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  1. I wanted to try ext4 (yes I have kernel 2.6.28) so I converted, so I followed this little guide here:

    http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Create...om_ext3_to_ext4

     

    But now when I try to boot, the kernel panics complaining about not being able to mount root because an optional feature (of ext4) was enabled, so I guess I have to add some options to fstab but I am not able to mount the partition anymore in intrepid

    sudo mount -t ext4dev /dev/sdb1 /media/ext4/

    mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,

    missing codepage or helper program, or other error

    In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

    dmesg | tail or so

     

    from dmesg

     

    [ 467.152672] EXT4-fs: sdb1: not marked OK to use with test code.

     

     

    So how to mount and how to then correct my fstab?

  2. I haven't actually tried this before, but just for you I just have tried it now and it works. This is how I did it.

    1) Right click your xfce desktop, select Settings/Keyboard/Application Shortcuts/Add.

    2) A box pops up asking for the shortcut command which is 'xfce4-screenshooter'

    3) Enter this and another box pops up asking for the required shortcut - simply press the 'Print Screen' Button and the shortcut is registered and on my system it works faultlessly.

     

    Ah I see, it used to be a panel plugin now it' s standalone app; I also see one of imho most annoying thunar bugs: not being able to paste in detailed view, is fixed

     

    I have xfce running on cooker, not sure why it won't work for you.

    It worked for my old user but I decided to clean out my home and then stuff broke, new users don't work anymore either...it's supposedly the update process to beta3, I can run the apps but not a session :sad: 

  3. 5)Ksnapshot

     

    I never managed to get the xfce-screenshooter plugin to bind to the prt scrn key

     

    8)Amarok

     

    Exaile and Banshee are good gtk alternatives for amarok; Exaile' s aim actually is to be one day gtk' s amarok

     

    In my Linux life I was 'weaned' on KDE and loved it. That love stopped abruptly with KDE4. I won't go into the reasons for that here, I have said enough on that subject, just suffice to say that for now and I far as I can see into the future I do not want it on my computer in any way, shape or form, not even it's libraries if I can avoid them.

     

    Same here as you know but 4.2rc1 is bringing some of that love back and xfce won' t even run currently in cooker :sad:

  4. It's not only those 2 tools but many parts of the mcc and installer. I tried to get bugs fixed many times, so I asked on irc and no one understood the draktools or even dared touch them...

     

     

     

    ps: I never did get rpm hell, I have encountered deb hell many times, where deb install just would out-right refuse to do anything anymore because of broken packages or incomplete upgrades but never an rpm system....urpmi has gotten a lot better too the last 2 releases, 1 bad package won't break an upgrade anymore but I still think urpmi should consider downgrades, but by design it will never, and that it does not makes upgrading, especially with 3rd party packages present tricky...

  5. Date:Thursday 08 January 2009 00:18 

    Author:Anne Nicolas-2 

    Hi all 

     

    Pixel will leave Mandriva in the beginning of February. We would like to take the opportunity to thank him for his commitment and endeavour whilst at Mandriva and we wish him every success in his future activities. 

     

    «After many years at Mandrake/Mandriva, I'm leaving. I'm moving to one of my first loves: functional programming languages, far away from perl and system programming. For this I had to accept to go to the dark side, write proprietary software. Life is tough! I left behind many (too many?) lines of perl, but i'm currently pouring my brain into some folks: "pterjan" for diskdrake, "titi" for some part of DrakX, and a shiny newcomer, "teuf" for urpmi and various things... New eyes on old code can surely help having better code :) », said Pixel. 

      

    Christophe Fergeau is joining engineering team and will have the big task to take part of Pixel activity. Christophe is not unknown in free software community and contribute to GNOME (iPod support in Rhythmbox) 

     

    Thanks again Pixel for all your good work and please welcome Christophe 

     

    -- 

    Anne NICOLAS 

    Director of Engineering 

    Mandriva http://www.mandriva.com

     

    For the ones that don't know Pixel is the author of urpmi, maybe not the greatest package manager but a capable one and it is our package manager but he is also the author of maybe mandriva's greatest asset XFdrake and many other draktools

  6. Then I runs drak3d from konsole, enables Compiz, logs out, this time I can log in, but no rotation or anything other of the fancy stuff.

    I don't need the fancy stuff for my daily use, but somethings is wrong here, I have never had these trouble with my old FX 5200 card.

     

    the fanciest effects are not enabled by default in mdv you need to run and install compiz settings manager for those

  7. There's absolutely no point considering ATi cards for usage in Linux. While their hardware is impressive, their proprietary driver was, is and will always be total pants (unless, perhaps, ATi opensources it). The ATi gang has proven innumerable times their total impaotency in building EVEN a half-decent driver with hadrware-acccelerated 3D support. Don't expect miracles- they just don't happen nowadays.

     

     

     

    Maybe that was true a while back but their drivers are atm better than nvidia for kde4 for sure, xvideo works, suspend/hibernate works, switching vt's work...most bugs actually have been fixed in the last 6 months

  8. If you want the best performance and best performance/$ graphics card nothing can beat the ati HD 4870 X2 atm, comparison to any other cards isn't even fair, it's in a league of its own; google the reviews, it is so powerful the rest system even if you would pick the rest would be the limiting factor...the card is not cheap though, as expensive as nvidia's best but it blows nvidia out of the water; nvidia and kde4 are also a bit problematic still, even with the more powerful cards kde can seem quite sluggish...

     

    regarding the soundcard: I wouldnt buy creative x-fi atm since their drivers are problematic and on-board useally is good enough; audigy 2 and 4 are well supported though but not really worth the extra money compared to on board audio, maybe in a few months alsa will support x-fi (in 2009.1)

  9. This is a kde4 feature, not a bug, the kde4 designers want you to use policykit instead of kdesu, nevermind the fact that policykit hasn't been integrated into kde4 yet, they already hid kdesu to some obscure path (something like /usr/lib/kde4/bin/kdesu or something like that), I don't know where exactly and I am not using mdv at the moment either but it is this there...somewhere...

     

     

     

     

    Alternatively try to launch dolphin with su - (notice the trailing minus sign)

  10. Mandriva always had a tendency of being somewhat buggy and since Adam got hired he workes very hard in getting those bugs, the devs just dont seem to care about but can really annoy end users, fixed; together with his effort backporting and packaging requested packages and adding little but useability wise little extraa like syncing mobile devices has made a huge difference to the feel of Mandriva. I wont even mention the tireless pr work.... 

    Without Adam we endusers would have a far more buggy, bland Mandriva with outdated software. For the bugs he helped fis he would be worth his weight in gold if Mdv wants to focus on the corporate/oem market...a very bad decision indeed....

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