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at worst you could give it a shot :) and I suggest you put encryption on at least, otherwise your email passwords and web browsing is all flying through the air for anyone to read. I was messing with kismet once, and what did I find? my neighbour had no encryption and in rolled their email username, password, and the emails they were sending and receiving. James

Hibernate only needs equal space, not double, and usually you can get away with less. Who runs theirs sytem with 100% ram usage? The double is an old rule that's irrelevant nowadays.

maybe, maybe not. From the media, it seems like it was decision spearheaded by Michael Dell himself, and the fact he claims that he actually uses ubuntu on one of his computers might offer some future to it. That implies some sort of vested interest, so even if initially it's not financially profitable, we could well see ubuntu around on them for a while. James

this is the new intel card, there aren't native drivers *yet* but there will be. for now, its a matter of using ndiswrapper, there's an articule on the ubuntu wiki, so it does work on other distros.

man, that's a whole year that's been broken. Give 2.6.21 a shot, and if it doesn't work, just file a bug at bugzilla.kernel.org and they'll get it sorted out. James

betcha it's a kernel issue. could you post the exact error? you know the drill.. :) James

see if it has an option for "legacy usb" or 'usb hid' as this tends to enable USB at boot time. If you can't find such an option, it sounds simply like your system BIOS does not support USB hid devices, or has very limited support. Unless your vendor has released a bios update, there's bugger all you can do short of upgrading the mobo, or the kvm. James

The above wmv stream works for me fine in VLC. If you still want to dump it with mplayer, if the computer has some processor power, set a different encoder for the output. mp4, Xvid or h246 might work? If you have enough ram to fit the whole video, make a ramfs, mount ramfs -t ramfs /some/place and dump it there, then copy it off later. Alternatively, just make a heap of space free, i'm sure you can spare a few gigs somewhere? Take a look at VLC too, it's great for streaming stuff, and has a good GUI. James

ASUS boards for me, but as a rule of thumb. If the board has an intel chipset, it should be linux compatible. provided the vendor hasnt done anything horrible to it. James

The swap is listed as available, so it doesnt need to be mkswapped. Even if you did that, it would have zero effect on the other distro. From what you say "device or resource busy" it sounds like for some reason, the mandriva boot scripts are attempting to mount the swap *twice*. The first time, as you can see is successful, the second time errors out. This is completely harmless. Just remember, this isnt an official mandriva board, so you'll have more luck getting rid of the error by filing a bug at the mandriva bugzilla. James

No. In 2.6.19, libATA was merged. libATA is the new way of handling *all* drives, sata and IDE. They did not remove the old ide/ layer. So chances are you're still using that, and whatever distro you have, still uses ide as a default, rather than libATA, which supercedes it. James

adamw says on the page it was a purely economical decision. It also lists at least two other contractors that have had their contracts ended too. So... mandriva are cost cutting? Not a great sign. James

monitors are a fairly standard thing, and generally, don't need drivers or any software support of any form -- it's up to the graphics card. So you should be fine with any monitor that plugs into your graphics card. James

Excellent :)

I think groklaw summarises this issue pretty much perfectly. I'm not too concerned.

theres no need to install this, this is included. why do you need to install it?

LFS is... yeah. Fun. It's not so much a practical distro to use, but more of a learning exercise, and one you don't forget in a hurry. I did one early on in my linux days and I learned a heap. James

toms root boot disk?

3D works fine. It only barfs out if you use XGL, which has always seemed pretty hackish to me.

might want to fix your enter key, it looks like your paragraphs were not put in James

Software is sufficient.

likewise.

file a bug on the bugzilla, that's what it's there for. though to be honest, you'll be lucky if you get a reply at all. adamw: might be good if mandriva recruited or assigned a dev to the bug tracker. In Arch we've got a guy who goes through, assigns all the new bugs daily and even closes some smaller ones. It doesn't take a ridiculous amount of time, but *really* helps cut down on bugs like you wouldnt believe, keeps the bug tracker sorted, and up to date. I get bugs assigned to me, and notified in my inbox on the same day as being reported, rather than a few days or a weeks later. James

These posts often don't go anywhere, the wireless cards out there change so often, it's hard to offer a solid reccomendation. Look at the cards available within your price range. Take a shortlist of five or so. Look them up one by one. Check the manufacturer's website, check the manuals on the site, and often by looking around you can find the chipset they use. Keep a close eye out for revisions and versions of the same card, as these can vary in chipset. The following chipsets (drivers) are reccomended: * atheros (madwifi) * intel anything (ipw*) * prism (prism54) * zd1211 (zd1211rw) * Ralink rt2500 NOT rt2570 (rt2500) * orinoco (orinoco_pci) Others that have drivers and work, but may be a hassle on some distros, or may be touch and go: * TI acx (acx100) * Atmel (atmel_pci) * bcm43xx (bcm43xx) And that's most of them off the top of my head. Some marketing terms that can indicate chipset, and thus a good card: Atheros: Super G: newer atheros cards that do 108mbit/s. Atheros are reccomended. Broadcom: 125 High Speed Mode, or Linksys SpeedBooster, features of newer broadcom chipsets. Avoid. given that information and a couple minutes of google work, and you ought to come up with a good card quickly. James

linux skype doesnt do video.