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Do not try alsaconfig now but alsamixer (I guess the system is simply muted), adjust the sound settings and then aslactl store If you wonder that a command is not found then check if it exists at all. Type the first letter(s) of the command in question in the terminal (e.g. alsa), then hit the tab key twice. The terminal will list then all commands that begin with e.g. alsa. ;)

Sounds like some problems with the ICEauthority file. Try to fix it by launching the following command as root (press ctrl+alt+F1 for console mode as root, press ctrl+alt+F7 for getting back to the graphical login): chown username /home/username/.ICEauthority after that restart the Xserver with ctrl+alt+backspace. Hope that fixes it.

Found this in a german article (based on Mdv 2005) and have translated it for you. I guess it will be the same procedure in 2007: Run from a root terminal: cp /etc/dhcpd.conf.sample \ /etc/dhcpd.conf This will activate a sample configuration for a dhcp server. Now edit the dhcpd.conf file with e.g. nano. (The file you get should look similar to this): option domain-name "home-network"; ddns-update-style none; default-lease-time 14400; subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.20; default-lease-time 14400; max-lease-time 172800; } Adjust the domain name, if necessary, as well as the subnet entry. Most times they can stay as are. Adjust the range setting to the IP range that your server uses in order to communicate with the other computers on your LAN. Now save and exit. Now you will need to have a database containing all used IP addresses. For this, run as root: touch /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases Now open the control center and activate in the services-section the "dhcp" service and check the "start service at bootup" box. Hope it works.

You will most probably have to configure Mandrivas bootmanager for booting into Linspire, but that is an easy task. Do the following (added is a detailed explanation, so do not wonder about the length of this post): Open a terminal window (black monitor icon) and log in as root (type su and enter root password). Now type fdisk -l The result could look like this: Platte /dev/sda: 80.0 GByte, 80060424192 Byte 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9733 cylinders Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1288 10345828+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1289 1543 2048287+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 1544 9733 65786175 5 Erweiterte /dev/sda5 1544 9733 65786143+ 83 Linux Platte /dev/sdb: 160.0 GByte, 160041885696 Byte 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 1275 10241406 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 1276 19457 146046915 83 Linux the "fdisk -l" command lists all partitions you have. Now type df this will tell you exactly, which of the listed partitions belong to Mandriva. You might get something like this as a result. Dateisystem 1K-Blöcke Benutzt Verfügbar Ben% Eingehängt auf /dev/sda1 10021540 3071252 6433000 33% / /dev/sda5 63725672 14157768 46278600 24% /home tmpfs 485000 0 485000 0% /dev/shm As you see, sdb1 and sdb2 do not belong to my Fedora installation (they are my Mandriva partitions), while sda1 to sda5 belong to Fedora (sda1= /root, sda3 = swap, sda4= extended partition that holds sda5 = /home). You should get now an idea, which partition is your Linspire partition. It can be a sda/sdb/sdc/... or hda/hdb/hdc/... entry, depending on your harddisk type (sata is listed as sdX usually in Mandriva, while ata is listed as hdX) Now after this little lesson about partitions, let's add Linspire to Mandrivas bootloader. :) If I am too fast or if you don't understand something I wrote above, just tell me. Knowing now, which partition is your Linspire partition, you will have to mount the partition (mounting=make the partition accessible). For this, you will need the mount command. It can look e.g. like this: mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda4 /mnt this means: Mount the partition with the reiserfs-filesystem that is located on /dev/hda4 to Mandrivas folder /mnt. (for an ext3 filesystem, replace reiserfs with ext3 in the mount-command). If no errors are reported, the whole Linspire partition will be visible (and thus accessible) in Mandriva. You can take a look at it with the filemanager (konqueror or nautilus,...) if you like. What we will do now is some simply copy and paste job. Open Linspires menu.lst file, which holds the information for the bootloader with an editor. Let's use e.g. kate: kate /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst There should be something similar to this: title Fedora (2.6.22.4-65.fc7) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.4-65.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.4-65.fc7.img This is the important part that Mandriva needs. Now let us copy it over. Mark the entry, right click on the marked area and copy it. Now open in the terminal window a new tab from the menu. Log in as root there, too. Now open Mandrivas menu.lst file kate /boot/grub/menu.lst Now add the Linspire entry that you just copied below Mandrivas boot entry but before the Windows boot-entry. Save the file and exit. Finally unmount the Linspire partition: umount -t reiserfs /dev/hda4 /mnt Exit and you are done. You should have a working triple-boot system. If it doesn't work, then post both systems menu.lst files, so we can fix things. Good luck and have some fun. :)

Then ask, ask and ask until you understand what you are doing. :) The 4 CD version were CD images. The one big iso image you probably downloaded is a DVD iso image. CDs can store some 700 MB, while DVDs can store more than 4 GB of data. If you try to burn a DVD iso image onto a CD, then of course there won't be enough space available. Many of us also did not know anything about computers and/or operating systems some years ago. We know how you feel. Simply be patient and willing to learn. ;)

Welcome aboard and once again with more detail: When you choose the Custom disk partitioning, you take complete control over the setup of your system. You have on your harddisk some unallocated space as you say. Some 9 GB. When you use the partitioning tool, you will need at least one partition: / (which is the root partition) It is recommended to have / and /home (where the /home user settings are stored) and a swap partition in case there is no swap already installed by Linspire. A fully partitioned harddisk could look like this: ||Windows (NTFS) | Linspires / (ext3) | swap | Mandrivas / (ext3) | Mandrivas /home (ext3) || / is recommended to have some 4-5 GB (thus you have enough room left for installing more applications later) /home is recommended to be as big as you like. If you have an extra storage drive, 4 GB will be more than enough. TIP: A 4 GB size is useful if you want to backup your /home on DVD. Perfect size ;) . swap should be twice as big as your RAM. When you click on the empty/unallocated space (that is also called "marking the unallocated partition"), on the left hand there is a menu box. Select "Create new" and set up a / and a /home partition with the ext3 filesystem. When this is done, continue the installation. The external drive can be added later to Mandriva for storage purposes. The reason for having / and /home is very simple: Additional security and better recovery options in case you break your system. If you brake the base system or if you plan to upgrade the system, you can thus reinstall the base and use the still intact config settings of your user (including bookmarks, mails, passwords, look & feel of desktop) at once. Saves you some nasty configuration after a reinstall.

Hello bookie. We try to be as newcomer-friendly as possible, but as some of us are already a bit more experienced, they sometimes (involuntarily) forget that some things that are logical for experienced users (or: everyday tasks like using a command line) are not known, logical or comprehensible for less experienced users. If you do not understand things, don't feel shy to ask - even if you think it might be a stupid question. There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. Furthermore, even the most experienced users on this board started their Linux journey with zero knowledge about the OS, thus were as lost back then as you might feel at times. I encourage you to ask as much as you feel is necessary in order to understand what is done in which way and how. If someone posts e.g. "please post the result of 'ps aux'", feel free to ask how to do it and what this command is good for. Also, if you see commands like urpmi, ps aux, grep and so on mentioned in here and wonder what they are good for, you can always take a look at the man pages on your distribution (in a terminal, type "man urpmi" for browsing through the urpmi-manual, press "q" for exiting). Anyway: ask, ask, ask whenever you want. We are all willing to make your Linux experience as pleasant as possible. B)

I know that some of you have tested Ulteo, the new distro Duval started after he left Mandriva. I wonder if the thing still exists or if it died unnoticed by everyone. Out of curiosity I took a look at their site, the latest news is from early August and it states - more or less - that absolutely nothing happens there. The last bugtracker entry is (iirc) from May 2007 and they apparently searched desperately for developers (and apparently didn't get any). Was/ is Ulteo a huge flop? :huh: To me, it looks just like that...

Sure... udev cooperation

Very interesting what they do right now. especially the cooperation between Mandriva and Fedora in implementing udev as well as the new migration tools and the collaborative work on the hardware database deserve some merit imho. I guess I will give 2008 a try on my laptop once it is released.

Wrong keyboard config in KDE/Gnome? I'd check that first.

Umm... your KDE 3.5.6 files are running into a conflict with KDE 3.5.4 files, which means that you tried to upgrade KDE in an improper way. Have you activated the backports mirrors with easyurpmi? Usual procedure for upgrading KDE: Uninstall the old KDE, install the newer KDE from backports. For upgrading the whole system, run from a terminal as root urpmi --auto-select

Umm... the easiest way would be (imho): 1. Boot into Ubuntu 2. Mount the Mandriva / partiton ( or /boot if you have that one). 3. open Mandrivas /boot/grub/menu.lst file and copy the Mandriva-specific boot entry. 4. open with sudo an editor in Ubuntu, open Ubuntus /boot/grub/menu.lst file and copy the Mandriva entry into it. Save and exit. 5. reboot The Mandriva boot entry should now work.

hmmm... interesting. In Gnome with Firefox, I do not see anything unusual... Could you post a screenshot?

First of all, it would be safest to clear the lock while in single user mode (in case you didn't). As the system is booting up, it is in single user mode before init can fire off any 'child' daemon processes. When rebuilding the database, make a backup first of /var/lib/rpm!!! A quick and dirty way to take a temporary on-disk backup is: cd /var/lib mkdir rpm-backup rsync -av ./rpm/. ./rpm-backup/. Now try rebuilding again. If it still gives you errors, then try repairing by doing mv Packages Packages-ORIG /usr/lib/rpm/db_dump Packages-ORIG | \ /usr/lib/rpm/db_load Packages Then read all the headers in Packages by doing rpm -qa And if that still fails, I suggest that you try to contact e.g. the official mandriva channel on irc and/or submit a bugreport.

Have you cleaned your cache before adding the new mirrors?

Where are the gowatorial posts? I miss them in this "discussion"

That is never a good thing to do. What you should do at least is place the information in a subfolder with more restrictive permission settings, that means: make sure that the only person that is allowed to access the folder is you and your user group. You can set the permission settings in Gnome and KDE with just a few clicks so that everyone else is denied to even open the folder.

Ubuntu, like Mandriva (since 2007) or Fedora uses grub as the default bootmanager. In order to boot into a command-line only system, press "esc" at the boot selection screen, then "e" for editing. Then select the line with the kernel path and hit "e" again in order to edit that specific line. Now add a "3" at the end of that line in order to boot into init 3 mode or "1" for an init 1 mode. Once you have finished editing the files, press "b" to boot that entry. Remember that any changes done that way are only temprorary = if you reboot, you will have the default boot entry again. "passwd root" should basically work.

Oh, ekiga has some more disadvantages, just like wengophone or gizmo or other alternatives... my opinion is that in general the voip clients are all rather crappy and still need a lot of development for being really usable. (JHMO) PS: Yum is not inferior to other software-management tools - it is simply different to urpmi, smart or apt-get in design, goals and usage. But on every distro, a new user should stick to the native software-management tool instead of experimenting and trashing everything. Thus: On Mandriva, use urpmi, on Debian apt-get, on Fedora yum.

Welcome aboard. :) If you use a router, your system is probably set to use dhcp instead of static IPs for connecting to the net (most routers have this setting as default). Thus, when you configure your network using the Wizard in the Control Center, make sure that you set up a LAN connection using dhcp. If you have done that and it still fails to show any websites, then test if it is perhaps the ipv6 protocol that blocks it. Open Firefox/Mozilla, type in the webbar: about:config in the filterbar, type ipv6 set "disable ipv6" from "false" to "true" by double clicking on "true". Now check if you can connect to a website. If yes, disable ipv6 system-wide by opening /etc/modprobe.conf in an editor as root user and add the following lines to it alias ipv6 off alias net-pf-10 off save and exit. If that ain't the solution yet, then please open a terminal, log in as root and post the output of the following command ifconfig Good luck.

You say it: It is proprietary, not community driven. Thus it is not completely free as in beer and there could arise legal problems if it gets shipped with a distro for free. I did some research but haven't found any distro that has skype on the software mirrors available except Linspire, but there you have to pay for it, using click'n run. Furthermore, there are really free alternatives for phoning over the internet, like ekiga.

[solved] :D

I second that.

The first time that I read such an article that is quite balanced and thus enjoyable.