cymbaloum

You can easily try xara with a klik package. The program seems to work well, but so far you can only save in the xara format, which is of limited use, I think

- Regarding Krita, Devries is absolutely correct that the on-line handbook refers to a tablet settings configuration dialogue. However that is pertaining to version 1.5 (and presumably higher), which is just yet unreleased.

You can easily install the latest krita 1.5 beta by using klik. I did so and got tablet support on a Mandriva 2006. This is not a real install, so it won't mess up with mandriva's krita. It will just download a self-contained version of krita which will work out of the box without messing your system.

Just install klik (takes a couple of seconds):

- Press Alt-F2

- paste this:

wget klik.atekon.de/client/install -O -|sh

- follow instructions (like restarting your firefox when requested to do so, or giving root previleges so that klik can modify fstab - only needed once)

- go here to install krita 1.5-beta

Ok, thanks for your help:

- I did the modprobe -r usbmouse thing (don't know if it helped, but can't hurt, I guess)

- I corrected the X configuration (it automatically changed event3 to event0, just like you)

- after (machine) rebooting, I did again chmod 666 /dev/input/event3, before doing startx (I guess if cat does not work as user, it won't work for X

After these three changes the tablet is working wonderfully. But the set up is far from perfect. Now every time I want to use the tablet, I need to change the xorg.conf file, reboot, do the chmod thing, and only then launch X. Quite cumbersome....

As for your Krita problems, I will make a post in the previous discution (I could get the 1.5 version working with the tablet with no sweat thanks to klik)

Hello,

I have problems with Kword and Kdissert in my mandriva 2006 install:

Whereas with Kate I can type accented characters such as é or õ, this is not possible with Kdissert and KWord.

With KWord I found out that changing the spelling dictionaries to a language with accents I could get accents. The problem is that if I close and start again Kword, the capacity to type accents is lost. To recover it I just need to change again those dictionaries (even if the first was already from an accented language). A bit painfull to have to do this trick everytime I open KWord.

As for KDissert, I had absolutely no luck. It looks that accented characters are chinese to this application.

What really gets me is that Kate and Kspread have absolutely no problem!

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

Hello,

I'm trying to configure my wacom to work with a mandriva 2006 installation.

I followed the very helpful post from devries on the subject:

- I loaded the wacom module

- I checked that output indeed came from /dev/input/event3

- chmod 666 /dev/input/event3 to allow the user to "listen" to the wacom

- changed the xorg.con file with the code provided by devries

- rebooted the X system

- loaded Gimp

- configured the advanced settings for input devices

And got no response using the tablet...

So, to summarize: The kernel can hear the tablet, and somehow the X windows system knows about the tablet, since Gimp suggests the stylus in input devices settings.

But I can get no reaction. The tablet does not move the pointer under KDE, Gimp is impervious to it, same for Krita. Somehow, I have the feeling that the X system is not really listening to the tablent output.

Can someone make some suggestions on how to proceed?

As far as I know, only IRiver seems to produce media players that can play .ogg files, but I read an Amazon.co.uk review where some guy got very upset that his IRiver didn't work with his Linux box. So obviously I got concerned.

I have a iRiver H340 media player. It's a wonderful machine and works perfectly with any Linux I tried, including Mdv. The player is completely OS agnostic, so it's really easy. It basically shows up as a USB drive, and you can do whatever you want with it.

I have also heard complaints about later players from iRiver (iFP, I think), which seem to be designed to only work with MS Windows. If that's true, one should obviously avoid such models. It's a pity that iRiver spoiled their reputation among Linux users. I find their players the best of the market (but then, I'm not a specialist).

Note that glxgears is really only good at telling you if direct rendering works. To truly test graphics performance in Linux you need to try out an 3D/OpenGL game. I have no seen any linux graphics benchmarks that I would consider reliable.

Well, I suppose that while a high glxgears does not necessarily mean good performance in a 3D/OpenGL game, but low glxgears performance makes it certain that game graphics performance will be poor, unfortunatelly.

You will need matching kernel and kernel-source rpm packages. Make sure to update your urpmi lists and download the latest and matching kernel packages.

I run into the same problem, which I described here, it might be usefull to you.

Providing them with CDs is a wonderful idea. That's actually how I started with Linux (thanks Mr. Knopper :) ). This would allow them to easily check that their computer works reasonably well with Linux without too much troubleshooting. One possibility is to go with knoppix (to have state of the art linux demo), or with a home cooked puppy linux live CD. Puppy is a nice simple distribution, and I heard it's very easy to add what you wanto to it.

If you have some computer addicts in your class room, you should mention geekbox to them (it even runs on Xboxes), a distribution made for gaming (never tried it myself, but I plan eventually to do that).

The Dos games are also a very good idea (I have been wanting to do the same, so I'm interested in how you do it), but make sure you can re-distribute the games you burn on the CD. One of the strong arguments of the Libre/OSS movement is that it allows people to do sophisticated computing at reasonable prices in a legal way. And letting them take home a system full of games is a sure way of getting them interested.

I think there are websites that can inform you if the games you are planning to demo can be legally distributed (use "abandonware" keywords in your search)

Another thing that I did not mention is the opportunity to teach them how to use firefox in an efficient way (and sometimes in ways that IE can't match :) )

- popup block

- tabbed browsing

- search box

- Extensions (Adblock, Flashgot, etc... see here)

- Bloglines, del.icio.us bookmarklets (an introduction to these services would also be nice)

- search box with yubnub*

* That's one of my latest discoveries: configure your firefox searchbox to use Yubnub. This turns the search box into a powerfull command line interface:

- Ctrl-K g whatever : searches for whatever in google (Ctrl-K is to access the search box from the keyboard)

- Ctrl-K gim whatever : gets you pics of whatever, from google

- Ctrl-K sudoku : gives you a sudoku to waste your time with (beware, very addictive!!)

- Ctrl-K wp whatever : gives you info on whatever from wikipedia (there are other wikipedia languages versions of this command)

- Ctrl-K imdb movie : gives you info on movie

You get the idea. Here is a nice introduction to what is possible with yubnub.

Still on topic (I think) yesterday, here in the UK the BBC carried a report of a secondary school which has been encouaged to seek support from businesses. Microsoft have supplied all the IT equipment and software. I wonder what that would mean for anyone in a similar position to me of planning some non-microsoft based IT lessons?

I heard that the UK is a MS Windows stronghold, but there are things that you can do to get support in your computer educational activities:

- look for LUGs (Linux User Groups) in your region (a quick search brought me this). People you meet there could provide you guidance and assistance with software and material. They might also point you to opportunities and sponsors in your region that you don't know about.

- contact Oxfam. I know they are pretty active in refurbishing old computers to provide computing and communication to disadvantged communities. They may have (or may set up with you) a school program, or otherwise tell you who is doing this in the UK

- once you have introduced your students to LibreOSS movement principles, you might ask them and their parents to donate unused computers to the school, so that you can set up a real Linux computer lab. One of the key points of Libre software is that you can do a lot with little, so I don't think getting lots of expensive material to demo Linux would be that impressive. I, for instance, have used my previous laptop for 5 years (and now offered it to my wife). Using Linux really extended the computer usefull lifetime, by allowing me to run modern but lean applications. I also used the laptop a lot as a thin client terminal, something you could also set up in the long term in your Linux lab.

- it would not hurt to convince some of your peers to help you on you activities, it's more fun to work together than to climb the mountain alone.

Finally I would like to tell you that I think it's really important that teachers like you take a more pro-active role in educating students to Libre software and the principles that underlie and power this movement. I am an enthousiastic Linux evangeliser, but I find extremelly difficult to sensibilise even very intelligent and open minded people. You need to start early to avoid having to uproot too many misconceptions about computers, software, privacy and civil rights.

Good luck!

Also look into Puppy Linux. It's a great Linux variation for aging computers.

I'll second that. Puppy Linux rocks, and not only in only computers (if you prefer computer reactivity to nice graphics).

Can I ask you a few questions?

No problem, I would be happy to save you some the pain I went through.

Are you sure you have 3D graphics acceleration? What is the output of glxinfo | grep render ?

$ glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes
GLX_ATI_render_texture
OpenGL renderer string: MOBILITY RADEON X700 Generic

And what about the test with glxgears ? Which framerate can you get ?

$ glxgears
23283 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4655.661 FPS

Which version of mandriva 2006 do you have?

mandriva 2006 official (free)

Did you upgraded some packages after your basic installation?

Yes, that was the source of the problem, because to solve a buggy X server distributed in the official CDs, Mandriva updated to X.org 6.9, to which my ATI drivers were not compatible.

So the solution is to install the new drivers that ATI released the 20th january (they say compatible X.org 6.8, but it also works with X.org 6.9, I found out). You can try to install them by yourself but the good folks from PLF already did the dirty job for you, so it's better to benefit from their experience.

For example did you installed the packages you mentioned ? I mean

 

ati-xorg-8.22.5-0.1.20060plf.i586

dkms-ati-8.22.5-0.1.20060plf.i586

kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-17mdk

I installed those packages, but in order for kernel-source package to work, you need to update your kernel (mine was still kernel...12, not kernel...17.

BTW, make sure that your urpmi lists are updated, I could not see the kernel package because for some reason my urpmi lists were not up to date.

Which version of x.org do you have? And of the kernel ? You can see by entering

rpm -qa | grep x.org

rpm -qa | grep kernel

rpm -qa | grep x.org gives nothing, one needs to type rpm -qa | grep xorg

$ rpm -qa | grep xorg
libxorg-x11-devel-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk
xorg-x11-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk
xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk
ati-xorg-8.22.5-0.1.20060plf
libxorg-x11-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk
xorg-x11-xauth-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk
xorg-x11-server-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk
xorg-x11-xfs-6.9.0-5.2.20060mdk

$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-17mdk
kernel-source-stripped-2.6-2.6.12-17mdk
kernel-2.6.12.17mdk-1-1mdk
kernel-2.6.12.12mdk-1-1mdk

Note: I kept kernel...12 as a security, but I'm using kernel..17

$ uname -a
Linux ***** 2.6.12-17mdk #1 Mon Feb 13 14:24:15 MST 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz unknown GNU/Linux

Sorry for the series of question, but you are the first person I could find declaring explicitly to have got 3D acceleration with mandriva 2006 and ati radeon.

I can't get it, I'm quite desperate.

This should work all right. For me the ati drivers were configured during boot by dmkz.

Good luck and don't forget to write down in this thread wathever you learn about this issue.

Try using mcc from the command line instead, and choose the Display option to configure the card. I normally select ATI Radeon (fglrx), and continue through.

 

Then when configured, exit, and then go back into mcc again, and see if it remembered the configuration. If it did, then make sure you're logged in as standard user, and not root, and then try startx.

Thanks for the help. Mcc leads to XFdrake, which is what I was using. But following your instructions made me realize that there were many more options than I thought (they were hidden as a collapsed tree). Sure enough, fglrx was among them.

Now not only I recovered my X, but I even have graphics 3D acceleration! THIS IS GREAT!, thanks

* sigh! *

So, it happened as I feared, I'm writing this from the command line with w3m, since I don't have a functioning X anymore (BTW: what's the problem with MUB cookies? I get plenty of bad cookie format errors when using w3m).

Here is a recap:

A nice guy from freenode: #mandriva suggested me to download the kernel...17, since the sources were for kernel...17. This I did, and then rebooted.

During reboot the ati dmkz launched the installation of the ati driver, which it completed without mentioning any problem, so I suppose it went ok.

I was then left on the command line. After loggin in I typed:

$uname -a

Which told me that I was indeed with a kernel...17. So far so good.

I then launched XFdrake under root, to finish the setup

The monitor resolution was set correctly, and I could choose without problems the monitor type (Flat Panel 1680x1050).

But when I hit Graphic Card section, the default selection for X.org server is vesa. I could find in the list Radeon and ati, but when I try to select them nothing happens, and XFdrake behaves as if nothing had been selected.

If I try to launch X with startx I receive a predictable black screen.

Any idea on how to proceed?

Continuing my graphics card installation hell:

I read here that I should install plf packages to make the ATI card work (and deal with the X.org mess):

ati-xorg-8.20.8-2.1.20060plf

dkms-ati-8.20.8-2.1.20060plf

kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-12mdk

Now when I try to install those packages, I end up with:

ati-xorg-8.22.5-0.1.20060plf.i586

dkms-ati-8.22.5-0.1.20060plf.i586

kernel-source-2.6-2.6.12-17mdk

So when the system tries to install the ati packages, it does not find the kernel-source...12 tree:

Préparation ...				  #############################################
  1/2: ati-xorg			  #warning: /etc/fglrxprofiles.csv created as /e  c/fglrxprofiles.csv.rpmnew
warning: /etc/fglrxrc created as /etc/fglrxrc.rpmnew
############################################
  2/2: dkms-ati			  #############################################

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/ati/8.22.5-0.1.20060plf/source ->
			 /usr/src/ati-8.22.5-0.1.20060plf

DKMS: add Completed.

Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.12-12mdk cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/build or /lib/modules/2.6.12-12mdk/source.
You can use the --kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it's located.

Error! Could not locate fglrx.ko.gz for module ati in the DKMS tree.
You must run a dkms build for kernel 2.6.12-12mdk (i586) first.

What do I do now? should I do as sugested and use I don't know which command with --kernelsourcedir to point to the I don't know where but finishing with 17 source tree? and how do I try again the install? (I have the feeling I'm trapped in the DLL chamber of hell)

So I got a laptop with Mdv 2006 installed on it. The laptop is equiped with an ATI Radeon Mobility X700 and everything was fine since Tux racer was conveniently accelerated.

But then I updated the system throgh MCC,, which caused a lot of updates to occur (among others the X.org rpms, etc. Since then (or at least I think it's linked to it) Tux Racer achieves a blasting 4 FPS, and glxinfo gives me this:

$ glxinfo | grep render

direct rendering: No

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

When I check xorgconf I see this:

...

# === ATI device section ===

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter"

Driver "fglrx"

Screen 0

BusID "PCI:1:0:0" # vendor=1002, device=5d48

Option "FSAAMSPosY1" "0.000000"

Option "StereoSyncEnable" "1"

Option "CapabilitiesEx" "0x00000000"

 

# ### generic DRI settings ###

# === disable PnP Monitor ===

#Option "NoDDC"

Option "FSAAMSPosX5" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY4" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosX2" "0.000000"

 

# === Pseudo Color Visuals (8-bit visuals) ===

Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"

Option "FSAAMSPosX4" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY0" "0.000000"

Option "FSAADisableGamma" "no"

 

# === Video Overlay for the Xv extension ===

Option "VideoOverlay" "on"

Option "ForceGenericCPU" "no"

Option "GammaCorrectionII" "0x00000000"

 

# === misc DRI settings ===

Option "mtrr" "off" # disable DRI mtrr mapper, driver has its own code for mtrr

Option "FSAAMSPosY5" "0.000000"

 

# === Center Mode (Laptops only) ===

Option "CenterMode" "off"

 

# === OpenGL Overlay ===

# Note: When OpenGL Overlay is enabled, Video Overlay

# will be disabled automatically

Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"

Option "FSAACustomizeMSPos" "no"

Option "FSAAScale" "1"

 

# ### FireGL DDX driver module specific settings ###

# === Screen Management ===

Option "DesktopSetup" "(null)"

 

# === FSAA Management ===

Option "FSAAEnable" "no"

Option "no_dri" "no"

Option "FSAAMSPosX0" "0.000000"

Option "GammaCorrectionI" "0x00000000"

Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "yes"

Option "BlockSignalsOnLock" "on"

Option "FSAAMSPosX1" "0.000000"

 

# === Misc Options ===

Option "UseFastTLS" "0"

 

# === disable/enable XAA/DRI ===

Option "no_accel" "no"

 

# === OpenGL specific profiles/settings ===

Option "Capabilities" "0x00000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY3" "0.000000"

Option "FSAAMSPosY2" "0.000000"

Option "ScreenOverlap" "0"

 

# === QBS Management ===

Option "Stereo" "off"

Option "FSAAMSPosX3" "0.000000"

EndSection

...

So somehow remains of the ATI installation are still present in the X.org configuration file, but the driver or card does not seem to load.

Another piece of info: in MCC the card is correctly mentioned, but there is a mention "module: unknown". I don't know if it's relevant.

I have never tried to set up a 3D card, and I am spooked about turning matters from bad to worse by making dumb troubleshooting. On the other hand the thing worked once, so it should be able to work again. Can anyone give me some directions? (and yes, I have read quite a few pages on the topic, but came out of them even more confused than before).

What I would like is advice / suggestions on projects or activities you think a class of 13-14 years old would find fun or a bit different from windows ? I want them to have a good first impression of linux.

Show them Amarok:

- ripping CDs (those they own, of course :) )

- listening to radios over the internet

- listening to podcasts (amarok is nice because it does not donwload the whole shebang, you can listen to what you want.

- if you have an ipod, you can maybe try to interface amarok with it. In case of success, you could demo that to them.

- interface with last.fm:

I would also install the lastfm player (lastfm-player, a Mdv rpm), so that they can listen and discover new music at CD quality rates.

I think this will be enough to get them hooked :)

Continuing with the audio stuff, you could let them record sounds, remix samples, etc. It could be a lot of fun to let them produce a kind of radio show, that could even be stream or podcasted by the school.

Otherwise, you can show them all the graphical/video possibilities (Gimp, Krita, ImageMagick, Inkscape, Scribus, Cinelerra, ImageJ, etc).

You could give them a project of making a small school newspaper/brochure with lots of pictures, drawings and (even) some text.

Other possibilities include manipulating video to make small sketches, reports, etc. If your pupils have access to cameras, you could group them into teams of four people in charge of making a little sequence (comical, about the school, neighborhood, town, etc). It would be short, so that they have time to do some video editing. In the end you could make a show out of it and it would be fun and a good souvenir for all of them.

Otherwise you can ask them to make websites, write texts, make presentations with OpenOffice or KOffice tools. These applications have some nifty interfaces to web data that could open their horizons on how to research a subject (dictionaries, thesaurus, wikipeda, etc, etc). Actually, you could make them write something about your town/local geographical, historical, industrial, cultural oddity in wikipedia.

Another possibility is to show them Celestia, Stellarium and other such educative applications (together with a little project for eache team of two or three people, to give them some goal: find info on planets, stars, pics, etc).

And finally, there are the game part: I don't think you should center any time on them, since it's not a strong point of Linux, but you can let them have access to Frozen-Bubble (this is always a hit), PySol (solitaire, freecell), Pathological, Wesnoth, FreeCiv. A simple FPS is Cube, but if you want to impress serious gamers (and your machines can take it) install Enemy-Territory.

Also don't forget to show them gnome-meeting (now ekiga) and gaim (you could also get them jabber accounts so that they start communicating with each other with an open protocol).

I think with this you should cover the interests of 13-16 old pupils.

Good luck and let us know how you fared

Click on the options button (wrench icon, bottom right corner), choose "Settings". There is a "Sound" section. Make sure Soundcarc (they seem to have spelled it wrong!) is set to the right card, and also try different options for "System" - this could be ALSA, OSS, or (especially in KDE) aRTs.

Strange, my "Settings" section only has "Last.fm Account", "Proxy Settings", "Browser", "Sign up + OK + Cancel" boxes. There is no "sound" section... I suppose a newer version of lastfm-player has more options.

Strangely, since yesterday I rebooted the computer, and now lastfm-player is outputing sound! Sometimes I wished computers were a bit more predictable... Just hope it stays this way.

Thanks for the help!

Hello,

I'm using a Mdv 2006 and I donwloaded the Lastfm-player (Mdv rpm). It seems to work ok, and download files from the internet (I see the titles of songs and progressing bars), but there is absolutely no sound ?!

I might as well note that amarok, mplayer, kaffeine, helixplayer, etc play fine. This is the first sound application that I install in Mdv 2006 which is sound impaired!

Does anybody have an idea if lastfm-player needs a specific sound engine, or something to that effect? the interface is very barebones and I have no clue how to proceed...

Change the last line to

DefaultColorDepth 16

...and then hit alt+ctrl+backspace...

Any better now?

 

(For the record, a quick google search brought up quite a few dispaly problems with that chip when 24-bit color depth is used).

Spot on! Now everything works perfectly!!

Thank all three of you so much for the help

Next time I'll know where to look when I have these kind of problems again

Typically MagicMedia 256ZX comes with just 4MB of video RAM, and no option to share system RAM, so you should obviously not expect much from it...

Anyway, the usual solution for color problems with so little video memory is reducing color depth to 16-bit, from 24-bit.

Can you copypaste the part of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf which refers to your video card and resolutions?

It's true the laptop is oldish, but before the 2006 install I had Mdk 10.1 on it and the Citrix client was working fine...

Here's my xorg.conf:

# File generated by XFdrake.

 

# **********************************************************************

# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of

# this file.

# **********************************************************************

 

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)

# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of

# the X server to render fonts.

FontPath "unix/:-1"

EndSection

 

Section "ServerFlags"

#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)

AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work

#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)

EndSection

 

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension

Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

Load "extmod"

Load "type1"

Load "freetype"

Load "synaptics"

Load "glx" # 3D layer

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"

Driver "keyboard"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "pt"

Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "SynapticsMouse1"

Driver "synaptics"

Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"

Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

Option "MinSpeed" "0.09"

Option "MaxSpeed" "0.18"

Option "BottomEdge" "4200"

Option "SHMConfig" "on"

Option "FingerLow" "25"

Option "LeftEdge" "1700"

Option "MaxTapMove" "220"

Option "MaxTapTime" "180"

Option "FingerHigh" "30"

Option "VertScrollDelta" "100"

Option "TopEdge" "1700"

Option "AccelFactor" "0.0015"

Option "RightEdge" "5300"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "monitor1"

VendorName "Generic"

ModelName "Flat Panel 1024x768"

HorizSync 31.5-55

VertRefresh 40-70

 

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.

# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

 

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616

EndSection

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "device1"

VendorName "Neomagic Corp."

BoardName "NeoMagic MagicMedia (laptop/notebook)"

Driver "neomagic"

Option "DPMS"

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "screen1"

Device "device1"

Monitor "monitor1"

DefaultColorDepth 24

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 8

Virtual 1024 768

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 15

Virtual 1024 768

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 16

Virtual 1024 768

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 24

Virtual 1024 768

EndSubsection

EndSection

 

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "layout1"

InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

InputDevice "SynapticsMouse1" "AlwaysCore"

Screen "screen1"

EndSection

The videocard info from the Hardware manager of Mandriva Control Center 2006.0

Identification

Vendor: ‎Neomagic Corp.

 

Description: ‎NM2360 [MagicMedia 256ZX]

 

Media class: ‎DISPLAY_VGA

 

Connection

Bus: ‎PCI

 

Bus PCI #: ‎1

 

PCI device #: ‎0

 

PCI function #: ‎0

 

Vendor ID: ‎4296

 

Device ID: ‎6

 

Sub vendor ID: ‎4136

 

Sub device ID: ‎145

 

Misc

Module: ‎Card:NeoMagic MagicMedia (laptop/notebook)

I performed all the patches and updates suggested by the mandriva software graphical manager (up to last thursday, I think)

Hello,

Like many people, I had display problems when I updated to Mdv 2006 (strange colors, misplaced icons, etc). These issues were sorted out by updating some x.org packages.

However I later found out that the issue is not totally settled. When I tried to install some games such as jump'n bump (from plf), and amphetamine (I think), I got back the same display problems (strange colors, multiple displays of the same picture, etc).

Well, I don't care about jump'n bump and other small games, the problem is that this also affects my Citrix client, which is critical for me, since it prevents me from working remotely on Linux.

Does anybody understand what's going on here, and how to address it?

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Thanks Ian for the indications. My system is up to date, but I could not find the file libXm.so.3 via urpmi.

So in the end this is how I did it:

- Download the tar.gz version and extract it.

- Launch the setup file as root:

#sh setupwfc

This installs the Citrix client in /usr/lib/ICAClient

- Register the client in firefox:

#ln -s /usr/lib/ICAClient/npica.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/

And that's it! :D

Hello,

I've installed Mandriva 2006 on my laptop, and I would like to install the Citrix client (ICAClient-9.0-1.i386.rpm).

However when I try rpm on it I get the following error:

error: Failed dependencies
           libXm.so.3 is needed by ICAClient-9.0-1.i386.rpm

Do you know how to adress that?

Anyone managed to install Citrix on a Mandriva 2006?

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