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Soldato
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hi, now i have got everything sorted and settled on mandriva im fairly happy. there are however a few little niggles i have, most of which i cant remember but will post when they occur. but the ones that have stuck in my head are :
1. Firefox fonts. what do people use as the standard settings can be hard to read sometimes.
2. Firefox layout. well i say firefox, but i had the same issue with google chrome. sites like www.halifax.co.uk dont display properly, is this something i can fix or is it something that i have to live with.
3. Laptop Screen Dim. i have turned off everything i can see in the power settings for dimming the screen when the power is disconected (laptop) but it still dims the screen, and when power is plugged back in it doesnt brighten up, even though the brightness slider is set to max.
4.aMSN login. when i dont sign out from windows live messenger and boot into linux, it wont sign in on aMSN as im signed in at another location, so i have to wait 15mins. is there an option to enable it to sign in in multiple locations.
5. Printer. in mint, and i think the first time i used mandriva, when i went to add a network printer my HP F4850 was picked up straight away. but now its not finding a printer, do i need to install additional drivers.

like i said, there are more, but i cant think right now.

cheers in advance.
 
1. Firefox fonts. what do people use as the standard settings can be hard to read sometimes.

Yeah I just magnify slightly. Hit ctrl and + once or twice.

5. Printer. in mint, and i think the first time i used mandriva, when i went to add a network printer my HP F4850 was picked up straight away. but now its not finding a printer, do i need to install additional drivers.

In the Debian repositories you can just install the hplip package. There is probably a package in the Mandriva repos somewhere too. This looks promising, but grab it from your package manager rather than that website if you can.
 
ok, another thing, when i boot into windows after running linux, the clock is always an hour slow :confused:

Likely to be something to do with one operating system using localtime, and one using UTC. UTC is preferred, and you should have been given the choice as to what to use when you installed your system. Tbh i have no idea what Windows would be using, but i suspect that a mismatch here is the cause of your problem.
 
Oops! That's because I royally screwed it up, sorry! Here you go. But as I said, try and get it from the repo first.

(I have a nagging suspicion that this may be one of those times I talked about earlier in which you curse RPM as a package format ;))

the annoying thing is, it works on my original pendrive install, but not on the new dual boot, and i have done everything the same.
 
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