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2: exactly the same. 1: not sure, there's gdb which is the defacto debugger of choice, however it isnt graphical.

hey scarecrow! To everyeone else: when posting information about your hardware, please attempt to find what chipset or kernel module your hardware utilises. Saying "ive got sata" is dead useless to Mandriva, as there's so many sata chipsets. Although most of the ones reported so far in this thread are Core 2 Duos, which means they're probably JMicron SATA+IDE. James

yeah true. but it's possible that the site was professionally built, or that someone was simply using what they felt comfortable with. I'm against closed software. I dislike it, I think we'd be better off without it. However I have nothing against people who use it. To disallow people using it, is restricting their own freedom to choose. In the end, computers exist to perform tasks, and people should be free to use what they like to complete that task most efficiently. Whoever made that logo may dislike the GIMP, and a lot of people do -- so long as they have a fair reason, go for it, use fireworks or photoshop. (although they could use Krita, but so little know about that wonderful app, which is just as good as gimp) Exactly my point.... Although many of the templates cannot be.. GIMP just isn't up to the job... when you see the actual images in the templates you can see why... because they are seamlessly split to fit into the page and look like 1 graphic. now here's something to think about: why should krita/the gimp support all the layout systems of closed source applications? Instead start from the start using krita/the gimp to develop your layout? THAT is supporting open source, not using a closed implementation in an open app. Export to png from gimp, and then use some basic image magick commands to cut it up. otoh, you're site is fundamentally flawed if you're relying on images to that extent, and it'd probably have some pretty nasty issues. less and less, a majority of the used themes now aren't pixmap/vector. We're tending back to pure engine based themes, which means they use a basic theme description text file, and the engine, written in C for GTK, C++ for QT does all the rendering - no image files. anything i've seen done in a pixmap/vector theme, could be done in krita/the gimp/inkscape. (choose your own sentences!) If they've been done in a closed source app, it's simply been because of the personal preference and comfort of the designer... which relates back to above :) James

originally, I used it for curiousity, and a desire to tweak further. now, I use it because I believe in *free* software, love the environment, and the ironic simplicity once you learn how it works. unlike windows, I can commandeer my computer to operate in any way that I wish, with full freedom of my hardware and software. James

nvidia doesnt actually use AIGLX, it has it's own implementation of texture_from_pixmap (tfp) that is equivalent. AIGLX is used by the open source drivers. Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true" Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" in the device section for your nvidia card in xorg.conf, remove reference to enabling aiglx, enable composite, and then just run your compiz/beryl directly on Xorg. Depending on what version of compiz/beryl you have, you may need to pass an extra option to tell it to use tfp. (above works for me, no idea about mandriva, differences may apply on different versions)

more directly than the logfile, which contains all system messages, get the output of 'dmesg' after the failure. I realise this goes into messages, but other stuff goes there too, and a full dmesg is more useful. James

all you need is vim. surely joomla's templates are plain text? If so it's just a matter of making a page design in CSS/HTML, and then putting joomla's relevant template matter into the file. You could even use nvu to make the design, and just use vim to add the template stuff. The joomla docs should cover it. as for creative stuff, that's more how creative you are, rather than the tools you use. if you have the idea, you ought to be able to construct it in krita or gimp. James

hurrah! good to see this project is going about it correctly and doing a completely clean room reverse engineer, no room for any litigation. should make a great driver when it's done!

emmanuel_uk: open source driver doesnt work for all cards, and it's performance is far below par of the closed source driver. For performance, the nvidia should be substantially better. For freedom/ease of configuration, mandriva should handle the radeon better as it has an open source driver. glxgears aint a good benchmark, load up ET or something, and you should get a far better idea. James

add an init.d script on boot to detect whether the system is docked, then adapt the correct Xorg config, or configure acpid to modify the X config file on boot. to dynamically change it, you could write a script for the acpid daemon to run when a docking event occurs, that calls xrandr to resize the screen. It's possible, but not the sorta thing a distro will setup for you, because it's such a ridiculously corner case, that I doubt anyone has ever even considered implementing it. But the infrastructure IS there (acpid & init) to use and implement it yourself. James

arctic: failing to unmount hte drive would have no effect on an NTFS filesystem. The importance of unmounting, is so that all data can be flushed, and the partition can be left in a stable and clean state. In NTFS's case, Linux does not write to it at all, so there is no way it can be left in an inconsistent state. Take for example your / partition, it isnt unmounted at all. It's just mounted read only, and then has a sync forced so that all data is flushed and written. I think this is hardware error, I can't possibly conceive a situation where this could occur and if it did occur due to an update, it would have happened to someone else already. Reminds me of the time when a friend thought a quicktime update destroyed his external hdd. Also known as coincidental hardware failure. James

enourmously? How so? less responsive? programs are taking years longer to load? In what ways is it showing it's slowdown, because different ways can indicate different problems. The vanilla kernel as included in Mandriva does not do swap prefetching, so it would not be caching things from swap into memory. James

Well if you had explained things clearly, I wouldnt have misunderstood you :) I cant see how it could happen. I spose it's possible, but it's so unlikely. Take a look in /var/log for the urpmi log, and post what was upgraded. James

Sounds like there's something else at fault here. One moment it plugs fine on another windows computer and shows a blank filesystem, and the next moment, it refuses to even do that. That is not normal behaviour. I can't see how Mandriva destroyed it, no formatting command in mandriva is ever used without countless dialogs prepending it. It's unlikely to be a kernel bug, as the kernel tends to be pretty precautious -- and if your drive invokes a bug in it, it's gotta be a shit drive for not following the USB mass storage standard. Chances are something went pebkac here, its just a matter of what, or it could possibly have been a faulty drive. As for getting your data back, you may have had a chance of getting it back by taking it to a data recovery specialist, but it seems you've screwed around with it since, which slighly reduces your chances. James

telnet works to 192.168.1.1, because that's your router (hence the minimal busybox shell and filesystem), and it most probably has a telnet interface of some sort. telnet wont work on localhost until you setup a server. James

ping localhost doesnt work because you dont have a DNS entry assigned. the easiest way is to just add a line in /etc/hosts that points localhost to 127.0.0.1 telnet 127.0.0.1 doesnt work because you arent running telnet, no distro I know of out there installs a telnet server out of the box, let alone starts it by default. James

hokai, Grub and Lilo are two different beasts that work entirely differently. Neither setup is more 'correct' in their operation than the other. LILO, writes the kernel images and any initramfs/initrd to the boot sector with itself. Thus, whatever's in the lilo config when you run 'lilo' is what you will see there. It's not referenced by lilo at all after that. This means it doesnt matter where the kernel image file is at lilo installation, so long as it's accessible. So no need to copy it to your host system, although it would make it easier to install lilo in future if the drive were not connected and mounted to the same spot. Grub, rather, stores filesystem drivers, and it's config file location to the bootsector, so it reads it's config file on boot, and loads it up. This is why GRUB allows you to dynamically modify it at boot time -- the disadvantage is if the config file's location on disk is moved, grub dies. When configuring LILO, you must provide the full path to the image file, as it is mounted. so instead of /dev/sda2/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6, you must use, /mnt/sda2/boot/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6. However, you said that didnt work (post the error next time), and I'd put my money on that it errored out mounting your root filesystem, or LILO barfed in some form on boot. If it errored out about mounting root filesystem, this is because most kernels do not have USB support inbuilt into either the kernel or initramfs/initrd, instead they load it as modules, after the system has been booted and after root has been mounted. To fix this, either recompile the kernel with USB storage support inbuilt, or if you are using one, generate a new initramfs/initrd containing usb storage and your usb controller (ehci-hcd) using your distro's tools. If you are trying to install mandrake on this drive, reinstall it directly to the drive and it *should* configure the kernel correctly for you. Just check that you arent already using an initramfs/initrd and have forgotten to add it too. As for LILO barfing, I had problems with it booting an external drive directly from it's menu as you're trying. Instead I added a chainloader entry (exactly the same as a windows entry) for that drive, and I told the distro to install the bootloader to the USB drive. 2 bootloaders, slightly hackish, but perfectly safe, and worked more reliably for me. James

He said that ;) afaik WGA is XP only. besides, if you've got a legal copy, there's little to be concerned about. Fat32 blows, but it depends on what you use it for as to how much it blows. I store all my windows games and all my movies on a Fat32 partition, so pretty much, big stuff, that isnt going to move around, so fragmentation is minimal. If you plan to share between windows and linux, fat32 is pretty much your only option. Others exist, but their stability and usability are questionable at best. The good thing about USB hard drives, is that all the major manufacturers follow the same usb mass storage device standard, so in nearly all cases, they will plug and work on any major OS provided filesystem support is there. If you've got time, go to a swap meet, you can get a decent external casing for a drive, really cheap there, and then just order a good hdd from your favourite hardware vendor. Big vendors tend to sell the casing for exorbitant prices. Alternatively, you can just buy a straight external, already put together, but you'll find these have surprisingly large markups over the standard hdd. I've seen markups more than $70AU, which is quite a lot. Maxtor seem to be reasonable, they sell theirs quite cheaply. James

where's the documentation for this function? It wants an integer. Not a hex string, not a binary string. dont pass it after applying hex(), pass the number after applying int(). so you'd pass somethingbase10 in the above example.

put int() around colour before passing it. as for turning it into a hex value, I can't see where you're doing that. that's done by passing an integer to hex() and will automatically put the 0x in front. So from binary to hex, you'd go, something="101010101" somethingbase10=int(something, 2) somethingbase16=hex(somethingbase10) print somethingbase16 0x155 I realise it's hardly direct, but python offers no inbuilt way to go from a binary string to a hex string. James

RMA?

RMA? If that's anything to do with warranty, I get the full vendor warranty through the place I buy my products. Just take it back to them, they send it of, deal with it, and I get a call a few weeks later to pick up the new device. Pretty good service imho, and no effort needed on my behalf.

just a tip for your screenshot script. instead of doing cat /etc/ubuntu-release do source /etc/ubuntu-release echo Distro: $DISTRIB_ID $DISTRIB_RELEASE $DISTRIB_CODENAME and it should print Distro: Ubuntu 6.06 dapper instead. Much tidier. I'm assuming the file is /etc/ubuntu-release, I dont have ubuntu so I can't check. This change just loads up the bash variables contained in the file and prints them nicely, rather than spitting them out raw. James

yup. If it is a proper, clean, gvm based solution, then it should work irrelevant of the kernel in use, be it custom, or distro provided. Hence my suspicion that it isnt such a pure setup as they'd like us to think. Alternatively, it could just be poorly configured which wouldnt surprise me either. I's one of the most common problems posted about any distro that's hardly an excuse for it to happen. the idea is you *fix* it if that's happening. My point was that Mandriva's has seemed less reliable than other setups i have seen and used. James

QT could fit your desktop if you bothered ;) I use QT and GTK2 apps in visual and usability harmony, and I'm all the better off for it. I think it's silly to restrict your choice in applications to one or the other -- you're cutting yourself off some great software either way. As an example, current stable versions of Gaim are miles off what Kopete can do. I dont think any of the GTK burners really match K3B in terms of stability, interface and features. Krita is great if you dislike GIMP's interface, and offers a majority of it's functionality, as well as some that GIMP fails on, such as CMYK for which GIMP has weak support. Kivio is a great diagram program which no GTK program comes near matching and the rest of the Koffice suite, I find are excellent, lightweight (compared to OOo) tools that do a great job at their respective tasks. All of them have improved ridiculously in the last year or two, so they're well worth a look. Much more complete than 'GNOME Office' which is a bit of a mish mash still. OTOH, I can't live without Firefox - GTK2, and Inkscape, who are also both unrivalled. As for Audacity, according to Arch's maintainer for it, there's known problems when using GTK2, which is why Arch, Ubuntu and most likely other distros still use the WX GTK1 interface. James.