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Hint: think back a few years and search for a famous speech performed by some ... errrm .... "guy" called Donald Rumsfeld. Cannot say more here, because it's off-topic and doesn't belong to this forum section. :D

Message repeat:

Nothing to add. Greg2 summed it up nicely.

Have you adjusted the power-saving settings in the kde-control center already?

Unplug all peripheral devices that you don't really need, too. Maybe a hardware problem...

Uh.. did you type all that when adjusting Grub? I always used copy&paste for that. :D

ntldr looks way simpler and faster, that's for sure, but can you edit the boot entries at the boot-screen with ntldr? Grub allows you to change them instantly (nice feature in case things go wrong. JMHO).

Browsing problems with Firefox: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=30815

I don't know your level of computer literateness, but PHLAK is definitely not designed for newcomers but for very experienced users.

PHLAK was created to become the only tool security professionals would need to perform security analysis, penetration testing, forensics, and security auditing.

If you want to start with Linux, better give Mandriva ONE or PCLinuxOS a try.

/me nods. A bug.

Check this. Might be the solution to your problem: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=30815

Sorry to hear that. :mellow.: Hope you are feeling a bit better now.

Because Win XP is my main operating system and the one I simply must get into at all times without any problems I prefer to leave my mbr untouched.

About the bugreports you listed (sorry, I didn't check bugzilla. Hehehe... when you are ill, the toilet has a higher priority), if the bug is known, then there is no workaround right now unless you do a network-install, which would/should install the fixed package (if there is one).

We fell asleep, I guess.. :lol:

Welcome aboard. :)

First of all, you do not need the XP CD in order to restore the XP Bootloader. The Mandriva CDs/DVD do(es) have a rescue option which allows to restore the XP or Grub bootloader with two clicks.

The summary screen and its Grub placement always worked for me. What you could do is to simply bypass the gGub-installation step when it is shown first and install Grub later, at the summary screen.

If Grub gets installed in the MBR, then - of course - it is being accessed before any other Grub entry that you installed on any other partition. ;)

I should admit, these links confused me even more.

I found that on the cooker mailing list. http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2...05/msg03328.php

Also check this, although it is rather old. Maybe it lists one thing that you missed when wheeling and dealing with both apps: http://dkukawka.blogspot.com/2006/03/kpowe...r-mandriva.html

Hope it helps a bit.

Just a hint: If the old driver works well with Compiz, don't update it. "Never change a winning team."

Basically, in order to change the login photo in gdm, you have to adjust the user profile in Gnome. If you use KDE with gdm, then a change of the user-picture won't have any effect as gdm is the Gnome login manager. Same thing would happen if you use Gnome but use kdm for logging in. Changing the Gnome user-picture won't affect kdm. The only way to change it system-wide should be, as said already, through the MCC, system-section -> user settings.

I would check if it hangs again if you disable the 3D stuff. That might help to narrow down the problem.

Which kernel do you have installed (you should run the laptop-kernel)? Are there any pointers in /var/log/messages or ~/.xsession-errors?

Edit you /etc/urpmi/skip.list

# Here you can specify the packages that won't be upgraded automatically
# for example, to exclude all apache packages :
# /^apache/

Uh... Dave Brubeck.

In the future, things might even be easier. AFAIK, Mandriva plans- by popular demand - to ship 2008.1 with a web-filter application in order to protect children from visiting nasty sites. See also http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17250

Aren't we glad we live in democratic and free societies. We can choose freely which products and services we use. :P

Aren't we glad we live in democratic and free societies. We can decide freely which products and services suck.

Still an unspectacular, clean, functional desktop...

Have you cleaned you urpmi cache already?