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Who will take care of Bugzilla after this, before you Adam, that wasn't Mandriva/Mandrakes force, many of us felt ignored at bugzilla, well I haven't in there yet, but uses it a lot to find solutions for any kind of problems I can have with a new version.

I still haven't decided yet which distro to use, think I stick to Mandriva for while yet, but I'll try of another distros so I can get used to them before I take the final decision to stop using Mandriva.

Mandriva are still the easiest distro yet, and I love to use it, and so do my 6 year old daugther after I got the Rataouille game running on Mandriva ;)

I had a long talk with my brother in law recently about paying for distros, and it talk was distros in general, Linux, Windows or Mac.

He accused me for being a very strange person, because I don't want to pay 200$ for Windows Vista which maybe can be used for several years, if I'm lucky :), but I'm willing to pay 100$ every year for Mandriva, because I don't have to pay for it.

And yes it seems strange, but I do belive in the freedom of Linux, and I love to use a distro where I don't have to pay for every usefull program aka Gimp, Quanta, OpenOffice and a lot of other packages, I do know I can get a lot free packages to Windows, but I love using them on a free distro where they runs, just as fine as they do on Windows distro.

The day this tread was postet the first time, I was actually going to buy Mandriva Powerpack again, I don't use it, but I would pay for the third time to support a great distro, but when I saw that Adam Williamson had been sacked, I just stoped to think about what I wanted to do next, and the conclusion is that I'll find another distro to use, I do't know which yet but proberly OpenSuse.

Thanks Adam for your friendly support, I hope another distro will contact you to get your help, they will not be disapointed.

Sorry my mistake, haven't read your first post proberly.

I'm not an expert in using the commandline, but have you tried to log in as root in konsole/terminal?

If this doesn't work you have to wait on someone with more experince in using CLI, sorry

Last night I installed Playonlinux from the reposity, after that I got Ratatouille running for my daugther.

and I can see that there are support for WOW in Playonlinux.

Use Playonlinux to install WoW and then run it like you would do on windows pc.

And mayby You'll have to download Winetricks, for more Windows support http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

As daniewicz surgests a Geforce FX 5200, are a great card for running compiz

Mandriva

Is my short answer, I've tried Ubuntu two years ago, and again the latest RC build of Ubuntu 8.10, and I really can't see how this distro can be calles user friendly, but mayby it's just me who are to dedicated to Mandriva.

I've also tried out Suse in one of the 9 versions, it was a really great distro then, easy to use, I don't have anything bad to say about Suse, but it was just not my distro. I have thought about installing openSuse when the 11.1 comes out just to see again if I can work with it this time.

Should I change the network card ?

No, what Scarecrow means is, that in konsole you have to write the last char as a ZERO, not as a o.

Open your konsole login as root, using the su command, write your root password when promt, then write or copy/paste

 ifconfig eth0

in to the konsole and hit enter. and paste the output in here :-)

I can't recall ever had to type "su -" in Mandriva, and have as Siversurfer60 used Mandriva/Mandrake since 10.0

And just a few moments ago, I types su before checking for updates, and I can fire up Kwrite without the - after su, if I try starting kwrite with su - nothing happens just says command not found, strange :wacko:

[orts@mandrivafaq ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@mandrivafaq ~]# kwrite
-bash: kwrite: command not found

#3

It's only CD-RW's thats need to be formatted, not any CD-R's.

So you don'e have anything to b e concerned about, but however Windows will not give you an option to format a CD-RW, it simply don't now how ;-)

Using rpmdrake you just mark the packages you want to install, then it will show you all dependicies automaticaly, then you can watch them and decide if you want to install the packages anyway.

And using commandlinie you type something linke urpmi java-1.6.0-sun, then it will show you the names on the packages it has to install for denpendicies, and you have to type Y or n, to confirm or not.

Hope this will help you, if not mayby someone who writes in english natively, has a better way to explain it to you ;-)

I think the answwer is

urpmi task-kde3

I've just done it my self, it just took 20-30 minutes thne I could log in to kde3.

but you'll have to move your mails if you are using kmail.

I really can't any reason to stay on Mandriva 2008.1 if the only resone is Kde4, it's still posible to use kde3, which has been updated to 3.5.10 after the 2009 release, so it's not every thing on kde3 has stopped.

I've got a Huawei E220, ans I just open network mannager, then choosed to set up a new network.

In there I set it as GPRS/Egde/3G

You properly has to have some network on to set it up, because Mandriva has to install some packages for dependices.

Took a minut, in windows XP it took 5 minutes ;-)

Thanks guy's

Allways a pleasure to ask a question in here, with all those great answers

Hi all

How do I move or copy a directory, with a lot of sub-directorys and a lot more files, without loosing the permissions on every file and directory?

I had to set special permissions on it all, because I was affraid to do something foolish like change in the wrong file.

Thanks in advance.

Regards Orts

Hi, and welcome on board

First of all open configure your computer menu-> tools-> systemtools

type your root password as promted

Then find something like install software, when you open this one the system will ask you to add repository to the system, after this is done, you'll have a lot of packages to choose between.

For non-free packages like Flash and Java go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org to get them.

I hope this helps you, if not just ask again ;)

Might be sorted. Just downloading kdebase4

Just use

urpmi task-kde4

and everything regarding kde4 will be installed

What happens if you after login types

startx

Which wireless card are you using?

you proberly have to set up RPMdrake first, look at post number 2 in this tread how it's done https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=59144&hl=

After you have done that, then open MCC, press ALT+F2 type mcc, type your Administrator password when promt, go to HARDWARE -> BROWSE AND CONFIGURE HARDWARE, now there is a good chance that Mandriva can find the right driver for your wireless card.

But of course only if the driver for your card are in the repos.

this is how my desktop looks today.

Hi all.

The sound on my laptop in Mandriva are only 50% as loud as it is in Windows on the same laptop (dualboot).

Output from lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 9581
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)
07:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
07:00.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
07:00.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
07:00.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)

Can any one come with a solution for this?

Because I've already done so (no, I don't mean criticizing your solution...).

See here

It needs just a texteditor, installs NOTHING, takes one minute to settle, and it's working always, in all distros- even LFS.

Maybe it will be broken after a couple of new ntfs-3g releases, but for the moment it's working perfectly.

Ah yes- and we are a wee bit out of topic- don't you think so?

I'll try this the next time I have to setup a computer with Mandriva (this weekend), but don't you have to install ntfs-3g?

@Ixthusdan

There is more than one way to do anything in Linux. Let's just agree that we all have preferences. And let's try to keep a civil tone on things when we have a different recommendation. cool.gif A simple "I always do it this way..." is best. I like it when I recommend something and 22 posts later, the user actually does what I suggested! (It works, of course.)

Ecxactly, and thats why I gave this solution in my first answer.

But i'll use your recommandation next time.

@ orts: I'm sorry to say that installing wholly unneeded files as dependencies is hardly the "easiest and fastest way".

Make it the "potentially most troublesome", and I will wholeheartedly agree...

Besides that, ntfs-config does ***NOT*** solve the localized names problem, which will stay invisible after mounting an NFTS volume containing such files. All it does is allowing you mounting a removable (or local) drive with user permissions. But the locales problem can be resolved in a snap- and I do NOT mean manual partition mounting using the correct arguments... just not with ntfs-config, although the program developer says it auto-detects the locales and sets them for you. I do not know if this applies for Ubuntu (not using it), but it certainly enough does not apply for various other distros, including Mandriva.

Mayby I have misunderstood something, and I say just ***MAYBY*** because I have newer experienced any trouble at all, when I have done it this way, not even with locales.

But if you have a better way to do this, then why don't you make a little howto? Instead of just criticising me for my solution?

ntfs-config is an ugly hack with a lot of Gnome dependencies... nobody needs it.

A proper fstab entry for local partitions, as well as typing a few lines in a couple of config files, if you are using USB drives formatted as NTFS, are enough - no need for ntfs-config, only total newbies will rely on it.

On some distros (e.g. SuSE) you don't need doing anything at all- everything is preconfigured.

I'm really sorry to tell him the easiest and fastest way, to mount NTFS partitions, that will never happen again!!

Just to clear up, are Linux and XP on the same maschine?

If yes, then you should have up to 3 way to let them share files.

1. XP has NTFS partitions, then in Mandriva op konsol, log in as root and type:

urpmi ntfs-3g ntfs-config

Now hit ALT+F2 and write ntfs-config and type your root password when promt, and what you want to have write access to.

2. XP has FAT32 partitions, then open MCC find security-> Set up security level and audit.

on the first page set the security level to standard, now you should be able to write to these partitions.

These options depends on that you have mounted your XP drives/partitions in /etc/fstab

3. On XP you can install ext2ifs and then mount your Mandriva partitions to XP, the driver can be found here http://www.fs-driver.org/

If you want to share files between to maschines then you'll have to setup Samba, you can find a GUI for this in MCC under network sharing.

I really hope this clear up some things for you, if nor please ask again.

What do i do next? thanks for any help in advance.

Hi and welcome on board

The simplest and fastest solution are to try all over again.

Because if this is your first install, you proberly don't loose anything by doing that.

Merry Christmas