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Hurm, it does work now. It didn't used to. Maybe I'm getting to old......

i did it the path way too. makes more sense to me -- and it's global, not just for my user.

That's kind of how I feel. The only time I miss Winbloze is when I'm trying to get anything sound-related to work. Whatever its problems were, I have to give it this: I could listen to mp3s and play a game at the same time, and hear the sound from both.

That'll work fine with this, it's got the best mixing i've seen.

nvidia? I think we have basic SLI support. But it's very basic, you wont get much of a kick out of it, definitely not worth bothering with a second card for.

so in simple, x86_64bit CPU's support 32bit perfectly, and natively, so you can install a 32bit distro easily.

James

I had a response within two days on my one I logged with Fedora, but kernel.org still yet to reply and fix it. Perhaps Fedora will do it quicker, and hopefully that will filter into kernel.org.

 

Incidently, since my report back, I've not heard anything so shall see what happens next now.

bug trackers and developers are funny things. Developers are inherently lazy, so the bug tracker model has it's pitfalls.

unless there's someone whose job is to assign bugs, half the bugs will never get assigned.

once they're assigned, many devs like to 'ignore' and hope it goes away in the next release. unfortunately that doesnt work for all bugs. But if a user bugs, the developer keeps getting emails, and the developer will fix it surprisingly quickly.

sometimes I like bug tracker mails, it's good to see people reporting things. Other times I don't, they mean more work.

/end rant.

James

This is a robbery. I was offered the chance to get my data off a 200 GB Western Digital HD (completely dead- no head crashes, bad sectors or something like that- nonspinning, and the BIOS does not see the disk) for just 850 € ... :huh:

spose backing up is cheaper, and quicker...

I lost all my hdd's in less then 12 hours once. My external got knocked off the desk by the dog, and my laptop's internal had just been backed up to it... I managed to backup important stuff off the laptop across the network before it died a few hours later, but I lost a lot of data on the external.

James

My bugreports in fedora were fixed by the developers usually within two to five days. If Mandriva manages to squash bugs as efficiently in the future with their new structure, then hats off to them. Well... good luck adamw and keep on rockin'. :)

mandriva spring was broken for me, so I guess the clock is counting on the bug I opened yesterday.

yeah, you'll be fine. USB is a global standard, it spits out the same power everywhere, regardless of the voltage at AC.

yeah, by default fedora does not have /usr/sbin and /sbin in root's path. Append the full path, either /sbin/ndiswrapper or /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper.

Additionally, it doesnt enable networkmanager by default, enable this in services, and start it and you'll get a new icon in your systray you can use for wireless instead of the pathetic fedora tool.

James

Good to see this. Any attempt to improve the mandriva bug situation is a good thing.

I filed a bug 15 months ago, it was not modified or replied to by a human, until this week, when it was finally closed. That's 15 months, sitting there, rotting unsolved on the tracker. No wonder mandriva has been so horrendously buggy. Shameful. On Arch, bugs are assigned usually within days, if not hours, thanks to Romashka, our resident bug tracker triager and developer. http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21599

The bug squad is still only half the problem. The other half is getting the developers to actively embrace and use the bug tracker. If you did that, you wouldnt need a very big bug squad, and the squad's role would be reduced to triage and monitoring.

As a principle, I havn't used mandriva until that bug has been closed. Now it's been closed I'll be giving Spring a shot tonight.

Good luck.

James

USB is a global standard, so the voltage at the socket is irrelevant.

If you have an external charger, you'll probably be able to charge with an adaptor, if a suitable one exists.

James

im sure there is a text install for mandriva still. i know its on the dvd version, but no idea about whether its on any of the CD versions.

James

Check this page out:

 

http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/

 

FC6 was awesome at suspend, when some changes to pm-utils and hal-info it left suspend working on some at not others, but he is working on making it better and has some trouble shooting steps.

 

Thanks,

yeah, saw that.

I've copied across my custom kernel and sleep script, and sleep is working again, so I'll futz with the fedora stuff, see what 's wrong and send it in. Fedora's working great now that i've got sleep and everything else working.

James

Since you already had a bootloader, you shouldn't install Mint's bootloader at all.

I do not use Mint, but I guess you should have the option NOT installing a bootloader.

If not, file it as a bug/request/both of the above to the distro developers.

it's often simpler when using multiple distros, to just install their bootloaders on their partitions, rather than MBR, and then have one of the systems install to the MBR, From there, you can chain load to any of the other bootloaders.

The advantage is, the systems dont interfere with each other, and can do what they like to their bootloader without messing the others up. additionally, they can upgrade and change kernels as much as they like, without manual intervention.

As for mint, yeah, select 'no' bootloader. Then chroot into it from another distro, and install the bootloader to the partition then.

Good news! They've got some excellent work there.

For those who don't know the details, there's:

OSS is the Open Sound System. A standard sound system across all the unices, created in 1992.

Linux has it's own GPL implementation of this sound system, which is in the kernel, and is deprecated in favour of ALSA.

What is being GPL'ed is the closed source implementation, created by the dude who invented the OSS standard. This is pretty cool, as that implementation has a heap of great features, is popular among audiophiles and those doing real time sound work.

James

heh. im not having much luck. Get a complete kernel panic, keyboard leds flashing, upon trying to resume from suspend or hibernate. Don't know what they did to 2.6.21, a stock 2.6.21 works fine.

Yum's pretty good though!

James

ok, found networkmanager is installed, was in services, so i've enabled it. God knows why it wasnt enabled by default.

Set SELinux to permissive, rebooted, and i've got internet on both cable and wireless. Wireless still won't connect to my normal home WPA network, but it does work on my backup WEP network. Says it's outta range for the wpa one, which is utter nonsense.

So got network going now.

Never used fedora for any length of time before, so, this is literally, first impressions of fedora.

Got a new hdd for my laptop today, so I figured it was the perfect place to give fedora a shot. ISO SHA1SUMs matched, and the DVD was checked and was fine upon the installer start. Good to go.

Installation

Installer is fine, it does what it needs to, without much fuss. I had 4 complaints, but decided not to bother mentioning them, because the rest of fedora... sucked. Excepting partitioning, I took default options.

Package sizes are... amazingly large. Evolution is 14mb on Arch, 38mb on Fedora. I can't see how that's explained.

First boot

Didnt boot. Seems it doesnt want to boot when I have my firewire CD drive plugged in. After removing that, it booted fine. I can forgive that.

Second boot

Dissappointed :( I was hoping fedora would be great. Absolutely miserable wireless support. And I mean absolutely miserable. No NetworkManager or equivalent, and no wpa support from GUI. That's unforgivable. NO desktop aimed distro has ANY defence for not including half decent wireless support out of the box now. It detected my card fine, it's an old 802.11b intel, and the pathetic network configuration tool it has recognised it as a wireless card.

Anyway, I figured i'd try and install Networkmanager or something else. Clicked software install, and it said it wanted an internet connection, then closed. -- I just downloaded a 2.8gb dvd iso, surely it can install from that without internet?

So, I plugged in the ethernet cable. Went to the network configuration dialog and enabled my ethernet connection. No such luck. SELinux popped up saying "SELinux AVC denial" -- it was denying dhclient from writing /etc/resolv.conf, thus no DNS, thus no useful network for me.

I read the SELinux alert. It said, that a particular command would fix the access for resolv.conf. Tried to run it as root, no such command.

No network, really, really not impressed, not even on ethernet. I'm still amazed that they don't package NetworkManager out of the box... like every other sane desktop distro. Mandriva, SuSE and Ubuntu all do.

Anyway, i'm willing to keep trying. in the meantime, does anyone know how to.... connect to a network?

I'd spend the time getting a better windows virus scanner, something that checks their mail as it comes in. By the time you go to use the silly internet one, the damage could already be done.

As said above, you only really need one on linux if you're forwarding mail on, or serving files. Do you frequently blindly forward emails with unknown attachments? Probably not, so you don't really need one.

James

The newest release 10.

the newest is 2007. 10 is years old.

interesting game.

I don't really know what to say though, the demo's too short, and while it gives you the concept of the play, it doesn't give you a taste of the experience. I'll have to wait for some reviews, because the demo didnt sell me.

That's quite the slap in the face. "You're ok because we can use you to our advantage".

That's one of the things i've hated about this whole situation with novell. Everyone assumed the worst, and novell became public enemy #1 -- long before any actual details about the deal came out. Novell deserve some respect, they've got some excellent developers there, and are doing some excellent work. And currently, Suse linux enterprise desktop has been the slickest easiest linux desktop I've used. (Yet to try newer releases or Fedora 7, so don't go barfing on about those)

James

no, this is fine.

i585 means it will run on anything from a Pentium up, including your pentium 4.

i might as well start posting all the new Arch releases then. :)

Well, mlocate still can't beat a well written find - especially since find doesn't require you to update a database.

but mlocate is sure a helluva lot faster because it has that db.

and as for the database, mlocate, unlike the old slocate, takes only a matter of seconds to update it's database as it does it incrementally. slocate on the other hand, every time, rebuilds it from scratch when it updates. By default in just about every distro, the slocate/mlocate update is usually run at midnight.

James