whats your sound issue ? <br>check to see what versions of alsa are included in ubuntu and Mandriva. and check to see if the same module is loading.<br><br>Sometimes its best to make a small partition thats fat32 that both linux and windows can write to without worry of any corruption although the 3g userspace driver for NTFS is suppose to be pretty good and not have problems. you can use a usb thumb drive as this to. oh if you go the drive route you can have your firefox and thunderbird email shared 100% between linux and windows (Move the profiles to the fat32 drive or set them up on the windows side if ya want, just have to run each with the -ProfileManager option to setup the new path to the profile.) this is usefull if you get mail in windows and want to view in linux everything will be the same. bookmarks will be the same to.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">RK</b> <<a href="mailto:ronknapperpub@yahoo.com">ronknapperpub@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well...<br><br>Some more quite recent history.<br><br>Reinstalled Mandriva 2007.0 from the DVD I got<br>attached to a Linux magazine. Got it up and running in<br>about 30 minutes including the ndiswrapper route.<br><br>At this time I am not too concerned with NDISWRAPPER
<br>not working. (Still not my main production<br>environment.)<br><br>Used Firefox in Mandriva to download the latest<br>Mandriva 2008.0. Just looking to see if there is a<br>good way to upgrade instead of reinstall as I just
<br>don't have the time to possibly troubleshoot<br>differences between 2007 and 2008.<br><br>I must say I appreciate the assistance. Kind of<br>interesting that Firefox in MS Windows can't seem to<br>get a 700MB file but Firefox in Mandriva has no
<br>problem. Did it in one shot, the MD5 checked out.<br><br>The compiz is also "default" in Mandriva 2008. The<br>soundcard issue is still that, an issue, why not in<br>Mandriva, but fine in Ubuntu (even just the Live CD).
<br>I did get the upgrade apps to recognize the URLs.<br><br>The NTFS write issue is still there even for more<br>advanced experimenting. (Can't use my linux install<br>for too much production unless I have a way to acess
<br>the data back and forth with MS Windows.)<br><br>I'm kind of leaning towards sticking with Mandriva<br>(mainly since it was cake getting the network up and<br>running on it) for now. But with more experience I may
<br>choose otherwise.<br><br>Anyway, thank you for your suggestions. If I can get<br>some time free I hope to make it to a meeting.<br><br>Ron Knapper, still experimenting<br><br>--- Noah Norris <<a href="mailto:preludelinux@gmail.com">
preludelinux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> can your wireless card be upgraded / switched<br>> mini-pci , pcmcia ??? ebay<br>> and intel can be helpfull plus you have to sell your<br>> card somewhere. what<br>
> card/chipset do you have? beryl has been replaced<br>> for compiz-fusion (<br>> merging of beryl and compiz, its installed by<br>> default in ubuntu 7.10 )<br>> ubuntu 7.10 also supports ntfs write on drives . in
<br>> the long run its cheaper<br>> to upgrade the card an intel 2200 3945 card should<br>> be had pretty cheap.<br>><br>> ndiswrapper may not work forever.<br>><br>> On 10/21/07, Arron Lorenz <<a href="mailto:arronlorenz@gmail.com">
arronlorenz@gmail.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> > I agree with Mark on this one. I usually use "wget<br>> -c" to download<br>> > anything more then a couple hundred mb<br>> ><br>
> > On 10/21/07, Mark Overholser Jr <<br>> <a href="mailto:omnipotent13@gmail.com">omnipotent13@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > ><br>> > > What are you using to try to download the file?<br>> I have found that it is
<br>> > > unwise to trust Firefox to download large files,<br>> as it will fail for no<br>> > > apparent reason at different times (though it<br>> will probably tell you that it<br>> > > finished the file). If you are trying to use
<br>> Firefox, I would go to a<br>> > > different method of downloading the files before<br>> giving up.<br>> > ><br>> > > Mark<br>> > ><br>> > > On 10/18/07, RK < <a href="mailto:ronknapperpub@yahoo.com">
ronknapperpub@yahoo.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>> > > ><br>> > > > A couple of questions.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > First, does anyone have the Mandriva 2008 DVD?<br>> If so,
<br>> > > > could I get a copy? (For some reason I can't<br>> even<br>> > > > download the CD, it fails at various places<br>> from<br>> > > > various mirrors.) My son really wants the
<br>> Beryl<br>> > > > (Coldfusion) or whatever it's called desktop.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Second, can I do an "upgrade" to 2008? I<br>> currently<br>> > > > have Mandriva 2007 loaded. The reason I am
<br>> using<br>> > > > Mandriva is I dabbled with Mandrake a few<br>> times X<br>> > > > years ago and it seemed fairly good. I have<br>> tried<br>> > > > Ubuntu and Kubuntu and just can't seem to get
<br>> them<br>> > > > configured for my wireless network card while<br>> Mandriva<br>> > > > was almost overly helpful with using<br>> NDISWRAPPER. Now<br>> > > > if I can figure out why Ubuntu/Kubuntu
<br>> recognize my<br>> > > > sound card and automatically configure it when<br>> > > > Mandriva doesn't.<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Third, why can't I get the upgrade feature to
<br>> work. It<br>> > > > just won't go out to the archives. (I don't<br>> expect an<br>> > > > answer on this one at all yet because I am not<br>> > > > providing any details. Just putting it out
<br>> there.)<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Now if I only had the time to configure NTFS<br>> > > > read/write, figure out the sound card, WINE,<br>> ...<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Unfortunately, for all its failings, I am
<br>> stuck with<br>> > > > MS Windows for my daily work because it just<br>> works,<br>> > > > most of the time. Blah blah, be quiet Ron...<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Thank you very much.
<br>> > > ><br>> > > > Ron Knapper<br>> > > ><br>> > > ><br>> > > ><br>> > > ><br>> __________________________________________________<br>> > > > Do You Yahoo!?
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