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f I try to boot into Xen kernel machine restarts itself (few seconds after the boot). /etc/grub/menu.lst (I have tried some different settings): title xen kernel (hd0,0)/xen.gz dom0_mem=131072 module (hd0,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.12-18mdkxen0 root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 How to configure Xen kernel so that it would boot?

Now that www.thebrix.org.uk seems to be dead, is there a place where I can find non-official RPM repositories for Mandriva.

It is about integrating Smart Package Manager (not apt-rpm !): http://smartpm.org/

It takes some time before menus of KDE programs start responding. More info at: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15120 Does anyone else have this problem? [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

I can't add new media during installation: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11189 Does anyone else have the same problem?

There is another way to fix xmms problem if you use KDE. You can install xmms-arts and select arts output in xmms. This is better because sound still works in other applications that use arts. So you can't download xorg-6.8 RPM (seperatly) even if you are a club member?

Default look of Mandrakelinux 10.1 beta 2 (fonts are changed)

It will not be in final.

There are some problems with KIO in KDE 3.2.3 (bug #10934, bug #10973).

A simple GUI for some common administration tasks: http://mandrakeprinas.org/mpnen You can run it like this: cd /var/tmp && wget -q --output-document=mpnen http://mandrakeprinas.org/mpnen && chmod +x mpnen && ./mpnen; rm -f mpnen This script was originaly written for Slovenian Mandrake users. Now that it is translated I am posting it here. With it you can: - Remove all RPM sources (including CDs or DVDs) - Set RPM sources for MDK Official (ADSL / cable) - Set RPM sources for MDK Official (ISDN / modem) - Set RPM sources for MDK Community (ADSL / cable) - Set RPM sources for MDK Community (ISDN / modem) - Install sharp looking fonts - Install MPN Theme - Install Flash plugin - Preload OpenOffice.org when KDE starts - Install libraries for DVD - Install RealPlayer (alpha version) - Update RPM sources (Find new packages or new versions of packages) - Install updates - Install kernel with latest security updates - Install latest versions of installed packages

The problem is also this: http://www.freetype.org/patents.html I have a page about how to fix it but it is not in English. ;-) http://mandrakeprinas.org/clanki/pisave.php General idea is this: 1. Install libfreetype6 from PLF (Bytecode Interpreter is enabled). 2. Install msfonts. 3. Disable antialiasing for small fonts. 4. Disable most of other fonts (other fonts look ugly without antialiasing).

Sorry, I was wrong. Deliting it from /etc/dynamic/launchers works after the restart.

None of the following seems to work: 1. Commenting out lines in: /etc/devfs/conf.d/dynamic.conf 2. Deleting files from: /etc/dynamic/launchers 3. Deleting files from: /usr/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop ...icon is recreated every time after the login. Help!

Is there a way to configure urpmi so that it would use more than one server for a given media (contrib, plf, updates...). So that it would use the second server if the first is down and so on. Or do I still have to do this by hand?

Is there a way to provide secure file transfer on Mandrake Linux? Users need to be limited to their own home directories. I could use "msec 4" for this, but then some things don't work (e.g. pop3).

Why is that better than scrolling?

I have installed Mandrake 9.2 on a software RAID 1. What do I have to do, that it will still boot if I remove primary master hard drive from the system?

I have used memtest86 before. Hardware would be easier to test if computer would freeze more often. From the linked page I included in my message: The script that I included compiles kernel and writes output to log file. Output should be the same every time. Why is it not?

A machine I'm using for a server is freezing (tried ssh / ping / locally). Every week or so. This is with kernel2.4-marcelo: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/...2_4_marcelo_2_4 (I'm using this kernel because when I used this machine for LTSP server it froze every time I logged into KDE from a LTSP client. If I use kernel2.4-marcelo this doesn't happen.) BTW I have set up software RAID1. With this script from: http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ I wanted to test if there is something wrong with RAM: #!/bin/sh #set -x t=1 while [ -f log.$t ] do t=`expr $t + 1` done while true do make clean make -k bzImage > log.cur 2>&1 mv log.cur log.$t t=`expr $t + 1` done Does the following indicate hardware problem, or is there something else going on: [root@mandrake linux]# diff log.1 log.2 1d0 < scripts/split-include include/linux/autoconf.h include/config 1069,1070d1067 < gcc -o gen_crc32table gen_crc32table.c < ./gen_crc32table > crc32table.h Files from log.2 to log.9 are the same. [root@mandrake linux]# diff log.9 log.10 1231c1231 < Setup is 4778 bytes. --- > Setup is 4779 bytes. Files from log.10 to log.15 are the same.

Thank you, C-Kermit is exactly what I need.

Is there a way to do on the fly charset translation with telnet/ssh client? E.g. when I log into a machine using different charset (Windows/DOS). There are tools that make it easy to convert text from one charset to another (iconv, recode), but is there something that is integrated into telnet/ssh client. Some library I need to compile in?

This is the answer from the author:

Is there a way to make KDE Desktop sharing work on a LTSP client? All I get is a black screen. Mouse and keyboard work.

Did you try deleting these .DCOP* files? # rm /home/jeffery/.DCOP*

I had to set higher minimal refresh rate in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: VertRefresh 75-160 so that games would use higher refresh rate.