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Skyhawk, I think that you have just given the #1 suggestion that I think EVERYONE out to here. That of downloading your RPM's before installing them, so that you have a copy in case you need them. I tried to setup a 3rd PC over the weekend, and for some reason kept running into situatrions where the DEPS that I wanted to use werent working. Luckily I had the RPM's saved from my #2 install and was able to copy them ruight over and start running once again!.. J

I've been dal booting my ACER 5000 w/ 2008.1 and XP for quite some time (all the way back to 2007) However over the lasy 6 weeks, every 10th or 11th boot I get to the point where i enter my userid and pw's the system starts to freak out. Specificially it displays a message about KDESERVICES not starting, and then it refuses to load. The last error states the inability o locste USERID/TMP What I end up doing is booting to failsafe mode and SU into KONSOLE Then from the cli I enter chown -hR userid/tmp then reboot and all is well. I dont access my Windows partition but every 4 - 5 weeks for my work on call. any and all ideas appeeciates. Thanks. J

ok, I'm TRYING to work from source for the 1st time. dloaded a .tgz, extracted that, everything is good so far open konsole as root, cd to that dir and ./configure LOTS of lines fly by, everything looks like its going GREAT! then all of a sudden it errors out and says BUBBA (for example) not found please change directories or configure files so i ls and find out that there is a BUBBA subdir cd BUBBA and in there are about 4 different files, TWO of them are Makefile.in and Makefile.am and then the rest are all BUBBA related so I make <return> BUBBA:15 no endfile target name or Makefile found so i look up the switches for make and try: make -f BUBBA.in BUBBA <return> BUBBA:15 no file or directory found now remember this is my VERY 1st time at ANY of this, i'm typically an RPM guy, but this time I'm rather impatient. any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated. thanks J [moved from Software by Greg2]

thats cool, glad you got it running. i amalways surprised how the little things make a big difference. i just installed BEL http://www.pclosbe.org/ on a spare macine. since its a mdv remaster/remastered all went as expected, or so i thought. i setup an ftp server, samba server, vnc server and then couldnt figure out why i ciuldnt see any of them. turns out BEL, as good as it is, doesnt autromatially setup my nic sometimes its in the details!

without knowing what error he is receiving it may be impossible to tell, but it does sound like he isnt setup to boot off the DVD. on my laptop I have to press F2 but you have to do it REALLY fast or you'll miss the opportunity. Have you set you laptop so that it will boot from the DVD? that needs to be step1

arent I bugging you enough with WM2003/synce? J

AH, for that i unfortunately would have to refer you to the WEB or perhasps, better yet. AWwilliams in the mandriva forums at mandriva.com he is a canadian developer who works for MDV but is an AWESOME resource because he understands that most people dont know as much as he does. matter of fact he's helping me sync my 2003PDA now. Once I realized that it was just a nuisence error I stopped looking for the fix, sorry. I know its out there, I even used to know the file name at one point, just forgotten in the cobwebs now......

i know a LOT of mini distros now a days are coming pre loaded on CF cards w/ an IDE adapter. so i couldnt see why you COULDNT, but I dont know the technicals behind an SD enough to know the details. HOWEVER 2 great places to start. 1) MCNL - there is a sub forum here that will lead you to the downloads etc, only downside is the main writer retired, and the rest of us are still struggling with 2008, so it stopped at 2007.1 2) alternatively is PCLINUXOS - a GREAT mandriva based distro, the only thing I DONT like is the synaptic package manager. other than that it is a VERY active community remaster, I just loaded their BEL remaster as my file/FTP server and its pretty slick and simple! j

I was looking through the 2008.1 tour notes yesterday and saw this thing called "conduit" http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Tour#Conduit http://www.conduit-project.org/ of course its designed for gnome. anyone using this? anyone used this or can this be used with KDE? I'm already using evolution, just wondering if it's being used/supported much. J

the ndiswrapper support in 2008 is much better than it has been. if you try that however you may have to blacklist the mdv driver j

I think your on the right track, if you use a bunch of different computers and rarely go back to the same ones, then creating something to kill the entries, perhaps as you shut diown, probably wouldnt be abad idea. however if you use a different pc, in the same internet cafe everyday, you may be shooting yourself in the foot, as many times the same configuration pc is used on many different pc's in the same place (for example, my call center all used compaq EVO d-500's but the guys sit at a different desk every day). IN THAT case not killing the NIC would be better, because chances are the differences in the NICS in an EVO d 500 are slim. However if you teach in 10 different schools and ech class uses a hodge podge of different pc's you may be helping yourself (slighty) by killing the old entries. In THEORY, you could MAX out the # of entries and reach a point where a NIC wouldnt be auto detectted, but then you wioykd have to configure the NIC manty though the MCC.

Funny you ask, I was just considering creating an original post concerning VBOX and XP and MDV, so here goes.... I promised my wife that if I could convert the garage to "my area" we would only ever need one pc in the house, HERS. as long as I could load my companies VPN sw on it, I could handle my on call from there. At the time I was in my SUSE mode, I had just come from their V10 roll out w/ XEN built in and was guaranteed by the Novell rep that SUSE 10 ENT would come out of the dvd, setup and ready to run XP for my VPN, and I'd be off!!!!! Well I was off all right. MANY SUSE (everything from 9.0 to 10.2) installs later, I never have gotten XEN to work the way I need it to. So I went to VMWARE, its "relatively" free and would do what i needed (or so I thought) after MANY hours of trying to get things moving I found that there is a LOT to like about SUSE, but its VM support isnt one of them. Then I found MCNL (a small MDV remaster) with VBOX built in. Loaded it opn my laptop (1.8ghz 1GB ram) and it built, booted and VPN'd straight into my work desktop! NO BRAINER. So then I started gravitating back to MDV, and with 2007.1 came all the way back and built a new desktop (X2 5.6GHZ 4GB RAM). Loaded 2008, loaded VBOX, loaded XP, loaded my VPN and connected right on through. Over the last 6 months I have found myself using my XP pc less and less. The ONE drawback is that my AXIM is using windows 2003 mobil and right now its not supported (which is a REAL bummer). I guess the point I'm trying to make is, VBOX works GREAT, its a no brainer to use and setup, and it runs rock solid. why in the WORLD would i want to dual boot? I've done so in the past, typically with little or no problems, but I know me and I know that if I dual boot for too long the day will come when the whole thing fubars and then NOTHING would boot. this way, if XP takes a dump, I delete the VM, recreate and voila I'm off! now I'm not playnig games or running high speed video, but fir day to day its GREAT. My XP pc is now relegated to MASSIVE downloads, torrents, and simultaneous burnings my 2 cts

as far as I remmeber there IS a way to clean this out, but realize that you have 2 things #1 if you are constantly shuttling between several of the same computers on a consistent basis (like I do) and you delete these items, you will be forcing harddrake to re install the NIC each time, where as if you have (lets say) 4 NICS recognized through 4 different PC's and you keave them, you will get 3 errors and the 4th will install. at that point ist just an annoyance. There is a "limit" to the number of items, similar to windows USB limit (which is NOT 127 btw), but it's doubtful that you will ever reach it, and even if you did it would merely kill the oldest and add new one. I dont remember what the error message is related to (what log its kept in), but if you dont want the error, you will have to kill the entries everytime you reboot or logout. now as I recall, you can create a script to do it for you, but as I stated above you are then betting that harddrake will get it right on the next time. IF however you are ALWAYS on a different PC every day, or several times a day, you MAY want to do an advanced dogpile search for where its listed, but I've never known anyone to fill up their list completely. I dont think that MDV will probably EVER address this, as they want you to keep byuing their FLASH product. If we (as a community) ever pin down 2008 and later copies, the way MCNL did 2007 and earlier, you'll probably be OK except for the nuisence. after all it IS working but thats just me

yeah I thought the same thing about the degrade quality and re encode. I just used the "defaults" on my 1st spin. I'll try it again tonite and see what a "standard" of 2 hours per dvd will yield. j

cool i figured the same thing just thought i'd check j

let me make sure i undersatand (because i think ive run into the same thing) You take your MCNL USB to school. plug it in reboot, everything works fine and you work normally. then you go home, insert the USB, reboot and the OS tries to initialize the ETH from the school pc, and because youre probably using a different card, it posts a failure message. is that correct so far? MY next question is, even after the failure message, does MCNL then go out and work with the network card in your home pc? I know that mine works w/ my work PC no probs, take it home, and it still logs the old NIC, but it has always worked fine thereafter.

did you install from this drive?

Adam, is there any benefit to updating the driver in PWP to the "new" one announced on the home page? http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display..._173.14.05.html I dont do anything special w/ my system, but I may start to get into dvd editing. I'm not necessarily one to run out and update the latest and greates on my MDV box, I leave that to my XP pc's thx

IAN I installed DeVeDe and it looks like just what I'm looking for. But I am confused by one thing. IN XP, my "movie maker/dvd burner allows me to put 2 1 hours shows on a DVD and says its full. On Deevedee I loaded the same 2 shows, told it to create an ISO and when it was done it created a 2.9GB DVD instead of the 4.2 that the other app stated. I havent done a side by side view, but any idea why the difference? J

cool thanks for the suggestions, I'll check them out j

many many years ago on win98SE I had a very primative "movie maker" program that worked very simply. you opened the application, and it opened with a series of "filmstrips" onto each "strip" you dropped a video files (.mpg .avi whatever) the application would then "link" together all these video files together into one big "project" which, in theory, you could then burn onto a DVD and pop it into any dvd player. of course win98se w/ FAT32 had the file size limitations, plus it all ran on an 800MHZ cpu so it was INCREDIBLY longwinded, rendering the files. but it was a nice SIMPLE approach. no flash no whiz bang, no rotating menus with disappearing text, it just "worked" anyone have any experience with a linux application that works with several different types of video files, and has a fairly simple approach? currently running AMD 5600 X@ with 4GB ram, 1TB of HD MDV 2008.1 that can do what I need it to do? essentially I'm looking to Link Together a bunch of smaller video files, of several different formats, and create something that can be burned directy to a DVD? I'm sure its out there, it could be right under my nose, just looking for suggestions! thanks J

which version of the kernal is included?

thanks for the help, i'll get another card this month and try it out! j

somone mentioned NVU for "noobs" I've used it for most of my busines and personal pages, and other than getting into some things that I cant get out of (my fault) I havent seen anything that I need to do that it cant. now admittedly I went to Kompozer (the last NVU update) last year. Please realize that the sites I do are not huge glossy whiz bang graphic laden sites. they are mostly just informational with information,software,photo,music downloads. I havent tried bluefish, but from whats said here, it looks like I might need to! j

thats awesome, i look forward to reading, maybe that will prompt me to buy another one! I hate using built ibn sound, but fior $69 I can get another 2496