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I remember way back when root was an option on the boot menu but if it was chosen the default theme was bright red and you got a warning straight away - this seems to have gone now (though I haven't logged in as root for a while). It was handy because if you did open konqueror (or anything else) as root from the CLI then it too had this red theme making it stand out from your other windows in an obvious way. Personally I like everything single click but root stays double click as a reminder if I do open konqueror from there for a bit of file management. I should probably open kcontrol as root and change the theme but I'm fairly sure it won't work with Emerald.

I wouldn't bother trying as performance will suffer anyway - if I play sauerbraten with compiz enabled I get 10 - 20 fps with it off I get 50 - 100 fps. Fusion-icon is a handy little app for switching between compiz and whatever other WM.

Seems not to work with compiz enabled but works ok with kwin - also it does help if xkill is installed.

You could try Mandriva one live cd to check if it works without installing - but a quick google suggests it will work but miight require a bit of fiddling.

Oops, bit slow posting there.

I was going to suggest re-add the home icon to the task bar shift+drag it off to move it and thus delete the task bar icon in one go, but it won't let you so you would have to remove it from the task bar again manually. A PITA once more. This did lead me to thinking (a bit off topic , sorry) what happens if you copy your home directory to your Desktop (on indeed any folder to one inside itself - does it just go into a loop until you run out of space?

Hmmm, just to add to tghe general fray.... Since when have root logins not been allowed? It's not an option in the graphical login but if you use a text/commeand prompt login it still works. I used to like it on Mandrake when you did log in as root and ran X that the default theme was RED, just to remind you, this seems to have gone. If I am doing any kind of troubleshooting/admin work I have a terminal open where the first thing I did was run su - I can easily run anything with root priveledges from there, why bother logging in as root? You can log in as root - if you know what you're doing - if you don't know what you're doing, you shouldn't be logginig in as root. I thinkit a very sensible decision.

The dkms-nvidia-current rpm works well - just install this and reboot and it will compile for you, then reconfigure X to use this driver (either manually or via MCC) restart X and away you go.

I did indeed try all the adaptor options, to no avail (in fact I tried everything I could find/think of) . I will work out which options are necessary some other time, I've got a bit bored with loading/unloading drivers today. I still want to get the other interface going - I don't actually need it but it's annoying that it doesn't work. Thanks again, knowing the correct name for the driver really helped it seems to have been variously known as snd-serial, snd-serialmidi and snd-serial-16550. I spent the last while listening to some old midi files - the quality of the MU10 compared to the soundblaster is just miles better, and if I remember correctly it was cheaper too.

Finally got it working the magic line is: /sbin/modprobe snd-serial-u16550 port=0x3f8 irq=4 speed=31250 Though I'm not sure it is all strictly necescary. Now I can concentrate on getting the mpu401 interface working.

The line that says vfat should hae ntfs instead as for the other options I would assume they would be similar to the other lines containing ntfs but you would want to leave out the ro option as this would make it read only. Not having any windows partitions myself I'm afraid I can't be more accurate.

Ok making some progress, I at least have a flashing data light!! The error running modprobe snd-serial-u16550 was no such device, fixed that by running setserial /dev/ttyS0 uart none first. I now need to find out what settings to send - the best result so far has been with no parameters - this produces a flashing data light and very occasional random notes which leads me to think I need to specify the base rate, based on info on the alsa page. Back to google.

Thanks for the replies, I did try loading snd-serial-u16550 but got 'fatal error module not found' or something similar - I'm at work at the moment so I can't replicate it. I will try either this evening or tomorrow depending on how tired I am when I get in.

Is it a bluetooth connection then? If so do you have bluetooth installed and running? If you do then pairing them manually shouldn't be too hard, though last time I tried it on this box it was a PITA but was ok on my laptop (both running Mandriva).

For your first problem you could try this: I am assuming you can't mount or it is mounted as root - this will all you to mount it as a user and thus solve both issues (hopefully). With the pendrive inserted - Open the Mandriva control centre. Click on 'Local Disks' - then 'Manage local disks' then 'continue' Then on the tab for that drive - probably sde Click 'toggle to expert mode' and then on the 'option' button that will appear and click the checkbox for 'user' Then click 'ok' then 'done' then 'yes' Hope this helps.

I have an sb live platinum (emu10k1) The internal midi works fine, I can play sound fonts no problem. I also have a yamaha mu10 sound module with both midi ports and a serial port connection, this used to work fine under an older version of Mandrake (though I can't remember which one) by simply running 'modprobe snd-serial-midi' (I think that is correct), however this driver seems to now be non-existent. I did try to recompile the kernel a while ago with the module enabled but though there was an option in menuconfig it failed to compile as the source files for the module where missing. Does anyone know what happened to this driver or how to resolve the issue? The other options are the the midi ports on the live drivve but according to alsa's website they don't work and probably never will, or the gameport. I have a gameport to midid cable attached but no data appears to come out of it though it does show up both in the alsa tab of the connections box in jack and in rosegarden. Am I missing something obvious here or do I need to load another module? Ideally I would like both ports working, the serial and the gameport (I don't hold a lot of hope for the live drive) but either would suffice. It is most frustrating as I did have it working previously including the editor for the mu10 running under wine. Any help or suggestion of places to look would be much appreciated all my googling seems to turn up out of date info or how-tos on getting sound fonts working (incluing a rather god one here). All the relevant drivers seem to be loaded: lsmod | grep snd snd_mpu401_uart 6424 0 snd_seq_midi 6016 1 snd_emu10k1_synth 5760 4 snd_emux_synth 28064 5 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_seq_virmidi 5000 1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_midi_emul 5120 1 snd_emux_synth snd_rtctimer 2592 0 snd_seq_dummy 2692 0 snd_seq_oss 26148 0 snd_seq_midi_event 5768 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss snd_seq 40716 20 snd_seq_midi,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_emul,snd_seq_dummy,snd_ seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_pcm_oss 33544 0 snd_mixer_oss 12808 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_emu10k1 119380 10 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_rawmidi 17424 4 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_emu10k1 firmware_class 6912 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_ac97_codec 89540 1 snd_emu10k1 ac97_bus 2176 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 60972 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_device 6164 8 snd_seq_midi,snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq, snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_timer 17052 4 snd_rtctimer,snd_seq,snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 7304 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 3336 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 6284 2 snd_emux_synth,snd_emu10k1 snd 40548 22 snd_mpu401_uart,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,s nd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_t i mer,snd_hwdep soundcore 5572 1 snd