Reiver_Fluffi

Ye dinnae fancy fixing my install, dunno how much I have broken my kernel, still can't get audio or ethernet to work despite compiling the modules and loading them (things were so much simpler with 2005 and genkernel, trust me to want more). I'll be yer groupie forever, see i'm ready:

Nice one. :D

Why should we? :huh: Cos I am having a wierd day, need a laugh, even if i'm the source of it ;)

Mandriva 2005LE, feel free to noob bash me, I deserve it

I would like to see Mandriva tightening up their GUI tools. While they are arguably the best on the market, there's always an instance when they don't work 100% in a particular area and involve manual corrections! This in my opinion is Mandriva's strong point, and they should focus on perfecting this, IMHO this is Mandriva's niche, and a powerful one at that! Yeah, the gnome bashing is getting petty, IMHO!

this is partially to blame on their point release cycle. if it's not stable when they start developing a new release, they usually don't include it in said release. GNOME 2.12 (stable) packages are available to club members, but not for the normal free user! Again another ploy to get money from people with a sting in the tail, in that these club packages are not supported!

I just ditched Mandriva for Fedora Core 5 (although this wasn't radical, i had been using Mandriva 2006 and fedora Core 4 side by side for the last 3 months).

I can't help but think that your post was more relevant back in '98. Mandriva (the company) is constantly chipping away at the community spirit, they are the ones who would rather sell the product to you, rather than share it with you (it is a business after all). They have created a three-tier system Free - Club - Corporate, although to be fair, Corporate on its own, outweighs Free and Club put together and more! So the next time you decided to bring this point up, remember who destroyed that community spirit my making the free community, and possible the largest pool of bug reporters second class citizens compared to the club, the ame relationship holds true between the Club and corporate! Mandriva is trying to had to be red hat, but they are going at it in the wrong way, they are trying to sell linux in the form of the distribution as a product with support (although somewhat meagre if the club is an example) as an extra. The way I see it, Red Hat's core source of income somes from supporting REL, and apparently doing a good job of it, all this whild the Mandriva execs are running bout concerned over which new feature to implement, rather than looking to better support the product they already have. Sorry if this makes no sense, I do tend to get a bit jumbled when I ramble!

Nah, looks like spin to preserve their image! I totally agree, the club is indeed a rip off, but unfortunately people are attracted by the marketing, like I was once! This and adamw are the only things keeping the club model viable IMHO (man AW comes up against some grief though).

Apparently it's true, Gael Duval has left mandriva, nothing much said but a future commentry has been promised on his homepage

Try experimenting with different control styles (these can be found in the menu somewhere under "look n feel", don't ask me where though.....). It's possibly that particular QT theme that apply's that style to the taskbar.

Do what I did, go to www.w3.org, learn to do html 4.01 and CSS1, get to know them, bookmark w3.org as a reference and when the time comes and you want more of a challenge, look at xhtml and CSS2. Or you could just get you a pre-made CMS, basically a website in a box (although I recommend visiting www.opensourcecms.com first, they let you try most of them in their server).

Jus to clear up, initial release is to the club members, then box/downloads are on sale for powerpack, discovery, etc, the final free version tends to appear one month after the initial release of powerpacks etc to the club (unfortunately a bit longer than a few weeks)!

I believe this is what you are looking for: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=30334

You mean somebody's borked it? :D

I agree, according to ati the current driver supports Radeon 8500 and higher.

IIRC, you need to do: service hald start

I agree, it shouldn't be downloading anything given that the management of updates require root access, there's nothing automatic about it!

Apparently I type too slow as Ian snuck in there before me, oh well it was his question anyway :P You still need the source for the legacy drivers i'm afraid. IIRC, if it is installed there should be at least two folders in /usr/src, that is linux and linux-2.6.11-6mdk (and any sources, if applicable) not sure of the exact version number of the default source. if there's just linux, or nithing at all in that folder, go to the Mandriva Control Centre and install the kernel-sources package. As a final check once you have installed the sources, make sure that linux (which should be a symlink) is pointing to (one of) the other folders by using: ls -l /usr/src/linux Although a quick way to check it to run the nvidia run package, if it says the sources cannot be found, then either they have not been installed or the /usr/src/symlink isn't pointing to the sources!

A bit harsh, IMHO! It's not like Mandriva is forcing an install of the software, Mandriva as a distribution installs selection of packages by default, a decision they make as packagers and distributors to suit their intended market! They have not forced anything on to you, they are not forcing you to use it, are they? As for some "dip", I believe this dependency affects more than just Mandriva: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20051212#3 That's why there's dependencies, it's the way things work, not an issue with a dip at Mandriva (OMG, i'm actually sticking up for them, I need to lie down!)

What about Tuxmagazine.org?

The problem is that /DVD doesn't exist, try using /mnt/cdrom (may be cdrom2, depending on whether you have more than one drive, and the order in which they are set up on the ide).

Arctic, how did you get gdesklets working with mandy, been banging my head over that one for a while now?

Hmmm, I had heard about the hiding icons, but never bothered to look into it, cheers for the tip. On a side note, may be worth noticing that netapplet is not exclusive to KDE, it also resides in the system tray in GNOME and others (it's a GTK/Perl app).

Don't worry Ian, I missed it too! Does it really matter how long an OS takes to boot if it is wihin say......2mins (arbitrary, yup), what matters is performance once the OS has fully booted. But then again, if it floats your boat, then feel free to experiment, each to their own ;).