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  1. In "emergency" situations like this, you can always open a terminal (text mode) by hitting these keys together: "Ctrl-Alt-F1". You can exchange F1 with any other from F2-F6. Do a normal user login, then type "su" to get root access on your machine if needed. You can switch back to graphical mode at any time by pressing "Ctrl-Alt-F7". Cycling back and forth between these modes is fully supported. Thus you can run additional sessions at the same time in parallel, only exception is the X Session (graphical mode), which is singular (well, who knows how to overcome this limitation may experience problems at other complexity levels... ;)).

  2. Depending on your Windows version, you have to enter "fdisk /mbr" instead (Win 2000).

     

    Just saw that with Windows XP, you can't write to MBR while the system is running. However, you can use "fixmbr" from recovery console (boot from XP CD).

  3. Hm, I'm not sure wether GNOME/Mandriva 2008 and GNOME/Ubuntu are that different, but probably you're making it too complex. Within the mask presented here I'd enter:

     

    Type of service: ssh

     

    Server: 192.168.0.2

     

    Port: (leave empty)

     

    Folder: joe

     

    User: joe

     

    Connection name: My pretty server

     

     

    I didn't even install sshfs-fuse and it works flawlessly...

  4. A top amount of recent video cards is either built on Nvidia or Ati gfx chips, for which linux 3d acceleration is available (direct hardware support). In general, chip vendors make sure hardware acceleration can be used for a given OS.

     

    I found this link here indicating it could be done, but it's quite old and doesn't seem to be that easy:

     

    http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/li...-savage-168951/

     

    So, if you want a fast and easy solution and enjoy good gfx performance, you should go for a Ati or Nvidia based AGP card.

  5. Hi Arak,

     

    the problem is *not* a small root partition or missing/insufficient root access, but your /home directory. As you did not allocate /home to a single partition on it's own (which is always a good idea), /home is now located in the normal root directory tree - which is denoted by /.

  6. Hi deadlock,

     

    welcome to Mandrivausers!

     

    Your question is already answered quite well here: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=43701

     

    The referred file is /etc/fstab, you can edit it as user root with your favourite text editor (kwrite, gedit, nano, joe, ...). So you just have to open a terminal window, enter the "su" command and provide your root password afterwards. Then do "gedit /etc/fstab" for example. A valid line would look like the following:

     

    /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0022,users,nls=utf8,rw 0 0

    If you want to be able to do full editing, you'll have to replace "ntfs" by "ntfs-3g" above, and - also as root - install the according package by entering "urpmi ntfs-3g" in a terminal. Don't forget to reboot at last.

     

    Good luck! :-)

  7. The error indicates some rpm dependancy missing or pointing to a different (mostly newer) version. In your case it seems to be glibc, which is a vital component to the system in general. So it would be most wise to use a standard repository rpm to update nasm and wait until the corresponding glibc package is available there.

     

    You'll also need a full 64 bit environment (since using correct glibc version) to use the 64 bit version of nasm (suppose cross compiling is not possible this way...).

  8. Hi Brady,

     

    welcome to Mandrivausers!

     

    Regarding your script, I'd consider a better fitting solution to integrate within the boot process. Do you actually need your script to be run from rc.local? Probably you'll get a better result when you redesign it to run as a "normal" start script from /etc/init.d. As have noticed, most of these give user feedback during execution, and it seems to pose no problem to display more than a single line of text (as the shorewall service does here, for example).

     

    HTH,

     

    scoonma

  9. Unfortunately still nothing. The options are inactive as they were before :sad:

     

    Okay, last chance? The configure program said kde is installed to /usr, most normal user generated installations (i.e. without giving params to ./configure) go into /usr/local. So you could (as normal user!) do a

    ./configure --prefix=/usr

    to insure KMyFirewall will go into the normal KDE tree, afterwards "make" (as normal user again!) and finally "make install" as root.

     

    Good luck!

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