liquidzoo

Where is the stage1 file on the floppy?

From the command that it's trying to issue, it looks like it should be in /boot/grub, is that where it is?

I have never tried to make a grub boot floppy, always installed grub to the mbr. Any particular reason that you're using the floppy method?

I have run WoW (2 accounts at the same time on multiple monitors, no less) for about a year on Linux using regular Wine (not Cedega) and I can confirm that it is rock solid, and a noticeable performance increase over Vista.

I even got Ventrilo working perfectly last night, and the PTT key works when WoW has focus.

Have you tried removing and re-adding all of the urpmi sources?

urpmi.removemedia -a to remove them all, then use the easy urpmi page to add the sources again. It might help.

I would not recommend running normal, everyday programs as root.

But.

Have you added all of your urpmi sources? If not, see the easy urpmi link at the top of the page. Once they are all added, open a console, switch to root and type:

XFdrake

From there, choose your video card (just hit enter on the selection screen) and it will ask if you want to use the proprietary drivers, respond yes and everything will be installed for you. Then restart X (or reboot) and everything should be working in terms of the drivers.

Try creating a file in your /home/user folder called .xinitrc

In this file, just put the following:

startkde

Then follow the instructions adam posted to log in as your normal user (if you reboot, you don't have to as you can just log out of X) and type startx

In theory, that should launch KDE as your normal user.

What login manager do you use?

When you get that login screen, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to another screen, then login as root and type:

killall kdm (or gdm, or xdm depending on what you use)

You can then switch back to the normal screen with Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in as your normal user.

Sometimes when you're updating to cooker it won't get all of the packages on the first go-around.

What you're describing looks very much like a problem with your WM/DE. Have you tried launching it from the command line so you can see if there are any errors?

There is a menu option, and forgive me because I've forgotten where it is but I know it's inside one of those 'more applications' links, that will allow you to open a file browser as root which will allow you to edit those files through a gui editor if you choose.

Another option, and I know you said you didn't like the command line, would be to open a terminal (or the run command option) and type:

su -c 'kwrite /path/to/file'

with the quotes and that will open up that file, in kwrite, as root after prompting you for the root password.

fluxbox will use the .xinitrc file if you start it from the command line. I did figure out that the background was being set in the theme, which was being applied after the fbsetbg command was run.

If I could find the icon bar that did what I wanted I would be all set and use flux again as my main WM. As it stands, however, I went back to XFCE for now (while trying to fix KDE or find what I'm looking for).

Maybe xcompmgr + awn would do it, but I'm not sure. I will play around when I get the time and see what I can find.

Just out of curiosity, what version of the mandriva dvd do you have? I'm not sure if you can get the kernel version from that dvd boot menu, but if you can, it would be a great help.

From your menu description, press F3 to get to more options, then F6, I believe, for the kernel options

Sounds to me like the disc you got might be bad, but that's just a theory. You say Ubuntu loaded with no issues, right?

What you might try, if you've got a good connection and some time to spare, is to download a new 2008.1 i586 dvd iso from one of the mirrors, burn it, and go from there. That might be better for you.

Make sure you get the i586 version of the disc, not the 64 bit version. That also could be your issue but I don't know for sure.

I installed flux again yesterday, and almost got everything working the way I want. Just have a couple of questions.

In my ~/.xinitrc file, I have a line to set the background when I log in. That works just fine, but when the flux desktop loads, it seems like it overwrites my background and I am left with a pale grey color background. If I run the command again, problem solved.

How do I prevent this from happening? I want it to just work and not overwrite the background. If I have to customize the theme, I will do so.

Second question:

Can anyone recommend a good icon bar that is both compatible with flux and that will launch programs with more than one word launch commands (like a game running through Wine)? I tried adesklets, but it won't work properly.

Also, do things like thunar (XFCE file browser) not work when you call them outside of XFCE? Perhaps the actual command is different, though I can't imagine that it would be.

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If you're a command line junkie, you can also type

urpme <packagename>

As root in a terminal to perform the same function.

That didn't work, though. My KDE installation was compiled without Xinerama support, which I needed to get this working correctly. Once it was compiled in, everything worked exactly as I wanted it to.

xfce 4.4.2, Compiz

Now, if I could only figure out how to get rid of some of those icons on the desktop.

I'm looking to get a headset and I was looking at USB ones, but I could get any of them in reality. I want to know if anyone has experience with a USB headset in Linux and if there's anything I should look out for, or if it would be easier to just get a regular headset and go that route.

I'm sure this has been answered before, but what is that icon launcher on the right hand side of the screen?

And does it work with KDE :P

If a mod would please mark this as [solved] I would appreciate it.

A quick search of the gentoo forums gave me a topic with this exact issue (well, he was using Gnome, but same issue nonetheless).

After adding xinerama to my make.conf USE flags, I recompiled KDE

emerge -DuN kde

And without changing my xorg.conf file at all, everything is working the way I want.

Hopefully this helps someone else too. I'll post screenshots when I get home from my sister-in-law's wedding next week.

Looks like I may just need to add another Monitor section and the relevant screen section to my xorg.conf file, but that is exactly what I want to do, paul, thanks.

Well, flip it so the left monitor is the primary, but I can figure out how to do that :P

It could also be that gentoo is reading the variable in a different manner than Mandriva and Sabayon were for some odd reason. It shouldn't, but you never know.

I know that in some programs I write code for 1 = True, and others -1 = True and anything else is False.

I will take a look and see if I can get it working.

Funny thing is, that xorg.conf file that I posted above is the one from Sabayon, that this was working on. I wondered if I needed 2 monitor entries, though, and I'm not sure how it's going to work with both monitors being identical.

In case my description isn't clear, this is what I'm looking to accomplish:

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...st&p=327620

I saw that too, but it doesn't give me the options I'm looking for.

I may make a partition and install Mandriva, just to get that part working, then copy the xorg.conf file over to gentoo and see if that fixes my issue.

It might.

That is, if I can't figure it out beforehand.

I did that, same result. I get a taskbar that stretches across both monitors, instead of just one of them, and applications that open up in the middle.