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Be aware that those receipts can be disabled. I always disable all kinds of receipts in my email, for two reasons:

- Many people turn automatic receipts on, with the effect that I am expected to send the receipts back even for the most insignificant emails.

and because might help spammers to find whether the email address is active.

Welome to the forum. I have checked my laptop (ThinkPad), and the link is there. I run Mandriva 2008.0, i586 version.

Everything I did is documented in the following thread: Enabling Hardware hotkeys on a ThinkPad T42

Thanks fo the excellent post. I have not followed all steps as yet but have just tried

echo -n mem > /sys/power/state

as described in the paper you mentioned. Indeed, suspend to RAM is very fast. Resume was noticably longer than it usually takes, but X came up fine. The wireless connection was lost on resume though (and maybe several other services).

Looking at the script, it writes the temporary state in a file on the harddrive, and therefore (a) one needs to allocate enough space on the drive, and (B) it is not strictly speaking sispend to RAM. Yet, it remains unclear why the script from Mandriva takes so long. Perhaps, I will post a question on the official Mandriva forum.

@ David Batson: the Fn+F7 script from ThinkWiki works 100% on T61 with Intel X3100 after I modified it to use xrandr . If you can use xrandr 1.2 on T42, this should work for you too.

On my T42 it takes about 2 seconds to be fully suspended after pressing Fn + F4.

 

On this same T42 it take about 8 or 9 seconds to resume from Suspend after pressing Fn.

 

This is while booted into Mandriva 2007.1.

Yes, I would expect something similar. This makes me think that Mandriva 2008 suspend scripts are bloated... David, did you do anything special to make suspend to RAM work or do you just use the Mandriva scripts?

On my laptop running MDV2008, suspending to RAM takes about 10-15 sec, and resume takes about 15-20 sec? Is that normal? My imprsession is that under windows resume takes much less time.

Edit: Confirm the above: Under Windows, the same laptop takes 2-3 sec to suspend to RAM and about 5 sec to resume. WiFi takes a little longer to connect to the AP, but the system core seems to become operational almost instantaneously, compared to Mandriva. How can this be improved?

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thanks i might have some to look at it now

I had a similar problem with Thinkpad T61. I fixed it by adding

	  <match key="system.hardware.version" string="ThinkPad T61">
	<merge key="power_management.quirk.s3_bios" type="bool">true</merge>
  </match>

to the file /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-lenovo.fdi. There is a similar file for acer in that directory. You might want to look at it. Also, I added acpi_slip=s3_bios to the kernel boot options (via Mandriva Control Centre). See this reference.

I have been using Crossover office (ver 5.0.3 Pro) on Mandrake 9.2 and 10.1 systems, and now use ver 6.0 Pro on my MDV 2008.0 laptop with no problems. In all cases, I installed cx office as user, in my home dir. My understanding is that file associations are handled by KDE or Gnome, so you need deal with the problem by editing KDE/Gnome settings.

For installing/removing programs, go to KDE-> CrossOver -> Install Windows Software. Make sure you check Codeweavers database of supported apps. If the application is not fully supported, it's hit and miss. For instance, OrCAD PSpice did not work under CXoffice 5.0.3, but works well under version 6. I think, full office support is still at a level of MS Office 2000. If you want to use MS Office XP or 2003, it will work most of the time, but help will not work.

I also used skype on a 1mbps/256kbps link without problems, albeit from Windows - will have to try in Linux now v2 client is out.

In other words, you're saying, 128kbps downstream should not be a problem, right?

If I gave an impression that there were no sound... I did have sound but audio was "broken" - I could hear only short fragments of a word followed by a pause... The bandwidth on the other end could also be a problem, since I don't know what connection my friend has. I also tried videoecho123 and had the same problem, this made me think the problem could be on my side...

Haven't tried it yet myself, but I'm glad to see that video chat is finally available in Linux. That was the one missing killer feature for me, since I use it to chat with my sister in the UK all the time so she can keep an eye on her nephews (literally).

I have uninstalled version 1.4 manually using kpackage, and installed the latest rpm (ver 2.0).

The skype's `test video' option showed that the webcam worked fine, but the bandwidth is apparently insufficient for making videocalls - I could see the person on the other end, and he could see me, but we could not hear each other. My connection is 1Mbps/128 kbps downstream/upstream, and that seems to be not enough. Calling on landline works fine.

In KDE it should be easy to switch keyboard layouts between, say, English and Russian ones. Then, you only need to mark keys - maybe mark each key with a permanent marker and protect it with a magic tape? But I guess you could find a suitably marked keyboard on ebay.

Skype has released new version 2.0 with a support for video calls. Has anybody tried it? Does it work with Mandriva 2008.0? I currently have version 1.4, what is the best way to upgrade?

Adam, Thanks for the excellent demo. I hope you don't mind me asking a question... I have been synching my Palm PDA with evolution via gnome-pilot for some while, and from my experience synching between more than two devices (eg, a PDA and two desktops) often leaves a mess of duplicate appointments. This usually happens when you sync the mobile device with desktop 1 at home, and then with desktop 2 at work, ie when you cannot put two desktops in the same group. I am wondering if this issue has been resolved in the kitchensync/multisync. By the way you did not mention Palms in you demo :D

A reply from a happy LaTeX user :D Did you try using Jex and OOo? Just curious...

ntfs-3g is a userspace driver (and probably will never be a kernel module), and the fuse module is creating that "filesystem in userspace" the ntfs-3g driver needs to access your ntfs volumes.

I must admit my complete ignorance, I missed all this userspace thing... Would it be too naive to think that, thanks to this userspace thing, I should be able to mount/unmount/ read and write to /mnt/windows as user. Well, I can read/write after I removed umask altogether (thanks for the tip!), so I presume userspace thing has nothing to do with this - the default umask=0 gives all users permission to do whatever they want.

However, I cannot unmount /mnt/windows as user (it mounts from /etc/fstab on boot), and I cannot shutdown computer cleanly because stopping fuse fails. Fuse stops cleanly only if /mnt/windows is umnounted, and only root can do this. Where is the catch?

umask=0000 isn't really needed (it's the default), and the nls switch is valid for ntfs, not ntfs-3g

Please consult man:ntfs-3g

good point... What about fuse, what does it do?

Randy3011,

My fstab entry for the ntfs partition looks exactly as yours (except for the name of the mount point), and I don't have problems with reading/writing to the NTFS partition.

When I was installing ntfs-3g, I was also asked to install a package called fuse. The service is enabled on startup by default, but it does not shutdown cleanly, unless I manually unmount the NTFS partition (as root). This makes me think that something is not right.

Nop. I changed umask=0000 back to umask=0022, and saved the above code as /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ntfs-access-policy.fdi. Reboot. No write access as user. Changed back to umask=0000, reboot, and I have full read/write access.

A related question. Now fuse fails to shutdown cleanly, i.e, when I shutdown I can see the message "Stopping fuse ...... FAILED". The same message "Stopping fuse ...... FAILED" appears when I put the laptop to standby. I will try later again to see if I can read/write after resume. Regardless of that my concern is whether this message is something normal at all, and what i should do to solve the problem.

Edit: A followup question regarding the above script. My ntfs partition is on the same HDD as the my linux partitions. Is it still "storage.hotpluggable", or should I change this somehow?

You must first

1.Install fuse and ntfs-3g packages

2. Modprobe fuse and get sure this is done at system startup

3. Make the change at fstab from "ntfs" to "ntfs-3g"

4. If your system uses a locale different than English, you have to change the /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g symlink to get sure ALL existing files are visible. Replace it with something like

#!/bin/bash
/bin/ntfs-3g $1 $2 -o locale=en_US.UTF-8 #put your own locale here

Apparently, this gives the write access to the root user only. To be able to write as a user, I changed umask=0022 to umask=0000.

My modem is rather anonymous but the significant point to me is that it works fine with Ubuntu when I boot that up on the other hard-drive of that machine so I do blame Mandriva. Drakconnect comes up with '..doesn't seem to be connected to the Internet' with all of COM1 to 8 attempts to configure manually. COM1 makes the modem play the 'music', the others produce silence. Now I'm wondering about prefixes to the (UK) telephone number of my ISP - there may just be an issue there. I'm fast running out of patience and inspiration !

If Ubuntu works for you, just switch to Ubuntu... Though I would compare the corresponding config files out of curiosity, and try to edit them manually.

ntfs-config is a nice way to install half the GNOME desktop to your system, regardless if you need it or not.

Thanks, I did not even know such a GUI existed. Hope it works correctly, too :lol2:

I had a similar problem, which I solved by disabling compiz. For me it's either the DVD playback, or compiz , and I prefer the former. What about those jumping windows anyway, I got sick of them in a day or two...

Can't this be done by directly editing /etc/fstab? I think that used to be a way....

Edit: Do you mean adding an option to do it by click in the MCC?

And ntfs-config.

What is it? A driver or a command to configure access to NTFS partitions? Full NTFS access is still on my list of things to try. Meantime I use a vfat partition which is visible to WinXP and Mandriva.

Hear, hear to the guy who complains about modem compatibility, that is my gripe at the moment. Mandriva doesn't allow any of my attempts to set up the internet connection with my external modem, hence I am having to use my Windows machine to take part in this discussion.

Is it a dialup or a cable/DSL modem? Neither had given me any trouble in the past, I was referring to integrated onboard dialup modems (so called WinModems) which are part of many laptops.

Welcome to MUsB :)

Please give us a little more information on your system. Is it laptop or desktop? What version of Mandriva 2008 are you installing? etc. It seems that there is a problem with the service which must start next after the HAL daemon.