Ixthusdan

Mandriva is not the only organization with intrigue!

Not only do you have to check before downloading, but after you have in installed, the software sources need to be updated prior to running updates, almost daily. As it is. I have several updates that cannot install, probably because of rsync on the mirror I use.

Look, let's not get all negative. They offer: 1) the hand crank and 2) the lightening rod. Like good technology specialists, they have alternatives for various circumstances. (There was some talk about the mouse wheel again, but it got held up by special interest groups!) ;)

The windows installer prefers to do it itself. For this reason, it is better to create a fat partition and direct windows to use it. Windows will still want to format into NTFS, which is really best for windows. By creating the partitions ahead of time, you will make windows only use part of the drive. (Usually windows will attempt to format the entire drive and wipe out other partitions!) You will have to reinstall the boot loader via rescue. Unfortunately, none of this is particularly unusual for windows.

I think the Nvidia utility can run both at different resolutions and frequencies. Check it out. Look under tools=>system tools=> nvidia display settings

If you unpacked and performed a "make install" you can also perform a "make uninstall" if you still have the same directory from which you ran make.

I just want to understand before I mess things up! B)

What video card do you have? If you are running an Nvidia, you may have to update the driver. Also if you are running the ATi proprietary driver, same thing.

In Mandriva, /usr/share/screenlets

Also /usr/share/screenlets-manager

I had to install Gnome in order to find out! You could have told me. :D

Welcome to Mandrivausers!

Could you be more explicit about what you mean by "updated?"

I agree with Yves. Unfortunately, MS once again proves that if they are onboard with something, it can't be good for computing.

They seem to match. I remember something a while back about this issue, in which the sources were compiled against the wrong version of libraries. Perhaps you should update your kernel, I saw that 2.6.17-17 was the latest for the 2007 series. I have Nvidia products in every machine I own, but my memory could be faulty. Have you tried using urpmi and the dkms packages in the repository?

Make sure that you can see hidden files in your favorite file manager. From what I just looked up, the screenlets directory is hidden, perhaps /home/.screenlets, or /home/username/.screenlets

You need to check the version of the kernel-source file against the running kernel. They must match. You have a mismatch, which is causing this error.

I do not think that the article says you can't boot into anything, but rather that the recovery method for windows will be lost. I am assuming that IBM did not supply any disk with the laptop but only supply this hidden partition methodology by which you can recover or reinstall windows. I also see that GRUB can indeed be made to see the partition. What the article says is that the button on the laptop that launches rescue and recovery will stop working if you do anything to the partition other than the IBM setup. Windows and Linux will boot, but the rescue partition, if you ever even use it, might not boot. It is all about the button, nothing more.

GRUB must reside on some boot record. If you put it on a partition, that partition must be primary and labeled as boot. You have probably not properly created a separate /boot partition. Check that you created a primary partition and made it a boot partition.

This is not a distro problem but a partition problem.

It is possible that you saved a session without closing Firefox, so it launches upon login. I would log out of a session without Firefox being open, and then when you log back in your session should start without Firefox.

X can be rebooted with control-alt-backSpace. There is no need to reboot the computer. Now, if the keyboard is also locked, then have a look at the system logs to see what happened. My best guess at the moment is that one of your RAM sticks has a bad chip.

I have noticed more issues with installing One than with the regular free distro. I don't know why.

Well, having smashed my working-2006 I chose the option of installing (not updating) 2008, which is what I'm now using. Thanks for all of your comments.

Now, hopefully this is not the wrong forum, but I'll ask anyway

1) I quite liked KDiskFree in 2006, especially for launching Konqueror, but can't find it in 2008. Is there an equivalent?

2) I also like to cut the internet connection when I'm not using it (who mentioned paranoia? ;) ) but have only been able to do that thus far via MCC, which is far too inconvenient for me. Any tips on getting the connection-icon back onto the taskbar, as was possible in 2006? Many thanks.

1) It is still there. I'll get to Mandy and then be exact. *My bad. I do not have it! I am looking for why it is not there.

2) Why don't you configure the connection in MCC so that a regular user can manipulate it? Then you can turn it on or off from the desktop.

OK. The latest KDE Utils package apparently does not have the program. So it looks like KDE has changed. I saw some folks making back-ports. Might google and find a tarball to build.

Back up? We occasionally make mistakes on this very board and back ups make us look good!

That is curious. There is a quick way to shut down and reboot. You can open a console and simply type "halt" to shut down and "reboot" to reboot. I actually do this instead of logging out by the GUI. The system will do as commanded. But this does not really address your primary problem, which I am not sure of at the moment.

It is possible that your user file (found at /home/username/.kde) has become corrupted. You can rename that file to .kdeold, and then kde will make a new file. But remember that all of your customizations will have to be re-done.

According to Nvidia, the new driver (169) works with your card. Why do you think you need to stay with an older driver?

And Paul Desmond on alto sax!