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This will sound a bit dump but try installing from command line, the task-kde package:

su

urpmi task-kde

What display card do you have? and what's the output of this run in terminal:

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep "Driver"

Check this out: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=86985 especially RJ549's posts.

You used an rpm to install vmware? what version?

Read here too: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Errata#...pt_fails_to_run

Great, glad it worked.

Try disabling PulseAudio in the Mandriva control centre>hardware>sound configuration.

Right. But there has been a problem with the package of the new version of gcc, one of the dependencies wasn't updated and caused some trouble. The problem have been resolved earlier today.

For slow internet browsing try: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Errata#...web_browsing.29

Install htop and run it from terminal and see if there's anything eating up your cpu. Do you have screenlets or superkaramba running? Or something like kiba-dock?

Great.

Well said about vi. It's totally puzzling. While on the other hand nano is great and VERY easy to use editor.

Yes he is saying if no swap is used then the system have enough RAM and doesn't need to use swap. The output you show says the system uses 0 swap.

I am not sure installing FF3 will solve the flash problem (or whatever problem) but it might just do this and installing the updated version of an application is the best course of action.

FF3 is not released as an update to FF2 in Mandriva so you need to install it from the main/backports repository. You an do this in the Mandriva control centre>s/w management>configure media sources. Next open install & remove software and install firefox 3. Don't forget to disable that repository when you are finished.

Yes adding those lines to that menu.lst file is the way to go. You could have done it graphically by opening the Mandriva control centre>boot>set up boot system>Next>Add.

Try this: In VLC open settings>preferences>video>output modules. Next check Advanced Options in the bottom right hand corner then choose X11 instead of default and see if that works.

As for WINE especially if you are playing games, it hit and miss, you try the game with 3d Desktop enabled, if the game is slow then disable 3D desktop and try again.

You can also install the Nvidia proprietary driver packaged by Mandriva as per instructions here: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Installing_pro...eo_card_drivers

Check the running processes, if you find urpmi.update running at the same time wget is running then this is the system checking for updates.

If you have 3D desktop enabled then disable it and try again.

Also try this: In terminal cd to where you have the video file and in terminal run:

mplayer -vo x11 name-of-file.avi

And see if that works.

is it possible to install a minimal gnome or minimal kde in mandriva as am thinking of installing it

Install using the mini dual iso: ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.mandriva.co...ial/iso/2008.1/ and then install only task-kde or task-kde-minimal the same goes for gnome.

Or you could just right click the tar file and choose extract.

Hit Esc for verbose mode and post any error messages you find.

Do you have a option to load vista in GRUB (the bootloader)?

Disregard my first post. What's the output of this run in console:

df

Try this: When you reach the console log in as normal user, then do this:

cd /home/cooperman/

rm -fv .DCOPserver*

And then:

startx

and see if that works.

Why don't you just install java from the Mandriva repositories. Add them as per instructions here: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Basic_tas...tions_available

Then install java from mcc. You need java-1.6.0-sun and its dependencies.

The compiz and ccsm packages look in tact.

Yes, you should try updating to the latest version (when you have fixed your internet troubles).