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Did you happen to include kernel-desktop-latest?

I was unaware that there was a dkms-nvidia-current Then again don't use my wifes computer much lol

And yeah nvidia. I have a tendancy to misspell it for some reason and was in to much of a hurry to catch it...again...

It took me a bit to figure out that one. The packages I used where

urpmi kernel-source-latest kernel-desktop-latest kernel-desktop-devel-latest dkms-nvida

Though that will also keep installing any new kernels that are released to the repositories.

Is it possible to update mandriva using my windows connection? I assume it would be, but alot more involved?

First way I could easily think of would be mirroring the repositories to a drive your installation could access then use it as a local urpmi mirror, but with a dial up connection which I assume you would be using, it would take a very long time and probly not so much worth it. I think last time I mirrored all of the trees it was 25+ GB's.

From what I read if your using Mandriva 2008.0 then most of 3.5.8 has been added into 3.5.7 So for the most part you pretty much are running 3.5.8

I know, I cought it a bit after I posted and passed out infront of my computer before rectifying my claim, though was not there before or listened to the inlaws complaining so much I went crazy lol, Thanks though

I have my own question.

I have an ATI x600 and just resinstalled cooker, to my dismay I can not find a dkms-fgrfx package in the cooker mirros, neither the newest one or the old 8.40.2 package.

Far as I know and seen, The memory on the video card is soley for the Video card. Thus it only matters that your motherboard can handle the agp port speed, yours is 4x and I have ran a few 8x AGP cards in a motherboard that could only handle 2X, granted I lost some performance but it worked. My brother has a Desktop running with DDR System Memory on a AMND64 Clawhammer which does not support DDR2 but the video card has 256MB of DDR2.

I've been watching the mde repo for a good while so I could add it onto my desktop computer and the reason it is returning a 404 error is there is indeed no hdlist.cz file on the mde server at this time. I check by looking into the rpm folder itself. I can only assume they are not finished adding the first packages and creating the hdlist file.

I assume your either using rpmdrake or urpmi.

What I tend to do on my own systems is install Mandriva from the dvd for the desktop or from the boot.iso for my laptop and once get to my desktop and verify that I have internet I add online repositories, http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ is a very good resource for picking out the mirrors I want to use. To use the repositories I oppen a root terminal session and type

urpmi.removemedia -a

to remove all of my local sources a.k.a. dvd sources. Then copy and past from easyurpmi and my resources are online and no longer rely on disk media. Saves me from hunting up my dvd everytime plus I have access to a bit more packages.

To update my sources all I need to do is go to a root terminal session and type

urpmi.updatemedia -a

Then type

urpmi --auto-select

I don't know if this will help you at all. But one of my computers suffers a simmilar problem. It's a Gateway 7510GX and to get sound out of the internal speakers I have to go to "switches" tab in kmix and turn off External Ampliphier.

I'm running Mandriva 2008 and have just set up the computer as a NFS server to share a 50GB partition as /mnt/trans.

When I use my other computer (Laptop with Cooker) it tells me that the disk is full after transfering 300MB of data. I'm rather confused about this one as wherever i look I do not see the options or settings that concern the size of the shared volume. I am also unsure on where to look for the configuration file that would contain the settings I would need to go about changing the size of the the volume. Or at least what it is reporting to be anyway.

Any one gimme a hand please?

This is the contents of my exports file

# generated by drakhosts.pl
/mnt/trans *(no_root_squash,async,insecure,no_subtree_check,rw)

MediaTomb is installed on both my Laptop and my Fiance's Desktop and appears to be serving up media flawlessly. Thanks alot Adam it's much appreiciated!

I am unsue if this is the right place to ask or if MDE even accepts rpm requests, but if so, I have noticed that Mandriva does not have any rpm's for mediatomb. personaly I own a ps3 and am highly intested in using my mandriva box to serve music and videos to my PlayStation3 . I doubt I am the only one that would be intrested in this particular package. I've enjoyed much succsess with mde and was hoping to get some help in this area. Thanks for any and all help

...if not...call me an idiot lol