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Peripherals/Mouse It's in there, I'm not on my Mandriva machine at the moment, but it's in the start menu somewhere, ???????/KDE/Peripherals/Mouse, it's there somewhere anyway. [Edit] System/Configuration/KDE/Peripherals/Mouse ?

For me it goes something like this - DooM DooM II Final DooM Quake + SOA, DOE Mission Packs Quake II + TR, GZ Mission Packs Quake III Arena + Quake III Team Arena Descent Descent 2 Wipeout 2097 (You may know it as WipeoutXL) Perhaps the best racing game EVA I find it hard, well actually, I find it impossible to play any game that isn't in the First Person view, not just Shooters, any game, be it a racing game what ever, if it's not in First Person View I won't even consider it. I've tried lots of games, Half Life series, Unreal Series, Far Cry, and on and on, but they don't last long, I don't even bother finishing most of them, I always find myself returning to the Quake and DooM series of games. They just have the feel, the gameplay, the fast action that I like, too me nothing else comes close, they give me what I want. Of course I would put DooM3, DooM3 Roe, and Quake 4 in there, but that may not fit in with 'Oldies' theme

I like your style... we may in fact be kindred... you have been added to my Christmas list

It's great to see that they are trying to cater to the gamer, however as a 'serious' gamer myself, (that's all I use the computer for, well music creation as well) I don't think it's going to bring in the masses, sure it may be a bit of cream on top for the casual gaming person, but I don't think that many, if any, will see it as a real 'selling point'. The game selection is limited, yes growing all the time, it requires additional resourses on top of what the game requires, adding that extra layer of complexity and resourse usage. As it is now, native Linux games run slower than the Windows counterpart, this is going on my personal experience, I have yet to see a native Linux game actually faster. example, Quake4 - Windows - 61.05FPS -- Linux - 53FPS Doom3 - Windows - 72.9FPS -- Linux -63FPS Done with the standard timedemo's for each game Then for Linux, you could subtract a few more FPS for the Cedega overhead. 10FPS mightn't seem much, and for games like Quake3, which run in the hundreds of FPS on todays PC's, it's not. But for more recent games it becomes more of an issue, you want all the FPS you can get. (Quake4 and Doom3 are fixed at 60FPS in game) The issue becomes even more important for online gaming, where you need a constant high frame rate, you want all the FPS you can get. Then there is another side of gaming which is becoming more and more important, moding the game, whether it be making maps/levels, or total conversions, this stuff is hugely popular, heaps of games now, especially in the First Person Shooter genre, allow the user either through inbuilt or 3rd party apps to make levels and mods for the game. Some consider it to be suicide almost to have no moding support today. Some games which would have otherwise sold better, had a larger community, and longer life span, have died because of the lack of it. Even games which run natively in Linux, eg, Quake4 and Doom3, fail in this area, at least where Linux is concerned. Although it is possible to make maps for Doom3 and Quake4 via the use of GTKRadiant (3rd party editor, the inbuilt Doom3 editor is win32 only) you miss out on the use of sub editors such as the gui editor etc, however with Quake4, even though you can technically create levels with GTKRadiant, it is useless, because there is no way to compile the map, and therefore be able to actually use it in game, plus it suffers even worse than Doom3 does, as it has even more sub editors available than Doom3, which are of course, unavailable to the no-win32 user. I got the impression from either reading an article, or watching a recent video, that after ET Quake Wars, there may not necessarily be Linux support for id software games, and as they have been a great supporter in the past, this will be another blow to Linux gaming. I can't remember exactly where I read/watched it, but it was an official thing. John Carmack has also said that the new game that id is working on, will also support DirectX, and not be OpenGL only, as id games have been in the past. He also said that there are no longer any outstanding reasons 'NOT' to use DirectX, perhaps the writing is on the wall. But there is good news, (if you like Unreal) Epic has said that UT2007 and its Editing tools, will support both Mac and Linux. We'll see Sometimes I think, I'm a gamer, my games are fully functional, and run faster under Windows, therefore I must have a Windows install. Why even bother having Linux? But here I am ...

[OT] - It's not hard, it's as easy as 1,2,3 ... I may have to start a crusade :P [Quake2 Quote] Make it stop, make it stop[/Quake2 Quote] [/OT] I don't think he is a troll, as JonEberger said, he is just frustrated, and that is understandable, although Mandriva/Linux may have come a long way in the 'user friendly' stakes, it is still quite a culture shock for a person coming from Windows. The dependency thing can be quite confronting when you first see it, all you seemingly want to do is just remove a simple program, and you see a mile long list of other things that are going to be removed, 'Hey, I just wanted to uninstall blabla, not remove the entire OS :unsure: '

Hi, Welcome aboard, I don't have 2007 installed anymore, just waiting for the official release now, but when I had RC1 installed, I had flash working. I don't use the preinstalled firefox that comes with Mandriva, but always download the latest form Mozilla. When I install flash, I don't use the installer, I just open it and copy the 2 required files into firefoxes plugin directory, it always works fine for me. (non 64 bit by the way)

Well, .... I know this seems to be the standard reply to the 'USB Modem" thing, but in my experience, it is simply NOT true. Background. I have a Speedtouch USB modem. Not the same as the posters, but... When I first started using Mandriver/Linux, I couldn't get my modem to work, I read and read on forums, everyone was saying how hard it was to get USB modems to work (especially the very one I had) I was told it would be far easier to get a router or do it via the use of a lan card etc etc. So, I was almost about to go out and by some new hardware $$$. Then I stumbled upon a web page with instructions on how to get it working, http://steve-parker.org/speedtouchconf/ well, that was easy, but not as easy as the method I now use, which is basically as follows, Mandriva 2006 - all I have to do is copy the microcode (alcaudsl.sys, different one may be needed for different model speedtouch) to /usr/share/speedtouch(if the folder does not exist make it), rename the file to mgmt.o, then run the setup in MCC for the modem, and set it up as ADSL/DSL, connection enter the relevant info when asked, thats it Mandriva 2007 - all I have to do is install the firmware_extractor rpm (just search speedtouch in MCC software instalation) copy the microcode (alcaudsl.sys, different one may be needed for different model speedtouch) to /usr/share/speedtouch(if the folder does not exist make it), rename the file to mgmt.o, then run the setup in MCC for the modem, and set it up as ADSL/DSL, connection enter the relevant info when asked, thats it Hardly what I would call "a complete waste of time and energy and not worth the trouble" I have done this on several machines, both mine and other peoples and it works flawlessly every time, and it's quick, and you just use MCC for setting up an ADSL/DSL connection as you would expect, and certainly far better than purchasing new hardware as seems to be suggested alot. Disclaimer I am not busting anyones balls or ranting (well maybe a little rant), this is not aimed at anyone (even though I quoted AussieJohn, nothing is ment by it) I have nothing but respect for the knowledge of all those who help people out on this board, it's just that I have found, through personal experience, at least with my model modem (which I have been told is one of the worst offenders), that this thing about USB modems seems to be an urban myth, it is neither hard nor time consuming, on the contrary, it is both easy and quick. It may have been dificult in the past, I don't know, but it certainly isn't now, at least not for me.

With mine, I connect to the internet directly with a Speedtouch USB ADSL modem, (I also have a NIC (eth0) for connecting my 2 PC's together, but that has nothing to do with the net), anyway, after I set up/install the USB, I can't access anything on the net, although I am connected. All I have to do is go into the firewall(shorewall) set up through MCC, and select the pppo connection as the connection to protect and away I go. I have also had to add the name servers to the resolve.conf, as mentioned above, but mostly that has been ok. One other time, when I installed the modem after I had been accessing the net through an XP machines connection, I had to change the order of addresses in the resolve.conf. It had something like this, nameserver 192.168.0.1 nameserver xxx.xxx.x.x nameserver xxx.xxx.x.x xxx.xxx.x.x = primary and secondary numbers given by my isp all I done was change it like this nameserver xxx.xxx.x.x nameserver xxx.xxx.x.x nameserver 192.168.0.1 and all was good. On all occasions I had similar symtoms to what you are experiencing, being actually connected to the net, but not being able to access anything via browser, email etc, and thats what has fixed it for me.

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Success, my first Kernel compile and it worked out great, now Rosegarden fires up like it should, and I don't seem to have killed anything else. :D It was very tempting to start ripping stuff out that isn't needed while I was in there, but I resisted and just done what I had to, maybe next time. Good to see how it is done, now I won't be so worried if I have to do it again. Thanks again for you help scoonma, it's greatly appreciated

Some would say there is a certain irony to that statement :D I'd like one as well

Well it appears if you install software via konsole (urpmi --noclean blabla) it will keep the rpm's and any other rpm's that are already there, BUT, if you then later install any software via MCC, it will delete any previous rpm's, leaving you with only the rpm's from the current session. Oh well :( This is with RC1 (mona)

hmmm, This seems to no longer work with 2007, at least not the same way, it does save the rpm's at first, however if you run mcc again and download/install more, you seem to loose the previous ones, and are only left with what you installed in the most recent session, well this is how it appears to happen now. So unless you save the rpm's to another location after each update/package installation, you'll probably loose what you had previously. They don't accumulate. Anyone else verify this?

I hope they give it some more time, if only because I took a guess, and booked 2 weeks holidays starting 25th, so I could have a good uninterrupted mess around with 2007. This is my first Mandriva/Linux release, and [big Kev]I'm excited[/big Kev], most excitement I've had since the release of Quake4. sad isn't it

Are you sure? I am going to follow your advice and install and update rc1 ASAP, just that I seen a post from awilliamson on the club forums yesterday which said,

Thank you very much for taking the time to write that reply. Although the temtation to take the easy road and use the 2.6.17.11-mm-desktop-2mdv kernel you mentioned is strong and inviting, I think I will try and do a compile myself, at least I will see first hand what is involved, and I may just learn something, plus it doesn't really matter if I mess it up, I will be reinstalling everything once 2007 is released, plus I can always just use the pre compiled kerenel you mentioned if I fail to badly :) So looks like I will be doing some reading and tinkering under the hood this weekend ... Thanks again for the info.

Apparently Linux kernels 2.6.13 and up have the System timer set at 250Hz, where as it used to be 1000Hz as I understand it. However if you try to run Rosegarden it will complain that the System timer resolution is to low, and it is apparently to low for midi. So basically the solution is to either get a Kernel that is pre compiled with a higher resolution, or compile it yourself and add the higher resolution. So now with Man2007 I'm going to have to do one or the other. So, is there a Kernel available pre compiled with the higher timer resolution? (maybe one for multi media or something) Can I just use one of the 2.6.12 series Kernels with Man2007? I started trying to see if I could compile one myself with the Man2007 rc1, but I needed to install other stuff before I could even begin, and wasn't real sure where to get the packages from for 2007, so I thought I would just let it be until it was actually released and things were set up. Plus I don't really know what to expect when/if I did actually get to compiling the kernel for myself, is it all selfexplanatory, or would I be just lost? One thing is for sure, I need a kernel with a higher timer resolution, so what is the best way to go?

umm ..., well ..., :unsure: no That looks positively hideous to my eyes :sad: Is Galaxy still going to be able to be selected? (I'm pretty sure I use Galaxy (default?), not on my machine at present and don't really know them by name, but what ever it is, it's the only one I could bare to look at) Being forced to look at something like that all the time could quite possibly bring on a Windows relapse.

Well, I just put my my old hard drives that I have been using to test linux back in my second PC, they still had my last install of Linux, all I done when I installed Firefox was copy the folder to /usr/local/ and create a link to application as explained above, and that was it. Try this, open the firefox folder you copied, press f4, then type in the following ./firefox hit enter don't forget the . before the slash

hmmm, Thats how I do it, and it works, I may be forgetting something, don't think so though. I am just about to reinstall Mandriva dual boot with XP as I need XP for some programs, so I will be setting up firefox again soon. So if you haven't got it sorted by then, I will let you know if I forgot something. Hang in there, try not to get to frustrated.... (you could try right clicking on the desktop icon you created, and/or the file 'firefox' which is inside the firefox folder you copied earlier, there will be a check box that says something like "make executable" put a check in the box and see what happens, worth a try, can't hurt.) best of luck, I'll drop back in after I reinstall and see how you went

open the file you downloaded, if you then see a folder called firefox inside, copy that folder to where you want to put it, ( I put mine in /usr/local/ ) Right click on the desktop, make a 'link to application' call it firefox or whatever you like, on the next tab in the 'command' box I think it is (not on linux atm) direct it to where you placed the firefox folder, and to the file inside the firefox folder called 'firefox' click ok, you should have a file on your desktop now called firefox or whatever you named it above. Double click that and you should be away.

AussieJohn, as spinynorman mentioned if you open the file in KWrite, it will be on line 1619 In KEdit it is on line 1731 I just clicked edit/find in KEdit, and inserted post_cache_clean, hit the find button. It is probably 7/8's the way down the page, the following is the surrounding text, }; my $fh; my @errors = $urpm->install( $urpm->{ask_remove}, \%sources_install, \%sources, translate_message => 1, post_clean_cache => 0, callback_open => sub { my ($data, $type, $id) = @_; my $f = $sources_install{$id} || $sources{$id}; open $fh, $f or $urpm->{error}(N("unable to access rpm file [%s]", $f)); return fileno $fh; }, Bold highlighting added, and of course yours should say =>1 instead of =>0 I can relate to that, it's a pain when somthing that should be isn't. Hope you get it sorted.

Thankyou spinynorman for finding the answer. Thankyou Gowator for bringing the subject of the possibility of doing this up. and a big thankyou to Emmanuel uk from LinuxQuestions.org for working it out..... Just done a couple of test runs and it works, both files were save to the /var/cache/urpmi/rpms folder. Here is the relevant info to make it happen Open the file /usr/sbin/rpmdrake search for "post_clean_cache" there will only be 1 instance change the 1 to a 0 save the file and thats it. Thank you all

I'm just down the road from you AussieJohn, Ayr. Oh to be enlightened soon :D I'm just about to reinstall, and it would be handy, but I guess I can do it the hard way .... I mean the console way ;) It's all good learning anyway

I'm interested to know also what you actually have to put in the /etc/urpmi.conf to make --noclean work while using MCC to get stuff. I done a little test and just put --noclean in, but it didn't save the rpm. :(