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Well, this is odd. But you found a workaround and all is working now, that's what matters :)

If you are using kde then try setting the default browser in the "Default Applications" section in the KDE control centre. The same goes for Gnome, I guess.

Make sure kdebase-kdm is installed. And then switch the display manager to KDM 3 in the Mandriva control centre>boot>set up display manager.

I don't know about "Run Xclient script" but drak3d is the Mandriva 3d desktop effects configuration tool.

You are welcome.

Ah, OK, sorry.

What do you mean? some plugins/effects are not there? if so then try installing compiz-fusion-plugins-extra .

XFdrake is the Mandriva X server configuration tool

service -f dm : restarts the Display Manager service.

So the nv driver works but not the Nvidia driver. Try following the instructions here: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Updating_propr..._from_backports

See what happens.

If it still doesn't work then post the output of these commands:

uname -r
rpm -qa | grep kernel
rpm -qa | grep nvidia

Run XFdrake again and select the Xorg "nv" driver. Then get back to the text console and use this command:

service -f dm

if that doesn't work then:

service dm stop
startx KDE4

replace KDE4 with GNOME if you are using Gnome. If it doesn't work then report any error messages you see in the console.

BTW I think your pressed Alt+Ctrl+F12, this gives you the output you'd get if you used the dmesg command to view /var/log/messages, in which most events from klogd are logged.

As root in terminal:

su
rpm -e --nodeps mandriva-release-Powerpack-2009.0-0.10mdv2009.0 mandriva-release-Powerpack-2009.0-0.11mdv2009.0
urpmi --auto-update -v

you can later try to install mandriva-release-powerpack and see what happens.

Read HermanAB's posts here: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=...hlight=iptables

He is somehow a security expert. I also suggest that you ask at forum.mandriva.com in the Security & System Administration sub-forum, this should give you more responses beside whatever comes from here.

First of all 3.4Gb for / is cutting it really short. Secondly /dead.letter is taking 1GB, so delete it and then, if you don't need it, disable the postfix service in the Mandriva control centre>system>manage system services.

If you can't ssh into the machine then tell the user to select safe mode from the GRUB menu then use rm to remove the /dead.letter file. You should then be able to ssh into the machine.

The first thing to do is to check /var/log/messages, see what's filling it up.

You need ls -a because the .DCOP* are hidden files, i.e. files that start with a . (dot)

For the files in /var/log not to grow out of proportions again make sure that anacron is installed and is running all the time. You can make sure anacron will start every time you boot the machine in the Mandriva control centre>system>manage system services...

You can't use startx when X is already running so you should first as root:

service dm stop

Try reconfiguring your card with drakx11 from terminal as root.

If you are running kde 3 on 2008.1 then definitely there're .DCOP* files in the user /home folder.

Here are a few things to try. As root in console, use this command:

du -axk / | sort -nr | head -n 50

and if you have /home on a separate partition:

du -axk /home | sort -nr | head -n 50

This should tell you what's taking up the most space.

As for the DCOP problem, in terminal:

rm -fv /home/user/.DCOP*

Still don't know why it happened though??

No idea. The difference is the "config /..." line only makes it load the grub in the first sector of the root partition.

BTW this is the way the Mandriva installer added the cooker grub on my machine. I had to reinstall 2009.0 and the installer added the configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst line on its own. That's where I got the idea from.

I don't know but if your headphones are working you can mute the front speakers while using the headphones, you can do this using any audio mixer such as kmix.

Try replacing the chainloader +1 line with:

configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst

this should give you the grub menu of the 2009.1 installation instead of just booting the latest installed kernel on 2009.1, see if this makes any difference. (just playing around with it, right?).

Adam checked on that BTW, but apparently he's been busy and hadn't had the time to pop here again, so here's the answer he got: http://lists.mandriva.com/cooker/2009-01/msg00263.php

Install mplayer then play the file from terminal and see if there're any useful messages there:

mplayer filename.ogg

orts: make sure you have the widgets unlocked, right click the desktop and unlock the widgets.

Two ways:

- with both menu styles, kickoff and classic, drag the icon you want and drop it on the panel.

- this is easier, switch to the kickoff menu style (right click the menu button and select kickoff), then right click any app in the menu and choose "Add to panel" .

You can move the icon on the panel after it's added and put it where you like.

From terminal load:

alsamixer -c 0

and play with the switches. First thing to try is switching the analog /digital loopback switch. (you may need to press F5 to see all the channels).

Try reconfiguring your locale, in terminal:

localedrake

Then log out/log in, see if this works.

He installed task-kde3 and choose KDE in the session type menu on the log in screen.

In the system monitor check the cpu usage, see which processes are taking the most cpu. Also as has been said, maybe try other desktop environments. LXDE is awesome, very nice looking, and very light on resources too. You can install it, just install task-lxde.