aerogate

Thanks as always Adam. I will try that when I next boot in to 2008.1a.

 

Somebody must have been asleep at the wheel to make that kernel mistake and I'll bet it was not you. :D :D :D

 

Cheers. John.

Great, cheers for info, i need to blackmail erm blacklist the USB card reader on my printer.

Radioear is chicken. :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

 

I've installed 2008.1a and I too am amazed how stable it is. The Epson Scanner, Firewire connected, worked immediately without fiddle of any sort unlike in 2008. Same for the printer.

Since I now have a LeadTek capture card, I have had to put its sound section into blacklist as well as the Mainboard audio to get sound to work properly from my Creative Audio card.

I had to do this also in 2008 but NEVER in Spring.

Just out of curiosity, how do you blacklist hardware?

Hi

I use SoundKonverter as a GUI.

soundkonverter - A frontend to various audio converters​ 

soundKonverter project is a frontend to various audio converters. Currently supported backends are oggenc, oggdec, flac, lame, ffmpeg (partly), mplayer (partly). With soundKonverter you can convert between various audio file formats. Supported formats are: (encode/decode)

ogg (e/d) flac (e/d) mp3 (e/d) wav (e/d) wma (d)

Here is a video of what I`m doing correctly or incorrectly :)

http://www.mistersend.com/mike/videos/java.ogg

Thanks Scoonma, a good starting point, will do that.

Still no joy, easy enough to get java working in Konqueror, but Opera is deluding me heheh

Just a rough guess: The different java installations could give rise to some path conflicts. I'd cleanly uninstall every java version which is not needed, then recheck. For serious purpose, the sun version can be recommended (though proprietary).

Thanks Scoonma, a good starting point, will do that.

Hi there,

I have 64 bit Mandriva 2008, and my aim is to get both Flash and Java working in 32 bit Opera browser (32 bit Opera because there is no 64 bit flash plugin).

Flash is now working great, but having tremendous trouble getting java to work (applets).

Have tried both 64 and 32 bit versions of Sun Java, IBM Blackdown and Icetea, selected the java installation in opera preferences, they even validate as correct, but don't actually work.

Any help much appreciated.

Adobe has archived older Flash players here. :)

Fantastic!! Thanks :)

Hi there, I would like to downgrade flash player from V9 to V7, has anyone got the .rpm or .tar.gz for it?

Hi there, yes there is cedega, http://www.transgaming.com I have used it to play BF1942 in linux for a few years and it works great.

Other games I have installed in Linux via Cedega :-

Battlefield 1942 (also Desert Combat Mod)

Battlefield Vietnam

Battlefield 2

Battlefield 2142

Bejeweled 2

Fish sim 2

GTA San Andreas

GTA Vice City

Tanarus

Medal of Honour

Max Payne 2

You do have to pay a small fee for cedega, but I think it`s worth it because they continually work towards getting games working under Linux, and you can vote for games for them to work on.

Also many games that they dont officially support run just fine with changes to the settings.

Cheers, will do :)

Only if it has Mandriva installed or you're trying to install it.

ok that`s cool

Surely this belongs in hardware :) ?

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo...roductID=697319

Hi there, found this today, looks interesting, wonder if anyone here has one as I have a few questions.

Does the browser have full java inluded (script/applet support), and if not can it be installed?

What are the CPU specs?

Mike

[moved from Hardware by spinynorman]

Have a look here mate

Sweeet! thanks :D

Revier, what command did you use to get the info in the terminal?

Done. :) (see above)

Great! :)

Just posted mine in October thread, doh! Maybe a mod can move it here? :)

here`s mine, hope you like it :-

thanks for your help guys, disabled the media socket on the printer.

Thank you, your suggestions made sense, so I looked at what could be attached as a USB storage device, was puzzling because I don't have one! or so I thought. Here was the culprit!

Identification

Vendor: ?HP

Description: ?Photosmart 7400 (HP

Disk identifier: ?CN47R2V265UJ

Media class: ?hd (Printer|Printer|Bidirectional)

Bus identification

Vendor ID: ?0x03f0

Device ID: ?0xb802

Sub vendor ID: ?0x0000

Sub device ID: ?0x0000

Connection

Bus: ?SCSI (USB) (1)

Channel: ?0

Logical unit number: ?0

Device

Old device file: ?/dev/sda

Misc

Device USB ID: ?11

Geometry: ?// (CHS)

Disk controller: ?0

Module: ?usb-storage (usblp)

Yes! my printers smart media socket! still a little puzzled, I never have a memory card inserted in it, but still get the random assignments of sda and sdb, but the printer is defiantly the cause, maybe the newer kernel in 2008 has brought this problem to light.

What other devices (hard drives, cdroms, external drives, etc.) do you have in your setup?

IDE Primary Master has a 60 Gig hard drive split into 3 partitions root, home and swap for Mandriva 2008.

IDE Secondary Master has a DVD Rewriter

Sata 1 has a 400 Gig Hard Disk single partition ext3

I have thought of a workaround by having 2 entries in fstab, one for if the sata drive is detected as sdb and another if it`s detected as sda.

One entry will always fail of course, but it should then at least be mounted on bootup.

Like this :-

/dev/hda1 / ext3 relatime 1 1

/dev/hda5 /home ext3 relatime 1 2

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0

/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/sda1 /mnt/bulkstorage ext3 defaults 0 0

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/bulkstorage ext3 defaults 0 0

Hi there,

Strange problem with device name of SATA drive.

Each time I boot Mandriva 2008, my SATA drive (single large partition) that`s used as extra storage get`s assigned a different device name, it`s either /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sda1

Which means I cant set it to auto-mount in fstab.

Problem appeared since 2008 mdv

Anyone help me with this?

Mike

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Check out avidemux or kino. There are most likely qt-library (i.e. KDE integrated) based apps, too.

I use ManDvd application to convert divx to DVD, you can select pal or ntsc output.

Version: 2.4-1mdk2007.1.i586

Also DVDAuthor (using Qdvdauthor for GUI)

I use KDE application ManDVD, works with everything I`ve tried so far including mp4 and divx movies.

mandvd - DVD Video mastering software.? ?

ManDVD is a DVD Video mastering software. Features includes:

- Slideshow

- Animated background menus

Also DVDAuthor with QDVDAuthor as the GUI

'Q' DVD-Author is a GUI frontend for dvdauthor and related tools. The goal is to provide an easy-to-use, yet powerful and complete interface to generate DVD menus, slideshows, and videos to burn on a DVD under Linux.