David Batson

As K Bergen says, you need to "Burn Image to Disc". Copying the file to the CD will not work. Also, you DO NOT want to choose the option to make the disc bootable - that is to make the disc appear as a floppy to the BIOS. After you burn the CD, you should see a number of folders and files. If what you see is the .iso file, you did it wrong. In Nero CD burning software, "Burn Image to Disc" is located under "Copy and Backup" in Smart Start.

WVDIAL is in the Main Release repository for Mandriva 2009.0 although the version says 2008.1. Make sure you have the leftmost button in Software Installer set to "All" and not the default "Packages with GUI" to find wvdial.

I have not used OneNote and I have only installed one program in WINE. My experience is that after installing WINE, I installed the webcore-fonts rpm package, then installed my Windows program. I chose the Windows installation file setup.exe on the program DVD and chose open with WINE. I let the program install normally, accepting the default C: drive. The program does not really install to your C: drive, but to a subfolder of /home/user/.wine. In my case two files were copied to the desktop. The .lnk file appeared to serve no function, but the other file launced the Windows program. HTH

That's where they are on my installation of Mandriva 2008.1. Perhaps your setup is different. Or perhaps you do not have ppp installed? I believe installing kppp should install the ppp dialer as a dependency. Then again, maybe those files were created when I tried to set up the connection from MCC.

Re: Kompozer http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=100031 The version of Kompozer from 2008.1 is reported to work with 2009.0.

Just some ideas... http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Errata#...web_browsing.29 Try setting the security level from High to Standard in MCC Security. Try a different browser such as Konqueror. Try with the firewall off to make sure the firewall is not blocking you (not so likely). Finally, try using ppp directly instead of kppp, or at least verify that the files /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-ppp0 contain the correct information. I find that the system tends to overwrite those files with incorrect information for my cellular dialup setup. I use files with a different name, namely gsm in place of ppp0 and gsm_chat in place of chat-ppp0, and use the command from Konsole as root: ppp call gsm to start my connection.

From the Mandriva 2009.0 Release Notes... FWIW, I have been using the Desktop Kernel with Mandriva 2007.1 and 2008.1, and I have Suspend to RAM and Hibernate to Disk working fine. It did take some trial and error as well as research, to get it all working though.

Icedtea was in the Main Release repositories for 2008.1, but it appears it is not in the Main Release repositories for 2009.0. I am still using 2008.1. All I see in 2009.0 in Main Release is: java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1.6.0.0-0.16.b11.4mdv2009.0.i586.rpm. One would think that the version in Mandriva 2009.0 would be at least as recent as the one in the previous Mandriva release, but maybe not. Here is all I find for icedtea on 2009.0: http://sophie.zarb.org/rpmfind?distrib=Man...mp;st=fuzzyname EDIT: And I don't even see the plugin listed there.

IIRC, uninstall the java-1.6.0-sun-plugin and install java-1.7.0-icedtea-plugin, and all will be good.

I already looked in Backports and Testing for 2008.1 and did not see any version above 2.8.2.2.

I can't speak about 2009.0, but in previous versions of Mandriva, this would happen with the ATI graphics adapter when using the propriatary drivers with KDE. Apparently this is not a problem in the Gnome release.

I use a Canon PIXMA MP600 successfully on 2008.1. I found the drivers on Canon's Austrailia's site. Not all Canon's have linux drivers. I also got a Brother MFC4800 working successfully with 2007.1 (haven't tried it with 2008.1). I got the Brother drivers from the Brother website. I would look at these sites for any prospective printers you are considering. Note that Turboprint drivers have to be purchased. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting http://www.cups.org/ http://www.turboprint.info/ http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.p...lease_id=582342 And for the scanner part: http://www.sane-project.org/

Some days ago I downloaded some rpm's from one of Mandriva's mirrors and saved them for a reinstall of Mandriva at a later date. After I reinstalled Mandriva, I right-clicked on each of the rpm files that I had saved and chose Open with Software Installer. When the install started I received an error message that there was no key. What is this "key" and where is it? Should I have downloaded some "key" file along with the rpms? I asked the same question at the official forum and did not receive a reply.

Regarding audio CD's: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Errata#...digital_mode.29 Here are a couple more links that should help. http://forum.kde.org/showthread.php?tid=6902 http://www.cmdln.org/2008/06/15/change-kde...-24hr-military/

From the official forum: Having mysterious wireless issues in 2009? try dhcpcd

An Announcement from the official forum: Having mysterious wireless issues in 2009? try dhcpcd

I'm just drawing at straws here. Looking through the following ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/...a/main/release/ I see there is an openoffice.org-gnome-3.0-0.rc2.2mdv2009.0.i586.rpm package. I assume that is installed?

Do you have compiz running, or 3D desktop effects? If so, you might try choosing no 3D desktop effects and see if that makes a difference.

Time to edit the wiki then...

Is this any help? http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/R...u?content=48411

The same thing happened to me often in Mandriva 2007.1 Free. I was used to Windows, where you could copy text, close the app, then paste the text in another app. I haven't noticed this much in 2008.1 Powerpack. I don't know if it's because I adapted my behavior to Mandriva Linux, or if it's because the clipboard works differently. Anyway, this thread is enlightening.

Not quite true. kernel-desktop586 only supports less than 1GB RAM (usually 870-900MB detected). kernel-desktop supports less than 4GB RAM (usually 3-4GB detected, depending on hardware) - same as kernel-laptop. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Howto/Man...ferent_flavours

If you plan on keeping up-to-date with the latest kernel, then install kernel-latest. Otherwise, I would leave that one unchecked. For myself, I found that the latest kernel of 2008.1 was not as compatible with my hardware as the previous one. So I would not want kernel-latest. Once kernel-latest has been installed, it can be hard to back out of. You can uninstall a kernel, but if you want to install an earlier version, kernel-latest will still insist on installing the latest kernel - it seems even after kernel-latest has been removed (at least in some instances). My experience was that installing a previous kernel made kernel-latest a dependency. Perhaps this was just a bug with that particular package - I don't know.

My most recent experience with this is when I was running off the 2009.0 One CD and was trying to install Opera. I had downloaded the 8.5 MB rpm from Opera and when I right-clicked on it to install, there were two dependancies that were needed, qt3-common and libqt3. The mirrors weren't working too well yet. qt3-common downloaded fine, but libqt3 did not. Everytime I tried to restart this, it always redownloaded qt3-common and failed on libqt3. Frustrated after a couple of hours, I manually downloaded libqt3 from a mirror and installed it by itself. Next I chose to install Opera again, and again it downloaded qt3-common, then proceded with installing both packages.

If the issue is that the mirrors are too busy, or one's internet connection drops out for any reason, then it seems to me the only safe way to upgrade would be to ensure there is sufficient disk space to store all the rpm downloads for the upgrade, before actually installing them. If one loses a connection, then on reconnect the download should resume where it left off. [i have this beef with Software Installer: If you download a package that requires several files, then fail on downloading one of the files - on retry you have to download from the beginning again.] Of course there would have to be additional disk space available for the actual upgrade installation process. After the install is complete, a post-clean could be performed to free up disk space. Requiring the above would require more free disk space at the outset, but the outcome would be more certain. At any rate, I feel that offering an upgrade to the next Mandriva version via mdkonline is a bad idea. I would rather see a task-upgrade available in Software Installer for those that would want to do this.