kephra

For the record, “System Settings†-> “Default Applications†under kcontrol.

Thanks. I wonder why the ability to set Firefox as default was taken out of the 'preferences' with Firefox itself. Its still in 2.0.0.11 in the version that came with Mac OSX.

Firefox 2.0.0.11 is released.

 

This release fixes a bug introduced by the 2.0.0.10 update in the <canvas> feature that affected some web pages and extensions.

 

source: hup.hu

I am using it, but there is no way to set it as the default browser. How do I do that?

NEVER MIND, I found it.

Thanks.

It worked perfectly.

Ah... Much thanks indeed. I knew there must be a way.

I don't want to be blasted with the Mandriva site and Google everytime I start Konqueror. I can find no place in the settings to change the home page for the browser.

Is there a way to specify either blank, or a site of my own choosing?

Thanks

I have this problem periodically, as I have both Mandriva, and Fedora on my system, and they share those files. If I start thunderbird in one os, and forget to shut it down, I have this problem when I boot the second os.

But why did it work fine for two days? Or is that just one of lifes enigmas?

I couldn't say. I mentioned the lock file as something to look for.

You could have checked it thunderbird is running with:

 

ps aux | grep mozilla

 

and see if mozilla-thunderbird is showing on the list, alternatively, replace the word mozilla above with thunderbird.

 

Seems a strange problem, something I've not experienced yet with Thunderbird.

Thunderbird uses a lock file in the profile. If the lock file got left behind, it will tell you that another copy is already running. It will be in the <filename>.default directory.

I have this problem periodically, as I have both Mandriva, and Fedora on my system, and they share those files. If I start thunderbird in one os, and forget to shut it down, I have this problem when I boot the second os.

I'm probably going to give Kubuntu a try since I've read so many problems with 2007 and 2006 is a disaster for me. Can anybody give me some input as to what Kubuntu is like? I'm going with Kubuntu cause I like KDE. I know you can install it with Ubuntu but I like that fact that it's KDE oriented.

I tried Kubuntu, and over all, it very nice except as Gowater said the sudo thing bugged me. But I took it off and installed Mandriva instead because CUPS and Samba don't work. I spent days trying to share my printer with my wife's notebook, and never did get it to work. With Mandriva, it took less than 15 minutes to get my Brother MFC printer online and shared with WinXP.

Other than booting problems caused by the "resume=" option, I really haven't had any problems with 2007. So like always, it depends on what your going to do with it.

Oh, I wasn't able to get my WinTv PVR150 card to work with Kubuntu. Haven't tried yet with 2007.

It just makes me more determined not to use any MS products. I've never been a Novell fan either.

Mine used to freeze all the time right after it set my hostname. I discovered that if I remove the "resume=/dev/hdx" option from the boot options that it no longer hangs there. You mght want to try that if you have the GRUB boot loader installed. I reinstalled Mandriva at least 6 times before I discovered that.

Have you tried pressing ESC, it will give you verbose mode and hopefully tell you where it got stuck at. Normally a graphic covers the loading process with a progress bar, but you can press ESC to view what is actually going on.

 

I have tried the verbose mode. It will scroll through everything and then the screen will go blank for a moment and then turn to a blue screen.

 

However, i suspected that my dual video cards might be causing the problem so i removed one of them. Oddly, i was able to get just a little past where i had gotten before. Now instead of a blue screen, i get a blue screen with garbled text in a white box. If i choose the second option i get a login screen (which looks kind of buggy). I can type in my username and password but that's as far as it gets. I made just a little bit more progress. I imagine i am close to getting into Mandriva.

Any ideas?

 

Thanks!

Have you tried adding nopinit and noacpi to your kernel options before you boot? I have to do this with my system, or it hangs.

OK I was able to boot up and run the Mandriva Live CD , so from there I installed, install went fine.

 

But after rebooting, if I select Mandriva, Failsafe, or Non-Frame Buffer from the boot menu, they all just say:

 

BIOS Data Check Successful

 

And never go any further :( Any idea?

I just installed 2007 on my HP Media Ctr (dual 686), and had the same problem. I had to add the nopinit option to the boot command to make it work. Once I did that, It came up. It seems that loading from a cd slows it down enough that timing issues were not present, so the live cd booted ok.

I don't know if that is your problem, but its worth a shot.