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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!

Is that background from kde-look?

Then, according to ATi, you do not have their proprietary driver installed. The utility comes with the driver. I use Nvidia, which installs a utility with a gui. I know that at one time ATi did not support Linux but that they have gotten up to speed. I only found reference to running the utility from CLI. Have you restarted the X server? Is the driver loaded? Their sight also gives instructions on how to see if their driver is loaded. fglrxinfo should report the installation.

root?

Added. Thanks!

From ATi's sight: http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894 Follow this flow on the left column: AMD Customer Care Site Map > Radeon Support - PC > Radeon X1900 series > Knowledgebase > Display > Summary: run "fglrxconfig" in the CLI.

su to root and type it this way: ./ati-driver-installer-7-12-x86.x86_64.run note the dot-slash

When working with a live cd and performing repairs, you must become the root user. Root can do all, see all, be all. ;) Now, by details, please tell me the following: ide or sata? Which position is the windows drive? Linux drive? What are the partition placements? With this info, I can tell you exactly what to do in grub. (which will be located at /boot/grub/menu.lst)

What is the partition layout? Drives? What did you do? Of course it can be fixed by using the editor in a live disk. But more details would help.

I have Mandriva running on an AMD 64 X2 Dual Core. I also ran the 64 bit version but found no advantage to running it.

Please tell us the software that won't install and exactly what you are doing to install it.

Umm... the other cheap printer was a Canon, which would have cost $44 to replace both inks vs the HP $30 for both inks. And, who uses name brand paper, anyway? :P

I recently purchased a new cheap HP Printer ($35 US), specifically HP Deskjet D1420. In the past, a brand new model would have had to been experimented with, finding a driver that would work in Linux. I plugged in the printer, and Mandriva went on-line, found a current driver, installed it, and printed a test page, which printer fine. Later, I used CUPS to make sure the printer was making use of both the color and black cartridge. In my opinion, Mandriva has come a long long way in the past 8 years. There was no difference between the Windows install and the Linux install, except that for a moment, Windows was confused by the usb port and my mouse/keyboard stopped working! I had to reboot. No such problem in Linux. Thumbs up, Mandriva!

Are you running SLI?

When Mandirva is loading, at what point is it stopping? Hit escape to see. what is the name/model of your motherboard or computer?

According to this blog entry, Netscape has finally ended its existence. While this is no surprise to anyone, I wanted to post a farewell to the original browser of the internet. I am one person who tried Netscape in a beta form and then went out and purchased it. I used Netscape before Microsoft ever even understood what the internet was. But Netscape understood. The Netscape browser lead the entire software world in ideas and making those ideas work. They integrated mail and browsing, along with newsgroups, and made a single application be the gateway for a user's internet experience. Netscape set the standard for browsing, a standard that everyone else followed. The entire concept of browsing today was initiated by Netscape. Microsoft attempted to write a browser and could not do it. The first Microsoft browser was pathetic. They then began to copy the features of Netscape, and their browser actually began to work. And then they decided to get dirty. Microsoft began to give their browser away for free. Their objective was to annihilate Netscape. They succeeded. The great ideas that was Netscape could no longer support that business because Microsoft destroyed the profitability of it. Netscape attempted to legally defend itself and despite winning legally, it lost financially. Big money and shoddy business won the day. Netscape was succeeded by Mozilla and Firefox, with Netscape's code going to Mozilla. The war for the browser became the principle against bad business and most of the negative aspects of the computer world rests solely upon Microsoft. There is no indication that Microsoft has learned anything at all. They remain a bad business. For myself, much of what I believe today is a result of what I witnessed in the so-called browser wars. I owe that to Netscape, a good product, an innovative leader, and an image of what computing ought to be. Long live Mozilla and Firefox. And like the Alamo, I'll always remember Netscape.

1) Yes, the installation identifies the system at the time of install, which it gets from the bios. If the RAID is hardware, then Linux does fine. But software RAID does not present a true RAID array in the hardware, and thus Linux does not see the RAID array; instead, it sees different drives. Further more, Linux is not part of the RAID array. So, we are asking the software RAID to relinquish control after booting. (Hmmm....) It may be best to use the bios for this. 2) I agree that Linux is installed on your primary ide device (hda). Because of the above considerations, I think you should download a "live" distro. This is a distro that works from the cd drive and RAM. You can then edit the /etc/fstab to be sure it is correct for booting from the ide drive. 3) You can edit with the dvd, but it is not really newbie friendly. Get a live cd.

This may be interesting. First, beware that when you change the boot order in the bios, you are affecting the drive ID information in the Linux installation. For example, hda is the primary master boot device. When you change this in the bios, hda changes, making the fstab invalid. So, the critical file, /etc/fstab, does not have the correct information for the system. The fix I would make would be to boot with a live disk and edit the /etc/fstab file to reflect the ide boot. I would recommend, however, to install without having to go to the bios all the time.

I am one of those unfortunate souls who have Broadcom products...... in other words, I have learned how to use ndiswrapper! After learning how to use it, I have no troubles. With 2008, the Linux driver even worked, for a change. But I like ndiswrapper because I know how to trouble shoot it. I agree, though, that if I am going to spend money, I would pick the right hardware. But that is just me.

Folks There is more than one way to do anything in Linux. Let's just agree that we all have preferences. And let's try to keep a civil tone on things when we have a different recommendation. B) A simple "I always do it this way..." is best. I like it when I recommend something and 22 posts later, the user actually does what I suggested! (It works, of course.)

Check md5sum? Using good media? Burning slower? Are you compiling programs while burning? Are you leaving the computer turned on? OK, the last one was a joke!

ESET NOD32 is not free. Since the threat of virus in Linux is weak at best, paying for something seems too disparate. B)