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I have run Mandriva 2007.0 RC2 and 2007.1 RC3 on a laptop from that series without problems. Everything works except for the webcam and the SD card reader, which is supposed to work in 2007.1. I have not tried the proprietary ATI driver, but the default driver worked with the 3D desktop (compiz/beryl).

Hello, I tried configuring Kmail as a Kolab client on a local Kolab server after months of using it as a standard IMAP client on the same Kolab server. Within half an hour, my inbox went from 1300 messages to 33. I'm trying to restore the cyrus mailbox from the nightly cron backup, but can't figure out what to do. Any suggestions?

Red Hat 5. It came in one of those 4-disc box sets with SuSE, Caldera and Slack. I still have it somewhere. Technically it was my first Linux distribution since I installed them in the order the discs were packaged, but I much preferred Caldera at the time. I had a Compaq Pentium II workstation in my office with a whopping 196 MB of RAM, and the Caldera devs were able to give me the kernel parameters required to access all of it. The Red Hat support crew was stumped. Sadly, I couldn't actually do anything productive with Caldera. I had to rely on OS/2 for that. Of course, my first love was a Commodore VIC 20.

You'll have to use the command line, and run the mysqlimport utility. You'll probably also need to remove quotes, and replace semicolons with commas before importing. The rules for importing are fairly straightforward. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqlimport.html

It's very possible that your problem lies with the backup method rather than the filesystem. Because of limitations in Linux 2.2, 32-bit integers were used to handle file i/o. Linux 2.4 resolved these limitations, but software using 32-bit integers for file i/o still has the 2 GB limit. You can test this by creating a tar file greater than 2 GB. You can remove anything in /mnt like you would any other directory, as long nothing is actually mounted on those directories.

Just press alt-f2 and enter kdesu konqueror Be careful. You'll have full access to all your files.

I'd let urpmi do its thing. Even if Firefox were to break (it doesn't sound like it will), all you have to do is download it from mozilla.org, and unzip it to any directory you wish. The most common reason for unrelated rpms wanting to install Firefox or Mozilla is to borrow Mozilla's encryption libraries.

Leaving your host name, or local domain name, blank shouldn't cause a problem, but if you want to change it, you can use drakconnect, or if you prefer the command line, you can use the hostname command.

If you got the Firefox 1.5 binary from mozilla.org, it shouldn't be a problem. If I recall, mozilla.org calls the binary "firefox," while Mandriva/PLF call it "mozilla-firefox." If you got Firefox 1.5 from Cooker or some other Mandriva repository, Firefox 1.5 will either be overwritten or cause an RPM conflict. I'd suggest putting Firefox 1.5 somewhere other than /usr/bin anyway. I have mine in /opt/firefox.

avidemux is pretty good. It's in PLF.

Is there a way to get sound working in .3g2 video files under Linux? In Windows it works with Quicktime. I get video, but no audio with mplayer and Xine. I'm using the QCELP audio codec on a CDMA device, not the AMR codec used on GSM devices.

As much as I hate to suggest this, have you tried using the Palm Desktop? It does a good job at converting videos to a size suitable for viewing on both my Tungsten E2, and my Treo 650.

Hello, I'm looking for a 32-bit binary of mplayer for an x86_64 system. I don't want to overwrite my 64-bit binary, so I've avoided RPMs so far. I was unable to compile a 32-bit binary, and mplayer devs won't support gcc 4. Does anyone know where I can find a 32-bit build that I can just extract and put in some location other than /usr/bin?

It turns out that KDE's gtk-qt engine was crashing XFCE. Deleting the .gtkrc-2.0 file fixed it. gtk-qt also does bad things to Gnome, in case anyone else encounters this.

I'm running the latest Cooker packages prior to the 10.3 branch. I just wanted to know if the packages are working for others. Now that I know they are, I'll spend time figuring out what's wrong. Thanks.

Does anyone have XFCE 4.2.1 working? After the blinky mouse screen, I get the Mandriva wallpaper, and that's it. I can move the mouse, and switch to a new terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F*), but that's it. I have kill X to get out of it. All the XFCE packages, except the devel packages are installed.

Yet another one-sided report from the Register. Microsoft does not make networking tools for Linux, so Samba was addressing a void in the market. Nothing is taken away from Microsoft by Samba since the purpose of Samba isn't to replace Netbios, but to work with it. You could argue that people are using *nix file servers instead of Windows file servers thanks to Samba, but that's entirely speculative. The flipside could also be true. People are able to join Windows servers onto *nix file servers because of Samba. (Although it's a much better idea to run NFS on Windows, IT departments have a knack for doing things the wrong way.) In the case of Bitkeeper, the company gave licenses to kernel developers. The only possible use for reverse engineering these protocols is to steal metadata. Metadata is an asset to this company. It's like if Apple gave your friends free iTunes access, and you also got free access because they vouched for you, and you used this access to find a way for other users to steal MP3s. Of course Apple will take away everyone's free access, leaving your friends screwed over.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but I don't see what the advantage is over getting the packages directly from Mandriva's mirrors. Mandriva already configures main, contrib and updates for you. Direct updates seem easier than downloading an ISO, mounting or burning it, then manually adding it as a urpmi source or doing a blind urpmi *. ISOs require the amount of downloading with more steps involved. People who maintain multiple systems are just going to run wget or rsync on Mandriva's update mirrors anyway. Don't get me wrong, you can't argue with demand for a product (I see there are a few votes in favour). I just don't see the benefit. Maybe if you made an autorun disc that checks to see if main and contrib are configured, then runs urpmi on your updates, it would be more useful.

I wouldn't use the binary from 10.1. If you need that kernel, rebuild it against 10.2 from the Mandrake kernel sources.

There were substantial changes in Cooker last week that greatly improved card reader/mass storage compatibility. My Sandisk card reader now automatically mounts and unmounts when I insert and remove a CF card. The drawback is that instead of mounting to /mnt/removable, the mount point is now based on the volume label of the media. This means that every media card has a different mount point, making it necessary to define a new GPhoto2 device in Digikam/GThumb/whatever for every CF card I own.

Whatever they call it, I'm glad to Diskdriva now detects my card reader properly. If only XFdriva would stop changing my conf file to use the nv driver when I'm upgrading to a new NVidia driver. And shouldn't that be XOdriva? It's also good to see drivaconnect with rudimentary ndiswrapper support. One thing is clear, Mandriva Linux 2005 Limited Edition will be a solid release. _________ $ man driva No manual entry for driva

I see you're installing Xorg from Cooker. Have you made sure you have Cooker main and contrib repositories configured and updated? Cooker changes daily, so updating is important before you install anything.

Stuck at a blue screen? Are you sure that wasn't some other operating system? ;)

With rpmfind.net it is very easy to end up with packages from the wrong version of Mandrake, including broken packages from random Cooker snapshots. And why wouldn't you want the automatic dependency resolution offered by official repositories? It's much easier than hunting things down yourself. To my knowledge, rpmfind doesn't have any Mandrake packages not included in the official distribution.

Actually, the package is gcc-c++, not g++. It also looks like you might be missing the preprocessor, which is in the gcc-cpp package.