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maybe this repos or ftp's are of limit for you. iirc all firmwares are installed by default in mandriva one but of course none with the free edition
btw that guide is for 3 mdv releases ago (mdv 2007.0 we have had 2007.1 2008.0 and now 2008.1, mdv improved a lot since...)
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no problem on my other laptop which has an x600 mobilty radeon, well except for the annoying bug that XFdrake downloads and installs kernel-fglrx packages which are only available for the fglrx version of release time and not the backported versions, so when you download the new fglrx drivers and run XFdrake the old kernel modules are installed.
to correct remove (not disable!) all backport media and remove all fglrx related packages
run XFdrake and install the proprietary driver
add backports and remove all fglrx (again)
install kernel-desktop-latest and kernel-desktop-devel-latest (or kernel-laptop-devel-latest and kernel-laptop-latest) and dkms-fglrx latest version (it should automatically select fglrx)
reboot and fglrx should work and be the latest version and hopefully 3d effect will work correctly too.
(edit: i see you said you didn't update yet, are you sure? anyway the latest fglrx drivers have aiglx (=native support) too, which could solve a lot of problems)
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@ ffi: Yes, the very same. But the part you are mentioning refers to the PPPoA section.
Note that the guide itself says:
"The Mandriva CDs don't come with the br2684ctl bridging utility so it's not possible to configure a PPPoE over ATM connection with the Mandriva Control Centre."
are you sure? br2684ctl is a part of the linux-atm-2.5.0 package according to this:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandriva/deve...009.0.i586.html
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and looking a bit in the repos I even found that the speedtouch firmware is there.
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Man...07.0.noarch.rpm
are you sure it just doesn't work out of the box after running the network setup wizard?
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did you use this guide?
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/mandrake/index.html
in this step
you can select to start the connection at boot or not, later on you can reconfigure the network interface in the network center
here a picture of the network center from where you can reconfugure:
edit: to launch the networkenter in a console as root enter draknetcenter
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Click on the icon "configure your computer" and enter your root password. Then click on "Network and Internet". There you will be able to set up your internet connection.
If you do not want to connect at boot, then you will have to install rp-pppoe, rp-pppoe-gui.
Kieth
In the connection properties for that connection (don't know where it is and don't have mdv atm but it's not hard to find) you can just select not to start at boot and then connect later on (be sure to also select allow users to start the connection)
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welcome to mub :)
my guess is that you use the wrong package, it's a source package, I don't know where you got it from, from the mandriva repositories? I found the package below on pbonenet, which is the one that should work
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/olea.org/paque....1-1.noarch.rpm
but I always just use the mandriva control center to import the windows fonts, works fine for me...
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Nope, I'm just one of many ordinary KDE users. I just posted this because I too have seen many posts slating KDE4, instead of giving it a chance to flourish. :)
KDE4.2 or maybe only 4.3 will start rocking but at this stage it just plain sucks. (I have explained why before on this forum). And it's just me who thinks it sucks but many other people for exactly the same reason. KDE4 has potential but it needs the criticism to reach that potential.
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I have an asus but a midrange one not an expensive one: everything including the fingerprint scanner seems to recognised and work out of the box except for sound but that wasn't so hard to fix, my previous laptop another asus worked out of the box too
my gf has an older acer, it came with an "instant media player" based on linux (you can use it to watch dvd's and stuff w/o needing to boot into the os) and everything worked out of the box.
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Two problems with this, the config ffi give you points to an updated kernel, this will not be installed if you have not yet updated the installation. The second issue is the UUID, this is a reference that is pretty much unique to ffi's setup.
it's his uuid, I took it from his ubuntu menu.lst
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oops left a space where there shouldn't have been, I editted the post, try again....
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add exactly like this to the mandriva menu.lst else everytime you install or remove a kernel in mandriva the grub entries for ubuntu will be wiped out
you will also manually have to change the kernel files in menu.lst if you upgrade kernels in ubuntu (edit though this is not necessary for all upgrades...)
title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=ff19f81d-10f6-491a-9e48-552ee23ab544 ro quiet splash initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic quiet title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode) kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=ff19f81d-10f6-491a-9e48-552ee23ab544 ro single initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic title Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+ kernel (hd0,7)/boot/memtest86+.bin quiet
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a bit of topic but only since 2008.1 spring mandriva also recognizes and adds other linux distros to grub ;) if you get spring or upgrade to spring you can fix it with the normal mandriva tools
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I am not ashamed to use MDV but many times you mention it you get a lot of negative reactions to it and feel the need to get defensive. :sad: luckily at that time adam useally popups up (he must watch a lot of blogs and forum for mandriva to be mentioned)
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I guess I'll have to stick with Amarok then :(
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it should all be done automatically
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I never downgraded but when I upgraded I had to dig into grub menu.lst and device.map, fstab and modprobe.conf to get the correct driver to load, to get a booting system.
It might not be so easy that's why I asked you if you were sure it was a kernel problem.
did you check this site for getting the wacom up and running?:
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I really don't want to set up a library. My GF just wants to plugin her disk and transfer a few songs to her ipod.
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i don't have mandriva here so I don't know about the package names for the firmware but iirc they had firmware in their package names, look for the packages and get the ones for intel if you have an intel wireless. Firmware is something different than driver, it get loaded by the chipsets themselves not the OS (so it's OS independent but chipset dependent)
ipw* and iwl* are drivers for intel wireless chipsets but you will also need the firmware though on a standard install of 2008.0 or .1 they are already installed by default
madwifi is for atheros wireless chipsets?
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probably your have compiled an old kernel which uses the old libata where devices used to be called /dev/hdX instead of the new one where they are called /dev/sdX
what does your /etc/fstab look like?
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Wireless was automatically set up for me in 2008.0 and 2008.1 when selecting the wizard, don't know about versions prior to 2008. You do need the one version though as the intel chips do require non-free firmware (also available in the non-free repos)
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ffi: I don't think the two of us are entirely alone in our dismay about the current state of KDE4 I have read many complaints about it around the net. I can only hope that it improves with time.
Yesterday I read this article and it gave me a little hope
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080...eed-a-fork.html
now if they get rid if those annoying to toolboxes popping up around icons and plasmoids, that annoying vista-like icon hightlight and that useless blob in the top right corner I would be happy
that and of course adding previews back again to the file selector, improving performance with nvidia cards and I would consider upgrading to kde4
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so .avi files on your harddisk are choppy too?
which player are you using?
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su
hdparm -d /dev/<your dvd player>
if it says dma is disabled enable it with
hdparm -d1 /dev/<your dvd player>
and see if this improves things, I don't have mandriva atm so don't know where the config file is stored to make the setting permanent
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It really takes a lot to make me think of Gnome as an attractive alternative, but KDE4 has done it. In its present form it is just a joke.
don't forget XFCE ;)
I felt the same about kde4.1 too, so sar I am really disappointed :(
Help with Drivers for Speedtouch 330 USB Modem
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which version of mandriva 2008.1 are you using: one, free or powerpack?