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A colleague of mine experienced same problem with IBM NetVista and MDK 8.0. Only way he could powerdown his system was to pull out the cord of the powerpoint. I read then somewhere on Google that that was a well known NetVista's 'feature'. It has got a bit better now: on my NetVista running "halt" (as root) shuts down everything except for power - I have to press the button to turn off power.

I successfully used recover to undelete files on an ext2 partition (last time it was last week...), but doubt it can work for journalized partitions or memory cards, etc. Please check the recover homepage http://recover.sourceforge.net/linux/

I just did - from 1.0.8 to 1.2.4, hoping a new version would be a lot better. My experience has been rather frustrating instead... I'd love to upgrade to version 1.4, but it needs Gnome 2 and Mandrake 9.1. I am not ready to upgade to Mandrake 9.1 right now and don't forsee any window for a major upgrade in nearest few months, so I better stick to gnomecal. Gnomecal is not flashy and has a minimum set of features, but it works for me...

Yep, I sent same message to ximian's evolution maillist. No reply so far... Oh well, Evolution looks nice, but if that's all it can offer to me, I'm going back to gnomecal...

I would like evolution to remind me about my weekly classes. I scheduled them in the calendar as appointments. However when opened, they all refer to the date and time of the first appointment. Say, for an appointment scheduled to occur on Mon 07/21/2003 and every Monday from then, all occurances show "Day/Time: Mon 07/21/2003 02:10 PM to Mon 07/21/2003 04:10 PM" Also, the reminder is scheduled to: "Display a message at Mon 07/21/2003 01:55 PM". Needless to say, I don't receive any reminders at all... It's evolution 1.2.4 for Mandrake 8.2, installed using red carpet. Is it a known bug?

Ext2FS Anywhere, http://www.ext2fs-anywhere.com/ I don't have a dual boot system, so I can't try it, but the review in the APC magazine was quite positive...

According to this post, arts and esd can happily coexist, but not for me: http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/ev...rch/027935.html A funny thing is that evolution is silent in Gnome, too...

No, evolution does not show up in the sound properties in gnomecc. Does it mean that the install is incomplete?

cjc, I run MDK 8.2 Bluebird (KDE 2.2.2, Gnome 1.4), red curpet suggested 1.2.4 rpms for Mandrake 8.2.

Thanks for the reply, bvc. The question about evolution+kde is answerd here: http://support.ximian.com/cgi-bin/ximian.c...prod_lvl1=2#q-8 I used red carpet to install all stuff which, I thought, was related to evolution including some libraries needed to play sounds (that what they said) As long as there were no dependency problems, I thought, I was done... One of the posts from Google suggested that esd has to be run using arts as a wrapper, i.e. it has to be started as $artsdsp esd I did that as user, no luck though. Interestingly, I am checking right now, I can't get evoultion play sounds under GNOME either! Sound from tuxracer is sweet, xmms plays chimes.wav, but evolution doesn't! Interestingly, an attempt to play sounds from Gnome control centre's Sound Events gives an error: "The sound file for this event does not exist. You may want to install the gnome-audio package for a set of default sounds".

I would like to use evolution under KDE. One nuisance remains though: the calendar refuses to play sound, a popup window appears instead. Somewhere on the ximian site, there was a post saying that the GNOME sound server esd must be started before evolution. I did that, still no sound... Can anybody help with this please? It's evolution 1.2.4, I installed it using ximian red carpet.

With wine/crossover, you can use IE.

Well, that may be how it's supposed to work. The filesystem obviously had errors despite I didn't answer anything to the prompt and let the journal to recover... By the way, to force filesystem check you need to create an empty file /forcefsck [root@localhost homedir]# touch /forcefsck then restart. The file will be deleted afterwards. Also, the script /etc/sysconfig/autofsck sets timeout and automatic fsck. I think, it is activated only if /.autofsck exists.[/i][/code]

I turned off the computer before the filesystems were cleanly unmounted. Next time I turned it on, I was asked to press Y in order to force the filesystem check, but I was not quick enough - in previous versions the filesystem check was forced without my intervention. I reboot a few more times, it never asks me again to perform the check. Running e2fsck -fn /dev/hda1 shows a whole bunch of problems: Warning! /dev/hda1 is mounted. Warning: skipping journal recovery because doing a read-only filesystem check. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Deleted inode 33990 has zero dtime. Fix? no Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found. Fix? no Inode 33991 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 33992 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 33993 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 33995 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 33996 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Inode 111147 was part of the orphaned inode list. IGNORED. Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Inode 2 ref count is 20, should be 21. Fix? no Pass 5: Checking group summary information Block bitmap differences: -70197 -230746 Fix? no Inode bitmap differences: -(33990--33993) -(33995--33996) -111147 Fix? no Directories count wrong for group #7 (116, counted=115). Fix? no /dev/hda1: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ********** /dev/hda1: 20088/141696 files (0.5% non-contiguous), 40985/283137 blocks To be safe and avoid hand mounting/unmounting partitions, I would like to run the file system integrity check automatically, everytime after the filesystem was not properly shutdown. How do I do that? Thanks for your help...

Thanks for the reply. How old is your laptop? In Australia, they are curreently marketting Inspirons 1100, 5100,5150 and 8500. Linux works perfectly on older laptops; I have Gateway 5150 myself with MDK Linux on it, it's a perfect combination. People have power management problems with newer models though. Can anybody tell:If ACPI is not working properly, can this cause processor overheating? All reports that I've seen focus on problems with suspend/resume/hibernate. Some people also mentioned that fans are controlled by the ACPI/APM software. So I wonder, does power management handle fans correctly in Pentium M and newer Pentium 4 M models? I should probably post this question to the Hardware forum, I guess...

I see... I was under impression that in 1.4 you can use any fonts you like, not only fixed width ones. If that's not the case then... Did they add anything that made 1.4 worth upgrading to?

How do you do that? I would like to replace a fixed-width font in the mail body with times, no luck...

Welcome to the forum. If you see [tanis@localhost tanis]$ that means your login is successful. That is, user tanis has logged in to the computer whose name is localhost. The second `tanis' is the current directory name which is your home directory. You always get in to your home directory upon logon, which is /home/tanis in your case. Try cd /usr out of curiosity, the prompt will change to [tanis@localhost usr]$. To go back to your home directory, enter cd ~/ Once you got [tanis@localhost tanis]$ prompt, type in startx to start the window manager. You should have chosen one during installation process.

Thanks to everyone who responded to my original post. I have narrowed down my choice to Thinkpad T40 and Dell D600. From what I read, Linux can be run on those notebooks, except for winmodems, ACPI and Wireless. All reports were from people running Red Hat 9 or Debian, hence everybody had to patch kernel 2.4.20 or use an rc release of 2.4.21 kernel, etc, and still nobody managed to get a 100% working ACPI. I wonder if anybody tried Mandrake 9.1 on any of those notebooks. Bamboo comes with 2.4.21 kernel, so at least ACPI should work smoothly (at least Mandrake claims that this is the case...) Is that right? I don't care much if wireless and/or winmodem wouldn't work, but having unstable power management may be a pain. Apparently, neither of these notebooks come with APM enabled bios, only ACPI... Unfortunately, the Uni is reluctant to buy from anybody else but Dell or IBM as they get discounts on Win notebooks from them, so getting Linux preinstalled is not an option anymore...

Thanks, guys. BooYah, let's make the task simpler and more specific:-). My problem are emails that stretch to several pages in a huge font. Is it possible to pass them to lynx? Usually, emails contain no graphics, and url is most likely something like this mailbox://home/userdir/maildir/Inbox?number=xxxxxx where xxxxxx is some message number. Is that right?

Thanks for your advise, qnr. I'll try nu-p printing later this afternoon. Frankly, I do not get why mozilla messes up with features that proved useful. Printing using a default font is one example. Removing movemail from mail account options is another one. Those things were working just fine in Netscape 4.x...

Thanks, qnr. I've checked that stuff... Doesn't seem to have an effect I was hoping for. Now I have a huge variety of paper sizes, plexes, etc, but no options for fontsizes. I've printed one of the emails, it came out just the same as before in huge 18pt font... Cheers.

Click the Print button. In the popup print dialog, click the Properties button next to the Printer pull down menu. The new dialog pops out, the second window is `Print command', in my case it contains: lp ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-d'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME} I presume, lp can be replaced with a script if necessary...

I've tried that... 18pt setting seems to apply to both screen and print fonts. Anyway, will try again... Cheers

I have this question. Is it possible to setup mozilla to use different fontsizes for printing and on screen dispaly? I would like to use adobe times 18pt for viewing webpages (I like larger fonts), and print them in 12pt. I know, there is an "increase font/decrease font" option, but it would be a lot more convenient to make this setting permanent.