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only real way you can check is to check if the dhcp client is running/you still have a lease. This depends on what mandriva uses, afaik they use dhclient, which i know bugger all about. But if im wrong, and they use dhcpcd.... Leases are in /etc/dhcpc/ or /var/run/ depending on version and you could also just do "pgrep dhcpcd" to see if it's running, James

pidgin isnt the only app. I've successfully used video and voice on kopete and mercury messenger. afaik, pidgin is the only one that doesnt out of the box, but does have experiemental support somewhere, probably in cvs. James

yeah, the new release is far more refined then the old 1.x series. -> Completely overhauled UI -> Plenty of new plugins -> Bugfixes -> Stability -> New sound set -> New icons and images everywhere James

nice blin! thanks for that!

assuming the files are in the current directory... for file in *html do sed -i "s@ssk@../ssk@g" $file done or shorter way with find, (but i havnt tested). this one will recurse to deeper directories find . -iname \*.html -exec sed -i "s@ssk@../ssk@g" {}; this one is the same as the last, except it won't recurse deeper, only the current directory: find . -maxdepth 1 -iname \*.html -exec sed -i "s@ssk@../ssk@g" {}; Just as a tip, instead of hideously escaping forward slashes in sed statements, use a different delimiter, I use @ because it stands out, but iirc the rule is, if it isnt in the string, you can use it. Though using alphanumeric things isnt encouraged as it'd be pretty confusing. James

or just get it working for free with a newer mandriva.

If you have internet access on the problematic one, copy it to a pastebin: http://pastebin.archlinux.org/ and then give us the pastebin link. But if you've got Knoppix installed, it means there was no such protection as we thought. which is odd. try and install another distro over knoppix, maybe ubuntu. James

try the official java version from sun for maximum compatability rather than blackdown. James

Take a look at basket, basket.kde.org there's probably a package in the Mandriva urpmi repositories. James

if we request a command, please post the actual output here so we can determine the exact nature of the error.

all a serious gamer needs is a terminal and angband ;) but anyway, VM's like virtual box or vmware will NOT work for any 3D or graphics accelerated games. so beside that, you're left with native games, using cedega, using wine, or dual booting. You by no means have to use one, depending on how different games work, you can use a variety of different methods. Dual booting's the easiest, so when you start, maybe give that a go, and then migrate and try out the other methods.

we cannot determine anything unless you give us exact errors. from the command line in mandriva 2007.1, give us the output of 'dmesg', 'lspci -vv' and 'ls /sys/block'. It would also help if you gave some basic hardware specifications of the system. Jame merged cross post as it contained useful information for the problem

War3 + TFT runs fine for me on regular wine, or at least, last time i tried :)

got the command 'flite'? it's a smaller festival and supports writing out to a wav. James

mandrake 10 has abysmal wireless support compared with newer versions. I suggest you upgrade.

Whatever package manager the distro uses most probably has both of: a- A log of all upgrades, often in /var/log, take a look here first, look for the package manager name. b- Stores in the package database, when the package was installed/upgraded. I know that pacman on Arch does both of these. (pacman -Qi packagename for install date/reason, or /var/log/pacman.log for a log). Other distros would undoubtedly have the same. James

if you have sound in anything, then alsa is correctly configured and installed, and there's something wrong with the application you're trying to use. James

His review is, crap, but does still, his conclusion does touch on some good points, and I agree with each of those bold points to an extent. James

it's well supported, and the driver works well, mandriva obviously messed up in providing their support for it. James

just for reference :) http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=32348

Well, I suppose, Arch is a generic system, you could use it for any task. So there's no set 'do this after install tasks'. After install, you get what you saw, a basic system. So yeah, from then on, it's up to the user to decide what to do, if you want gnome/kde, you install gnome/kde. If you want something else, you do that, etc. Most things are documented on the wiki, and i'm sure that's been linked here somewhere: http://wiki.archlinux.org James

so we can mark this thread solved :) I guess we need some sort of post install cheatsheet. Basic pacman commands, and routines.. what else do you think should be added? write up a list of stuff, maybe we can start one up on the arch wiki. James

how did booting into it fail? Also, might want to read up the pacman manpage, pacman -Ss is good for searching for stuff. In this case, you would have found xdm is in xorg-xdm. KDM is in one of the kde packages, we have not split out our kde packages like other distros. Also, for future reference, before you chroot into another distro, you need to: mount /dev/ /mnt/arch/dev --bind mount /sys /mnt/arch/sys --bind mount /proc /mnt/arch/proc --bind cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/arch/etc If your network is configured on your host distro, it will then work in the chroot without doing anything. James

This is what I do with multiple distros... Let Mandriva have it's own bootloader, and Arch have it's own bootloader. Once goes on to the MBR, in this case mandriva. The other, then goes on that distro's / partition. To boot the other, you just pick it in the MBR one, which then starts up the second distro's bootloader. It's called chainloading, and actually pretty easy. Below I assume the Arch partition is recognised as hda8 in Mandriva, and sda8 in Arch. It should just copy paste if i'm right. Install the arch bootloader, lilo or grub (reccomend grub) to the start of the arch / partition, sda8. For lilo, change the boot= option to boot=/dev/sda8 Then restore the mandriva to default, on the mbr at /dev/hda, and then just add Arch to it so it can chainload. Go into the mandriva bootloader config or edit it by hand, to have it chainload /dev/hda8: If you do it by hand, an example for grub is: title Arch rootnoverify (hd0,7) makeactive chainloader +1 or for lilo: other=/dev/hda8 label=Arch msg me on irc if you have any problems. James

Check the wiki next time you need help, and the forums are awesome, ask questions there. I'll keep an eye out for mystified or vampy there as I check them daily too. Oh, and a more up to date install guide is here: http://archlinux.org/static/docs/arch-install-guide.txt Though, only refer to it if you need to, I don't know where the updated one for the latest release is. Most of the installer is faily self explanatory though, and many of the config files are well documented internally with comments. Not a substitution for a good install guide, but it helps :) James