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OK, just to be sure: In terminal do lspci |grep Ethernet to see if it is indeed an RTL8139 Ethernet, and to determine what the other NIC is (please post your results)? If it is an RTL8139, in terminal do modprobe -l |grep forcedeth to see if the forcedeth module is available with your kernel. If it is, do lsmod |grep forcedeth to see if it's loaded and used. Please post the output if you're not sure... Please let us know either way?

Before you start removing and reinstalling things (if you haven't already done so), I would suggest that you make a small change or two, and check some things out. Try changing this line in your xorg.conf toLoad "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so" and make sure your “Device” section has these lines Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" Then restart X, and before you try to enable the 3D desktop, please post the output of glxinfo |grep direct and glxgears Please run glxgears for a least 3 lines of output.

As daniewicz has already said “open the KDE Control Center”, or in terminal do uname -a and select the kernel version that matches your kernel. If you haven't upgraded your kernel, it should be 1 or 2.

It has been renewed.

Are you dotslashbin? If you aren't... Please read these threads: club.mandriva.com and: club.mandriva.com I'm sorry, but I have nothing new to add to the info that's in those threads. :sad:

I believe that you will find it easier to install your driver from the repos. If you haven't already done so, please read and set up urpmi using the instructions to set up easyurpmi in this thread: Software installation Please be sure to include the PLF-free and PLF-nonfree repos. Then in a terminal as root do urpmi dkms-nvidia this will install the driver and any depends you need.

Yes, it will stop the transfer at 3.99GB. :P

Thanks, adamw, for clearing that up. Sorry, DieTer-Xz, for trying to get you to install the wrong driver.

Please give us the output of uname -a and urpmq legacy

You need the legacy drivers. If you've set up your urpmi, in terminal do urpmi dkms-nvidia_legacy

Yes, writing to a journaled file system via USB would be slower. In all fairness I should add that my faster transfer speeds were to a FAT32 file system. :)

The truth is that USB 2.0 is not necessarily faster, because USB 2.0 is a standard, not a benchmark. There are three speeds for data transfer via USB interface: USB Low-Speed - transfer speed of 1.5 Mbits/second USB Full-Speed - transfer speed of 12 Mbits/second USB High-Speed - transfer speed of 480 Mbits/second Plug in your USB HD, and in terminal do dmesg |grep USB this should show you something like this: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 the ohci_hcd on address 2 shows you that it's not 2.0, but 1.1 usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 the ehci_hcd shows you this is 2.0. Now do dmesg |grep usb and you should see something like this usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage usb-storage: device found at 3 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning usb-storage: device scan complete this shows you that your USB storage device is connected at address 3, which is 2.0 high speed. For the record I get 31 to 32MB/s transfer speeds with my USB 2.0 HD... which is the one I've just attached to show you this. I should also note that these speeds will very with different motherboards, chipsets, HDs and file systems.

The /proc directory contains virtual files. Most of the time the size of these files are zero, but you can read them with cat. In a terminal do cat /proc/cpuinfo for an example. You can do the same for any file in /proc.

You should install: faad2 libfaad2 libquicktime-faad openquicktime and the rest of the libquicktime plugins in the repos (PLF repos). I will also note here, that you 'should' use the mplayer from the PLF repos for this.

You can do this with the clock: Right-click on your clock > Configure-clock > Time > Foreground color I'm not sure about the rest, you will have to check.

At this point (after you log in), please post the output of lspci It will show us your graphic card.

I had tried this earlier, and it didn't work. After I read this I updated my 'User Agent Switcher' to the latest version 0.6.10, and it does indeed play most of the videos without commercials. Thanks guys!

Please post the output of cat /etc/fstab

More Applications > Development > Development Environments > IDLE I just remembered that 'tkinter' may not be installed by default with python on Mandriva 2007? In terminal do rpm -qa |grep tkinter if it's not there, do (as root) urpmi tkinter then you will find it.

Thanks, but I'm hardly a genius. I'm afraid my only experience is with cross compiling the R- binaries for ARM4 and ARM5 Linux embedded systems, for other people that knew how to use it. You can find help and some examples that you can run here: r-project.org Also the mailing list. You may also want to install Octave, it's in the repos. :)

It's R-base in the Mandriva repos.

You will have to locate and install the codec. See ventrilo.com

I had to allow popups for CNN. My flashplayer plugin location [greg@halfway ~]$ cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1/plugins [greg@halfway plugins]$ ls |grep flash libflashplayer.so* [greg@halfway plugins]$ cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1/components [greg@halfway components]$ ls |grep flash flashplayer.xpt* I've played with CNN a bit this morning. I've seen about 10 different commercials, and the only one that won't continue to the video clip for me is the HBOvoyeur.com. I would suggest that you click on the CNN Video Feedback, and leave them a message explaining your problems. I had to do that several times with CBS, and it works now with Linux. Alternatively you can install IE6 and use flash player 9.0.45.0 with wine, using these instructions. I just tried it on CNN, it skips a frame or two, but it works. :) Sorry, I can't offer any more suggestions or help. :sad:

In a terminal do which wine is it there? If so, do wine /path/to/your-windows.exe replacing 'your-windows.exe' with the name of the .exe you want to run. I should also add that you should place the windows.exe in the ~/.wine/drive_c/windows directory.

My secret, that no one believes: Move or copy your flashplayer.xpt from your plugins directory to your /mozilla/components, or /mozilla-firefox-xxxx/components directory... as per mozdev.org. :)