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  1. Mounting and formatting DVD-RAM

    in Hardware

    Posted

    OK, thanks Ian. With the UDF, is there still the problem with the size limitation of 1 GB mentioned in one of the two threads?

     

    But my main problem actually is that I don't know how to go about formating the DVD-RAM disk! I tried doing as suggested in this post by counterspy, but couldn't do it (or didn't know how to proceed with it). It said something about the target (the sr0 or the cdrom) not beeing a file system but a device and if I wanted to continue. I said yes but still was unable to mount it after that. I'm guessing I didn't do it correctly.

     

    So how would you format a new out-of-the-box DVD-RAM?

  2. Mounting and formatting DVD-RAM

    in Hardware

    Posted

    I recently got some DVD-RAMs to make back-ups of my photos currently stored on my HDs. I did a little googling but was unable to find anything that would help... The closest one I found was these threads, but the info dind't help me.

    https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=2184

    http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=...b10b67e77fad4e4

     

    What's the easiest way of formating (and to which filesystem?) a DVD-RAM? And I guess then it should be mounted afterwards.

     

    Additional question: is there a way to format a DVD-RAM so that it would work on windows?

  5. Problem printing with HP2355

    in Software

    Posted

    For a long time I've experienced this problem with the printing. Whenever I'm printing something from Firefox or Thunderbird the pages print out sideways and only half of the page. This seems to be due to my printer trying to print something as landscape even though I've set it to print portrait. The thing is that if I print e.g. a .pdf document shown within FF browser it prints it awkwardly, but if I open up the same document e.g. with evince document viewer or Adobe reader it prints it fine (as an A4 portrait). This leads me to thing the problem is somewhere in mozilla FF and TB...

     

    My hw is HP2355 all-in-one and I'm using CUPS and HP Device Manager.

     

    In FF and TB I've got A4 portrait chosen and the same with CUPS. But in HP Device Manager (Print Settings - Basic), my choice for the orientation keeps reverting back to landscape if I change it to Portrait by choosing it from the drop-down list or by clicking the "Default" button for this choice.

     

    I just cannot find the source for this behavior! What is it that keeps changing this option and how can I fix this?

  8. "your system is not compatible with 3D desktop" ?

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by dude67

    Did you install the new kernel version? That would do it. It did it to my PC w/ Nvidia chip.

     

    Try latest updates (see to it that your sources are up-to-date) - I got it to work again by doing these things:

     

    1. I installed the new kernel-sources
    2. I installed the dkms-nvidia anew
    3. MCC - hardware - set up the graphical server (by restarting the graphical server I got 3D back)

    This gave me all the 3D back.

  12. Battlefield 1942

    in Games

    Posted

    You do have to pay a small fee for cedega, but I think it`s worth it because they continually work towards getting games working under Linux, and you can vote for games for them to work on.

    For some it may be small change, but 5 EUR/month is not that small for me. I buy games when the prices have come down; usually at a price of 10 to 15 EUR a game. This 5 EUR/mo would mean 60 EUR/a to let me play 10 EUR games within Linux when now I can boot to windows and play them there. The price is quite high IMHO.

     

    BTW Max Payne 2 plays almost perfectly on Wine.

  15. ssh connection problem [solved]

    in Networking

    Posted

    Thanks guys, that seems to have solved it!

     

    I simply had a look at this PC#1's list of known_hosts and commented out the key of the one I was trying to connect to. And that's it! I guess the key was outdated and it issued a new key. I vaguely remember doing something like that before...

     

    :thumbs:

  16. ssh connection problem [solved]

    in Networking

    Posted

    Hi folks, here's another problem I'm having with ssh.

     

    I'm trying to connect to another PC here at home within my LAN IP space. PC #1 is this (192.168.254.5) and PC#2 is the one I'm trying to connect to (192.168.254.1).

     

    When I write "fish://192.168.254.1" in Konqueror it returns this:

    Could not connect to host 192.168.254.1

    When I write "sftp://192.168.254.1" in Konqueror it returns this:

    An error occurred while loading sftp://192.168.254.1:
			   WARNING: The identity of the remote host '192.168.254.1' has changed!
			   Someone could be eavesdropping on your connection, or the administrator may have just changed the host's key. Either way, you should verify the host's key fingerprint with the host's administrator. The key fingerprint is:
				a8:e7:71:c7:26:49:34:a8:10:a2:cf:13:3c:54:a5:2b
				Add the correct host key to "/home/dude67/.ssh/known_hosts" to get rid of this message.

    When I write "ssh://192.168.254.1" in Konqueror it returns this in Konsole:

    		 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
			   @	WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!	 @
			   @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
			   IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
			   Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
			   It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed.
			   The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
			   a8:e7:71:c7:26:49:34:a8:10:a2:cf:13:3c:54:a5:2b.
			   Please contact your system administrator.
			   Add correct host key in /home/dude67/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
			   Offending key in /home/dude67/.ssh/known_hosts:5
			   Password authentication is disabled to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks.
			   Keyboard-interactive authentication is disabled to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks.
			   X11 forwarding is disabled to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks.
			   Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).

     

    OK, I'm guessing something has changed somewhere - unless someone has gained access to my system. What does "identification has changed" mean?

     

    A few more details.

    - service sshd is running in both machines

    - At first I didn't have Firestarter running, but I've turned Firestarter on but no change in the result (configuring to let the traffic pass from each machine to the other)

    - I'm running MDV 2008.0 Free on both PCs with Gnome and they are up-to-date (updated today)

    - It has been working before - just now cannot remember if I've done so while running MDV2008.0.

    - I updated both systems from 2007.1 by (in the end) installing it anew, but leaving /home partition untouched

    - There seems to be an RSA key logged for both PCs in their /home/dude67/.ssh/known_hosts file

    - I CAN connect from this PC to the ftp of the other PC (from 192.168.254.5 connect with ftp to 192.168.254.1:2021). The other PC is connected to a PVR with a USB and that connection is made to be a FTP with a piece of software called ftpd-Topfield (the brand of the PVR).

     

    Does anyone have any clue what's going on?

  17. Show off your desktop November, 2007

    in Art And Design

    Posted · Edited by dude67

    I decided to make a new desktop for myself. It's amazing what you can do with the gimp tuts out there.

    http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs24/f/2007/326...t_by_Dude67.png

     

    There's also a variation in blue and I've also made versions for widescreens (1600x1200). (The wide versions are for A.I. ;) ) They are here if you would like to DL them: feel free. B)

    http://dude67.deviantart.com/gallery/#_bro.../wallpaper/misc

    It may take some time to download the files as they are quite large...

     

    -edit- Had to change the link to the deviantart page.

  18. Show off your desktop November, 2007

    in Art And Design

    Posted · Edited by dude67

    tyme; I've got the screenlets running but everytime I start them I have 2 clocks that start up. How do I stop that from happening?

     

    Thanks

    I think it is a bug - I had the same thing happen with the clock. The only difference was that I had four of them. Haven't tried deleting it and re-installing it, but it sounds like it may work.

     

    do they both disappear if you remove one?

    Yes, in my case they all disappered when trying to remove just one.

  22. Doom 3 crashes with Mandriva 2008 [solved]

    in Games

    Posted

    I assembled my first 64-bit pc this past weekend, and installed Mandriva 2008 i586 on it. Last night I installed Doom3 on it to see how well my new graphics card worked. Here's some info from my system

     

    .....

     

    Does anyone here have Doom3 running with Mandriva 2008 using a 64-bit processor? I should add that I had this working on my old 32-bit system using Mandriva 2008. Does anyone have any ideas as to what is causing this?

    If I understood that correctly you have a 64 bit processor, but you are running MDV 2008 32-bit version?

    I have Intel core 2 E6400 (64 bit processor) running MDV 2008 Free 32-bit. I've got an MSI NX7600GT-T2D256EZ NVidia graphics card.

     

    I don't have Doom3 currently installed, but I do run Quake4 and it's running beautifully. No problems at all and the graphics are awsome. I'm sorry - don't know what's causing all that, but I can only say that Q4 works nicely. I believe they are using the same engine. I do have Doom3, but haven't tried it since upgrading to MDV 2008. Doom3 worked perfectly with MDV 2007, though.

     

    This is how I did it in MDV2007: http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/

  23. Question about the hard disk

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    Is it possible to duel boot with both operating system from each other?

    I'm sorry, but now I'm a little puzzled...

     

    Dual booting meaning that when you start your PC, you can decide which OS you would like to start. I've got a dual boot system, where I can tell, which of the two OSs I want to start: WinXP Home, or Mandriva 2008. They each have a part of the Hard drive space formatted for their use. I e.g. have 250 GB for WinXP and another 250 GB for Mandriva (out of 500 GB internal HD). They coexist on different parts of the same HD.

     

    In Mandriva I also have something that is called "virtual OS" i.e. I have an emulator that let's me run Ubuntu in an Virtual Machine on top of my Mandriva desktop (in a window). I'm guessing that you think that dual booting means that: virtual OS. But it doesn't.

  24. Home partition

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    As you install, just choose the option that sets up the partitions automatically. Then the Mandriva cd will do everything for you, even setting up the /home partition.

     

    Kieth

    Yes, but that kinda takes away the option to decide the size of each partition for yourself. ;)

  25. Home partition

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    ...As I now am about to install Mandriva I would like to set up the home in its own partition. Can someone help me with this please.

    What you basically need is / (or "root") partition, a swap-pratition and it's very good to have a /home partition. I also have a /usr -partition, but that's not really needed.

     

    Depending on the HD size, you will need to give the root-partition ("/") enough room for your apps. Swap should be (a bit depending on the size of your RAM) somewhere between 512 - 1024 MB (make it twice your RAM, but no need to go over 1024 MB). Then I personally have a great deal larger /home partition to keep my videos, photographs, music etc. "stuff" there. This is where the users will save there application data (office documents and such) and the rest of that stuff.

     

    The actual partition is graphical when you install Mandriva so you don't need to worry about the correct commands. Click on "Custom disk partitioning" when given the choice during the early phases of the installation

     

    What you could do is read through this guide made by Falko: http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfect_desk...mandriva_2008.0 . What this guide does NOT do is give you any hints if you want to configure your hard drive partitions yourself. That's a pity, IMHO. But don't worry, I'ts fairly easy to do. Just start with your "/"-partition, make a "swap" partition next and finally allocate the rest of the free space to "/home" partition.

     

    Well, here's how I've set up my 250GB share of HD to Mandriva. (And before anyone makes the obvious comment: I know my swap is just too large... ;) )

    					Mount point: /
					sda6
					7.8GB (1%)
					Mount point: swap
					sda7
					3.8GB (0%)
					Mount point: /home
					sda8
					190GB (40%)
					Mount point: /usr
					sda9
					19GB (4%)

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