scattered around, so I do not need it) and therefore don't have any problems with it So far I had no problems with X.org so if you don't need kat you will get a really stable system

update: both the mm-kernel and the i586-up-1GB-kernel allow me to Suspend-to-Disk, Suspend-to-RAM still seems not to work , some testing showed me that my synaptics-touchpad seems to be the ugly guy that won't unload its driver upon suspend and spoils a proper resume my graphics-card is an ati radeon mobility M6 LY, in addition to acpi, acpid and suspend-scripts I have the suspend-scripts-force rpm installed on my system there is a rpm called hibernate in contribs, it seems to be a different way to make your machine suspend (as far as I could get through it, it too uses swsusp2 but the scripts seem to be a bit different) and it seems you have to tweak the config a bit, but maybe it can help if the standard suspend scripts don't work additional note: the swap-partition must be at least 30% more than your phisical RAM for a working Suspend-to-Disk if it still does not work perhaps you could update your BIOS too, sometimes the manufacturers correct some of their ugly BIOS-Code hope this helps

update: the i586-up-1GB-kernel allows me to Suspend-to-Disk, Suspend-to-RAM still seems not to work , some testing showed me that my synaptics-touchpad seems to be the ugly guy that won't unload its driver upon suspend and spoils a proper resume additional note: my graphics-card is an ati radeon mobility M6 LY, noapic and nolapic-options where not needed, acpi must be enabled, I have the acpi, acpid, suspend-scripts, suspend-scripts-force and the hibernate rpms installed on my system, and the swap-partition must be at least 30% more than your phisical RAM hope this helps at least now I am a bit more happy

/dev/dvd/ > hdc means that /dev/dvd is just a symlink to /dev/hdc which is the real adress of your dvd-drive, but this puzzles me abit, because to my knowing sata-drives are recognised like scsi-drives (sda, sdb and the like) At least the Suse-output seems to suggest that you have sata-drives connected to the sata-ports, but as far as I know scsi and sata devices do not use dma and therefore you cannot change anything there

another problem is, which driver do you use, the driver of your distribution/X.org/XFree or the closed-source ati-driver (which seems to be really ugly as far as I hear), a big problem with suspend is when the system tries to load or unload driver-modules, for example a plugged-in pcmcia-card can really ruin your day, your system wakes up after suspend, finds the card, tries to reload the driver-module and dies If I would not be such a lazy guy, I could just use the mm-kernel until a new comes out, and then compile a new kernel, with the new sources and an mm-like config (at least if I find the additional patches I might need) ok it's not that new, its in the kernel since before 2.4.20 or so, but this were backports from the experimental(2.5)-kernel, I once had the 2.4.21-kernel working with acpi, if I remember right this kernel had a strict standard-conform acpi-implementation, but most notebook-manufacturers seem to be uninterested in standards, they implement buggy BIOSes, patch the problems with a driver and the user has big problems if he wants to use another OS where he cannot use these drivers at least in france mandriva sells hp-notebooks with their distro installed and in germany you could buy a hp with preinstalled Suse directly from hp and I know there are some IBMs with preinstalled Linux, so at least there is some hope... :D so far I had no real problems with my systems, and since I learned computing in the old DOS-days, no problem with the command line, except that I sometimes try to use the wrong commands :lol: btw, what notebook-model do you use, maybe someone has the same and had luck in getting it to work

call me paranoid, but I feel better if I have a supported kernel running on my box I'm sure the ltmodem works, it worked up until mdk 9.2 w/ kernel 2.4, but since I have no use for it I haven't tried since, as far as I'm informed there is a driver out there that works with kernel 2.6 I still think that the suspend problem is not directly related to the graphics-card, since many notebooks with nv-cards have the same probs, most of those are related to ACPI, which is still fairly new in the Linux-Kernel (at least the stable versions) maybe you should google for reports about Linux on your specific Notebook thanks for the welcome, I'm a bit longer with Linux and Mandrake/Mandriva but only recently stumbled upon this site, must have been a bit blind the last few years :lol:

that's the ACPI option, it must be enabled, because it controls the Power-Management on all modern computers (on older modells this was controlled by APM), the apic is the advanced programmable interrupt controller, it is a hardware-piece that is on the mainboard, as far as I know, ACPI depends on some of its functions, but since both control interrupt-handling, they sometimes get in conflict the lapic or local apic is mainly (only ?) used by multi-processor systems It seems that some people had success with suspend by using the multimedia-kernel, which can be found in the contribs-section the 1GB-kernel seemed to work too, but so far I have not tested this

Depends on your laptop, if you are really lucky, linux finds your secondary monitor and offers you to use the xinerama-extensions, then you can clone your display or extend it over both screens. Another possibility is, it doesn't offer you xinerama but you could still plug in a monitor and get a cloned display (in my case 1400x1050 @ 60 Hz on the external monitor, which does not really make much fun, at least on a CRT). For the display-switching, sometimes it works, sometimes not (on my box it's Fn-F5 for example, on elder linuxes I just got a crash when I tried this stunt, now on Mdv 2006 it seems to work, it least if I press them now: no crash), but maybe your BIOS gives you a choice which display should be used when you plug in an external monitor (I can choose external, internal or both in my BIOS-settings). After all just try it and look what it does.

The long boot-time may partially be linked to a problem that is described on the Mandriva Linux 2005 errata page (sorry actually I don't have a link, but you can access it from the Security Site): http://frontal1.mandriva.com/security/advisories?dis=10.2 or http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?dis=10.2 Have you checked if netplugd is active (the checkbox network hotplugging must be activated in the settings of your network card), it looks if you are connected and only starts the network if you are, so if you have dhcp and you aren't connected your box wouldn't wait ages for an ip-adress.

Have you tried the noapic or nolapic options for booting ? this sometimes helps on my notebook the ati-card wasn't the problem, ACPI is certainly the bigger problem when it comes to suspend, since ACPI works on my notebook neither s-to-r nor s-to-d work as they should, before at least s-to-r worked with software-suspend

I use Mandriva 2006 on an Omnibook 6100 and most things work fine, the only things that don't are: I don't have Hardware-3D Acceleration, but only if I use the native 1400x1050 resolution of my display, which is a bit strange, but this doesn't really bother me, because I don't play on my notebook, and so I haven't looked further into the problem. Neither Suspend-to-RAM nor Suspend-to-disk work, the system suspends, but doesn't wake up again, I don't really need S-toR but I would like a working S-to-D, I didn't try the mm-kernel yet, maybe I should give it a try, but as far as I know it is in contrib, so what about kernel-upgrades ? as far as I can see the kernels in contrib do not get security-upgrades, so couldn't this pose a problem later ? Lucent Winmodem might work, I haven't tried, at least I got it to work on Mandrake 8.2 - 9.2, but since I have a Broadband-Connection I have no use for the modem. Apart from those two slight problems I must say Mandriva 2006 works really great, but what about a central configuration utility in the Control Center for ACPI-Events on Notebooks (closing the Lid, pressing the sleep-Key and the like) as Suse provides it in yast (btw: S-to-D did work on Suse 9.3 with a stock-kernel) ? Ah, btw, I can't see the section for msec's periodic security checks in the control center, the tab is there but blank, but this might be a specific problem on my system, since I upgraded an RC2-Installation to Final.

The one thing that I really don't like with ubuntu is the sudo-approach because the first user that you create at installation-time is something like root, it just has another name, but it can still screw up your system. As far as I know you only have the gnome-system-tools for tweaking your graphics config, not much as I see, because if your graphics hardware isn't detected properly, you have a big probem. Another thing I don't like, you can't control which packages you want to install, it installs just everything from the cd, and this took very long on a PIII 550 Mhz with 512 MB RAM. Apart from this ubuntu is really nice, but personally I prefer Fedora, Suse or Mandriva, I think their newest versions are all beginner-friendly enough even for a first-time-user.