RVDowning

I installed task-kde3, and selected KDE when logging in. I deleted /home/rvd/.kde4. However, when I log in (using KDE) it is created again.

I also renamed /usr/bin/konqueror and copied /opt/kde3/bin/konqueror into /usr/bin, but when I execute konqueror, I still get the renamed one.

Is there any way to get the kde4 crap totally off the system and still have a functioning system?

I started to go back to 2008.1, but I had already removed my sound card and given it away, so I now need to use the on board sound. Does any other distribution use a similar kernel so that I would be able to use onboard sound if I switched distributions?

Been at it two weeks, and I still can't get the 2008.1 -> 2009.0 downgrade working right.

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

I believe the package names are task-kde3 or task-kde4, not just task-kde.

I have an HP all-in-one color laser printer, the CM1017. Only problem is that I have never been able to get the scanner to work. I heard a rumor that HP was going to support Linux for scanning at some point, but I guess it hasn't come to pass. The rest works fine and was easy to set up.

Another alternative used to be konqueror (before 2009.0) which is what I had been using the last couple of years. Quite simple to just double click on the file you want to edit.

also, as it says at the top of that page, really consider whether you need to build whatever it is from source.

I was compiling btnx (http://www.ollisalonen.com/btnx/), a utility to enable mouse buttons on mice such as the Logitech MX Revolution. It is a great package but has no binary built for Mandriva, just ubuntu, opensuse, gentoo and arch linux. I've got it working now. :)

[rvd@localhost ~]$ file /dev/cdrom

/dev/cdrom: symbolic link to `sr1'

[rvd@localhost ~]$ file /dev/dvd

/dev/dvd: symbolic link to `sr0'

Seems this may have been the culprit. It just so happens that I have a cdrom and a dvd.

This is the only related entry in /etc/fstab:

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

Just an update. After installing task-kde3 I am again able to burn an iso to dvd, though after all the hassle with this release, I actually don't want it any more.

It seems to be confirmed that this is a bug in 2009.0.

Ah, ha. That makes perfect sense. Although I had installed task-kde3, I had not installed kdebase-kdm. I don't understand the need for the intermediate window manager. Why can't the kde3 kdebase be installed from within kde4?

Thank you much.

I wonder if this is really worth it. Now it says "No package 'libglade-2.0' found" so I did a urpmi on libglade, but that didn't do it, so I did a urpmi on libglade-devel and still have the missing dependency. Maybe I should just learn to live without the other mouse buttons. I lose something else every time I upgrade a Mandriva distribution.

That did it, thanks. So, now I've posted another message about another missing item.

If I get the following error: No package 'gtk+-2.0' found, what is the package name that I need to install? I already have libgtk+2.0_0-2.14.3-2mdv2009.0.i586 installed.

I have also installed kde3, but it still doesn't work. After entering kdesu konqueror I get the following (each time):

Konqueror didn't close correctly. Would you like to restore session?

There is a Restore session, Do not restore, and Ask me later.

If I select "Restore session" I get an error popup that says: "URL cannot be listed devices:/"

If I click ok on that, I get a kongueror window up that is empty of content, and I can't get it to display anything.

At this point I click the "x" to close it.

I notice when logging out and logging back in again that there are choices (among others) of KDE and kd4. I wonder if KDE really means kde3 or whether are both really kde4. I would try doing a urpme of task-kde4, but since I can't get a backup to work, I'm afraid of totally hosing my system. This crap seems to be everywhere.

Any idea which "devel?"

The following packages contain devel: CImg-devel, Glide_V3-DRI-devel, Glide_V5-devel, OpenDX-devel, ...

You should use "-a" to use all of them

I tried a urpmf devel, but it came back with seemingly hundreds of screens of data.

[root@localhost rvd]# urpmi libdaemon0

Package libdaemon0-0.13-1mdv2009.0.i586 is already installed

Has anyone found a way to open konqueror in supervisor mode (ideally from a menu entry) specifying a filemanager layout? This is for kde3. I've already backed away from kde4 but some things that used to work in kde3 don't any more.

Tried to do a ./configure for btnx (to handle MX Revolution mouse) but get the following error:

checking for LIBDAEMON... configure: error: Package requirements (libdaemon >= 0.10) were not met:

No package 'libdaemon' found

Any idea what package I need? Do I need a development package?

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Still can't add media club commercial. Haven't been able to since last Monday. Anybody have any luck? If so, what command did you use?

My worry is that the system gets so hosed that I can't bring it up. I kind of need the GUI to be able to function. So, if I can't get the system up, then it doesn't matter if my data is ok because I would have no way to get to it to do anything. I would need to do a restore to put my system back together, so I would need to have backed it up first.

Ok, I have some confusion here. Prior to my changing the mondo/mindi backup command it referenced /dev/cdrom and would not write to the dvd. I changed the command to reference /dev/dvd and it did write to the dvd. I'll try another backup this way it is to see if it still works, and then change it back to see if it stops again. I swear, I think that sometimes the same application doesn't seem to act the same way twice.

It is almost like sometimes an application is accessed in a "kde3" way and sometimes in a "kde4" way if that makes any sense. I kind of wonder if kde3 and kde4 are in some way co-mingled on my system.

There's nothing to stop you using Mandriva 2009 with KDE 3.5 though, it's an option, right?

Just like with 2008.1, KDE 3.5 is default and KDE 4 optional, just the other way round.

Well, I didn't want to screw around majorly until I got a backup. But, not being able to write to my dvd kind of slows that down. The Mondo/Mindi backup suite seems to have written to the dvd ok, but for some reason when I boot from the created dvd I don't get to the right place to do a restore, as I did in 2008.1. I need to iron this out before I get too adventurous. Plus, I can't even seem to burn the pwp dvd iso.

I swear, sometimes I think I have two copies of programs on my system, one specific to kde4 and one specific to kde3. Some application behaviour is just odd.

Is this any help?

 

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/R...u?content=48411

Hmmmm. Hadn't heard of that. I'll have to try it out. Thanks. :)

I'll give brasero try. Thanks. k3b seems to have stopped working (at least for iso burning).

I'll give brasero try. Thanks. k3b seems to have stopped working (at least for iso burning).

RVDowning:

 

Does this thread help?

 

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=96168

Yep, that would have helped. But as it is, I got the onboard sound working and will pull out the soundblaster since I guess I shouldn't have any further need for it. Any advantage to having both that I am missing? That said, I still haven't been able to get Opera to give an audible alert on email reception since the upgrade to 2009.0, but I'll talk to the Opera people about that.