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Thanx guys, but I am on a laptop, and no external keyboard, so I guess this "built-in" keyboard does not have a certain model name or the like. it is integrated in the laptop. Works fine, I just miss being able to adjust volume, and use those quicklaunch buttons. I will certainly try keytouch

On my Hp zd8000 laptop there are some extra buttons for quick launch of webbrowser and there is volume control etc. These all work automatically in Windows and can be configured there. In Mandriva 2006, I have not found a tool for configuring these buttons - only some very tricky operations in Konsole to identify them. Is there an easy way to configure these buttons? - GUI based or? [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

SOLVED Thanx guys. It was bad mounting of my reformatted USB harddrive. I mistakenly mounted it in / and started copying files there. But, the system did not recognize the device so when I moved files, I moved them to the root partition instead of on the harddrive. So now I am back on track and will install filelight asap Next thing is to find out why I can mount a filesystem /mnt/sda1 but the system does not recognize the device. thanx

Ok you are definitely right about the totals, boy I should have figured that out myself. But, du -hs /var/log gives me that the 8.9M only. So that should not fill up the whole thingl. If I could only find that one big file. Guess my best bet is to look more in /usr/share and /usr/lib

Hi I am now running root in single user mode since my root partition hda5 is full for whatever reason. I recently formatted an external HDU 80GB and mounted it by error in /sda80 instead of under /mnt/sda1 which would be more normal. All of a sudden I can no longer start KDE or GNOME since my root partition is full. I have run du --max-depth=1 and gets all directories and sizes listed in / All look fine /home is big but that is on another partition. /mnt is big because my windows partition is mounted here /usr is big because of /usr/share and /usr/lib (can I clear something here?) Most concerning is that du --max-depth=1 ends up listing a big thing with 64G size but only description is . du --max-depth=1 gives me this: 16K ./lost+found 37G ./mnt 23G ./home 2.6M ./dev 38M ./etc 36K ./tmp 194M ./var 127M ./root 897M ./proc 0 ./sys 2.8G ./usr 3.6M ./boot 6.4M ./sbin 5.4M ./bin 32M ./lib 8K ./initrd 4K ./opt 0 ./.autofsck 24K ./sda80 (where I accidentally mounted external 80 GB HDU) 4K ./.bash_history 64G . What is those 64G . ???????????? df gives me Filesystem size used avail mounted on /dev/hda5 5.8G 5.5G 0 / /dev/hda7 29G 23G 5.9 /home /dev/hda1 39G 38G 1.5G /mnt/windows /dev/sda1 74G 129M 70G /sda80 running du --max-depth=1 on /usr gives 1.2G /share 151M ./bin 1.3G ./lib 7.2M ./sbin 96M ./X11R6 4K ./etc 104K ./games 86M ./include 92K ./local 36K ./src 4K ./java 0 ./tmp 8K ./ppc64-linux 8K ./ppc-linux 2.8G . Again, what are those unspecified 2.8G . ?????? Help is appreciated as it is no fun only to run prompt in single user mode! [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I have an external 80GB USB harddrive that is currently NTSF. I have given up getting Linux to read it as non-root, and I would like to be able to write to it as well. So I have cleaned it all, and I am now considering reformatting to something Linux can read and write. I am on a dual boot XP and Mandriva 2006 laptop, and I use Linux as much as possible (95% of the time) I guess that if I reformat the drive to be FAT32 then I could use it for both XP and Linux, and both could read/write and I would not have to worry about being root/non-root in order to get access. This would be optimal, but I read so much about FAT32 stability and data security is compromised compared to NTSF. And if FAT32 cannot handle sizes more than 40GB, what do I do? I would therefore consider making the external harddrive 100% linux. How do I format the harddrive so that I have read/write access all the time, regardless of whether I am root or another user? What are the options, what filesystem would I choose? And how do I go about formatting without messing up? All advice greatly appreciated Thanx!

thanx - I realize this is harder than I thought. I change strategy and will do a new post on reformatting the HDU...

Thanx guys, Got a little further this time: See this error: checking for lt_dlopen in -lltdl... no * configure: error: * *** Couldn't find ltdl library. If it is installed in a non-standard * *** location, please supply --with-ltdl=DIR on the configure command line, * *** where `DIR' is the prefix where ltdl is installed (such as /usr, * *** /usr/local, or /usr/pkg). If that doesn't work, check config.log. * ***** Return value 1 Does anyone know what ltdl is? and How I can move on from the above? Above is from the install log file. thanx in advance

Finally got rid of skype - here is the magic line that will take it all away: rpm -e --noscripts skype With that I managed to reinstall skype. After that, take a good look here: http://www.skype.com/help/guides/soundsetup_linux.html Hope is out there! good luck

GREAT This worked. But I got this error message from the log: ***** GiFT ***** Running configure (./configure --prefix=/usr/local)... checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl... no * configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH * See `config.log' for more details. ***** Return value 1

I tried to change the "managed" option in fstab, but it will not let me do anything even remounting with ro option does not work...

I have a similar problem - using MCC I select packages and install starts just fine, but it never finishes and it sort of dies after a while. What to do?

thanx scarecrow - works better now

Thanx, downloaded the file. I cannot start the installer typing the command you specified. The file downloaded is called apollon-installer-0.8.1.run When I type that starting with ./ I get "Permission denied" even as root - why?

Can anyone evaluate the safety of running Limewire on Linux vs Windows? In terms of spyware, adware, and all that crap? In terms of personal privacy?