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I always thought that slocate was a "dumbed down" safer version of locate, one that doesn't require root privileges If that's right then symlinking slocate to locate is a "security violation"

yup, as I said locate work mlocatge or slocate generates "no such command"

so I installed the mlocate package, but it seems that neither mlocate nor slocate work. locate does however.

I did a clean install of Spring 2007, however I did keep my /home partition intact (with the exception ofa few things, like I blew my .kde away to make sure to start clean) The system properly located and installed my local USB printer (Samsung 1710), which was nice but not unexpected. I may have checked a "share printers" checkbox somewhere during install. One of the things I always leave for last is setting up Samba, because I always find it confusing. Before I even got to setup samba, my wife was using her laptop (running WinXP), she hit Print, and low and behold, the document comes out of the printer attached to the linux machine! Just like she expected, but not what *I* expected since I had not setup samba and printer sharing yet. What happened? did I run into some bit of magic that caused CUPS to properly share the printer with windows machines with no input from me? Was there some leftover samba related settings from the previous install that was stored in the /home partition and threfore survived the install? I'm happy at the result but worried I don't understand how it happened... [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I was only joking in the post above, but it turned out that it truly was the problem! I have 3 computers sitting side by side, and I had plugged in the monitoring cable in the kids' machine, not my mandrake box Now apctest properly talks to the thing instead of showing some "fatal message at line xxx" kinda message According to rpmdrake there is no such package as apcupsd-gapcmon, even with plf sources included. Did you have to download it from a non-mandrake repository? If there si a GUI I'd rather use that than set it all up in config files the way I used to do it with my previous UPS

I saw your thread asking for help, is scared me... :) I installed apcupsd but it's not detecting the UPS (at least apctest doesn't seem to) but I have barely started to play with it. Next in line is making sure the other end of the cable truly is plugged in the UPS.

I noticed in the HowToForge tutorial on setting up Sprint 2007, the author does a urmpi --auto-select to bring his system up-to-date after install I like the idea of a single command udpate, and 1/2 the time I feel like I don't know what I'm doing in rpmdrake when doing updates... Is it safe to do so? how are packages auto-selected? does it only grab fixed, or fixes and updates, or fixes and updates and "missing" packages (that last one seems unlikely as it's ahrd to define missing). What is plf is in the repository, will it replace mdv packages with the plf equivalent if the plf is a later version? [moved from Software by spinynorman]

yeah thanks! Why is it not included through? is there a better way to find files now? Is that what that beagle icon that I haven't yet played with is about? how about command line Also I assume installing the package automagically set a cron job to run updatedb and all that jazz?

I have several applets (wizards?) in the Mandrake Comntrol Panel that are not clickable, i.e. when I hover the mouse over it, the cursor doesn't change from an arrow to a hand, indicating that it can be clicked, and clicking it does nothing. One is the UPS setup applet, the other one is something like "setup other hosts" or something like that (not atthatcomp atm), whcih I assume is an GUI to edit your hosfile. Is it a free/non-free issue? I installed Spring 2007 free

I did a clean install of Spring 2007 and it looks like my system doesn't have the "lcoate" command anymore. I reied as root, and I try looking for it in /sbin but it's not there is it deprecated? is it an additional package not installed by default?

gah! I am more confused than ever, even thoguh it said no HW optimization, glxgears now scroes at o 2070, so it looks it is indeed enabled in some way. Furthermore, the MDC hardwaare applet now seems to be reay to allow me to use Metisse I guess I'm where I wanted to be, although I have no clue how I got there.... let's see if Metisse runs at all with my setup.

I went in MDC, config graphic server: where it shows it detected my card as a GeForece 2 71xx, instead of clicking cancel, I clicked OK (without making any changes), it then tried to install packages but came up with "Could not install dkms-nvidia71xx packages!" Great, even the automated installer is confused! Then it told me there was a proprietary driver, would I want to use it? I said yes, it showed me a summary page showing it wanted to use the "nvidia" Xorg driver, and that acceleration was turned off upon restarting X it did show the nvidia log, so I think I'm back to square 1 I used to have hardware acceleration, so it should be possible to get it working.

ah, thanks. of course there is a myriad of 71xx related packages, so I just picked one that seemed to match my kernel number and be an official (rather than plf) package rebooted ... no difference. I don;t see the nvidia logo at X startup, and glxgears is still stuck at 280 how can I tell what driver I am currently running?

oops sorry, haven't updated my sig in ages. I'm running a new install of Sprint 2007 According to the package text, my GeForce2 card should be supported by the non-legacy drivers (TNT RIVA = GeForce 2)

oops sorry I meant to answer scarecrow's post, not yours, which I somehow missed. I'll try that. Thanks!

so I decided that the best way to learn was to be brace and give it a try... Sinec 9755 is the latest version according to the nvidia website, I installed the 9755 package from mandriva (looks like ther eis a matching one in plf but I ignored that one). The package text says you also need to install nvidia-kernal, but there wasn't a choice for nvidia-kernel-9755 (there was a plf one) so I assumed that means it was already installed. did the install, rebooted (maybe I only needed to restart the X server?) and I am able to get into X and KDE, but runnning glxgears shows a framerate of 279, so hardware acceleration is not on (without even considering 3D) I thought there used to be an nvidia-settings package, but I don;t see it how do I tell that I installed the drivers properly? how do I enable hardware acceleration?

I tried that, I can't find the relevant setting

I thought Mandriva would install 3D drivers by default but it doesn't appear to. Is there a compatibility problem with my hardware? I have an older GeForce 2 card. I m a little reluctant to "play around" with this since last time I tried I throuroughly messed up my X settings. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

I installed Spring 2007 and the menu button has the star and the word Mandriva next to it, eating a lot of real estate (my flat panel is only 1024x768) Is there a way to reduce it to a less space hogging star like in previous versions? so far this setting has eluded me.

12G turns out the logwatch cache was 8.5G and probably the mian source of my issues

I think that most of my problems stem from douing the easy urpmi updates, my system partition is full and I'm guessing some installs silently failed and I wan't notified by the rpmdrake wizard. I grabbed a copy of a linux magazine with a Mandriva 2007 Spring. Maybe it's time for housecleaning, so rather than run an upgrade, which I ususally do, I will do a full install from scratch. samba also stopped working properly, I can browse my linux shares from windows but can't copy file (the remote stops responding). weird weird I almost went for KUbuntu, but I still have this feeling that KDE is more of an "add-on" and I'm worried about having problems/outdated apps becuase of that. If Mandriva Spring doesn't work for me, I'll give Ubuntu a try, otherwise I'll got for Mepis which works pretty flawlessly on my laptop.

for the longest time, urpmi settings were screwy on my machine (after I tried to remove the install CD image from my machine), so finally I got around to doing the easy urpmi thing, got a large number of security and bug fixes udpates Things seemed fine for several days until I rebooted my machine: now it won;t even autolog in, and fails if I try startx, can't find nvidia module, yada yada... Maybe it's an opportunity to wipte everything and start clean with 2007 Spring I had spent the money for a powerpack last time I got Mandrake, but I'm done spending money on distros... will the 1 CD version allow me to install the rest from the web or is it limited to prevent you doing that? If it is, any suggestions on an alternative distro? It's gotta be KDE, and while there is a big Ubuntu trend, is KDE really as well supported as Gnome on Ubuntu?

I'm able to staert chromium in from the command line but it's not in the menus I remember there was some way to "pcik up" missing paps automagically

I used the have a home button in my panel that open Konqueror in its file view profike in my home directory after installing 2007 power packe,it looks like it's not ther by default is ther an easy way to get it back? In particular I want it to still have the home icon [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I think I may have figured it out: shorewall was running,but stopping it still didn't fix it. I also had to stop iptables I'm behing a NAT so not too concerned about firewalling,howeve should I choose to re-enable shorewall, how do I administer it topoke "holes" in it? I have several servers running on this machine.