Reiver_Fluffi
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I second that.
Ain't your week Mr Gates, especially after shelling out $775m to IBM to keep them quiet!
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No such luck,
I updated everything last night, all security, bug, and other fixes. But it has just happened to me in the last five minutes, with GNOME (giving it a bash, things seem to sork faster so far cmpared to KDE, maybe sold me here).
Anyone got any suggestions?
Cheers,
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Hey there guys,
Little annoyance here, don't know whether it's X.org or KDE that's responsible. Now and again my screen goes a bit wierd. Basically the bottom-left corner moves up and along about 2cm on the screen, and the parts of the top-right corner now appear as blocks to the left and the bottom of the screen, kinda like this (if you can understand this at all):
--------------------- -------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------+---------- | | | | | | --------------------- -------------------- Normal Screen Screwed up screen
It's almost like the screen has forgotten where the center is in a way.
So far this has only happened to me using KDE, although I tend to use KDE all the time (not a gnome fan personally).
Up until now I have fixed it by noting down the process number for X, that is if I can manage to read the process monitor, and then kill X through the terminal, which of course restarts the GUI. I have noticed in the star menu a app called Xrefresh, tried it but nothing happens, same with a similar app titled Xkill, it doesn't work either.
Looking for an alternative to the process above and possible figure out what is causing this problem.
Any suggestions as to if and where the problem may lie with KDE, X.org, or possibly the NVIDIA driver?
For info, I'm running LE 2005, on a P-III 550, 384 M RAM, 8Mb AGP graphics card (NVIDIA VANTA I believe).
The only packages I have updated so far are kdenetwork and it's libraries!
Any help appreciated.
Cheers,
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What you wrote used to work on Mandrake 10.1 official. I would extract tar.gz, double click on firefox-installer and Firefox would install itself. Now that I installed Mandriva 2005 LE 10.2 nothing seems to work. I download Firefox 1.0.4 extract the tar.gz file and then double click on firefox-installer. Nothing happens. I can't install Firefox 1.0.4 and the default Firefox 1.0.2 has security holes.
Where is the problem?
Berkowitz, have you tried running the command in a terminal window. I know that when i first installed Firefox I had to install a library before the install script wold work (I was missing something like libstdc, of the top of my head that is). If you run the firefox-installer from the terminal you will probably get some sort of error message that will give a clue to any probs. Have a try and see how you get on. (p.s. the library I was missing can be found on the installation disks!)
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ROFL
I didn't even know there was support needed :woops: Ok, I just choose GRUB during the MDV 2005LE installation.
According to a few articles you did, but then again I couldn't verify when those articles were written (allegedly there was a time when splash images weren't supported?!?!).
Anyhow, my moneys on AJ's advice...
Cheers
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This is how I always download/install Thunderbird//Firefox.
I download from the mozilla site:
Create a directory(folder) in my /home - 1 for Thunderbird, 1 for Firefox.
When you start the download - point and save to each respective folder.
When downloading is finished, you'll have a tar.gz app in each folder.
Right click, and select extract here.
Few seconds later, you'll have another folder. Open it and look for each respective shell script (one is called thunderbird, the other is called firefox - nothing else.)
Click on this and it will launch each application - follow on screen instructions for the correct install/set up.
By right clicking on your desktop, you will be given a menu, select: create new/file/link to app' A window with 3 tabs will open:
General - type in what you want to call it (i.e. browser/email/thunderbird etc); click on the blue wheel icon allows you to change the app icon - sleect browse and point to the icons folder within each newly downloaded directory.
On the application tab, select browse, and point to your respective shell scripts.
Click OK and you'll have a link to both apps on your desktop. You can also drag them onto your panel. As arctic says, you can also use menudrake if you want it within your main menu structure.
Thought I would add to this, with a consideration for Multiple users. What ChrisM has said works, that is tru, but the problem is that if your Home is in no way accessible to other users, then they will need to install again so that they can use the file. Becuase of this I usually make the firefox installer install firefox to /usr/share/, and tar thunderbird to the same directory using:
# tar fvxz thunderbird-VERSION.tar.gz -C /usr/share/
I then run menudrake as root so that the applications are available to all users from the menu.
Although this ain't perfect, you will have to reinstall if you don't mount /usr on it's own partition and then proceed to do a clean install of system files (done this a couple of times myself during the teething stage).
Just a suggestion!
Cheers
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Hmm, i'm sure the release of 2.6.12 will start some speculation regarding Mandriva 2006!
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Hmmm, might be asking the obvious here, but does your version of GRUB have splashimage support?
Cheers
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Hey guys, tried a search on this, got nowhere with the serach terms I used
I already had the standard 3cd LE2005 Distro istalled, after joining the club I downloaded the standalone cd4. I have successfully installed the hardware lists into the Software Media manager, thus can now access the rpms from rpmdrake.
I installed : nvidia-kernel-2.6.11-6mdk-i586-up-1GB
form rpmdrake.
All this appears to have done is install a directory within /usr/src/ called NVIDIA 7414, contating one file called dkms.conf. (when I installed the rpm rpmdrake also asked me to install a dependent rpm concerning dkms.
What should I do now, should I install the source and compile it, if so what should I do when to include this file?
I looked at kristi's howto, but it was concenred with a .run file, not these rpms.
Cheers
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My guess at this point is your cdrom is faulty. Your emachine is standard intel stuff, which Mandriva was written for. So, if the iso's are ok, the next steps would be
1)Burn slower speed (10-12X)
I agree, I'm running Mandriva oon a eMachine and it works fine, and again the slower write speeds should ensure that the images is burned correctly (e.g. I burn mine at 20x, buffer never goes below 98% and k3b gives me the thumbs up 99% of the time when I ask it to verify the cd).
Cheers
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I understood it the other way around.
The "Club" editions would be available to all members, all cd's and dvd's.
Silver members have the exception that they can download the 6cd official editions.
But maybe adam can shed a light on this ?
I believe that you are right on that one, like I said in my first post, I wasn't too sure.
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Has anybody tried the Club LE 2005 from a clean install??
Mine worked fine from an upgrade, but from a clean install KDE didn't install (worked fine as an upgrade though). Even though I checked KDE at install stage, it didn't install it, but did do Gnome etc, tried installing kde through rpmdrake, but no, errors galore there. And then upon a reboot, and trying to get into windows, It appears that the MBR got a wee bit messed up. Only way to fix was to go back to my bog standard download edition and get it to install Lilo on the MBR.
Fun and games this weekend for me,
Don't want to fuel those that moan about problems with using bleeding edge app's, but for me personally, I think I am going to stick with official releases where I can. Just my pref, not a dig at Mandriva.
Cheers
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Well, contrary to any impression I gave in that last post, I just went ahead and installed the thing. And so far so good. Although there was a small matter of having to reconfigure my network connection again, but as you can see I have sorted that out now!
Cheers
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from what i can see about this new le2005 with kde-3.4 there is lots of bugs
many of them are bugs that i already fixed in my version
and some new ones
So yer basically saying that I have just wasted 20 hrs of my time?!?!?
Could you please elaborate, maybe comparing the club edition with download in terms of bugs?
Cheers
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From what I have seen, all members will get the two monthly releases, the only difference being the package sizes. For example with the curent club release, standard members have can obtain the 4 cd release. I am downlowding the 6 cd version, but as I am a silver member, i'm not sure whether this is available to standard members.
This is only what I know, may not be the truth though!
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Ditto,
Downloading the 6 cd version on bittorret at home, should be finished in the next two hours (whole process has taken roughly 20 hours, not bad for 3.7G IMHO.
Cheers
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all the above may be true however i feel it's more a security level issue . once you cross the line from standard or high to "higher" and mandriva claims the pc is now ready to be used as a server . your normal users are not allowed to "shutdown" the system .which kinda makes sense doesn't it ?
i think you will find that changing settings in the login manager will work today, but once security is checked and re-applied "usually daily" .. your shutdown option goes byebye next time you check .
Now I hadn't thought of that, but I believe you may have answered the problem I had first time round.......I remember vaguely that I set the level to high, as a result only root could access the mounted win partitions, all making sense now!
Cheers
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Henner,
If you are using the KDE login manager, you will have to configure this. Go to the app's (Star) menu>system>configuration>KDE>Login manager. Within this you should be able to set who can and cannot run shutdown from kde(gnome, etc) and the path to the halt and reboot commands.
(Although to be fair, i did a clean install and made sure that apm was active in the bios, made the mistake of disabling that when i installed windows and linux on new hard drive, but don't ask me why!)
Cheers
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For me, well I believe I have been receiving subtle messages telling me to choose Mandrake.
A while back, there was a snippet in the local press ranting about the release of Mandrake 10. But at the time I wasn't interested in an alternative to windoze. But last month I got round to installing the hard drive I got at chrimbo. A significant upgrade from my old 15GB drive to an 80GB, with all this space free to me, I thought what the hey, might as well give linux a bash (seriously, no pun intended there!). So looking around the net reading up, hearing about how Mandriva was good for noobs, and given that the linux mag I bout recently had LE2005 on it, I started with that!
And never looked back
Learning linux's quirks keeps me amused, while Mandriva's GUI and apps make things simple for me when I need them to be. KDE has certainly proven to me to be far superior that the win XP GUI!
Cheers
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She chose a clear windowed case with two blue LEDed 80mm fans so she has got a fairly solid and also attractive unit all up.
Oh my!
It's just like boy racers all over again, they started as immature boys, with their moded cars, nowdays you see the young girls, again with their modded cars. Now this trend extends to to modded cases........well it had to happen sometime.
lol
Saying that, there would be no harm getting a few more ladies chatting here, bring a bit more balance to the discussion (correct me if I am wrong, but the demographics here tend to the male sex here)!
Totally off topic I know!
Anyhow good job John, and all thanks for sharing your wisdom so far, planning on having a stab at building a computer myself shortly, once the money comes in and I get my head round linux.........
Cheers
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It's a function made available by the login manager. Open the Mandriva Control Center, startup and change your login manager (kdm or the mandrake one).
Funny, I was just about to ask about this.
I still have the same problem, using the KDE login manager (only have options for the following login managers: KDE, GNOME, and X-Windows). I have a funny feeling I am missing something but don't know what. Everything worked fine on a previous install (before I started playing with modem drivers and generally mees things up), but when I done a fresh install again, I unchecked a couple of boxes, and now I can only shutdown using a terminal window.
Cheers
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Thanks mate, will certainly try that when I get home this afternoon.
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Hey there guys,
Now this must be the most pathetic & pedantic query you have ever come accross, and for that I apologise, but.
I got a cable (broadband) connection installed the other day, the cable modem runs into a PCI ethernet card and works fine. But everytime I start up Mandriva LE2005 instead of welcome to local host on the GUI logon screen, I ge welcome to and then an ip address and hostname (which I know is my isp).
Anybody know anyway of customising this, as I also get something similar in terminal windows and it's getting to be a bit of a nuisance!
Cheers
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Hey there guys,
As you can guess from my post count i'm a total noob, and I plunged head on into LE2005. Well plunged is the wrong word, I had a careful look at what all the distro's had to offer, and came to a clear decision that LE2005 was right for me. Well almost, serious problems with modems, the scummy winmodems to be precise, but alas my isp is offering me broadband for a quid more a month, so i'm off to buy a NIC (made sure I done some research beforehand on this, wise to the problems with USB cable modems) and wait tentatively for the broadband modem. Still get online with windoze for the moment.
Anyhow, Me, I am just a bog standard user, use my comp bor browsing, coding html, office stuff and what not, so i don't need much. But woa, when I first clapped my eyes on KDE and it's functionality it almost blew me away. Such a clean interface which in my opinion beats any windoze gui. Still early days though, learning all the nooks and crannies, but i'm bessotted with it....... :woops:
Cheers
Strange GUI Behaviour
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Nope, I don't experience any screen scroll like that, or at least I haven't yet. Monitor resolution is set at 1024x768 running at 60htz (24 fps), which is I believe to be the max for for my 14" Daytek monitor.
May try tweaking with the res, see if that helps.
Cheers