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I've just discovered where theese mails are : in /usr/share/mdk/mail !!!! The files are in html and text, generated by "indexhtml" package. I tried to rename the french files (as I am in France), and at next start Kmail generated english welcome mail as default. I then also renamed english files, and that's the solution ! No more welcome mails !!!!!

Hello, When configuring a new Kmail client in Mandriva 2006, I get a Mandriva welcome message. The problem is : whatever I do to delete the message, it reappears everytime Kmail is restarted. Any suggestion to cancel the message ? thanks

I finally tried to post a bug in Mandriva's bugzilla, and got immediately following answer : That's because the floppy is now mounted with 'sync' as default... If you want the speed back, change in /etc/fstab the line regarding /mnt/floppy from ...,sync,... to ...,dirsync,... You will only get a little bit longer umount as the kernel flushed the writes to the floppy... but the overall total speed is faster that way... I tried this solution, and it works : now writing to floppies is really faster, BUT, it's very important not to remove a floppy without unmounting it first. In fact, without former supermount it's now very important to perform systematically mount/unmount. I noticed that mount/unmount options exist at user's level with a right click on the floppy icon in the new devices window. ;) _

Hello, I tested without supermount : the result is the same. I removed kat and libkat from the beginning, when I realized that it needs too much resources. I also made a new kernel, with floppy driver source coming from 2005LE, but the result is the same. I also made a test with Knoppix 4.0, which has the same kernel as Mandriva 2006 (and I suppose the same floppy driver) : the measured write speed is not 1, nor 10, but 25 KB/s ! My conclusion is : there must be something wrong inside Mandriva 2006, not necessarily the floppy driver itself, but something else ... Any other suggestion ? thanks

For me it was OK from 9.2 to 10.2, and now, unexpectedly, there are lots of PC's which do not work properly ! In fact I didn't see a single PC with usual Floppy write speed with Mandriva 2006

hello, seems to have a reference as "unsupported" here : http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver...n+5000F&bus=usb What they advise: Reporting Unsupported Scanners and Adding more information If you can provide more information for one of the scanners that's listed as "unsupported" in our current list of unsupported scanners or even want to add a new scanner, please send all information you have to us. If you own an unsupported scanner, please send as much information as possible. Especially the output of sane-find-scanner -v -v and/or cat /proc/scsi/scsi (for SCSI scanners) or cat /proc/bus/usb/devices (for USB scanners) can help. If you dare to open the scanner, have a look at the text that's printed on the chips. That may help to identify the chipset. If you know that the scanner is similar to another one (e.g. supported by the same Windows driver), please also mention this fact. Contact us by using using the form for adding an unsupported device or by sending mail to the sane-devel mailing list. If you think anything in the list or on this web page is wrong, please also contact us or file a bug report.

In fact no, the floppy driver is unique, but starts only at first copy to/from floppy. I also established that both drivers (2005LE and 2006) have the same parameters (as given by ""floppycontrol -p", a utility contained in fdutils package).

It looks as if another driver is in charge of the floppy unit. Is there a tool to find out the name of this driver, and then to tweek it ? I made some tests with dd and rsync instead of cp : the speed is nearly the same, about 10 times slower than in Mandriva 2005LE !

I noticed that irq 6 is not set (nothing in /proc/interrupts), and nothing related to floppy in /proc/ioports. Module floppy was not started either, but "modprobe floppy" does not initialize irq 6. Some idea ? How does start floppy in 2005LE ? thanks

Hello, I noticed that writing to floppy has become really slow in Mandriva 2006 : 32 KB written every 30 seconds only. The same problem was observed on 4 different PC's, so it seems to be a real problem related to Mandriva 2006 (and the same test on my PC started with 2005LE shows that there is no problem with the floppy drive or other hardware). In fact, until now I don't know if it's a general problem, or if it works on some PC's. So if someone can also perform a test, in order to compare, it would be interesting. Thanks for any advice or suggestion. ;) Moved from Software by theYinYeti. Welcome aboard :)