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Mandriva2006 loss of sound.
I am running KDE Mandriva2006. After installing xine and gstreamer, I have lost use of the sound card, which was functioning correctly before. I had some error messages stating 'OSS device /dev/dsp is already in use'. I have since uninstalled both xine and gstreamer, but the problem remains. I have checked it on ... 25 Mar 2007 19:33

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ntp screwing up system time
I noticed that my one Mandriva 2006 server was running an hour slow yeseterday. Odd, since it got through the DST change ok. So I reset the clock with date. This morning I noticed that ntpd had died. Started it back up again, and it said: host found : approx.netmasters.hu and then poof, the time shifted a... 23 Mar 2007 19:53

Desperating Madrake, configuration files reset at boot
On Feb 27, 4:20 pm, Walter Mautner <leafyes. 20.eatalls...(a)spamgourmet.com> wrote: Now try to "chattr +i /etc/X11/xorg.conf" when you have added the "user_xattr" to your mount line for / in /etc/fstab, and rebooted once into runlevel 3. Then "startx" and watch .xsession-errors or /var/log/syslog for comp... 23 Mar 2007 14:38

Spreadsheet or Open Office
So, if I need a spreadsheet, then can I install the OpenOffice one just by itself - or do I need to install the whole of the Open Office suite? On the other hand, if anyone knows of another spreadsheet that can read MS's xls spreadsheets, I would be happy to hear. Thank you. ... 23 Mar 2007 12:00

Epson Scanner - Beautiful Installation
I'm going to totally break tradition. I'm going to report that... ....I just got some new hardware and getting it to talk Mandrake 2006 was not only a breeze but it works like gangbusters. I wanted a new scanner *right now*, and I didn't do any of the usual homework to see what works with Linux without seven l... 1 Apr 2007 19:22

cups problem
I have a mandrake 2007 server, with three machines on it. The server is sharing a printer via cups and samba. Two of the machines (one also Mandriva 2007 and one windows box) are able to see the printer and print fine. The final machine (per murphy, the one I use most), running Mandriva 2007 hangs whenever ... 22 Mar 2007 11:15

Clamav 0.90 problem
All: Even though I have a mirror stated in my /etc/freshclam.conf file, freshclam won't work now that I have upgraded to clamav-0.90 for Mandriva Linux 2007. Any ideas about what might be happening? Keith ... 22 Mar 2007 01:09