[Discuss] Search for help and advice.;

[Michael]

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 11:41 -0700, Yves Bajard wrote:

> Would there be, on discuss at vlug.org, a person from Victoria and
> surroundings willing to provide me consulting services for the
> following:
> 
> I just bought a new machine,  an HP 8000, with Vista Home Premium on
> it. It is machine with considerable potential as a media centre. I
> installed my usual Win programs on the Windows Vista partition (which
> initially covered the whole hard drive. 
> 
> 
> Then, I installed Linux (Mandriva 2007.1 (Spring) PowerPack, and to that
> effect reduced the Windows partition to 150 Gig, which is ample, 
> 
> My Mandriva distrib is comfortably set  in another 150 GB of the
> remaining space on the 500GB Hard drive. I did the update proposed by
> the distrib, and added a few of my usual Linux programs 
> 
> I am no media expert by far: an absolute novice, but I'd like to learn,
> 
> My linux installation presents some flaws. On starting, it does not find
> the soundcard.(perhaps because I have not plugged speakers...)
> 
> However, I am also stuck in my updates for the installation of two dkms
> and nvidia files by the absence of libSG.so.1.
> 
> Also, when launching the linux option on grub, I see a number of failed
> operations ( kernels and ati files not installed,etc..).
> 
> Also, I do not know how to use the media centre either in Windows or in
> Linux.
> 
> Anyone willing to help during the day or on evenings for a reasonable
> fee? 
> 
> All the best
> 
> 
> Yves Bajard
> 
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Hello Yves, Michael Leamy here.

    I just upgraded to Mandriva 2007.1 myself from 2006, and
unfortunately the things you are faced with seem to be common examples
of the myriad bugs this distro has. In fact, this distro is so shoddy it
has prompted me to finally take the plunge and switch to Kubuntu.
Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, you might want to
consider the same thing.

    My $0.02.

    Thanks and good luck, Michael Leamy.