RVDowning
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I just got a netbook and was wondering if I should use the netbook kernel (2010.0). What is the benefit over the regular desktop kernel? -- just smaller or what? I am going to install virtualbox (PUEL) and it needs the kernel source so when looking through the downloads I noticed the netbook kernel. I hadn't known there was such a thing. So, should I change to the netbook one?
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I've been using compiz-fusion on kde 4.x on Mandriva 2009.1 with 9 virtual double-wide (dual monitors) desktops with each having its own different background. I think there was supposed to be some kind of conflict with using icons on the desktop though, but I have never had any icons on my desktop so it was no bother.
I don't use any of the kde 4 features though. The more it starts to look like 3.5 the better it seems to get.
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Has anyone gotten rdesktop to work outside of a lan? Neither I nor my buddy, who is not running Mandriva, have been able to use rdesktop to connect to our office location which runs Windows XP. However, I can bring up VirtualBox and then WinXP and connect from WinXP. It would be nice not to have to bring up Windows.
Edited to note that we use tunneling. I believe it is this that is causing the problem. It is as though rdesktop is not using the tunneling ip, but is instead trying to go out over the network.
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It seems that people using Ubuntu are able to do it. Just trying to see if it is possible from within Mandriva.
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I have dual monitors and use Twinview and all works well. How can I get my Windows XP client in VirtualBox to also span dual monitors? Am on 2009.1, with VirtualBox PUEL 3.0.4.
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Yep, it was the remote machine sending me those emails. It never would have crossed my mind.
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Hmmmm. Ya know...... My web site is actually on a linux machine...... It is a web hosting service, but I actually have a virtual machine. I'll have to check that. It had never crossed my mind. May not get to it tonight. I have a road race in the morning (worlds largest 10k) and it about time for me to start preparing stuff and then get to bed. I'll post back after I get a chance to check it.
Thanks for the insight.
Rich
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# ls -la (in /etc/lograte.d)
total 43
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 272 2009-07-03 16:46 ./
drwxr-xr-x 104 root root 6800 2009-07-03 09:54 ../
-rw------- 1 root root 96 2009-07-03 16:46 .directory
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60 2009-06-15 11:33 kdm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 448 2009-04-23 09:05 msec
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136 2008-12-17 12:34 ppp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180 2009-02-06 06:23 preload
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 2009-06-18 04:55 rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61 2009-05-31 13:02 sudo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 438 2009-02-05 12:34 syslog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71 2009-03-07 00:34 xdm
There was a hidden file in /etc/logrotate.d called ".directory" with the following content:
[Dolphin]
AdditionalInfo=3
Timestamp=2009,7,3,16,46,26
ViewMode=1
[settings]
ShowDotFiles=true
Ha, wouldn't you know that Dolphin has its dirty fingers in there somehow.
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I did a file scan for anything named *spamassassin* and got no hits. What does this have to do with the price of tea in China? Do you think that root is spamming me?
I did execute logrotate -vf /etc/logrotate.conf
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Still puzzled:
# logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf
reading config file /etc/logrotate.conf
including /etc/logrotate.d
reading config file .directory
error: .directory:1 lines must begin with a keyword or a filename (possibly in double quotes)
error: .directory:2 unknown option 'AdditionalInfo' -- ignoring line
error: .directory:2 unexpected text
error: .directory:3 unknown option 'Timestamp' -- ignoring line
error: .directory:3 unexpected text
error: .directory:4 unknown option 'ViewMode' -- ignoring line
error: .directory:4 unexpected text
reading config file kdm
reading config info for /var/log/kdm.log
reading config file msec
reading config info for /var/log/security.log
reading config file ppp
reading config info for /var/log/ppp/connect-errors
reading config file preload
reading config info for /var/log/preload.log
reading config file rpm
reading config info for /var/log/rpmpkgs
reading config file sudo
reading config info for /var/log/sudo.log
reading config file syslog
reading config info for /var/log/auth.log /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog /var/log/user.log /var/log/explanations /var/log/boot.log /var/log/mail/*.log /var/log/cron/*.log /var/log/kernel/*.log /var/log/daemons/*.log
reading config file xdm
reading config info for /var/log/xdm-error.log
reading config info for /var/log/wtmp
reading config info for /var/log/btmp
Handling 10 logs
rotating pattern: /var/log/kdm.log weekly (4 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/kdm.log
log does not need rotating
rotating pattern: /var/log/security.log monthly (4 rotations)
empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/security.log
log does not need rotating
rotating pattern: /var/log/ppp/connect-errors after 1 days (5 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/ppp/connect-errors
log does not need rotating
not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated
rotating pattern: /var/log/preload.log 65536 bytes (4 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/preload.log
log does not need rotating
not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated
rotating pattern: /var/log/rpmpkgs weekly (4 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/rpmpkgs
log does not need rotating
not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated
rotating pattern: /var/log/sudo.log monthly (4 rotations)
empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/sudo.log
log does not need rotating
not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated
rotating pattern: /var/log/auth.log /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog /var/log/user.log /var/log/explanations /var/log/boot.log /var/log/mail/*.log /var/log/cron/*.log /var/log/kernel/*.log /var/log/daemons/*.log weekly (4 rotations)
empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/auth.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/messages
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/syslog
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/user.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/explanations
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/boot.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/mail/errors.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/mail/info.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/mail/warnings.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/cron/errors.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/cron/info.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/cron/warnings.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/kernel/errors.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/kernel/info.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/kernel/warnings.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/daemons/errors.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/daemons/info.log
log does not need rotating
considering log /var/log/daemons/warnings.log
log does not need rotating
not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated
rotating pattern: /var/log/xdm-error.log weekly (4 rotations)
empty log files are not rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/xdm-error.log
log /var/log/xdm-error.log does not exist -- skipping
not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated
rotating pattern: /var/log/wtmp monthly (1 rotations)
empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/wtmp
log does not need rotating
not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated
rotating pattern: /var/log/btmp monthly (1 rotations)
empty log files are rotated, old logs are removed
considering log /var/log/btmp
log does not need rotating
not running postrotate script, since no logs were rotated
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Nothing in /etc/logrotate.conf and I did a scan of all the files under /etc/logrotate.d/ and everything is spelled correctly as "notifempty". I can find no occurrance of "notifyempty" but I keep getting this email every day. Puzzled.....
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I'm getting the following email:
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:
error: sa-update:3 unknown option 'notifyempty' -- ignoring line
By the way, I don't have a file named "sa-update"
I understand the problem is a typo, namely 'notifyempty' should be 'notifempty' but I don't know where to make the change. I don't really want to have to scan every file in the system looking for the 'nofityempty' string.
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I thought I had mdkonline running. At least I executed it and I thought it would notify me of any software updates. However, I'm not getting any notifications. Is there something else I should be doing?
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Still have issues with VirtualBox non-OSE latest and greatest on 2009.1(host) and WinXP client with kde 4.2.2. I also had this problem on 2009.0 with the previous versions of VirtualBox.
Namely, for me to be able to access any usb device, the device needs to be plugged into the usb port when I first bring up Mandriva. Then when I bring up VirtualBox and WinXP I can see the devices listed and active. If I don't have the device plugged in at system startup, the entry is grayed out when I bring up VirtualBox/WinXP and is not available.
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There's a new utility named Revoco, which of course you should test yourself ( no such mouse here ).
I used Revoco about a year ago. Revoco is only for the mouse wheel/button. It was actually also incorporated into btnx.
Surely somebody out there must have more than a three button mouse who wants to map the other buttons to stuff.
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Ok folks, what is the preferred way of assigning functionality to mouse buttons. I have a Logitech MX Revolution and have in the past used btnx which I had to compile. However, because of kernel changes it no longer works with some distributions and even if it does still work, it probably won't in the near future.
So, I need some other way of assigning stuff to mouse buttons. Is there a "standard" or "preferred" way?
Forgot to say: I'm on 2009.1 with KDE 4.2.2
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I usually use 9, and since I have dual monitors, each of them is double wide. (Reminds me of the song Don't Fence Me In -- Give me room, lots of room and the starry skys above....)
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From what I remember the config files should get upgraded to the new release. I've generally always started with a clean slate when I've upgraded or reinstalled a system and kept my home directory though.
I do the same thing. I'm talking about the .kde and .kde4 directory in each user's directory.
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I've done lots of installs of Mandriva for several years, and they continue to use the same kde directories. I'm wondering if it would be of value to rename the hidden kde (or kde4) directories before doing the 2009.1 install, so that a fresh set of "virgin" files would be installed.
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II am back up and functioning with two screens. Luckily I keep a backup copy of my xorg.conf and a couple of other important files in a directory in my home directory. Guess I'll stop trying to get that camera to work until 2009.1, since that is what started all my problems.
Thanks everybody for your help.
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Ok, I'm up and running kinda. I only able to use one monitor of the two and am using the nvidia driver from Mandriva. I can't execute the nvidia-settings program because it doesn't exist on my system any more, and it seems I can't download it from Nvidia because it installs along with the driver. So, I will have to modify the xorg.conf by hand I guess. The other option is this nice PCLOS disk that my buddy just gave me. I'll look around a bit more about how to get this second monitor working, but I'm starting to get claustrophobic without it.
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Hi, I had a similar thing upon a kernel update. When I got the screen with the cursor in the upper left I used ctrl + alt + F1 and then logged into that terminal and used XFdrake in there I could then select the required driver.
Hmmm. You could "select" a driver? They have drivers listed? I'll have to take a look at that. The problem may just be that xorg.com has an "nv" instead of an "nvidia" in it. I just don't know. I had gone into control center under the video section and it said that there was a more capable proprietary driver available and asked if I would like to use it. I said yes, so it did the install and then told me that I needed to log off and then back on for it to take effect. It didn't indicate that I needed to do anything else. Well I logged off and was then hosed and couldn't get back in.
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Ah, drakboot, ok. Thanks. That is what I was looking for. For editing I would usually use mc to get to the file and then use the embedded editor within mc.
What other command line "drak" items are available? This would be useful to know. I didn't even know that drakboot existed.
I tried 3.5.10 with 2009.0, but that was after having tried kde4 and there ended up being a mishmash of both on the system such that neither of them worked right.
I was reading some posts on other forums that indicated that the nvidia driver from Mandriva was the reason my cam (Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 with gqcam) was not working right. These other people had replaced that driver with the one from the nvidia site and it fixed their problem. That was how I got into this mess to begin with. I downloaded and installed the driver, logged off and was hosed.
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Well, if all I have available is safe mode at the moment, how can I use that to get my id from trying to boot into the graphical environment? - or to crate a new id that doesn't boot into the graphical environment. I need at least this much to try to do anything.
Should I use the netbook kernel?
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Thanks much. I have installed it. Only difference I notice is that I installed kernel-netbook-2.6.31.6-2mdv. Note the "2" in front of mdv.