Reiver_Fluffi

Yeah 7.0 is in FC5 which installed about 80 packages, although i'm not sure about removing any, usually when I do things like this it breaks..... :D Is there any optopmisation benefits from removing packages other than disc space?

It's the same ol story as last year. Even if 2.12 could have been rushed at the time, they wouldn't on the grounds of stability. Just because 2.15 is in cooker, doesn'y mean that it is stable, or that it will make it into the official release come September! I'm only going by the precedence Mandriva set in previous years! Oh and another thing, why include 2.16 in official (including free), when you can make it a club/kiosk option? Ka-ching €€€'s

Owch, yes that's me trolling that thread (oh how embarrasing )

If the last release is anything to go by, you can forget Gnome 2.16. 2.12 was released on the second week of September last year, 2.16 will be release at the same time this year. 2006 did not include 2.12 as the version freeze occured the month before and that the final release of 2.12 occured one week before the proposed release date of 2006. This is the same situation with 2007, the versions freeze date occurs before 2.16 is planned for release!

:huh: I can't see how cooker comes in to this, it's a development snapshot. IMHO it is more constructive to compare stable with stable.

Another point is to make sure that your monitor is correctly configured in xorg.conf, it may seem strange, if poorly configured it can still work fine with the GPL drivers, but as soon as you throw in the ATI driver it will penalise you for a poorly congurated monitor. You should not have any problems with the 9550, I use one and get around 2500 fps with the ati driver (although I use Fedora and the livna drivers).

Ah, After a while playing around it looks to be a problem with gnome-cd. The drive plays fine with xine and kscd. Hey you can't have everything! (the error with totem I got no matter what drive I used). Thanks all!

Hey Gul you need to give us some sord of feedback on your experiencewith it (broken things aside)

Shoot me down for stereotyping, but I reckon that most that don't use KDE or GNOME, won't be using Mandriva!

Welcome to the 15 minuts of fame :D :D :D I dunno, it was kinda used for some mild management bashing :unsure:

kmc77 Thanks for the thought, but I use Gnome.

I've used as many programs as possible, none of them work. One of the error messages was along the lines of "libraries exist for cdda but the drive is not accessable", well something like that, this was with Totem. I can confirm the actual messages later. I get nothing from gnome cd player. Totally different situation when I use the dvd drive, everything plays fine! Sound levels are okay, and yeah the audio cd's do play from the cdrw drive in wondows.

You might want to check the permissions on /mnt/windows, sometimes it can cause problems, at least i believe it has for me recently. To change permissions do the following: Unmount the partition # umount /mnt/windows Change permissions # chmod 777 /mnt/windows then mount the partition again (note this command ensures that all drives are mounted as they are detailed in /ect/fstab, but it's quick and easy, and I don't know the exact name for the device you partition is sitting on). # mount -a Same here A thought just occured to me, you should be able to set this using the partitioning tool in MCC, have a look at the options.

Hey guys, wondering if anyone can help with this little pickle. The drives are set up on the secondary IDE as follows: /dev/hdc SONY CD-RW CRX230E /dev/hdd _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A I can play audio cd's fine with the DVD drive, yet I get errors with the CD drive. The CD-RW works fine when it comes to ordinary data discs and CD burning, and it works fine in windows. I noticed this on dmesg: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 } ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 0 Anyone any suggestions as to why this may be happening? There are no entries in fstab for the devices, I think HAL handles the mounting, possibly autofs, i'm not sure. Cheers

Unfortunately the Mandriva installer tends to miss a few important config files when seting up your installation. Try adding "forcedeth" (without the quotes) on a new line to /etc/modprobe.preload it should work from boot now. This has been covered before: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?s=&show...ndpost&p=212469

Look at his title carefully, wobo is not an admin at the club forums! Yes RJ gives him a hand, but that was only recent, I worry at times, it seems like adam was put there to take the aggro, I get the impression that many a Mandriva aren't very forthcoming in helping him. Gotta admire him though, I would not like to be in his shoes!

What desktop environment are you using and what are you using to test sound? I doubt that it is the ALSA drivers as AC97 is popular, my box has a nvidia ac97 onboard and works fine, IIRC it uses the same driver as the one for your sound controller!

Like the others said, it would be handy if we knew what the problem is. I'm guessing you are new to Mandriva or possily to linux in general. If Mandriva One works OK then really you shouldn't need to be editing it, but then again you may indeed have a problem then please take the time to explain what your problem is and try to post the full contents of your xorg.conf file, it appears that you have only repoduced part of that file, if you need help doing this, hey just ask, well soon sort you out. Oh and welcome to the board ;) But he is using Xorg, look at the bottom line of the code he gave....as opposed to the 2nd line of the file which is totally misleading, but then again that's just a minor detail that really ain't worth the hassle of a bug report.

Me three..... Honestly, be nice to see what Gael can do with a debian platform.

I agree, I found Gnome to be very responsive on FC5

Sorry, but I can't agree with that article on DW as it suggests that Fedora is the winner on the basis that Ubuntu and SuSE are apparently below par, totally disregarding the fact that Fedora has it's fair share of problems as much as the next guy. There was absolutely no constructive case for Fedora other than pointing out problems with other distros. (p.s. I use Fedora and I am just as happy with it as I was with Mandriva, gentoo, etc........)

I agree with tyme, Gnome 2.14 is a lot snappier than 2.12

Depends how you installed Java!

Downloading it the now, nice to see it's a live CD that you can install from (saves the whole slog of installing to find out whther I like it or not )

Be interesting to see how quickly this is patched up, be more interesting if there is a public display praising a quick resolution, should that be the case. And yes, i'm interested about the "content" :P