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You have to install kernel-source or kernel-source-stripped matching to your running kernel. The latter is smaller and IMHO should be enough though I never used vmware. If your package manager can't find kernel-source you have to setup your sources first mandrivauser.de/smarturpmi. Kernel-source should be in main.

Guys, this will be a reverse engineered driver. Reverse engineering is a very long process. Unless they get some inner info from nvidia they always be behind the official closed source drivers. Both in supporting new cards and in performance. It will be enough to make a Beryl desktop usable though.

There is a new project on freedesktop.org. Its main goal is to provide 3D acceleration on nvidia cards with an open source DRI driver. It's in very early stages so nothing works yet. Developers needed. Project home page. Required Functionality ToDo list source: hup.hu

Sun and its CEO Jonathan Schwartz kept his word and open sourced Java Standard Edition, Java Micro Edition and Java Enterprise Edition under the GPL v2 license yesterday. In his blog entry, Schwartz explains some of the reasons which led to open sourcing Java, like the Novell-Microsoft agreement. And more may come: Slashdot sources: hup.hu 1, hup.hu 2, hup.hu 3

The first one means there are no new packages in the updates dir. Since all the others you gave to smart are frozen. The second one is confusing because it wants to install packages which suppose to be installed like bash, corutils or grep etc. It's like smart doesn't know what's installed and what's not installed. There is a channel called rpm-sys among the channel. This should represent the RPM databas. You didn't deleted or unchecked, it do you? When I tried to install graveman with smart it didn't want to install anything else.

Yes, you can add the same mirrors to smart.

Maybe I misunderstood before. So if you don't know where it is, it's here: http://mandrivauser.de/smarturpmi It works better than easyurpmi at the moment IMHO.

http://news.samba.org/announcements/team_to_novell/ source: hup.hu

It's a new project. Since everything related with Beryl or with eyecandy in general gets a huge interest, I send it here. homepage Watch how it works on (low quality), or on a better quality avi file. source: hup.hu

On the first page choose your language, arch and release. Go to the next page and choose the mirrors to all the repos. On the bottom of this page there is a combo box with urpmi written in it. Change it to smart. Finish the process and it will give you the commands for adding repos for smart. Smart is in contrib and I think it's not on the CDs\DVD. To install it with urpmi you need to add sources to urpmi first or download the packages directly. Once smart is installed you add repos to smart then.

Forgot to write that though the idea is brilliant how they made it is not. Big part of their file structure is just renamed POSIX dirs e.g. Users=home, Settings=etc. They could have done using the old names.

You have to do the same as for urpmi just choose smart instead of urpmi on easyurpmi or smart-urpmi. Btw I suggest to use the latter because easyurpmi does not support the backport and contrib/backport and contrib/updates tree while smart-urpmi gives you everything even their own repo.

Well this a new mirror structure. Before that it was just main, contrib and updates. Now both main and contrib has release, testing, backports and updates subdirectory. Release is the tested and frozen directory, it doesn't change. Testing and updates is what the name suggests. Packages for testing and updates. Backports are newer packages compiled from cooker sources. Only the main/release and main/updates get the official blessing of the Mandriva QA team. Everything else is unsupported. Though they get automated checking and are built with the mandriva build system. It's up to the packagers what goes into the contrib and backports directory. Thac is a totally different issue. He builds his packages on his own, well there's Ze too. He uses what he wants and he admits that his packages are often fresher and therefore more unstable than the cooker packages. Uses them at your own risk.

Press Ctrl+Alt+F1, login as root. Use the useradd command to create a new user. Press Ctrl+Alt+F7 to get back to the graphical login screen. If it still won't let you in restart the x server.

Of course I would. This makes package management a way lot easyer. Don't know if it's causing some other issues or not though. Like how does this effect the system security. I'm afraid though that this is the only advantage of Gobo Linux yet comparing to other distros. But it's still only 2 years old. I wish Mandriva would start to use this kind of package management.

im sorry. what exactly is the add.urpmi command?More specifically what is the exact media address. Looks like easyurpmi is not updated to the new ftp directory. You can use smart-urpmi instead.

It's on Mandriva 2007 which is using the new freedesktop standard XDG menu. The problem is WindowMaker does not support it. To workaround it XDG is able to generate a menu in WM readable format. Of course all the items in this menu are in the big menu there is nothing which would only show up under WM. I'd like to workaround it. This is the /etc/menu.d/WindowMaker script which generates the WindowMaker menu from XDG menu: if [ "$USER_MENU" = "1" ]; then OUTPUTDIR=$HOME/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/ else OUTPUTDIR=/usr/share/WindowMaker fi echo -e '/* Automatically generated file by /etc/menu.d/WindoMaker. Do not edit */\n\n#include "wmmacros"\n' > $OUTPUTDIR/menu if [ "$VERBOSE" = "1" ]; then echo "writing to $OUTPUTDIR/menu" /usr/bin/xdg_menu --verbose --format WindowMaker --charset UTF-8 >> $OUTPUTDIR/menu else /usr/bin/xdg_menu --format WindowMaker --charset UTF-8 >> $OUTPUTDIR/menu 2> /dev/null fi As you can see it's very simple., and it generates a menu file like this: I cut out the most but it's still understandable I think. Now as you can see every submenu is between "Something MENU" and "Something END" bracketts like the whole menu is between "Mandriva Linux MENU" and "Mandriva Linux END". So if I want to modify the generated menu I have to put the new lines before the "Mandriva Linux END" line. How do I do that from a script? I thought for example after genarating the menu deleting the last line and adding new entries by using "echo "blah blah" >>menu file". So how can I delete the last line of a text file from a bash script? Or does anybody have a better idea to solve this?

It's just the "A feeling of rain" theme. I didn't do anything special with it. Pity WindowMaker is not that fine tuned in Mandriva as it is in Suse. Still got an issue to solve with the menu for example.

i'm sorry but do you mean i can add it like any other repo? Yes.

Mandriva 2007 and Windowmaker

The license can be GPL: http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/b...cleId=193600331

Mine doesn't automount at all. But since it's just right click\mount in Krusader I didn't care, until the last time my brother brought a camera and I couldn't mount it.

how does one get access to the cooker or /backports rpmdrake package? Backports is a new tree in main, it's not in cooker. It's under media/main. You can add it like any other ftp tree.

Further details: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories....9228&EDATE= http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....SOFT-NOVELL.xml So MS pays Novell almost 350 million $ for virtualization. I think that means they will give virtualized SLES to their customers if they want it. After all it seems harmless if only this is in it.