emmanuel_uk

anybody looked at entering in the address bar of firefox about:config then search for DSP

Well presumably this has nothing to do with the fact that 1.5 is there? Do not know for sure you can find out the name of the package that contains firefox rpmquery firefox rpmquery mozilla-firefox or use drakconf and follow the remove rpm icon (just to find the name of the package) rpme allows to remove a given package --nodeps so that package that are dependent on fifrox stay in place

as root netstat -tuan for example

in xorg 7.1 in mdv you can now use the AGP 8x option, for the ATI 9250 radeon using the 16 bits makes a huge difference in speed, going from 950 to 1500 FPS installing driconf (urpmi -iv driconf) then enabling hyperZ makes it jump to 2080 FPS all that open source and always quoting fps for 1280*1024 Not tweaked further than Section "Device" Identifier "device1" BoardName "ATI Radeon" Driver "ati" Option "DPMS" Option "AGPMode" "8" # Option "AGPFastWrite" "On" #Option "DDCMode" "On" # Option "EnablePageFlip" "On" #Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" Option "XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" "1" EndSection

At the end of the day, if you buy a service you can test it, complain, some things are free, but not everything, the community needs funding, some people work/ live out of it. If anything money is a contribution, you can do donations to projects, buy books, mags, whatever... You can rotate your contributions, try this or that, give your time on forums, buy this or that, look for bugs... The worthiness of the service you are asking about, at the end of day can "only/mainly" be assessed by yourself. +1 Funny nobody mentionned the tutorials /courses that mandriva has Do not know at what level they are available. Time is money, you could be self-learned and google for tuto, or have it in a plate, question of choice once more

I found out one day that the network interface monitoring (you know that graph with the up/download rates) was checking the network by pinging mandriva. Well it did need to ping something... never asked me if I agreed (hence firewall settings are also important with outgoing connections) So it is not unusual As to how to identify the application, I cannot remember the exact trick Did you find this from wireshark or from netstat output? not sure, but from netstat you can find the pid of the process, then from ps -eaf knowing the pid you can find the command line, hence the application. I really cannot remember how I obtained the pid of the process (a flag with netstat?)

then worth reporting that insane dependency as a bug, unless it was intended as a joke by the packager

I do not disagree with other posters see man rpm and man urpme or urpmi I am sure the option is --nodeps but it could be for rpm not for urpme

nope, you want to keep them however you can look into urpme --nodeps command line

http://happycamel.sourceforge.net/

not if you use command line like urpme --nodeps firefox_packagename

drakperm does that, just add your policy in it it will run at fixed interval

I do not disagree from what I started to read. Considering your number of posts you may want to elaborate about the risks, lack of extra perfomance etc. that would be appreciated. I am sure your experience is valuable. I have started the thread because of the lack of information on this topic 32vs64. If it is a warning to some fine...

Ok, you know about 32 bits or not, but you are going to install 64 bits mandriva. So what should you know? This is what I have collated to date, maybe some error feel free to contribute. I DO NOT have a 64 bits yet, doing "homework" on the question. If you are a newbie, the advice seems to be to install a 32 bits linux onto your 64 bits processor. This is possible, and simpler in the short and long term. The loss of performance is small. Updating a 32 bits mandriva to a 64 (instead of doing a full install). Forget about it! bad idea. Read that not advised to share /home between two Mandy OS (one 32 and one 64, multiboot) no known rational for that apart that well it is risky. No feedback/experience known Mixing 32 and 64 libraries is risky However, setting 32 bits and 64 repositories for uprmi, is feasible (Order is important to calculate the dependencies) Flash (well maybe we should not use flash at all...) Anyway, solutions/options are You may have seen this [root@localhost install_flash_player_7_linux]# ./flashplayer-installer ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the Macromedia Flash Player installer. Solutions are - Flashplayer within Konqueror - Use opera - Use nspluginwrapper to "translate/bridge" 32 bits macromedia flash libraries/pluggin into firefox 64 bits nspluginwrapper-i386 - Avoid any flash (I do) - Chroot a 32 bit firefox (with all the problems/duplication that creates) Firefox: There is a 64 bits version, but pluggins/extension will lag behind for a while Consider nspluginwrapper (Does 64 bits work with it?) Java Alledegly there is a 64 bit JRE. To be confirmed Azureus (java) Reported to work, depending on versions Realplayer / Helix player (Why do you want realplayer... well I ilke trplayer) lastfm: some report of it not working, and the contrary as well wine: well this is 32 bits by definition Allegedly seen one post saying compilation flags are automatically set to 32 bits and it compiles beautifully from source on a 64 bits Skype (well closed source): Try openwengo; wait for reversed engineered skype clones Chroot it for oppenofice, 32 bits, and in general Quote (Translated from Fr) There is I think a 64, but basically it is a tweaked 32, going to 64 is a lot and lot of recoding allegedly 2) add 5 repositories: main64, contrib64, main32, contrib32, club32. 3) deactivate main64, contrib64 BEFORE installing any 32 bits application. This avoid dependency hell for the 64 bits, which risk disappearing 4) install firefox, flash, ooffice, java etc. 5) deactivate 32 bits mirrors, reactivate 64 mirrors Good to know urpmi.update -a && urpmi --auto-select --keep --strict-arch where --keep so that packages that would uninstall other packages are not used and --strict-arch to avoid a 32 bits application to be replaced by a 64 and conversely mplayer and to have all the win32 codecs (32 by definition), allegedlly

I am still researching the 32/64 bits issue, although 64 distros are now quite full of application, running 32+64 is interesting These are the 2 "best" papers I could find so far Installing apps in a 32-bit chroot in AMD64 Debian system http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/356 32-bit browsing in a 64-bit system http://internet.newsforge.com/article.pl?s...0216&tid=13

interesting I know My laptop video card was not detected properly, but maybe it was due to compiz. I reran drakx11, stopped compiz, it is ok now. On the desktop, well plain radeon 9250, I cannot change the resolution on the fly anymore (using the plain open source driver). Need to restart X. I am not asking for help, I will try to figure. but yes all sort of problems At the same time vast improvement in speed, drakrpm is better. Did not have much time to look deeper In 2007, ACPI support better I can suspend to RAM, but no Fn hotkeys to reboot works (you can only remeve the battery! nobodies fault, just an IBM with a bit broken acpi implementation I believe). ACPI and APM are misterious beasts ;) Ianw1974, sorry I've gone off topic here

do not get me wrong, urmpi and drakrpm are great, it is just for newbies, this would be an helpfull thing just found out that the BT version of openoffice 2.0.4 is bundled with java (at least one less worry maybe for some people), also this is not an open source java that jre thingy

Not a fantastic advice of mine: Try again, check firewall settings. I guess you are used to BT maybe you have a badblock/badcluster on your HD

Did you go through the wvdial /etc/wvdial.conf (or whatever it says in the doc when running it the first time to detect the modem) It sounds like wvdial is looking at the wrong path/device

How about using bittorent like azureus?

curiosity here: I have heard this a few times, but more geared at mdv kernel patches. Correct me if I am wrong, a distro is composed of many things: kernel patches, utilities, support type, community, packages etc. were you only speaking of the kernel and driver patches? are you saying in some cases some user would be well advised to try another kernel version / source? (assuming most hardware problems are with open source kernel modules) maybe for this shutdown issue trying a vanilla kernel would have been a solution?

wvdial is much better at giving you error messages. I would try wvdial rather than kppp in this instance Otherwise are you sure your modem has the right driver and so (you know about winmodem, don't you?)

A grub menu booting 100+ systems of Dos, Windows, Linux, BSD and Solaris http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread....threadid=143973 I knew of that thread, so I thought anybody who wants to do a multiboot might want to read about it ;) Saying that it does not have OSX

this is what I meant by keeping Zinblows bootloader http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html I much prefer grub straight on the MBR, but i have no first hand experience on a system with XP I do not use Zinblows anymore, so do not know. I belive grub on the MBR works 90% of the time on a multiboot XP+linux but in case a newbie wack their MBR I prefer also give the alternative above so they can choose Plus we still do not know what is booting OSX can you confirm you can overwrite an XP bootloader with grub and always get XP/2000 to work after that? edit Gowator: yes well put, that is the way I would have described it, in poorer words ;) ta for the kanotix suggestion, knew it by name, but not tried yet

just edit /boot/grub/menu.lst for the grub on the MBR add (have no system here to check syntax) sometitle rootnoverify (hd0,0) #choose hd and partitions no on which another grub lives chainloader +1 This is it all Maybe you meant calling it from Zindows? I have seen some methods, would need to look in paperwork, not sure from memory edit: rereading this is what you must have meant, sorry for quoting chainloader stuff