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overall Hardware Support in Linux is better than in Windows Windows seems to have better Hardware Support, because every Hardware-Manufacturer writes a driver for it, this guy should try to get his box working in WinXP without these external drivers and then tell me about hardware support again. maybe hardware-accelerated 3D is a problem with Linux (at least on the ati-side), it's really a shame for ati, that a Notebook with a tiny intel GMA-don't-know-which (it's a 852-Chipset) works flawless with Compiz in Mandriva One, while my ati x850xt on my gaming box which I migrated to Linux just sucks, but that's atis fault (or mine, since I was so silly to by one of their cards :P ) The point with gamers is they just use the OS which works best for their fav game, so if they play a game thats only supported under Windows, they use Windows My Games and my Job are the only reasons for still using Windows here comes the big problem: companies, most IT-Managers in most Companies (at least here in Europe) are cowards, they just don't have the guts to tell their bosses that it would be better to use linux Linux may fail on the desktop but not for quality reasons, but for the stupidity of the users

this is strange in that it needs imwheel, my G7 works without imwheel, but hey if it works it's okay :D this is my current xorg.conf entry, even the 4way-scrollwheel works: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse2" Driver "evdev" Option "product" "0xc51a" Option "HWheelRelativeAxisButtons" "7 6" Option "vendor" "0x046d" EndSection mouse2 is because I had a MX610 connected before

Good for me. If there was a very good I would have used it, great would have been a bit overexaggerated for me, because there are some minor glitches, but overall it really works fine.

So far I had no problems with Mandriva 2007,it plays nice with my 2 sATA hdds, at least when I do a normal install (not from the Live-CD/DVD aka Mandriva One, because strangely IT has problems with my sATA :huh: ), but that was the same with Mandriva 2006, One never worked, standard installation worked fine, even the sATA-raid was recognized correctly. For some problems with hardware just stopping to work, I would not blame Mandriva alone, the 2.6 Kernel is some sort of a constant construction site, you never know what will change with the next version, so the kernel-developers have to be blamed too for some of these inconveniencies.

Gave me: Mandriva Kubuntu Debian Fedora Ubuntu overall ok, but it missed Suse :huh: and I prefer gnome over KDE

Maybe you try this with your x.org.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection works for me with a Logitech MX610 and a G7

there is a version of powermanga in the main-tree for mandriva 2006: ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distr...9-1mdk.i586.rpm don't know if you have the same version ?, but this worked for me, 3D-Hardware Accel was not neccesarily needed if I remember correctly (it's 2D afaik)

/var/cache/urpmi/rpms ? not 100 % sure but somewhere there they should be had no signature problems with the ff 1.5 update though, maybe the mirrors were not in sync at the time ?

with alt-tab you can cycle through your active applications, maybe this might do it for you ? maybe you can look in the gnome control center > windows settings, if there is something suitable

maybe you have to reconfigure your helper-applications (the way how firefox handles files), it is in the downloads section of your firefox settings

maybe you are missing some needed repositorys, you can add them by using the Easy-urpmi link on top of this forum, you should add main, contrib, plf-free and plf-nonfree, maybe the packages you need are somewhere in these repos ?

have a look at /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM there should be a file called trip_points which shows at which temperature your fans start (beware the temp in there is in ° C) there is a possibility to change this values, but this does not work on every notebook: http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_h...tml#trip_points if you have a toshiba-notebook there is a command-line-tool called acpitool which lets you switch the fan on and off is ACPI running on your notebook, most of this problems are related to ACPI

on the amarok website they offer a package of amarok 1.4.1 that is explicitly for mandriva 2006, maybe you have some luck with it link: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Download

Personally I think all this hype about 3D-Desktops is not really of importance, at least not in the corporate market. The company I'm working for atm is doing 1st level support for a big chemical company with many thousands of users across the world, my experience with the average corporate user was that many of them don't care or some even don't know about the possibility of changing the desktop wallpaper Joe-Average-User will use what is installed on his machine, he will not bother about alternatives

another interesting thing is that ut 2003 and later use ogg for the ingame music, so at least some big game manufacturers seem to be interested in the format admitted the comparison was very very crude, at least the test showed that average joes could not really distinguish the quality of a 128+ kbps mp3 and ogg but with mp3 at lower bitrates ogg was always considered to be of better quality winamp can play ogg since version 2.81 or so, I had never problems with it, there were ogg encoders for winamp 3 and 5, which I used both without problems btw happy birthday to scarecrow

OK, this may not be a great help for you, but for me amarok was so f$&%ing unreliable with my favourite Internet-Radio-Station, that I kicked amarok and use Rhythmbox now

For me the x.org-update worked without problems on my notebook (haven't updated my other machines yet, since they are not connected to the internet, but will try to do)

afaik thomson holds the mp3 patent but they don't charge license fees ogg files tend to be larger than mp3 files when using the same bitrate, but in a test in a german computer-magazine (c't) ogg was considered to sound better, the testers said an ogg file with 64 kbps had the same quality like a 128 kbps mp3 file personally I prefer ogg, so I don't run into problems if the next of my favourite linux distro drops mp3-support, and since winamp supports ogg and I don't need a mp3-player there is no need for mp3 for me

you can trick such sites sometimes by switching your user-agent mplayer-plugin works for wmv, real if you have win32-codecs installed, don't know about shockwave though

since I'm not sure which Linux you use, I don't know if it works for you but in Mandriva 2005 and 2006 everything you need is included, you need to have a working ACPI and a running cpufreq service (in mandriva control center/system/services acpi, acpid and cpufreq must be set to start at bootup and they must be running, then everything is basically ok (normally they should be already installed) on Mandriva you need only to install the powernowd-rpm (although it is named after AMD's PowerNow it works very well with Intel Pentiums too), powernowd is a userspace-tool, in gnome you can use the cpu-frequency-applet to see if it works and to set your cpu-frequency in KDE you can use klaptop to control your cpu-frequency by using the different performance profiles, if you have gkrellm and gkrellm-plugins (the actual plugin is gkx86info) installed you can see your actual cpu-frequency on ubuntu it basically works the same (here the packages are just debs intsead of rpms)

I'm not sure but isn't this some indexing service within kde, I think I heard of it, when there were problems with kat

I have Mandriva 2006, Mandriva 2007 and Ubuntu 6.06 running on an Omnibook 6100 with an ati Radeon M6 Mobility and a SXGA+ (1400x1050) TFT-Display strange thing is Hardware-3D-Acceleration is only working when I set color-depth to 16 bit :huh: this is the case in both Mandrivas and in Ubuntu I don't really need 3D-Accel since I use this notebook for work not for gaming, but I'm still wondering oh, and 16-bit color looks f§$!ing ugly on a TFT-Display proprietary ati-driver is no solution since afaik the M6 is not supported by this driver

this may take a while depending on the amount of your memory maybe your memory-timings in the BIOS are to agressive, had this issue once, every OS I loaded kept crashing until I set the memory-timings to a less aggressive value

one note: it depends on what ati-card you have, since older cards are not supported by the proprietary ati-driver

one thing to note: this setup was done by using the DNS-Wizard from the Mandriva drakwizard package (had done this out of curiosity and laziness), I think you would not need the db.localhost, but it does not hurt to have it either (seems Mandriva just wanted to be sure that the nameserver always finds itself :D ) afaik, you don't necessarily need the forward option with this setup, because for everything your nameserver doesn't know, he will ask the nameservers in root.hints