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Of course Mandriva has a firewall, shorewall. You can open the ports used by ktorrent in the Mandriva control centre>security>set up personal firewall>Advanced. Follow the examples there. If that doesn't work then disable the firewall all together and see if it works. Also you need to forward those ports in your router settings.

He doesn't need to be root neither when doing ./configure nor make only when doing make install. To use ./configure you need to cd to the folder you extracted from the tar.bz2. If you are using konqueror then open the extracted folder then open Tools>open terminal then ./configure

Easiest way is to switch to the kickoff menu and right click the programme you want and choose add to panel. You can move it in the task bar by clicking on the cashew (the odd shaped object on the far right on the panel) choose panel settings and move the button.

After you select the country from the drop-down list don't click on the links you see rather copy the link and paste it in your address bar. This should take you to a page with all the available Mandriva iso's and md5sum's. You can correct the iso by using bittorrent. Grab the corresponding torrent from here: http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/ start the torrent, let it create the torrent folder then stop it. Next copy the corrupt iso to the folder the torrent created and in your bittorrent client force a recheck of the torrent. Only the missing corrupt pieces of the iso will be downloaded.

You installed from the Free DVD? What's the output of this in terminal: uname -r If it's kernel-server then that's the problem. The Nvidia proprietary driver doesn't work with kernel-server because if has xen support and that conflicts with the it. How much RAM do you have? If it's 4GB or less then install kernel-desktop then reconfigure your graphics card and it should work.

Switch to the kickoff menu style then right click on dolphin and add it to the panel. You can move it to the location you want by clicking on the odd shape at the far right of the panel then hover over the icon then click and hold and move it.

Read here: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Tour

tetsujin29: 1)There's an applet/plasmoid called media something in the taskbar that would do a similar job, maybe you can put it on the desktop (not on 2009.0 right now) 2) Right click on the desktop and choose lock widgets, note you won't be able to move the icons/plasmoids at all. 3)A shot in the dark: type about:config in the address bar in FF and hit enter. Next in the filter box type urlbar then double click browser.urlbar.autofill, that should change it to false. Is that what you want? if it's not then revert it to true again.

My bad, it's mdkonline : S A day or two from today 9 oct (actually 10 here). The wiki page I linked is telling you that if you upgrade with the way I mentioned you won't have the problem of KDE4 overwriting your KDE3 settings. If you want KDE4 then install task-kde4 . On a side note, you don't install easyuprmi you just use that site to add the Mandriva software repositories.

If you wait a day or two an updated mdkapplet package will be released in Mandriva 2008.1 after that update when you update your system as usual you will be prompted that there's a new stable release available and if you want to upgrade just like "installing in what has become, for most distributions, the standard method" : ) Also read here: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.0_Notes#U...evious_releases

If you wait a day or two an updated mdkapplet package will be released in Mandriva 2008.1 after that update when you update your system as usual you will be prompted that there's a new stable release available and if you want to upgrade just like "installing in what has become, for most distributions, the standard method" : )

First, what display card do you have? If you can get to the log in screen choose drak3d from the session type menu and disable compiz from there. Alternatively you can expand Advanced under compiz and choose native support instead of Xgl or vice versa and see if that works. If you can't get to the graphical log in screen then press Alt+Ctrl+F1, log in as root then run drak3d and disable 3D desktop.

7 GB for swap is way too much. Try 1 or 2 GB. To see your other partitions, open Storage media on the desktop, can you see them there? If you don't see them then you need to assign mount point to them first in the Mandriva control centre>local disks>manage disk partitions. mount points could be something like /media/hd . You can add windows to GRUB in the Mandriva control centre>boot>set up boot system>next>add>other os (windows). In the Root box choose the first partitions on the HD where windows is installed.

A graphics card problem apparently. When the screen blanks press Alt+Ctrl+F1, then log in as root: localhost login: root Open: drakx11 reconfigure your card and choose the Xorg VESA driver (or if you have a Nvidia card choose the Xorg nv driver). Get back to the text console, next: service dm stop startx

Install the proprietary driver for your card as per instructions here: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Updating_propr..._from_backports Does your monitor actually support 1680x1050? consult the monitor manual also you can use this command as root in terminal: su monitor-edid

In XFdrake cards are not listed individually because that will make it have HUGE lists. So instead cards that use the same driver/module are put in groups, such as Geforce FX to Geforce 8800. The group name are changed, by adamw, as necessary when a new driver is released. Yes 2008 spring should support the card out of the box BUT not with kernel-server, with all the other 3 kernel types in Mandriva kernel-desktop586 kernel-desktop and kernel-laptop.

Not sure: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linu...appendix-a.html

I am not suer but I think the problem is that the Nvidia proprietary driver will not work with kernel-server because it has xen support and that somehow conflicts with the Nvidia module. Any particular reason for using kernel-server?

Great : )

You are using the One Live CD? if so then after you choose the correct resolution: service dm stop startx

What graphics card do you have? which edition of Mandriva did you install, the Free DVD or the Live One CD? Login as root then run: drakx11 and reconfigure your graphics card. Then: exit and then log in as a normal user then: startx

He won't have the "special window settings" because he has compiz-fusion enabled. Compiz replaces the KDE or Gnome window manager.

Do you have 3D desktop enabled? if so then you can try disabling it. In the log in screen choose drak3d as the session type. Or if you use compiz fusion then you can try choosing native support instead of Xgl.

No. The driver that was initially shipped with 2008.1 doesn't support that card, I remember you saying this at forum.mandriva.com : ) He needs the driver in backports.

You need the driver in the non-free/backports repo: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Updating_propr..._from_backports