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You mean about the not booting state ? I just don't see the HDD led busy.

I meant the wacom device not working ;)

maybe a stupid question but how do you know it's a kernel issue and not some other issue like maybe xorg?

which graphics card do you use?

useally setting up the repositories and then running XFdrake is enough to set things up ,for nvidia at least but for other cards your mileage may vary...

show your /etc/X11/xorg.conf :

(note it was --allmatches and not --all-matches, and the rpm --help says --allmatches its probably wrong if the package name matches multiple files)

try with -e, ie. -e --allmatches else

these are my installed fonts:

# rpm -qa | grep x11-font

x11-font-alias-1.0.1-12mdv2008.1

x11-font-adobe-utopia-75dpi-1.0.1-5mdv2008.1

x11-font-misc-misc-1.0.0-7mdv2008.1

x11-font-bh-75dpi-1.0.0-5mdv2008.1

x11-font-cursor-misc-1.0.0-5mdv2008.1

x11-font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.0-5mdv2008.1

x11-font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi-1.0.0-5mdv2008.1

x11-font-bitstream-75dpi-1.0.0-5mdv2008.1

uninstall them all and reinstall them

I posted too fast

nevermind

ps: do not forget the --no-deps flag !!! else almost your entire desktop will be uninstalled too!

I didn't delete any file directly.

 

I uninstalled all the fonts from the "Fonts and Windows import wizard" tool of "Configure my Computer" tool. When I quit the "Configure my computer" I couldn't start the "Install and remove software" tool, (it just didn't started, without even an error message), fortunately the krusader twin-pane file manager did work, althougth with a rare ugly font, from that I went to my 2008.0 DVD and from the /media/main... directory (I can't remember the exact path) installed everything that had a font relative file name (i.e. *font*.*) with the "Install software" tool. (I don't remember if it asked my root password), I restarted krusader and it worked fine, with its habitual font, restarted my computer and... I saw that error message.

that actually deletes the fonts, not uninstalls them

try

rpm --all-matches --nodeps x11-font && rpm -e task-x11 && urpmi task-x11

did you actually delete the fonts and not uninstall them with a package manager?

did you run XFdrake!?

did you run XFdrake?

konqueror and amarok do do drag n drop

I tried dragging and dropping files from nautilus, to the ipod and to the ipod window, it doesn't work

pop it in and see what happens, iirc the dvd could already be set up as a media source.

else see here to set up the dvd:

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Tools/urpmi#urpmi.addmedia

try urpmi task-X11 you might need to run XFdrake (mind the capitals) after that too

I really don't get any of the ipod management programs, I have tried Exaile, Banshee, ipo, gtkpod, songbird and Rythmbox but it doesn't seem to be possible to just simply drag and drop some files on to the ipod, like Amarok (the only ipod management program I actually do get), I can only delete songs.

Is there a gtk program which can do that, without needing to set up a library or anything? Exaile looks like it can but the files are never copied to the ipod...

Amarok takes ages to load under gnome

Well I have been trying 4.1beta2 on hardy but I still don't think I will switch, I can forgive the very frequent crahes but for me still many important features are missing:

-file size view in konqueror still seems to be gone

-no thumbnail view in the file selector

-no obvious way to move things around in the panel

-search bar in konqueror, how to hell are you supposed to go to a website even, remember and type an url?

-no way to put files on the desktop

further more it is slow.....very slow, even with compositing turned off, there are many graphical glitches when drawing/moving windows and menus, moving plasmoids around is very frustrating as it is very hard to grab them(the mouse position the plasmoid is aware off seems to be lagging to the actual screen position) and all these things were also present in the stable release

and btw what with these stupid controls and frame on icons and widgets? just have a right -> click properties

well at least the panel can be resized and themed easily now.....

arghhhh, I can´ t believe it they took out thumbnails from KDE4 file selector too

(kde 4.1 beta2)

Who the bleep is using bitmap fonts these days?

Ubuntu apperantly..... disabling the bitmap fonts (= core x fonts ? ) worked....

thanks

actually the fonts look bad in ff2 and epiphany too, only opera looks right

using gnome and with subpixel smoothing and full hinting and the plf version of freetype installed...

this one looks bad: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToGetHelp

but oddly enough this one doesn't:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/

many webpages look like the first one though, see the screenshot below

fonts on many pages are not anti-aliased and look very bad, they look like what in opera is called core x fonts, which I always disable to get nice fonts. In firefox there is an option to not allow webpages to choose their own fonts which fixes the bad looking fonts but also affects all other pages which then start using the font specified....

is there an option to turn off core x fonts somewhere or to always anti-alias fonts?

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My main gripe is that it doesn't show previews and there are no columns for file size and file type, it makes it very hard to find specific files in directories which have a lot of files.... I accidentally found out how to unhide hidden files but I need to click in a very specific place (exactly between the scroll bar and "modified")

no easier way, no hidden setting anywhere?

Selecting files with the GTK+ file selector is very slow and difficult because it seems to be missing many essential features, like adding extra columns with size and file type, no file preview mode, no button to show/hide hidden files etc. etc. Is there a way to add these feature to the file selector? I useally end up just using nautilus to open a file :(

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"and a second request for urpmi, try to continue with an upgrade in case of a failure, there is nothing worse than half an upgrade and urpmi quiting because of one package not being able to upgrade..."

 

this is not possible. urpmi already splits transactions into the smallest groups it can manage. once the groups are set, if any one package in a given group fails, urpmi cannot know if it is safe to install any of the other packages in that group, so it must skip every package in that group. all other groups will still be processed.

it must be a new feature then because upgrading from a fresh 2008.0 free install to cooker (a week or so before 2008.1 release, so effectively it was 2008.1), my upgrade failed because of the following bug:

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=39408

urpmi did not want to continue with the rest of the upgrade.... the upgrade was quite easy to continue (by removing the 2 conflicting packages) but still the upgrade wouldn't continue otherwise....