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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?

Thanx - that simple I feel embarrassed to have asked the question. However, two questions: 1 )Sound is remarkably bad in GNOME compared to KDE - why 2 )Under the menu "Places" menu items such as "documents", "video" etc. do not work. I get an error message saying Cannot display location .... Details: There is no default action associated with this location what to do?

Newbie question here How do I change the windowmanager from KDE to something else? I believe Mandriva 2006 comes with IceWM and Gnome preinstalled. I would like to switch to see if that effects some of the applications that I have trouble with - skype...! and a few others.

Hi, Photoworks, I tried to do this, but I am too noobie, and it is probable because I am not familiar with tar. Where did you get the package, and what did you do afterwards - what directory, what did you type as root. I did a "man tar" to read more, but so many options that I got lost. If you would explain I would greatly appreciate it. Then we need to try the stuff on http://forum.skype.com about hijacker. That seems to work for some people.

The most irritating to me is that I do not want to get rid of skype, I only tried to uninstall in order to do a reinstall, and now I am stuck with an in-between that does not work. I cannot install skype, and I cannot uninstall. Once Skype releases something that works, how do I know that I can even install that update? The system will not even let me install 1.2.018 since it seems to think that the package is already installed...

Hi Everyone, Nice to know that I am not the only one unable to uninstall. I bought the box-version of 2006 discovery LX in the online Mandriva store. My computer is a laptop - HP zd8000. I have been reading a lot of threads on http://forum.skype.com, and we are certainly not the only one's with problems. Keep looking for options!

Here is what skype tells me: [root@localhost laan97ac]# urpme skype removing skype-1.2.0.18-mdr.i586 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.3009: line 1: fg: no job control error: %postun(skype-1.2.0.18-mdr.i586) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 [root@localhost laan97ac]# [root@localhost laan97ac]# rpm -e skype /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48655: line 1: fg: no job control error: %postun(skype-1.2.0.18-mdr.i586) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 [root@localhost laan97ac]# I tried to reinstall but tells me that it is already installed?!

Yep, no change!

Hi, I have sort of the same problem with MCC. I tried to uninstall skype via MCC but it won't go away from the list of installed programs. When I try to reinstall, I get (Package already installed). Before I had skype that did not work (problem with sound device) now I have none and cannot even install skype... seems to be more info on forum.skype.com under linux. A couple of threads there shows many problems! Advice highly appreciated.

Hi When running kmenuedit I can do all changes I want, but after saving, nothing happens. Menu is still the same. Get this message when running in shell: [laan97ac@localhost ~]$ kmenuedit [laan97ac@localhost ~]$ QMultiInputContext::changeInputMethod(): index=0, slave=xim X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x4200421 Any ideas

I get this error message every 5 minutes: Window opens with the following text ********************************************************************* The application KDE Daemon (kded) crashed and caused signal 11 (SIGSEGV) A application mostly receives the SIGSEGV signal due to a bug in the application. The applicationnnn was asked to save its documents. You might want to send a bug report for this application. Check if listed on http://bugs.kde.org, otherwise mail the author. Please include as much information as possible maybe the original documents. If you have a way to reproduce the error, include this also. ********************************************************************** I can find some mentioning of it on bugs.kde.org but nothing really precise. Any tips?