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If you have the Free DVD boot it and choose rescue system, and reinstall the boot loader.

KDE4 has its own desktop effects. Try it in the KDE control centre>desktop>desktop effects. Of course first turn off the 3D desktop effect from the Mandriva control centre.

Try running firefox from terminal and see if there are any useful error messages there: firefox

Yes it's in the repos because kde3 is still in the repos. You can try gkrellm , it's not a panel applet though. Just give it a shot.

Check this out: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?p=569269#569269 After the partitioning stage install GRUB to the MBR of the HD and you should be set. As you saidn you just need three partitions / /home /swap.

I am not sure what the problem is but kima is a kicker (panel) applet and doesn't work at all with kde4.

The recovery partition is at the beginning of the HD. You don't want to touch it, that doesn't play nice with the warranty stuff. Besides the recovery partition isn't this big anyway so just leave it alone. Instead resize the vista partition. Here's an excellent post made by a Mandriva user about how best to resize a windows partition: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?p=569269#569269 it also talks about creating the necessary partitions for Mandriva during installation. If you want to use vista to resize the partition then run the disk defragmenter and the scan disk tools at least. In the link I posted above go with the first partition set up (just three partitions /, /home and swap). When Mandriva installs the boot loader, GRUB, it usually detects there's a bootable windows partition and will add it to the boot options. In your case since there's a recovery partition which is also bootable, you might find two windows entries on the boot loader list, vista will be the second windows entry. If windows is not added it can be added easily after you install Mandriva. When prompted where you want to install the boot loader, install it to the MBR of the HD. You don't need to create a fat partition to share files between Mandriva and windows, Mandriva now supports reading/writing to NTFS file system out-of-the-box (2008.1 and 2009.0. if you want to 2008.0 you will need to install the ntfs-3g package). BTW, I think Mandriva supports a wide variety of web cams now (out of the box in 2009.0 and doable in 2008.1). Hope everything goes fine.

The driver that supports the 9400GT is only available in 2009.0 in non-free/backports. Not available in 2008.1 at all. It's just that your card is so new it's only supported in the 177.8x Nvidia proprietary driver which is not available in 2008.1. So you can install 2009.0 and if you get the blank screen problem, run XFdrake and choose the Xorg "nv" driver. And install the Nvidia driver from non-free/backports. Your other choice is to install the Nvidia proprietary driver from nvidia.com , it could be a bit tricky though.

The gnome-icon-theme is installed by default even if you install KDE, the draktools are all GTK and they need some gnome libraries which requires gnome-icon-theme as a dependency. hi-color is always there too. I think Chris nailed it, it's the -styles packages, its odd though since a style package was already installed (the crystal one) as we saw from the rpm -qa | grep openoffice command, but maybe the crystal style doesn't play nice with Gnome (crystal being a KDE centric icon theme). Anyway Great job solving this Chris : )

Glad it worked. Thanks go to that user who found the solution using Google. At last I found the original post: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=98906

100Hz is not supported by your monitor. Please check the user guide of the monitor or check here for supported resolutions and refresh rates: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/moni...n/spec/spec.htm Using an unsupported refresh rate may destroy the monitor.

This might be late but here goes. I have seen a similar thread about this in forum.mandriva.com and a user there had found a solution googling. In FF type about:config in the address bar then search for general.useragent.vendor. Double click it and change it from Mandriva to Firefox. Restart and hotmail should, hopefully, work now.

That sounds like: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Errata#..._not_created.29 But I'd check the md5sum of the iso too.

That's an internet connection problem. If you haven't added the online repos, add them: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tas...tions_available . When running XFdrake do that from terminal, and report any error messages you see in terminal.

Install the -devel package that matches your kernel and then reconfigure your card using drakx11: su drakx11

You need to open XFdrake>graphics card and reselect your card group. Doing this you will get the prompt to use the proprietary driver for your card.

What Greg2 said will work if you have kerry-beagle installed and running but it's not the case in KDE4. KDE4 has nepomuk and strigi as desktop search engines. You can remove a package without uninstalling the dependencies using this command: rpm -e --nodeps libbeagle1 use this at YOUR OWN RISK, using the --nodeps option is potentially dangerous.

My bad, should have noticed this was a 9600GT :s . You need the newer version of the driver which you can find in the non/free backports repository. Follow the instructions here: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Updating_propr..._from_backports

banjo: As root in terminal, run: su drakx11 And reconfigure your card. Choose yes when prompted if you want to use the proprietary drive for your card. It will install the necessary packages.

For the colours issue don't use dragon player it seems to screw the colours some ppl reported that increasing the hue should correct it. My personal experience is that if you have a Nvidia display card while the movie is playing open the Nvidia display settings tool (nvidia-settings) the colours are corrected.

Are you trying to compile something from source? if so then you need the corresponding -devel packages.

To create a shell script, create a text file, name it something.sh. Type the path to the executable you want to autostart and save it. Next right click the file and go to the permissions tab and check "Is executable". That should do it. Another way is to copy the corresponding .desktop file from /usr/share/applications and /usr/share/applications/kde4 to the Autostart folder.

NTFS read/write support is available out of the box since 2008.1. As has been said, did you try mounting the NTFS partitions in the Mandriva control centre>local disks>manage disk partitions.

Yep, one of the beauties or bittorrent. But it only works if there's a torrent of the same exact file you downloaded through ftp or http. That's a rare case but it is very applicable when it comes to Linux distribution isos.

What's the output of this command in terminal: su monitor-edid Can you check the manual of your monitor and find out the supported resolutions of your monitor.