daniewicz

Can you right-click on the taskbar update notice and select 'do not start on boot" or some such thing? I am working from memory + several glasses of wine......

xauii: I have an APC ups, but I have not used the packages apcupsd and gapcmon suggested by AussieJohn. Instead, I used the The Network UPS Tools (NUT) which is made up of two packages: nut nut-server I believe these two packages are installed when you seek to setup a ups within mcc as you initially did. My ups is a SmartUPS which is connected via a serial cable to COM1 (/dev/ttyS0). I looked in /usr/share/driver.list which told me the necessary driver is apcsmart In /etc/ups the following files were manually edited: /etc/ups/ups.conf /etc/ups/upsd.users /etc/ups/upsmon.conf in ups.conf the following was added: [myups] driver = apcsmart port = /dev/ttyS0 cable = 940-0024C in upsd.users the following was added: # Supervision user [admin] password = mypass allowfrom = localhost actions = SET instcmds = ALL # Protection user [monuser] password = mypass allowfrom = localhost upsmon master in upsmon.conf the following was added: MONITOR myups@localhost 1 monuser mypass master After these files were edited and I restarted my computer all was well. The status of the ups can be checked with: upsc myups@localhost If all of this seems unnecessarily complicated it is ;) From my experience with Mandriva 2005 and 2008.1, all of this is unfortunately needed.

Well I do not know how to deal with that. There are some knowledgeable people on this board, let's see if we get any more responses.

If you are a KDE user, you could create a script file with the needed commands and place it in .kde/Autostart Your script file would look like this: #!/bin/bash # hp-plugin

Have a look at our wiki regarding the installation of software: http://wiki.mandrivausers.org/index.php/Software_management

I also use 2008.1 You need to install libdvdcss2 from the plf repositories to watch DVD movies.

After you have unpacked the tar.bz2, you should have a folder named firefox. Copy this folder to your location of choice (mine is in /opt). Run firefox by executing /opt/firefox/firefox.

You can remove (uninstall) this kernel since it is older: kernel-desktop586-2.6.27-0.rc8.2mnb

My wife's computer is a dual boot with W2K and Mandriva 2008.1. Mandriva was installed using One. After reading Adam's post and learning that One installs the desktop586 kernel, I got the courage to install the desktop kernel and remove the desktop586 kernel. Now the OS can see the full 1 GB of ram on her motherboard.

Here is what I have on my Mandriva 2008.1 install. I did a search of all packages containing the word kernel. kernel-desktop-2.6.24.7-2mnb kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.24.7-2mnb kernel-desktop-devel-latest kernel-desktop-latest kernel-headers nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop-2mnb nvidia-current-kernel-desktop-latest

Ahhh Beranger, one of my favorite persons from the online world

me too

No. Maybe a month or so ago I saw changes, but not recently.

under Tools there is a Rescan, does this do what you need?

My hotmail account is still working using Firefox 3 from both W2K and Mandriva 2008.1

The service laptop-mode is set to start on boot but it is always stopped. This service is not a persistent daemon; it's a service that just runs at startup, does some stuff, and then stops. So it's normal that it shows as stopped once boot is complete. If it showed OK during bootup, then it did its job fine. You can do 'service laptop-mode status' to check. Is the service "lisa" enabled? Try stopping this service.

You could install KDE, that would pretty things up But seriously, how about installing compiz? That will give you a little eye candy. mcc Hardware -> Configure 3D Desktop effects

To enable functioning links in emails, insert the following into the prefs.js in your thunderbird profile (mine is in ~/.thunderbird/qr89ibjz.default/prefs.js) user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp","/opt/firefox/firefox"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http","/opt/firefox/firefox"); user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https","/opt/firefox/firefox"); Of course you need to change the path accordingly.....

I agree with scarecrow. Programs for downloading/converting flash video are not created equal. Some do a better job than others. Try a different program.

Any errors in /var/log/messages?

Well you would need to write the scripts yourself. Here is an example of a script called Startup that I have in my ~/.kde/Autostart/ folder. This script runs the command "nvidia-settings --load-config-only" #!/bin/bash # # This is a bash shell script to be run at startup # nvidia-settings --load-config-only

Well in KDE 3.5.9 there is a folder ~/.kde/Autostart/. Place scripts here for execution during startup. Does this folder exist in KDE 4.1?

I would agree with this.

sacrilege !!