Reiver_Fluffi

Here's the theme contest club forum topic.

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

Yes, you are right, but Cooker shows you what will be available soon in Mandriva 2007. And that is KDE 3.5.3 afaik, Gnome 2.16 and the latest Kernel plus the current Firefox and Openoffice. Thus it's a bit ridiculous to say that Ubuntu is more up to date as they will ship almost the same software. After six months - of course - they have newer packages due to faster release cycles, but the difference between both systems is imho rather minimal.

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!

Iphi, no offense, but when have you used Mandriva the last time? And where is the proof for anything you state here?

 

Ubuntu, more up to date - Take a look at the current Mandriva cooker snapshot. It's nonsense what you say.

: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)

What about those who don't use GNOME or KDE? They have to install kdebase and half of GNOME just for dependencies?

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

Oh... :huh:

 

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.

What errors do you get? What program are you using? You say you can play the audio cds from the cdrw drive in windows? Have you checked sound levels?

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

Whats the contents of your /etc/fstab for the windows partition? I normally have a umask=0 set in the options which makes sure I can read/write.

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

And wobo is there from time to time from the German fan site, though he usualy there to express his (sometimes not too positive) opinion and not to do admin work.

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 ;)

You should be looking at the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Mandriva uses xorg and no longer uses XFree86 for the x server.

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.

BTW: Gnome is very fast on FC5.

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

Ran into some problems when trying to install it on my MDV2006 box.

It can´t seem to find Java, although it is installed. It searches for Java in /bin/java but can´t seem to change the directorie it´s suppose to search.

 

Any ideas?

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

Yes, it seems that it's something related with Fedora's enhanced security, and not java itself.

BTW if you want to create symbolic links without the danger of mistyping, use Midnight Commander for the task...

Or, of course, the magical tab key helps ;)

Studmuffin

I have looked at the theme you mentioned above, the readme states that you have to run the install script (install.sh)

Probably the easiest way for you to do this (feel free to slap me if this is at all patronising of me :P ) is to double click on the tar.gz, this should open the file extractor (I can't remember the default for KDE, but double clicking should bring it up), extract the contents to your home folder. Then using the file browser go to the directory that contains the extracted files, there you should see the file named install.sh. All going well, right click within the window and select "open here in terminal". This will give you a command prompt, type "su" and enter the administrator password you set, then type "./install.sh", this should install the theme for you and it should be available for you from the KDE control centre.

I hope that this helps