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Official Mandriva 2008 documentation is here. Beware these are big (50M) files. There used to be a command line guide but it's not there so guess it must be in one (or both) of the mastering guides what you need.

I understand that the hdlist.cz files are way bigger, but could you explain to me why downloading files using those mirrors were fast but loading the hdlist.cz took ages?

You mean downloading hdlist.cz files takes more time then downloading packages?

Hdlist files are big. The last time I checked the hdlist file of main/release was about 30M and the hdlist file of contrib/release was about 50M. Most packages are a way smaller then this.

Besides these files need to be processed and merged into the existing database of urpmi. So maybe it's not the downloading itself what takes ages.

ATI Catalystâ„¢ Linux Graphics Driver 8.2 has been released. This driver pack installs the 8.455.2 version of the x86 Linux driver.

 

It can be downloaded from here. Resolved and known issues are here.

Hello All

I am completely new to mandriva & Linux.

I have downloaded Mandriva Linux One 2008 and installed it on my computer.

 

My system information is:

Amd Sempron 2600+ Processor it is a 64 bit compatible system.

I want to know what is my architecture is?

I don't really understand what you mean. You wrote it's 64 bit compatible. Your OS is 32 bit.

I have read about dependencies and downloaded easyurmpi with systen architecture I586.

I downloaded some rpm files. Some files installed sucessfully with install and remove software program. but i cannot find where they are installed in my computer. I installed a game named kdiamond-0.1-0.i586.rpm from (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KDiamond?content=74922)

it installed after some dependencies.It was installed sucessfully by install and remove software

but when I access the game from my menu-->games-->puzzles-->KDiamond

it doesnot start.

What is the problem I am having with my os?

You use the Windows kind of software installing. In Linux you use the software installer utility to download and install software. It also handles the dependencies too. You just have to configure where to download the software from. Those are mostly ftp servers with a specific directory structure called reposytories or just simply repos. To configure the software installer utility visit easyurpmi.zarb.org.

The rpm you installed is not a Mandriva rpm file. Rpm packages are not portable from distro to distro.

I am getting this information from control center:

KDE Version:3.5.7

User:xxxxx

Hostname:localhost

System:Linux

Release:2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv

Machine:I686

 

Please help me with this matter.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Freeboy.

Mandriva was created when MandrakeSoft and Conectiva merged, hence the name. So it's Brazilian and French too. It was true when 2005LE came out and it is true now. So whatever your problem is with the French it still applies.

 

When I tried Opera Flash wasn't working right for me too. From other posts I read and because Flash was working perfectly in Firefox on the same system I guess it's more of a Flash or Opera issue than Mandriva's fault.

 

Hdlist.cz files also has changelogs and file lists in them not just descriptions. Working with (much) bigger files takes more time. So depending on the bandwidth and the speed of your computer it might had looked like Konsole was frozen.

Which version are you using? Which repos did you add?

For those who don't visit the official forum regularly and met with this problem: click

The fourth pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. The new features in this pre-release are:

• recognition of other installed distributions during installation
  
• NTFS-3G (with write support) by default for all NTFS partitions
  
• significant improvements to the Mandriva graphical software management tool
  
• and more.
  

See here for download information.

On the 9th of February 1998 Bruce Perens published the Open Source Definition and made the public announcement of the Open Source Initiative that Eric Raymond and him were starting. Friday, February 8 was the last day of Decade Zero of Open Source. Saturday, February 9 is the anniversary of Open Source and the start of Decade One.

You can read his article about the state of Open Source here.

I suggest you to wait until somebody makes the RPMs for you. Most likely the MDE guys Thac and Ze They already have their own KDE 4 packages. Most likely they will make 4.0.1. too.

The Mandriva packages you can find on ftp.kde.org were actually built by a Mandriva developer. But building the freshest KDE 4 packages is obviously not a priority. Testing Mandriva 2008.1 is.

Anyway as things stand now I rather look at KDE4 on a live CD not by installing it onto my system. But that's just my personal opinion.

The new security/bugfix release of Firefox is out. It can be downloaded from here. You can read the Release Notes here.

Both files came in the package module-init-tools. It's a base package in Mandriva 2008.

module-init-tools - Tools for managing Linux kernel modules​ 

 

This package contains a set of programs for loading, inserting, and removing kernel modules for Linux (versions 2.5.47 and above). It serves the same function that the "modutils" package serves for Linux 2.4.

Their content is either autogenerated or prewritten because I've never changed any of them but there are a few module names in them.

This is from the beginning of blacklist-compat:

# Listing a module here prevents the hotplug scripts from loading it.

# Usually that'd be so that some other driver will bind it instead,

# no matter which driver happens to get probed first. Sometimes user

# mode tools can also control driver binding.

 

Mandriva 2008.1 will use a new audio system called PulseAudio. Like with every new system you can expect some problems.

While the world is still recovering from the work on KDE 4.0.0, we are ready to announce the release of KDE 4.0.1, the first bug fix update of the KDE 4.0 desktop. KDE 4.0.1 contains numerous bugfixes such as stability improvements, performance improvements and, as in every point release, updated translations for most components. Lots of work has been put into shared components making the life of most applications easier. Particularly striking is also the high number of bugfixes in KHTML. Have a look at the change log for a more detailed, if maybe not 100% complete list of improvements. KDE 4.0.1 is already translated into 48 languages with more coming soon.

 

Read the rest here. KDE 4.0.1 can be downloaded from these mirrors.

The sound card driver is a kernel module. You can use the modprobe command to add or remove a kernel module. But you also have to start the ALSA service too. I don't know if the kernel module starts automatically ALSA too or no not but in case it doesn't you can use the

service servicename start

command or the chkconfig command to start it. Note that after a reboot these settings will disappear and you have to load the services again unless you use chkconfig with the --add switch.

 

To blacklist a module Mandriva has /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-compat and blacklist-mdv files. I can't remember Mandriva 2007.

You have to right click on an underlined word and it will give you a list of available words. You can also change the language there which is what tyme suggested in the previous post.

Il ike the little green update applet which alerts me if there are updates available. My only problem has been that it hogs a lot of resources for the first minute, when I prefer to get started with a web browser or a music player. The applet does not have an easy way to change its configuration but I found some interesting lines of code in /usr/bin/mdkapplet

 

> $config{UPDATE_FREQUENCY} ||= 3*60*60; # default to 3hours

> $config{FIRST_CHECK_DELAY} ||= 25 * 1000; # default to 25 seconds

 

The first line controls the intervals between checking for updates, the second one how long time after startup the applet should check for updates. I changed the second line to:

 

$config{FIRST_CHECK_DELAY} ||= 600 * 1000;

 

so the applet will wait 10 minutes (eg. 600 seconds) before starting. In those 10 minutes I've had enough time to start whatever programs I'd like to use.

 

Mattias Thuresson

 

from: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=79734

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Packaging

We do not follow mandriva packaging?!

 

Well we follow mandriva packaging policy even more that many official mandriva packagers, i have already refered this to one of the main mdv developers...

...

Hope i could clarify whats mde :)

Yes thank you that clarified a lot.

I'd like to ask you one question though. Now that Mandriva has backports repos is there a plan or at least some hope to use that and work more closely with Mandriva instead of using your own separate repo?

You can cut and paste out of pdf files directly with kpdf.

About books, you can search on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Kernel-Develop...e/dp/0672325128

AFAIK there is no kernel developer here. Iphitus is the closest to what you need here. He's an Arch Linux developer.

The website I recommend to start with is kernelnewbies.org.

Not packaged by Mandriva? I bet there are a lot of things there which is packaged by Mandriva e.g. KDE. There can be newer versions though and AFAIK they don't follow Mandriva packaging policy thoroughly. But you better ask Ze about it.

No the live CD can't be used as a repository because it contains one big compressed image instead of packages. I don't know how Ubuntu worked around this.

Anyway if you need a media to use as an offline install source you need the regular install DVD\CDs.

The third pre-release of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring is here. Major new features of this pre-release:

• KDE 4.0.0 final (in the repositories, not on the discs)
  
• a new XML-based package metainformation system
  
• out-of-the-box support for multimedia keys on many common keyboards
  
• new NVIDIA and ATI drivers, kernel 2.6.24 RC8 (with ALSA 1.0.16 RC1)
  
• Perl 5.10
  

See here for download information. Read more details here.

You mean with the GUI (rpmdrake)? AFAIK there's no such option for rpmdrake yet. You have to use the command line as described in the previous post.

Mandriva 2006 is old not supported anymore. Besides it was the worst Mandriva\Mandrake release I have ever met. It made me switch to PCLinuxOS. If memory serves well it had an experimental X server which caused a hell of a lot of problems. This X server can be the cause of your problem.

I suggest to upgrade\install a newer release.

But if you can't or don't want to, then could you make a screenshot? You can use the program called Ksnapshot under KDE.