sjaglin

Ok, Thanx Devries, All done.

Now this query is solved But how do I mark it as solved?

Are these out ? I can t find them. Also, If only the tar is available, can someone give me an idiot-proof recipe on how to untar and integrate to KDE. I found a few topics abouth that but still a bit unclear to me...

Thanx

I can t find the option for the preload. I found a oooqs but it is for Ooo1.

Where is the preload option aplet for Ooo2??

Hi,

I run Mandriva 2006 and have Open Office 2.0. All works very well.......Once it's started. It takes 20 seconds to come up! I get upset because on my girlfriend's laptop Powerpoint takes half a second to launch!

I have used the tweaks http://www.buziaks.com/ian/mdk10xfaster.htm by Ian But cant see any major Change (i ve changed mem to 256Mb and 10 per object).

Any suggestion?

PS OOo 1 was as slow...

Cool I ve got the iso and disk burnt, my PC is on a router, which connection shall I choose?

How do I know the ip of my box as it's not connected yet??

Hi There,

Sorry for my lack of efficiency this morning (uk) but I can't find the torrents files for the isos of thr 3 CDs to install Cooker on my spare PC and play around with it. I went on the wiki and all the links seem to be dead end, If anyone has the torrents file ready, that would save me a lot of time and possibly could install it today (stuck at home waiting for a delivery!).

Thanks!

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Hi there,

I have a fx9800 from nv which I often overclock to play games and tweak with as one does...

I like to keep an eye and control on the temp and on the fan speed. For this the only trick I found was to install nvclock and run:

watch nvclock -i

Is there any other way/display/GUI that anyone else knows to achieve something a bit nicer ??

Yes I have done what was on the ww page and I get the same as you, it works in Konqueror but not in firefox, the java scripts blocks somewhere...

Hi,

I run Mandriva free edition with KDE and desktop. I try to play files on http://videos.tf1.fr/video/ which is a tv channel for French news (I am from France but live abroad).

A problem occur while loading a library or a decoder: cook.so.6.0

What am I doing wrong?

Yep, I enabled fastwrites on the bios at first but still I had to "force" it in the modprobe file.

I then relogged in KDE but that was not enough, a reboot was necessary.

The perf. in term of FPS in glxgears is more or less the same but Quake 4 is now running really smoothly despite a poor 128mb fx6800. I played all the afternoon on using my toshiba 32'' flat panel LCD tv using the pc-in and I am still shacking from the experience (toshiba 32WL56 £799 from BE direct)...

Well, I m going back on it now!!!

Stef

Just added

options nvidia NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1

to modprobe.conf, do I need to reboot to validate this change?

Stef

Thnks Ian, you save my life again! I love ur website by the way, am a photographer as well...

Stef

Question for daniewicz:

Hi , as u seem to be on the ball regading nv stuff I had a query to the query:

my /proc../agp/ gives :

root@08:14:15->cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/*

Fast Writes: Supported

SBA: Supported

AGP Rates: 8x 4x

Registers: 0xff000e1b:0x1f000302

Host Bridge: PCI device 1106:3205

Fast Writes: Supported

SBA: Supported

AGP Rates: 8x 4x

Registers: 0x1f000a1b:0x00000b02

Status: Enabled

Driver: AGPGART

AGP Rate: 8x

Fast Writes: Disabled

SBA: Enabled

root@08:14:31->

Whuch shows fastwrites disabled. I see here and there that I should add a line to a file named modules.conf but I don t seem to have such a file :

root@08:14:31->locate modules.conf

/etc/httpd/conf/webapps.d/addon-modules.conf

/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf

/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/ssl-modules.conf

/hdc6/etc/opt/gnome/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/default-modules.conf

/hdc6/etc/opt/gnome/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/ssl-modules.conf

root@08:17:52->

Any idea??

Stef

When you run the nvidia settings what sort of speed does it give you?

Can you install nvclock et run nvclock -i then post the result to look at the info from that card?

Stef

Ooops!

Sorry, here is my file.

Concerning you scores, depends how big the window in which the gears turn is. Mine is around 10100Fps with no tweaks no overclock and on nv9800 128Mb. I think doom3 will give you better benchmarks.

Stef

Hi There,

I dunno if it will elp but I attach my xorg.conf and u will see some major differences in the module

and in the device bits.

I use the latest nvidia drivers with the coolbits options "on"

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=197&num=1

Furthermore I use nvclock (urpmi nvclock etc...) to tune my gfx card.

Since I did that I regularly play doom3 and quake 4 with very good FPS.

I dunno if that helps but http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/installmdv2006.html was very usefull for me to read although O already new how to setup my system,

Best of Luck!

Stef.

Well, to solve the sound problem AND improve the FPS in both Doom3 and Quake4 under Linux, you have to find the .cfg file in your home/yourname directory and tweak a few things (like set the sound driver to oss and use the cahe for gfx rendering...etc).

It is all explained at :

http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsect...hp?articleid=54

AND

http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/quake4

Hope it helps!!

OOPS

Sorry, too much work made me miss the -f option on NVCLOCK, it now works marvel with :

nvclock -f -F 40

being the best tuning noise vs cooling...

Hi

To carry-on with my query, has anyone managed to modify the speed of their fan on nvidia cards via nvclock or any other software?

Stef

I don t know what you'll make of it but I found this link :

http://exeter.homedns.org/

Where it seems there is a script to install Googleearth under Linux

Stef

:deal:

Thanx Ian , I will have a look at that 2morrow am!

I might also give it a try on suse 10 to see...

Chhers!

Thanx!

I m off to work I ll check 2night if back not too late or 2morrow am!

Cheers

Stef

Hi there,

I spent a few hours now trying to install the awsome Googlearth on Linux Mandriva 2006, here is my progress:

1- Clean install of wine and xwine (version : Wine 20050725 which is I suppose the latest as it comes straight from the ftp sites.

2- As explained in wine hq : http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=3254

2-a Install of DCOM98 (whatever that is)

2-b copy a version of secur32.dll in ~./wine/windows/system/

2-c run winecfg and load GoogleEarth.exe

Then the installer seems to run ok, but keeps stuck at about 5% of the intall progress barr and does not move any further. It stays on : installing c:\_\...........\Layout.bin

I found that link as well :

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_GoogleEarth_with_wine

And this is as far as it went!

Well, It seems it should work as Mandriva gets a bronze score on the winehq site, has anyone managed it? If yes, could we have a detailed howto for beginers?

Cheers!

Stef

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

Hey!

I ve done the installation tweak to enable the coolbit function and it works wonders. After installing and rebooting X the overclocking function appeared in the nvidia-settings.

1- It explained why I was getting some weird frequencies to start with : there is a 2D pair of settings and a 3D one!

2- It found my optimal settings : 462 / 631 for which I get a score of 2568 on glxgears.

3- I suspect the score one gets on glxgear depends on the size of the window in which it s running, a benchmark like doom3 demo (35FPS now) is more reliable to compare machines between them.

4- Now I would like to know if there is such a thing as a "software" overclocking utility for the cpu

Thanks to all, issue solved and learned a lot!!!

Hugh! Very Promessing, I use the 1.0-8174 for the driver (uploaded about a week ago from Nvidia with the nvidia xconfig utility. I guess my results are not very good, I need to find-out what's wrong although I seem to remember the Ti versions were really good cards where the 5700 a medium range when I bought it.

I will need to look for the coolbits to see how that goes!

Thanks for your help.