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You can boot from a livecd or your installation cd and choose rescue, then you can mount your partition and do what you suggested. There is a program called draksplash which you also can use to change the splash-screen.

use easyurpmi (link at the top if this page) to set up repositories for your computer. Then you can use "Install Software" in mcc ("configure your computer") to install packages. First choose "update" to update everything.

did you run lilo after you edited lilo.conf?

tptest project page

there is a program called tptest, which you can measure the speed with, it's in Mandrivas repositories but I haven't tried it yet in linux, only in winlose. Edit: It's not in mdv2007, but only in 2006

It's in the start-menu

ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distribution...s/LE2005/README I don't know where that is tough... Edit: Use easyurpmi to set up the repositories, there you have updates too, link at the top of this page....

Mandriva won't add 2006 to lilo, but its quite easy to configure that afterwards too...

You can easily make one on your own, just right click on the panel -> "Add application to panel" -> "Add non-KDE application". Then change the icon to the home-mdk and enter the path to executable "/usr/bin/konqueror", command line arguments "system:/home" and add some description (optional).

can you ping your linuxbox from windows?

glxgears is in the package 'mesa-demos'.

Try moving all files and folders that start with a "." in your homefolder to a new folder (~/old or something). If the problems ocurred during the install I'd guess it's a bad burn...

here you can see a recent discussion about mandriva club

choose "gnome" instead?

he's referring to kaspersky anti-vir: http://www.mandriva.com/en/linux/2007

Reboot and choose the new kernel in lilo/grub.

That wasn't completely true, only some updates are visible in the new rpmdrake...

I can see and install updates fine by some reason anyway...

To set up ssh to another port is very easy: Just change # Port 22 to Port xxx in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart sshd. I just did it earlier today.

Thanks, dexter11. I've already done all that, of course. Urpmi could not find smart. I've now looked in a mirror using the browser and I can find it, so I do not understand why urpmi can't. Ah, well. I may wait until bittorrent becomes available on 2007, anyway. A kde application which I use a lot is broken as well. Are you sure urpmi cannot find smart? or is it rpmdrake/mcc that can't find it? Take a look here .

take a look at this post and the one below to see some strange differencies between the different package managers...

$ kcmshell keyboard_layout should start it directly, at least in mdv2007.

I do know that, just curious anyway...

How much can you expect from an Intel 915GM? $ glxgears libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x5b libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23 libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x25 libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x27 libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x29 libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2b libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2d libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2f libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x31 2494 frames in 5.0 seconds = 498.725 FPS 2514 frames in 5.0 seconds = 502.709 FPS 2515 frames in 5.0 seconds = 502.860 FPS 2510 frames in 5.0 seconds = 501.942 FPS 2501 frames in 5.0 seconds = 500.118 FPS

You can also boot from a usb-stick (if the machine supports it)