durvish

try a live cd first to make sure everything is koser and then part with your cash ---

norlug has up to date firefox, just put norlug into your sources

with an external usb harddrive enclosure, i think they run around $30 US

Not to give you false hope but in all the years of building my own computers and running a very tiny side buisness of fixing computers it has never been a major blow out, it's always something very small and overseen. I always try to go by the K.I.S.S. thought process --- Keep It Simple Stupid!!!!! But if it is something big remember I was never here !!!

I was just given a Compaq EVO n1020v from the IT guys at. They said it was dead and the mother board had to be replaced. Took it home and took it apart to make sure all the connections were nice and tight. I had your same exact symptoms. Turns out the ddr memory was bad. When I put in a brand new stick it started right up. Matter of fact I'm posting this from the same laptop while sitting on my front porch drinking a cold beer.

set up the printer in cups instead of mcc

in any browser type localhost:631

you will still have to install the kernel source after your new mandriva install

mandrake --- oops --- mandriva does not install the kernel source by default

the file you were looking to delete for kde is a hidden file in your home directory named .kde

notice the "." in front of kde, this is the file you needed to delete and then restart X not your profile

make a backup of your .kde file and put it somewhere safe then delete the original .kde file and restart X

exactly right! ndiswrapper will no co-exist with an earlier version -- you can only have one version installed and running

srap all of your ndiswrapper versions

go to sourceforge and get the newest ndiswrapper version

after you untar it look for the read me file and follow step by step

mandrake's version of ndiswrapper is old

also do a good search in the forum there are plenty of wlk throughs posted by members

check your batteries

the first thing you have to do is get rid of the old ndiswrapper --- the new version and the old one do not like to exist together and will not build

I installed 3.4 last night on my laptop without a problem (thac's rpms) just to see if I would have any of the problems that everyone else seems to be having.

as for the speed of 3.4 --- I don't see any difference in speed compared to my gnome install

norlug also has the newest version

Mandriva sounds like a tropical disease that only attacks the male population.

10.1 for stable

cooker for bleeding edge (mostly stable, sort of kinda )

/usr/bin/program

for more try searching the FAQ's and Tips&Tricks

errrr commands for what?

how about -- start,stop,sit,stay -- those a pretty basic :D

Just for future fun --- and the Mods might want to move this ---

if you use Shadowchaser's hex edit idea from above and then plug in this code

echo "doom.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss

sound starts working in Doom3 !

mac57 ---- while playing around with something else today and rebooting X a thousand times I got exactly what you described ---- a very brief flash of the splash screen! woohoo

I really don't care if I have it or not -- I just wanted t make sure the driver was acting right!

as for the Doom3 sound I'll try that hack later on tonight!

thanks to all!

I'm getting this error for Doom3 ---

WARNING: mmap 57344 bytes on device /dev/dsp failed: Input/output error

any ideas?

just went into nvidia-settings and I didn't see anything for the splash screen

It "seems" like everything is running ok and it doesn't bother me that I don't have the splach screen I just want to make sure the nvidia driver is up and running like it should be without any errors.

Just installed the latest nvidia driver (7167) everything seems to be working --- doom3 finally runs (albeit with no sound) glxgears is showing 1980 FPS, but when logging into X I am not getting the nvidia splash screen. I should be seeing that right? There were no errors or complaints when installing the driver or am I just going crazy?

quick reply --- i gotta run out

did you uninstall the default ndiswrapper that mandrake puts in on it's os install?

did you modprobe ndiswrapper before ndiswrapper -l?

post your iwconfig