neighborlee

using gnome livecd ONE 2007, and during it seems last stage of doing the grub stuff its hanging as all I get is a white GUI install screen, no HD activity and a seemingl halted system.

maybe a bad cd burn ? ( seems possible although I did verify md5sum before burning and got no errors during burn either)

thx

neighborlee()

i'm wondering w/what I found w/listing packages and what u explained are people supposed to leave update unchecked in Media Manager and add all the update repo's instead. But that seems a little complicated to get updates...

am I to understand that NO one in two days has any clue on h ow to resolve t his for this poor user...?? ( I need this info as well as rpmdrake is busted here too, as well as the panel applet notifier )

this does little to make mandriva a default shinning os nor anything to cement linux as a quality OS..

and I do really like linux and mandriva so dont take this as a FUD posting as much as someone who cares and wants to see both mandriva and linux succede!

cheers

neighborlee()

First of all: I doubt that anyone at Mandriva will read this. Better post it at their forum, where adamw takes care of many user-complaints and forwards them to the devs.

 

Secondly, you are somehow right that things like the broken rpmdrake are inacceptable and cause a step back in the effort to make Linux usable for everyone. Mandrivas QA leaves something to be desired, that is for sure. But then, there are also other options and that is the nice thing about Linux. If Mandriva is too quirky for you, get something that doesn't release that frequently (except 2007, all Mandriva releases saw the light after only six months of compiling and testing. A huge difference to Windows, which is in the testing pahse for how long? 4 years? :unsure:)

 

More stable options (but then a bit less "up-to-date") are Debian Etch (or Sarge for the old-school-freaks), CentOS/Whitebox/RHEL, Slackware and a few others. But then, most of them are not that userfriendly, but that will hopefully change in the future for the one or other distro (the easiest of those distros is imho CentOS).

IM not sure frankly which distro I am comfy with ...I think ubuntu is interesting but I hate its gnome menu layout finding it unnecessarily confusing as lacking a central CC frankly..I do admire mandriva/urpmX and always have and well...QA aside I guess somehow this slipped past them...we should send them a clear signal I guess that a b roader base QA of users neesd to be done to make sure nothing gets missed..im one of those ANAL ones that trys everything to avoid missing somerthing..decisions d ecisions ;)..I guess updating should fix some things and if not for now uprmi I guesss could be used ;00...ubuntu is tempting too so I dont know..why can't there just be ONE best-all-in-one linux distro where everyone can work together to make a great OS that competes with the others for market share and decent user experiences for those that either can't afford M$ or dont want to trust its security model ( or both) ;)../me wishes for those days ;)

does the update at least fix the panel applet notifier ??

I wish there was a one liveCD with 64 bit though ;)))

cheers!

neighborlee()

i hope some of the people @ mandriva see this post. i will also post on mandriva forums. I mean everbody is always complaining in the linux community about how linux isnt more widely adopted. I'll tell u why. Cause they let stuff like this out the door and it "simply dont work". say what u will about Vista development time but the softies wouldnt have shipped w/this kind of problem. and if they did people would crucify them. but w/linux its ok. we'll never get above 1% penetration doing releases like this. Dont be a slave to the mentality that u have to keep the release dates every 6-9 months. Let fedora do that. we like Mandriva cause its stable and user friendly...

I agree 100%..I trusted that the 'year long wait' as I recall ? would bring a stable complete release so I decided to 'overlook' the gaul mess and other things....this has me totally rethinking things as I dont like beta testing releases..if I wanted that i'd be using Vista ;)

having said that I do like mandriva, but what were they thinking releasing it like this and us poor users having to find out this way ..its just not right and its going to hurt them down the road if you ask me. I think if we ever wonder why linux isn't more widely adopted then this is EXactly why yes I agree 100%. GUys and gals in development please lets STOP the insanity okay?....do better testing,,the linux community would rather 'wait' than have a messy release like this dont you think ? ( I sure would <G> )

cheers

neighborlee

trying to remove dkms-nvidia..I went into 'remove' se ction of rpmdrake ..and removed orange checkbox< and let it do its thing..thing I quit and went back into 'remove' section and dkms-nvidia was 'still there'..does this mean rpmdrake is a bit borked , or that I need to fix the DB that runs it ??

thx

neighborlee

Hi There!

I ve always had nvidia cards and to install them drivers with mdv do as follow :

 

- go to easyurpmi website and follow instructions including plf stuff

- go to drakconf and click on "look at and config hardware"

-click on the video card and run config tools

-he will tell u "there is a manufacturer driver available do u wanna use it?" say yes (er type it)

-then log off and log back on and it should be done.

 

Otherwise gor to http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/configuration2006.html

a lot is explained there too

 

Good luck, it is quite easy,

 

Stef

cute dog ;)..( I have one too but he is a big broot !haha)..

thx for info I shall try it when I return to linux and thx a bunch ;)

neighborlee

driver: how to do easily install nvidia driver without being a paid subscriber to the club,,or do I ? ;)

panel applet: is broke,,says to contact mandriva support and Im wondering if this is a known issue that 'udpating' manually via rpmdrake fixes ?

rpmdrake: VERY slow when doing a 'update' and when adding a new repo....beyond that it seems fine.

thx

neighborlee

hi..

I installed with ravages installer..moved the official ( from Bioware ) 1.10>1.29 patched zip file into blah/nwn DIR..unzipped it. ...unzipped linux binary .ran ./fixinstall and everything was honkeydorey...except if patch.key was prsent i'd get a SDL parachut deployed so I have to keep it renamed and out of the way..

mandrake 9/geforce4TI4200 on a PIV2.26 with 1GIG ram

so you dont need windows to do this!

cu

lee

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