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The "Identifier" names do not matter. You can name them whatever you want, as long as they are properly referenced (screen references the name of device 1 which is "device1"). So she does not need to change the Identifier lines - they are fine as they are. However, the driver may be the source of his problem. I don't have experience with intel cards, so I'd have to do some research to ensure it was the right driver - it may be using a generic, non-3d driver. I would suggest, Sunnyr, that you try changing Driver to "i810".

It sounds like you are having a graphics driver issue after flipping cards. When you get the blinking cursor, try pressing CTRL+ALT+F1 and you should get a login prompt. Login here as the root user and run the program XFdrake and try reconfiguring your card.

Check in the Mandriva Control Center for login photo options. Mandriva may have it's own login photo setup, so you may have to change it through their tool (I do not know for sure, I don't currently have access to a Mandriva box).

Please post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for us to review. also, what is the new driver version you are using? it's possible that the new driver has an issue with compiz, or vice versa.

you just have to have more than 5 posts to be able to add attachments. this is just to deter spammers/hackers from registering and posting erroneous files...apologies for the inconvenience :)

it was before everyones linux time, man! that's when linux first started!

Note that this could also potentially be a 3d driver issue...depending on what graphics card/driver you are using. what specifically is the "bug"? do the borders not appear, are they black, white, messed up?

were you trying to run it as root or regular user? if regular user, chances are you need to be root to use that command.

if you're using a KDE version prior to 4 you need QT3, I believe. KDE3.x and below will not run on QT4.

CK's patchset is also done for...right on the patchset page: "2.6.22-ck1 is the last -ck ever"

unless you're very careful and know what you're doing, deleting fonts can turn out bad. there are a few fonts that are required just for the X server to start (usually "fixed") and if they get deleted...it's not fun trying to get it fixed.

bash doesn't support variable types. in bash, all variable are essentially character strings. as far as how to do what you're looking to do, I'm not really sure...

See if this post helps. Sound Juicer is able to do stereo, but may not be set up correctly.

we're going in circles. IMHO, using the original tools created specifically for the task at hand (gnome-theme-manager, gnome-settings-daemon) is really a much better idea. Unified look can be achieved through simply picking good themes. Again, just MHO. I'm not going to continue to argue the point.

Does it matter? Why post just to ridicule?

Like I said, I don't support use of gtk-qt, so to me it doesn't matter. gtk-qt is a hack at best, and you can't expect it to work well in every situation. results are extremely theme dependent.

It is best to place it on whatever drive is first in the boot order of your system, otherwise it will be inaccessible without some "fun" trickery on the windows side (that, honestly, may not be possible in Vista - though you could do it in XP) or switching the boot order in your BIOS every time you want to use Linux.

could you post your xorg.conf file?

Switches are better than Hubs because they know what PC to send a specified packet to. Where as hubs essentially send all incoming packets to all systems connected to the hub, a switch only sends the packet to the system it belongs to (hubs are "dumb", switches are "smart"). A router is not overkill - currently PC1 is essentially acting as your router. Only put it between the DSL Modem and all the pc's if it's a router. Chances are your ISP only gives you one IP (unless you pay extra for more) so connecting the hub/switch to the DSL modem would cause problems (hubs/switches don't do NAT which is necessary if your ISP only gives you one IP, routers do). No, it's a router and a filter. A web server would serve up it's own website, like the machine that mandrivausers.org is running on.

The problem is that KDE doesn't start gnome-settings-daemon. This is normal, as gnome-settings-daemon is part of GNOME, not KDE. It has nothing to do with Mandriva. If you were in GNOME, GTK theming would work fine.

Even if they did, someone would just grab the codebase from before the license change and fork it. As long as it's under the GPL, it's all good - and I don't think Sun would be dumb enough to change it's license.

run: gnome-theme-manager to change your gtk theme. be sure to add: gnome-settings-daemon to KDE's autostart. gtk-qt-engine isn't the best way to modify the GTK theme, even though it tries to make GTK emulate your QT theme. Many themes just don't translate well and end up looking a little ugly.

oh nos! :o if gentoo goes away, i won't get to sit and wait for my installs to finish compiling!!

this: should probably be: I'd also change this: to this: You should use the loader in the MBR to boot all your systems, not use it to send to another grub on a separate partition. This is not ideal and may be where your problem lies, if this is how you have it set up. Honestly, it seems like your grub setup has become far too complex - don't duplicate things, keep everything in one grub and use it to boot all your systems.

Chances are the grub being used is the one in the 2008 install, so we'd need to see the /boot/grub/menu.lst from 2008 to figure out what's wrong.