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Open a root console and type in # vbox-build-module

You will definitely have networking issues with that hosts file. Consider changing it to 127.0.0.1 localhost host-001 and restarting the network service.

# cat /etc/hosts

LXDE is a fine lightweight desktop (needs quite a bit of manual config though), and XFCE4 is somewhat heavier, but very fast, and very configrable (certainly way more so than Gnome, which is just about the only Linux DE I cannot stand at all- and I have tried pretty much everything available).

Configuration files with extensions like .old, .bak, .new, etc are not loaded by the system. They are either backups of older config files, or newer config files which wait for user approval.

You may be missing some gstreamer plugins (which, paradoxically enough, is the default phonon backend). However, gstreamer is (IMHO) an ugly and buggy solution. Actually GNOME users despise gstreamer, why KDE users have to live with it? I set all my desktop systems with no PulseAudio, and the phonon xine backend. It plays pretty much everything, provided that xine can use a full win32codecs pack (you can get it either from PLF, or directly from the mplayer site). Another option are the mplayer and vlc phonon backends. Both are unofficial, and mostly beta, but they are quite promising. For now, the one that works best is definitely the phonon-xine backend.

Have you tried to locate the printer via http://localhost:631 (the default web UI of cups, that is).

The old driver i810 does not exist in the newer xorg releases- it has been merged with the "intel" driver. I think that only the very old i740 driver hasn't been merged.

In VLC, disabling the screensaver basically works right out of the box. With mplayer and its frontends, you have to do a couple of things: nano ~/.mplayer/config In that file, add a line heartbeat-cmd="xscreensaver-command -deactivate &" This should work for all DE's - if it doesn't then change to heartbeat-cmd="gnome-screensaver-command -p &" for GNOME. Notice that the GNOME screensaver may stay off even after mplayer is closed, due to a bug (which I don't know if has been fixed).

If you have an nvidia card and you are using the proprietary driver then you may have better luck applying antialiasing settings from there ( alt+ F2 and "nvidia-settings" ) overriding the application settings.

The windows boot.ini is the hard way to dualboot. The easy one is installing grub at the mbr. Windows do not assign a letter to non-windows FS partitions, but nevertheless you can see all of them (and eventually manage) via the windows Disk Manager.

You shouldn't have any issues if the virtual network is using NAT. Else, you must get sure your virtual IP is accepted by the remote server's /etc/hosts.allow config file.

Should be a HAL issue, since we had some of the same in ArchLinux. I guess nobody really cares about HAL issues/bugs, since it will be soon deprecated - it already has in *buntu 9.10, where it's replaced by DeviceKit. The latter ain't perfect, but surely enough is better documented and slightly easier to write rules for it.

To have the full 4GB utilized in 32-bit OS, you must do two things: 1. Enable PAE in system BIOS 2. Install and use a himem-enabled 32-bit kernel. I believe the current name of that kernel in Mandriva is kernel-server. In any case, enabling PAE in the BIOS invariably leads to performance loss- I can safely bet that your system will perform better with a normal kernel, no PAE and just 3 GB RAM used. In any case, regular 32- bit procedures cannot use more than 2GB of RAM.

They should wait for ten days or so... to have the new, shiny KDE 4.3.3 release included.

Well, on can't have all at once. Pulseaudio has great extensibility, but one ends up with no sound, sooner or later... :P Alsa is certainly more solid, but it's API is extremely poor, and the sound quality isn't great, either. OSSv.4 offers brilliant sound, but doesn't support MIDI, and also has severe issues on laptops (with suspend/resume). All that said, I don't like PulseAudio at all, either.

Sorry, I meant thunderbird, not firefox. Get it from here, install it locally, and see what happens. Or, preferrably, use a better mail client (Claws, for example).

Well, I'm not hiding. PulseAudio should be shot in the head, period and fullstop. If the current firefox for Mandriva is built against PulseAudio (not using Mandriva, so I don't know), then simply use a stock one, from mozilla.org.

Ahhh... I do love Linux, but its sound servers are a pain. Arts was buggy as hell, gstreamer has loads of issues (mainly with streaming media), PulseAudio should be shot in the head right now, and Phonon is rather OK, but it's using gstreamer as main backend, which is a catastrophic combo. With xine backend it's working much better, but I'd rather use the new Mplayer, or VLC backend (both of them are buggy ATM). Maybe the real problem is not the sound server, but ALSA and its extremely poor API... but since OSS4 can't do some elementary things yet (e.g. utilize a MIDI I/O properly) I have no real choice...

Poulsbo support is there. http://www.osnews.com/comments/22350 However, the current poulsbo implementation in pretty much any distro is far from perfect.

eps files will never look 100% the same in two different boxes- as the format is hardware (printer) specific. The best editor for eps files is the current Scribus 1.5.0 from SVN (QΤ4, new pdf rendering libraries), but even that one wouldn't render perfectly an eps made in another machine.

Try webmin, then - or directly editing smb.conf I have not used Mandy for the last 1.5-2 years, but even before I was using MCC very rarely, for obvious reasons: it's both unintuitive, and buggy.

What VGA do you have?

Try burning the ISO with ImgBurn- windows app, but it works flawlessly under wine as well. Tick on the "verify" option, so you'll be sure your burned disk has no errors, compared to the ISO image.

7-zip offers better compression ratios... and if it's an imagefile, you can always use gimp2 to resize/change dpi/change format in a comprehensive and convenient way. Surely enough, there are also other methods to manipulate images, but (IMHO) nothing comes close to the mighty gimp.