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Welcome Mandriva 2009. I just downloaded the final dvd-iso (found a mirror that had it prematurely available for download. :P ), gave it a look already and - it rocks! B)

I have some reservations about 2009.0, I think the gnome and xfce versions are very good but kde4 (and kde3) :unsure:

anf getting 2009.1 updates...not good at  all....

Yes I can wait but there is a curiosity in me to know how thing happen in Linux and thats the sole reason for which I want to know. But if you say I will hv to wait then its perfectly fine with me. Does that mean I can not switch to KDE 4 with my current distro???

there is no reason to wait, in fact now is a perfect time to get in, everthing stable and before server meltdown ;)

I would update now, rather than later, you get 2009.0 stable and withou a heavy load on the mirrors (mirrors tend to go down or get very slow when everyone updates) You can use easyurpmi to set your sources to cooker: http://www.mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/index.php and then set them to 2009.0 in 1-2 weeks or so

But to be totally honest kde4 isn't worth the switch; if you are a happy kde3 user you would most likely be disappointed by kde4 and the state kde3 is in/will be in, in 2009.0.

the depencies are wrong in those packages, you need to manually install all the qt4 packages from that repositories but alternatively upgrade to cooker, it has kde4.1.2 and is 2009.0 final now.

Why are you compiling fluxbox and wine? The latest packages are available in the repositories, did you try those? kde3-kdm seems to be buggy atm, not showing sessions use gdm or kde4-kdm instead

I know but still...

scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access OCZ ATV 1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCSsd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 15663104 512-byte hardware sectors (8020 MB)

sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off

sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00

sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through

sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 15663104 512-byte hardware sectors (8020 MB)

sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off

sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00

sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through

 sda: sda1

sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk

usb-storage: device scan complete

usbcore: registered new interface driver ub

No dock devices found.

from dmesg, I bolded my device, is it low speed of high speed?

usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfsusbcore: registered new interface driver hub

usbcore: registered new device driver usb

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: setting latency timer to 64

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: EHCI Host Controller

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: debug port 1

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: cache line size of 32 is not supported

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: irq 18, io mem 0xfebff400

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1a.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004

usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected

usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002

usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1

usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller

usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.27-desktop-0.rc6.3.2mnb ehci_hcd

usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1a.7

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: PCI INT A -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: setting latency timer to 64

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: cache line size of 32 is not supported

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, io mem 0xfebff000

usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2

ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004

usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 2-0:1.0: 6 ports detected

usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=04f2, idProduct=b033

usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0

usb 1-2: Product: USB2.0 1.3M UVC WebCam

Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x81a0b1, caps: 0xa04711/0x200000

input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1

usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002

usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1

usb usb2: Product: EHCI Host Controller

usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.27-desktop-0.rc6.3.2mnb ehci_hcd

usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1d.7

ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver

USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: setting latency timer to 64

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: UHCI Host Controller

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.0: irq 16, io base 0x0000e080

usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2

usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0325, idProduct=ac02

usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3

usb 2-3: Product: ATV

usb 2-3: Manufacturer: OCZ Technology

usb 2-3: SerialNumber: AA04012700113409

usb usb3: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001

usb usb3: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1

usb usb3: Product: UHCI Host Controller

usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.27-desktop-0.rc6.3.2mnb uhci_hcd

usb usb3: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1a.0

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: setting latency timer to 64

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: UHCI Host Controller

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1a.1: irq 21, io base 0x0000e000

usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

usb usb4: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001

usb usb4: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1

usb usb4: Product: UHCI Host Controller

usb usb4: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.27-desktop-0.rc6.3.2mnb uhci_hcd

usb usb4: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1a.1

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: setting latency timer to 64

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 23, io base 0x0000dc00

usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

usb usb5: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001

usb usb5: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1

usb usb5: Product: UHCI Host Controller

usb usb5: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.27-desktop-0.rc6.3.2mnb uhci_hcd

usb usb5: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1d.0

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: setting latency timer to 64

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x0000d880

usb usb6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 6-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2

usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

usb 4-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0b05, idProduct=1712

usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=3

usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 0194E8-5B-0002

usb usb6: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001

usb usb6: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1

usb usb6: Product: UHCI Host Controller

usb usb6: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.27-desktop-0.rc6.3.2mnb uhci_hcd

usb usb6: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1d.1

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: setting latency timer to 64

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 7

uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x0000d800

usb usb7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found

hub 7-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

usb 6-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2

usb 6-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

usb 6-2: New USB device found, idVendor=046d, idProduct=c521

usb 6-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0

usb 6-2: Product: USB Receiver

usb 6-2: Manufacturer: Logitech

usb usb7: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001

usb usb7: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1

usb usb7: Product: UHCI Host Controller

usb usb7: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.27-desktop-0.rc6.3.2mnb uhci_hcd

usb usb7: SerialNumber: 0000:00:1d.2

SCSI subsystem initialized

Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...

scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

usb-storage: device found at 2

usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

usb 7-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2

usb 7-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

usb 7-2: New USB device found, idVendor=08ff, idProduct=1600

usb 7-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=1, SerialNumber=0

usb 7-2: Product: Fingerprint Sensor

usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage

USB Mass Storage support registered.

# hdparm -tT /dev/sda

/dev/sda:

 Timing cached reads: 11348 MB in 1.99 seconds = 5689.59 MB/sec

 Timing buffered disk reads: 82 MB in 3.04 seconds = 27.01 MB/sec

a test using smart to show the states:

$ ps aux | grep D 

USER	   PID %CPU %MEM	VSZ   RSS TTY	  STAT START   TIME COMMAND

root	   452  0.0  0.0	  0	 0 ?		D<   08:29   0:04 [usb-storage]
root	  3020  0.0  0.0   3392   988 ?		D	08:29   0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sda (every 2 sec)
root	 16363  6.4  2.7 214512 86228 pts/2	Dl+  12:11   0:11 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/smart --gui

I installed cooker on a usb flashdisk (ext2) and everytime I do some intensive file operations like urpmi, processes in ksysguard say disk sleep.

I see a package being installed, which goes quite fast and then the next one takes ages to continue and so on, all the while when waiting seeing usb-storage and urpmi in disk sleep state

I bought the flash disk asking for the fasted (and most expensive) and it said it was readyboost ready.

in ps aux the states are listed as D+ and D<

Forgot to add to my first reply ti ffi...

 

Any friend of Thomas Jefferson is a friend of mine!

 

Those words, and many more have an immediacy that this generation is only beginning to get a glimpse of and I fear, may never actually understand.

 

Software freedom is only one aspect of it, but a most important one as it is directly connected to freedom of information, knowledge and thought.

 

It REALLY is all about the freedom!

 

Thanks for the quote! If you want a full sermon - just ask!

Sadly, those are very true words indeed :sad: 

I am getting a bit off-topic here, but another thing that turns me off even more than UUIDs is the new xorg which leaves the xorg.conf pretty empty as it tries to automatically detect the graphical devices at each boot. Yes, it has some advantages too, but ... how shall I fix an xorg.conf file if there is nothing written in it?

xorg.conf overrides the autodetection (some entries at least) but I have seen far more times that xorg.conf was unuseable and x was unablt to start than auto detection being wrong...

Hi Welcome to MUB :D ,

Tell the installer/ system to NOT use UUID in fstab and lilo.conf (probably other places).

In the 2008.1 release notes there was a remark on how to use device nodes instead of uuid, maybe you can use it for 2009 too: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Notes#U...tition_mounting

I used to hate those uuid's too but come to like them, though they are unreadable it makes booting far more reliable before uuid every time I removed/added a (removable/fixed) disk booting would fail because the drives would be enumated differently but with uuid this doesn't matter anymore.

Tell the installer to use existing block device names (ie, hda)

the change from hdX to sdX is inevitable though because of kernel driver changes (new libata) with every kernel >2.6.16

3. Get Grub/Lilo installer to recognize existing boot records.

it should...in theory...there is a lenghty bugreport though, see https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16604#c56 on what to send if it fails for you

I updated a 2008.1 to 2009 yesterday and all went well mostly, there are still a few bugs here and there and kde4 is still not on the same level. I did notice one very bad bug/feature though: I have installed mdv on a small usb flash stick and when in mcc I had clicked on draksnapshot and exited (without touching anything) it started making hourly backups of /usr /etc and /home, it didnt take very long for my root to fill up and I could find no way of stopping it except uninstalling draksnapshot

Another big one is intel 3945, it works without wpa but once you enter a wpa key trouble starts and it doesnt want to associate even with unencrypted networks, or it takes 20 tries before it works (had to uninstall wpa_supplicant)

I still see display corruption in the kde4 system tray ark is not integrated in the service menu, also quite annoying making archives, multimedia keys don't work in kde4 and some plasmoids (mainly the menu) still disappear once in a while.

Unlike viking, I like the splash screen but I just don't seem to get one...

I am also not to pleased how installing task-kde4-minimal drags in openoffice (and mono, which some people hate)

2009 still needs a lot of attention I think, this is what I expect of a (early) beta not RC. The artwork does really look nice, it's a shame kde4 doesn't have the slideshow the way kde3 and gnome do

Even if you don't like google, chrome is still opensource so it can be forked and made independent of google...

First impression, it is really quite fast, I mean really fast.... but misses a lot of features I need, like smooth scrolling, mousegestures, better tabmanagement (when I close a tab it should go to the tab I visited before the tab I close, now it goes somewhere else), page loading could be smoother (like opera's way of loading) and well.... I'll see...

The speeddial is actually kinda cool and works better than opera's. Instead of adding pages, it adds them automatically based on visits

it's working, installing right now...

If you can't find a package in the repository I found one in kde-look:

http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/d...l?content=35651

if the compiled package doesn't work you could try building from the source rpm but first try the repository then the precompiled package and finally the tarball you downloaded...

Hi welcome to mub :D

I guess you need the xorg-dev files installed but it would be better to check if there is a prebuild package available already for dekorator, check the wiki first on how to install/remove software. It works very differently from windows, also it useally isn't necessary to compile:

http://wiki.mandrivausers.org/index.php/Software_management

but I don't have mdv here and don't know if dekorator is available...

Where can I download it, googling it I can see this link: http://gears.google.com/chrome/?hl=en but I am redirected to google's mainpage.

Anyway it's good to see webkit used, it's still a little kde/khtml off-spring

many people on ubuntu seem to be having problems with .27 : http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=346

supposedly nolapic seems to help, sometimes...

maybe it has some problems mounting your root filesystem

what does your fstab look like and your menu.lst ?

you could try to chroot (su && chroot <mdv partition mountpoint> ) into the partition from another distro and do the updates sometimes you need to edit /etc/resolve.conf though to get the connection working (copy booted distros resolve.conf to mdv /etc directory)

yeah I agree. I would cut my losses. You could try ntfs-getdataback, to recover your data. The trialversion allows you to see recoverable data:

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

you need to *cough*crack*cough* register to recover.

get out the disk, put in an external case, recover, repartition, format and reinstall. Especially since your windows was bsod'ing in the first place...

I had similar problems in the past and running more and more recovery utilities trying to fix things just made it worse.

most minimal gnome possible is

urpmi gnome-panel

most minimal kde possible is 

urpmi kdebase

(not sure about kde though I useally install the full thing)