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Grisoft now has a Free Edition of its AVG antivirus to download for Linux. Many of you may be familiar with it as a very popular free antivirus app for Windows. It updates daily. I use it in Windows XP. It's a lot better than its Windows competition...Norton and McAfee, among others. Richard L.

Many thanks scarecrow for the confirmation. Richard

Hi Guys, I want to thank each and everyone of you for your advice and kind suggestions. My apologies for not getting back with a reply sooner. First I installed the java rpm by rightclicking and choosing "SoftwareInstaller" (I could have just double left-clicked it) and it installed successfully. Then I created a new folder in Home, calling it OOo2.0.1. I copied and pasted all the other rpms into it except for the gnome one (I use KDE and wanted my KDE theme Acqua to appear in all OOo applications.) I then went into Konqueror's Window menu and chose "Show Terminal Emulator", which appeared in the bottom half of the window> then su'ed to root with password>used arctic's command and watched the installation go by with each rpm. Afterward I went back to the cd and copied/pasted the mandriva menu rpm and put it in the same folder. I double clicked on it and it installed correctly. I went to the Mandriva menu, where it was listed under Office....clicked on the Writer2.0 which opened successfully...registered, etc. All went well and is complete. QUESTION: when I had Writer opened, I went to the Help Menu>About... I listed it as Open Office 2.0 instead of Open Office 2.0.1. This confused me at first, thinking I hadn't installed 2.0.1. Does anyone know why it doesn't say 2.0.1? Again, many many thanks to all for responding Richard

I have tried to install ver.2.0.1 several ways: twice by downloads (from two different mirrors), each download deleted when they didn't work. Then I burnt the CD-ROMS. I uninstalled ver. 2.0 before trying an installation of 2.0.1. The problem is with the RPMs. When I try to install the "base" , any of the "core02-core10", or writer, calc, etc. I get this message: "The such-and-such cannot be installed due to unsatisfied openoffice.org-core01" When I try to install "core01", I get this message: "openoffice.org-core1 cannot be installed due to unsatisfied openoffice.org-core04" What is the solution? I was able to install ver. 2.0 just fine. I just can't understand why I can't install ver. 2.0.1. Very strange! Considering there is the mandriva menus rpm in the subdirectory. All help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Richard

This may belong in Tips and Tricks instead of here; I'm not sure. These features may not be new in KDE, but I've been playing with them in 3.4. Now some of you may have the urge to reply and say "I don't use these icons so often; I can do this from MCC; it takes up too many resources..." Okay, I'm aware of that, but this is for those that are interested. Anyway, for those of you who aren't aware, here they are: 1. The System Tray can now show and hide items, just like the Notification Tray in WindowsXP. Just click on the left top arrow and choose Configure System Tray..... When the window opens, you can select items on the systray that you need but not often, then use the right arrow to put them in the Hidden Icons folder. Click Apply and OK. The System Tray now has hidden the items. To view them you will see a fat blue arrow. When you click on it, it expands the System Tray when you need the hidden items. I like it better than WinXP tray because it stays open whereas the WinXP tray will close on you sometimes and you have to reopen it more than once. To close it, just click on the arrow again and the hidden icons are hidden. ADVANTAGE: When icons are hidden, it gives you more space on the panel. 2. KRandRtray: this is the system tray icon used for resizing your screen resolution, etc. Much quicker than MCC. You can do it on the fly. If you don't have it in your System Tray and you want it go to Menu>System>Configuration>Hardware>KRandRtray (Resize and Rotate). 3. On some laptops, such as the Toshiba 5205-S703 and hopefully many others: if you have Klaptop in the System Tray for battery usage and/or charging the battery, you can right-click on the icon and "Screen Brightness...." may appear. If you click on that, you get a slider (like the one for volume) that you can move up or down to adjust the brightness of your screen. This one is super-cool!!! If it does not appear on the system tray, go to "kcontrol" (the run command) or KDE Control Center>Power Control>Laptop Battery>and put the "x" next to Show battery monitor" and "Notify me whenever my battery becomes fully charged. Then in the bottom right of the window, click the button that says "Start Battery Monitor" and VOILA! it is now on the system tray. 4. The Netapplet (Menu>System>Monitoring>NetApplet). This applet is very useful for Laptop in order to monitor your laptop connection to your wireless card or a Cat5 cable to you Ethernet. It lets you know if you can get on the Internet or not. If you are not able to get to the internet, then you go to MCC>Network and Internet>Set Up a New Network Interface.) The NetApplet is great if you boot up and see the "X" on the NetApplet. You then know that you can't use the Internet. That way, if you're like me, you will avoid opening up Firefox with about 12 tabs as "home pages" and sit there closing each tab since you're not on the net! How frustrating that is! Is there anyone else who puts applets on the system tray and you wish to share them here? Please keep all responses positive and about "cool" uses of the system tray. Regards, Richard L.

Thank you both, IAN and DEVRIES, for your quick responses and your desire to always help me. I am forever grateful ! IAN, I appreciate your input in using KControl to find a solution. That was to me the logical place to look, but alas, no solution was there. However, I turned the laptop off for a couple of hours and when I turned it back on and booted up MDV06, I then right-clicked on Klaptop and VOILA! "Screenbrightness..." appeared again! (On my other laptop it doesn't appear as an option....also MDV06.) WEIRD, but GOOD NEWS! DEVRIES, thanks for suggestion Krandtray. I did a "whereis.." and an "slocate..." and it wasn't there, so did some googling and installed kde-utils and a part of kde-base, but that didn't help. HOWEVER, I did more googling, even into German forums, and finally found that KRandRtray is located in Menu>System>Configuration>Hardware>KRandRtray. So I clicked on it and again...VOILA....It now sits in my system tray. ALL IS SOLVED! By your eagerness to help, I was able to brainstorm and finally get the results I needed. You two are always a great help to me and lead me on the right path for solutions. Many thanks, Richard L. :D

I believe the following is a software problem and not a laptop problem, so i'm posting here. Last night I reinstalled MDV2006Powerpack on my Toshiba5205-S703. When I first installed it, I had a display icon on the system tray from which I could change the screen size resolutions. It is missing. How can I get this icon back onto the system tray? Also, I have the KLaptop icon which shows how much battery power I have. I believe it was KLaptop that was able to do this: I could right-click on it and choose "Screen Brightness...". A slider would appear (similar to the one for volume) and I could adjust the brightness of the screen. It also is missing after the re-install. All help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Richard L.

Thanks Aomighty, I appreciate your input. The two laptops were purchased in Mar 2002 and Jan 2003. They were at that time Toshiba's top of the Satellite Line: Toshiba 5005 and Toshiba 5205. I used Mandriva's default, which, I believe, is 586. I assumed this is appropriate for both laptops Thanks daniewicz. Here is the output for the Toshiba 5005-S507: Status: Enabled Driver: AGPGART AGP Rate: 4x Fast Writes: Disabled SBA: Disabled [man2006@localhost ~]$ glxgears 958 frames in 5.0 seconds = 191.587 FPS 1785 frames in 5.0 seconds = 356.933 FPS 1741 frames in 5.0 seconds = 348.065 FPS 627 frames in 10.4 seconds = 60.049 FPS 22 frames in 6.2 seconds = 3.528 FPS 1162 frames in 5.0 seconds = 232.347 FPS 1763 frames in 5.0 seconds = 352.590 FPS 1762 frames in 5.0 seconds = 352.348 FPS 1764 frames in 5.0 seconds = 352.728 FPS 1496 frames in 5.6 seconds = 268.877 FPS 254 frames in 5.3 seconds = 48.359 FPS 3 frames in 6.7 seconds = 0.446 FPS 6 frames in 5.9 seconds = 1.026 FPS 2 frames in 5.4 seconds = 0.374 FPS 3 frames in 5.2 seconds = 0.577 FPS 4 frames in 5.7 seconds = 0.704 FPS 3 frames in 7.6 seconds = 0.394 FPS 2 frames in 5.2 seconds = 0.383 FPS 3 frames in 6.5 seconds = 0.462 FPS 555 frames in 5.5 seconds = 100.501 FPS 833 frames in 5.0 seconds = 166.552 FPS 1659 frames in 5.0 seconds = 331.731 FPS 1714 frames in 5.0 seconds = 342.712 FPS 1724 frames in 5.0 seconds = 344.761 FPS 1771 frames in 5.0 seconds = 354.106 FPS 556 frames in 5.0 seconds = 111.179 FPS 1669 frames in 5.0 seconds = 333.615 FPS 1747 frames in 5.0 seconds = 349.386 FPS 1696 frames in 5.0 seconds = 339.198 FPS 1132 frames in 5.0 seconds = 226.278 FPS 1716 frames in 5.0 seconds = 343.186 FPS 723 frames in 5.0 seconds = 143.739 FPS 854 frames in 5.0 seconds = 170.744 FPS 1215 frames in 5.0 seconds = 242.921 FPS 1731 frames in 5.0 seconds = 346.028 FPS 1720 frames in 5.0 seconds = 343.872 FPS 1633 frames in 5.0 seconds = 326.530 FPS 1152 frames in 5.8 seconds = 199.588 FPS 1152 frames in 5.0 seconds = 230.358 FPS 1529 frames in 5.0 seconds = 305.656 FPS 1664 frames in 5.0 seconds = 332.681 FPS 1663 frames in 5.0 seconds = 332.512 FPS 1230 frames in 5.0 seconds = 245.920 FPS 1657 frames in 5.0 seconds = 331.235 FPS 777 frames in 5.0 seconds = 154.131 FPS 1418 frames in 5.0 seconds = 283.448 FPS 1735 frames in 5.0 seconds = 346.897 FPS 1657 frames in 5.0 seconds = 331.258 FPS 1103 frames in 5.2 seconds = 211.116 FPS 1568 frames in 5.0 seconds = 313.544 FPS 1720 frames in 5.0 seconds = 343.994 FPS 1086 frames in 5.0 seconds = 215.381 FPS 1246 frames in 5.0 seconds = 249.185 FPS 1729 frames in 5.0 seconds = 345.644 FPS 1717 frames in 5.0 seconds = 343.339 FPS X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [man2006@localhost ~]$ And here is the output from the Toshiba 5205-S703: Status: Enabled Driver: AGPGART AGP Rate: 4x Fast Writes: Disabled SBA: Disabled [richard@localhost ~]$ glxgears 9313 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1862.508 FPS 9554 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1909.327 FPS 813 frames in 5.0 seconds = 162.512 FPS 821 frames in 5.0 seconds = 164.090 FPS 10703 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2140.470 FPS 11256 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2251.149 FPS 11398 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2279.481 FPS 11399 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2279.758 FPS 11418 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2283.482 FPS 11282 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2256.246 FPS 11404 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2280.716 FPS 11401 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2280.151 FPS 11295 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2258.920 FPS 11403 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2280.549 FPS 11393 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2278.597 FPS 10923 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2184.364 FPS 11339 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2267.702 FPS 11302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2260.316 FPS 11196 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2237.489 FPS 11156 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2231.030 FPS 11327 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2265.270 FPS 8328 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1665.494 FPS 11219 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2243.750 FPS 11067 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2213.361 FPS 10725 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2144.958 FPS 11281 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2256.122 FPS 11358 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2271.559 FPS 7493 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1498.365 FPS X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [richard@localhost ~]$ So there they are. I can see that the 5005 has much worse output than the 5205. However, the 5205 is also showing slower, jerkier streaming video whereas its WinXP shows them perfectly.

I have three different computers (one desktop and two laptops) that use different models of Nvidia cards: GeForce4 440 Go, FX5200, etc. I have installed MDV2006 POWERPACK on all three. When I am in Windows XP, I can get on the internet and play streaming videos smoothly and with sound (using either Realplayer or Windows Media Player). When I try to play streaming video from the internet in MDV06, using Realplay or Mplayer (with win32codecs), the videos are all slow and jerky, and with no sound. In addition, on Firefox, I have about 17 tabs set as home pages to open simultaneously. Although the browser opens up maximized, the home pages don't open immediately as maximized, but the size of a normal window. Then after about 4 or 5 seconds the pages maximize. This to me means that the Nvidia driver on all three machines is slower than on WindowsXP. What would be some solutions? I don't want to sacrifice 3D Acceleration, if possible, as I like to play tuxracer, etc. Thanks, Richard L.

Well, I finally accomplished the installation. It went pretty smoothly; however the installation crashed twice when I tried to configure the wireless card. Each time I got back in by choosing "Upgrade Mandriva2006", which brought me right back to the summary page. The third time I decided NOT to configure the wireless card during installation but to wait until I rebooted into MDV06. Surprise! It recognized my card automatically upon booting with the correct driver, which I now know is the orinico_cs as I discovered by looking at the boot up through verbose mode. So I didn't have to go to MCC to configure it and I was immediately on the net! Many, many thanks IanW1974! :D and Happy New Year! Richard Lawson :bvc: Fellow Houstonian and friend of bvc.

Thank you both for your suggestions. I used Acronis Partition Expert 2003 to set up my partitions before installing. The installation went smoothly for the most part. (It crashed a couple of times when trying to configure my wireless card, which I'll post in the laptop section). I'm really excited to have MDV06 on this laptop! :P Richard Lawson

I want to install MDV2006 on my computer. One harddrive 60Gig with WinXPHome. If I choose "Use the free space on the Windows partition, will it let me resize the NTFS so I can choose how to size WinXP and how to decide the size for MDV2006? Thanks, Richard

I appreciate your help, Ian. I'm now getting brave enough to put Mandriva on this laptop finally after having it for almost three years. I know that DragonMage also has this model; he has helped me in the past with my other Toshiba (5005-S504), which eventually became "Windows Free In 2003". This became so since the Toshiba recovery disks gave a "Wrong Machine" message and I could never get WindowsXP back on it. So now it has MDV2005LE, Kubuntu, MDV2006, and SuSe 9.3 on it...it's my "distro slut" laptop. I"ll do the install at our weekly HLUG workshop either this coming Wednesday or the first Wednesday in the new year. I'll give you an update then. Richard

Ian, Does this mean that Ndiswrapper will work with all cards that work under WindowsXP, even those that already have a driver listed when setting it up under MCC? P.S. I have enjoyed your personal website and also your "My Mandriva Tips". Great job! Richard

Thanks Ian, Is the ndiswrapper and the WindowXP driver the same thing? If not, after I install MDV06, how do I get the WindowsXP driver, and what will it be called? Richard

I appreciate your feedback, ianw1974. Unfortunately, I had already checked the device support at mandriva.com and came up with no answer. I spent over three hours using Google and am still not sure if I got the right information. A few have said that it the driver is orinico_cs. I had, however, already tried that driver when I had the Mandriva Live CD running, but it didn't work. Thanks again for taking the time to respond. Richard L.

I am wanting to put Mandriva 2006 PowerPack on my Toshiba 5205-S703, but first I want to know which driver I need to use for the built-in Agere Wireless LAN PC Card (Gold). I have 'googled' for two hours and can find no information. I used the Mandriva Live CD to try to configure the wireless card, but with no success, using all the Orinico drivers. Does anyone who has this model been successful with WiFi using Mandriva2006 (or even an older version)? If so, please let me know which driver to choose. Many, many thanks! Richard Lawson

Thanks lavaeolus, 1. I, too had already noticed that the features of different toolbars were "split", as I had stated in my topic when saying "t's really a pain to go the View>Toolbars>....to get each feature separately." This is an okay option, but takes longer and is far less efficient. Going to menus to get to everything harps back to word processors in the 1980's, yet so many office suites/word processors since the late '90's have added other more efficient features to get things done by avoiding the menus. 2. I just can't understand why they would take away a feature that is much more quick and efficient than going to the menus at the top to get to each of what is now a separate toolbar. 3. I was finally able to get both the Navigator and Styles and Formatting (formerly called Stylist) to snap to the right side of the window. A quicker way to show and hide them instead of using the buttons in the standard toolbar is to click in the middle of the edge where you see a vew dots that have tiny arrows on each end. (When I installed Ooo2 onto SuSE9.3 from CD that I had burnt, I was able to do it, then I retried in MDV2006) 4. Does anyone know of another forum which discusses the "Main Toolbar" feature that has been left out? Many thanks, Richard L.

I've noticed in Ooo2 that the function and object toolbars are now called "Standard" and "Formatting" as they are called in MSOffice, Wordperfect, and Lotus Smartsuite. However, the "Main Toolbar" is missing. It was the vertical toolbar on the left side which contained so many features. Has it been dropped completely, or is this toolbar hidden.? It's really a pain to go the View>Toolbars>....to get each feature separately. Also, in prior versions, one could open up the Navigator and lock it as a sidebar on the right side by moving it to that right while holding the CTRL button down as you moved it. Then you could click on an arrow on this sidebar to open or hide it. Is this feature also gone??? Does anyone know how to use these features in 2.0, or have they been dropped? If they have been dropped, is there a link to another website someone might have that explains why the features above have been dropped? Many thanks, Richard L.

In Kprinter, I was able to change the print quality to Draft Mode (to use less ink and thus save it) and to Grayscale (to save on color ink). I opened up OOo and noticed that the Kprinter settings are already there; thus, OOo in Mandriva is automatically set to use the Kprinter settings. :D However, the Kprinter settings don't seem to appear in Mozilla Firefox, and I couldn't find a way to print in d Draft Mode. In the Print box > Properties, I'm only able to choose between Grayscale and Color. How can I print from Firefox in Draft Mode? It is my favorite browser and Konqueror is my most least favorite browser, so please, please I wish a solution for Firefox. I print primarily my webmail from Yahoo as well as a few articles from websites. Many many thanks! Richard L. PS. To change settings in Kprinter, open kprinter from a Run Command (or terminal) > Driver Settings Tab > Others > Highlight Color Model and changes below give you the option for Grayscate; Highlight Print Quality to change to Draft mode. Then Save, then to exit Okay.

I'm a club member and am using the 2006 PowerPack DVD. My DVD came with the 1.1.5 edition of OpenOffice.org. Also, do I need to uninstall OpenOffice.org before installing the Mandriva version of OOo 2.0?? Many thanks to all, Richard L.

I know I requested this in July, but I finally tried devries' input. I went all the way to apps, but there wasn't a config directory. There was, however, a knotes directory. I opened it and moved all those files to trash. I then tried to open knotes from the icon on the panel and still got the error message and an open window of Notes-Kontakt. In other words, Kontakt opens up instead of the little yellow blank note. When I opened knotes from the mandriva start menu, Kontakt opened up again (this time without the error message). This is a quirk only in Mandrake and Mandriva since 10.1 up to and including 2006. (Knotes automatically works just fine in my other distros.) I want to thank devries very much for taking the time to help me. Any further help is greatly appreciated. Richard L.

Will do aRTee, thanks! Your encouragement is very welcome!

Many, many thanks to you arctic and aRTee. I got the problem solved at our weekly Houston Linux workshop late yesterday afternoon. Here is what we did: Somehow, on the install, I could have sworn that I put the bootloader in /dev/hda5. I put the DVD back in the laptop, and did an "upgrade" so that at the end I could configure the bootloader once again. (This only took less than 10 minutes.) I made sure this time that I put it in /dev/hda5. Beforehand, Rick A., who helped me, had added to my SuSE Grub the short, easy method: title Mandriva2006 root (hd0,4) chainloader +1 When SuSE booted up, I had both the short one above and the long one that arctic had helped me on. Both of them booted directly into Mandriva2006!!! I then edited Grub again and took out one of them, since I only needed one to boot into. Rick A. told me that he had put a lot of documentation of his own about Grub at linuxquestions.org, which I was not aware of. (There he is known as ricktoad, I think). So now we know why I was getting the Error 15: file not found message: Carelessness on my part during installation. Again, thanks so much for taking the time to reply several times, arctic, and having the patience to help me. This is still far beyond, and by far the best Linux forum on planet earth! Richard L.

Thanks Arctic, I still get the File 15 Error: File not found. Here is my Grub: color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message title SUSE LINUX 9.3 kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 selinux=0 splash=silent resume=/dev/hda2 showopts initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd title Mandriva2006 root (hd0,4) kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 resume=/dev/dha2 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title Mandriva2006-nonfb root (hd0,4) kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 resume=/dev/dha2 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title Mandriva2006-failsafe root (hd0,4) kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 failsafe resume=/dev/dha2 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title Kubuntu root (hd0,6) chainloader +1 title Mandriva 2005 (/dev/hda8) kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 resume=/dev/hda2 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 9.3 kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresum selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd Also, I tried to mount the Mandriva partition with the command you gave me, but I replaced ext3 with reiserfs, but it did not work: mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda5 /mnt I appreciate all your help and also help from any others. Thanks Arctic! Richard