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glad you got it working

I misread your original post...I though it was underlining every word you wrote (as if they were all spelled incorrectly). Sorry about that...my suggestion won't help any :)

It's already started...I linked to it in my post ;)

Go into Tools -> Options and then to the Advanced section and under the "General" tab you should see Languages at the bottom with a button that says "Choose", click this and in the window that is opened up make sure that the proper language is selected. Chances are this is not set to whatever language you prefer (I assume English), and so it will underline every word since they are not part of whatever language is selected. Let us know if the proper language is selected...we'll have to dig a bit deeper then, but this is the most likely source of the problem.

It looks like your xorg.conf is still set up for the old monitor. I would suggested trying to run XFDrake again to try to reconfigure the monitor settings. Is this monitor connected via DVI or VGA? If re-running XFDrake doesn't work out well for you, try changing these lines in your xorg.conf: to: and for all the "Modes" lines add 1680x1050:

We're in February now, YinYeti :P

it happened over here...

That's actually 24-bit color in Windows, even though it says it's 32-bit. It's 24-bit plus 8 extra bits for non-color. The truth is, Linux is correctly identifying the color as 24-bit where as Windows is technically lying to you - here. Linux does just as many colors as Windows, it simply correctly identifies the color depth.

The first thing to do would be to start up alsamixer or some other mixer program, and start unmuting/turning up things to see if it's simply muted by default. note that sometimes outputs won't be properly identified, so you may have to mess with a couple different volume controls to see if any of them have an effect. other than that I'm not sure, as I've never messed with SPDIF in Linux.

Well, sort of. Debugging is an ongoing process with every program - you won't necessarily find all the bugs before releasing to the public, as you can't really predict every possible scenario before the program gets released. It's just not possible...bugs always crop up after release, which is why there are point releases (1.1, 1.2, etc.) to fix bugs (and add stuff sometimes) after the initial release.

thanks mmodem

cups - yes, you need it to print, even to a LAN printer. nscd - essentially, everytime you go to a website it asks a nameserver (DNS) what the IP address of that website is. NSCD caches this information so that the system doesn't have to ask for it everytime you visit a website. If you have slow nameservers or want to minimize network traffic it may be useful, but most users won't notice any difference whether this is on or off (neither should it have any real impact on system performance). resolvconf: Since this is a laptop, I assume you aren't running any servers or doing any funky name server stuff I highly doubt you need it. netfs and winbind you can probably safely turn off, though if you try to connect to SMB shares and it doesn't work start them back up. I am, however, pretty sure neither is necessary as I've accessed SMB shares on systems without either of these services. i'm not sure about partmon...

it uses wxgtk, which is a pretty darn ugly looking widget system. and it doesn't use your GTK2 themes (it uses old-school GTK themes, I think).

I'm not sure where the option may be (Well, only in GNOME), and if your card doesn't support digital audio you probably won't see the option anywhere.

Did you check the top command to see if there were any processes taking up resources? It also may be the file indexing program, I'm not sure if Mandriva still includes that.

try to note when this occurs and see if there is any sort of timing to it (every 10 minutes, half hour, etc.). i know you say it's random but sometimes there is a pattern there :). also, when this occurs (fans spin up, things slow down) open a terminal (konsole in KDE, gnome-terminal in GNOME), run top and note any items that appear to be using a lot of CPU (they should be at the top of the list). This while help to see if there's a program running that is causing it. let us know if you have any questions and post back with any results, thanks!

thank you, greg2

Right, I know it didn't work with the non-flashing cursor screen and the previous card. I was asking, did you try it also with the new card, the one that is just giving you a black screen. Sorry, guess I didn't clarify...

I have also used GFTP to do sftp transfers, so I can confirm that it does have this ability.

Yes, but it doesn't seem that the issue is that the fonts aren't there - for some reason they "change". Which, as stated, seems odd, since Mandriva shouldn't be touching the Windows partition unless the user is doing something to make it do so...

As dude67 said, you can use Mandriva Free. You could also probably find the RPM of the older driver someone and just force install that with urpmi. Not trying to be mean, but, "threatening" to "go back to ubuntu" is kind of useless on this board. We don't care what distribution you use. Use whatever works. We only care that you use Linux :D

Did you again try my suggestion of CTRL+ALT+F1 (press all 3 simultaneously) and logging in at the prompt as root, then running XFDrake? The cards while likely not work until they are properly configured. I would expect a blank screen if you did not configure the card yet.

This may not be your issue but it was for me...although I have a completely different card. There was an option in the volume controls to turn off digital output, and it fixed some sound issues I was having. Again...this may not be your issue at all, but worth taking a look at.

"Not packaged by Mandriva", as in the packages that you download where compiled/created by Thac & Ze, not by Mandriva. Mandriva does have it's own RPM's of a lot of these packages, but they are of older versions most of the time, or don't have some extra's that the MDE ones do. I think that's what ian was saying...

My apologies! I did not realize.