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Hi, I have been running beryl 2.0 very nicely on my ibm t43p laptop (ati graphics card) for a while now. Even managed to get dual screen running on it too (by limiting the total width of the two screens to 2048). However, I have two "profiles", one, where I am in the office, I use the dual screen setup - a custom xorg.conf forcing the two monitors to 1024x768 (as my graphics card only has a maximum texture size of 2048 - "glxinfo -l grep TEXTURE_SIZE). When I am anywhere else, I need to use just the one screen on the laptop, which has a native resolution of 1400x1050. For which needs another xorg.conf not limiting it to 1024x768. When I boot the system in single display mode, the xorg.conf is still hard-coded for the low resolution of 1024x768 and dual screens, as such, I manually drop down into the command line every time to switch between two different xorg's. Is there a way of automatically querying the monitors, before X loads up proper, and based on the outcome, replacing the xorg.conf with the one best suited (i.e. a "single screen" xorg.conf if only one monitor is found, a "dual screen" xorg.conf if an external is found etc). I know with aticonfig you can query which monitors are connected, but as this can only be run once X has loaded, it does seem a bit redundant....
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I added the cooker repositories, downloaded the la ora kwin package, (it also updated glibc i think) and removed the cooker repositories, put back the official ones. Problem solved!
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On the "official" mirrors, or on cooker? I have updated everything using cooker in the past, but overall it seems to do more harm than good...
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Hi, From mandriva 2007, mandriva introduced the la ora theme. I have looked at screenshots of the gnome version and it looks lovely, however I am running the One kde cd, and to be honest, the theme looks a little off (the window decoration is a pixel or two off the borders). I have attached a screenshot of what im trying to describe, is there an updated la ora version I can download / compile to make it look better?
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Hello! I have been using beryl 0.1.4 in the backports repository of mandriva 2007 one official for ages now. I had to do some java programming, and had issues with the java windows (everything was grey). This is a known problem (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6509038) . So I disabled beryl and xgl and had the regular kde windowmanager. However, on trying to renable it, the system hangs on trying to initialise kde, I get a blue window with the mouse cursor in a "busy" state, and thats it. After looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, the only related errors i can see towards the bottom end are the following: (EE) AIGLX error: dlsym for __driCreateNewScreen_20050727 failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __driCreateNewScreen_20050727) (EE)AIGLX: reverting to software rendering However, I do not want to use aiglx, (i am using the ati fglrx binary driver) and I believe i have manually enabled xgl correctly (in /etc/sysconfig/xgl - it now reads xgl=yes). Any ideas? it must be something simple, I just switched it off for a moment, now can't get it back on!!
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hi, I used to be able to run beryl fine from mandriva cooker (when it was on about version 1.1.3) now it has upgraded to version 1.99 xgl loads, as I have the rotating cube functionality, but everything, i mean everything is white. I can't see the desktop or the taskbar, its like its just drawing a solid white cube. Are there some additional command line options / arguments I can try? Im working with the fglrx drivers, so using xgl (not aiglx)... [moved from Software by spinynorman]
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i have been playing a bit more now, and seem to have sorted the problem, it wasn't kdesu's fault at all. Seems like when i installed mandriva one 2007 and added the "cooker" repositories and upgraded (urpmi --auto-select) it upgraded most things but there were a few packages that wouldn't update. These were due to some existing packages not being up-to-date yet either. So the erroneous one was kdebase-common. I "uprme kdebase-common" (which isn't a good idea, in normal circumstances!) and then did "urpmi --auto-select" again, and there were no more issues in the upgrading process. I had to do "urpmi k3b konsole" immediately too as they were removed with kdebase-common. A long story, but the short of it is kdesu is working again now. It was just that the upgrade didnt go as smooth as it should have originally.
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hi, thanks for answering! I have checked, and i have /bin/true. I am unsure how to setup su and its priveliges, how would i do this?
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hi, i have just updated my system to mandriva cooker (using repositories from easyurpmi) however im not getting a strange problem, whenever i use kdesu (like, when configuring net_applet or going into the mandriva control centre) it keeps telling me "wrong password". If i am in a terminal, I can go in as "su" and the password works perfectly. How can i "reset" the password used for kdesu?
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hi, i have been using mandriva cooker for a while now without problem, but all of a sudden, when i try installing the latest ati drivers using XFdrake, it downloads the packages fine from the repositories but i end up with the error "No such pseudo-hash field "raw" at /usr/lib/libDrakX/Xconfig/xfree.pm line 574." at the command line. I had a look at the line 574 in the file and it reads "map { if_(lc($_->{name}) eq lc($Section) && (!$o_when || $o_when->($_->{l})), $_->{l}) } @{$raw_X->{raw}};" Unfortunately I don't understand what this means, nor how it prevents the drivers from being installed correctly. Any ideas?
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Hi, im running the mandria one 2007 with much success, i have ati drivers installed (the fglrx ones) from the repositories at easyurpmi. I added the easyurpmi repositories for mandriva 2007 official (not cooker). I have been trying to get beryl working, the alternative to compiz, running on top of Xgl. I have followed the instructions on www.beryl-project.org and added the backports for main and contrib. Beryl has installed fine, and i can run "beryl-manager" from the command line to get the red gem icon in the system tray area. However, when I try to change the manager to beryl, i get the followingL $ QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (-3) ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success ** (beryl-manager:5766): CRITICAL **: can't execute beryl-xgl: Success and these critical messages just keep on going and going. I have it set to fallback to kwin (yup, im running kde) which it does so, so at least i have window decorations. The default compiz still works, but I am interested in beryl as it has some really cool features (i did try it before from cooker, but cooker caused some issues in upgrading other packages!) thanks for any help!
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Hi, im running an ibm t43p laptop with an ati graphics card, i have the official fglrx drivers installed 8.28.8 (the ones from easyurpmi) and have just recently updated my system with urpmi --auto-update. I have a problem now where xgl isnt really working. I have set it with drak3d, and it seems to be "on" but not "activated", by this i mean when I run fgl_glxgears it gives me the expected message "Xlib: extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":93.0"" indicating that XGL is using the 3D, however, I have no wobbly windows or anything, its my normal theme as if i turned off xgl with drak3d. Is there any config files i should reset before running drak3d to set up xgl? or does compiz 0.3.2 just not work too good? I think i was running 0.0.13 before this happened... [moved from Software by spinynorman]
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A strange problem, I am having difficulty determing what is causing it. Sometimes when I boot i get the bootsplash (press "esc" for verbose mode" and it hangs, in the verbose mode, i can see the most recent text reads "setting hostname localhost: [ ok ]". The only way i can seem to unfreeze it is crtc-c which, of course, messes up the boot sequence and i need to restart the computer again. If it helps, the option that does normally come next when everything works is "checking root file system [ ok]". Any ideas why the computer may be hanging? I get this problem on two computers (a dell inspiron 9100 and an ibm t43p)
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I have read into this problem a bit more, and it seems this combination isn't possible on ati hardware at the moment, with the current 8.29.6 drivers. xinerama doesnt have composite multiscreen for both displays, and its a similar problem for ati. If i get this solved in the future, i'll be sure to post something.
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i tried playing around with /etc/cpufreqd.conf, and saw the default for the "ac profile" w as max performance. I changed it to ondemand, rebooted, and it is working fine now (800mhz most of the time, spikes to 2.1 wh en it needs to be!). Im not sure if i can change the values with klaptop properly yet, but it works the way i want it now, so time to leave well alone! Thanks for your help! *update* Seems like it was still doing funny things, I couldnt figure out why. I actually deleted (rather renamed) the original /etc/cpufreq.conf and this seemed to sort it out properly. I havent had any issues for over a week and klaptop is switching cpu frequencys nicely now.
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hello, I have installed the latest ati drivers for my laptop (8.29.6 i think) and they are running fine. XGL loads up nice too, lovely wobbly windows and all that. I use dual screens in work (by dual screens, i mean one big desktop, not dual-head) and was wondering if anyone else had luck with an ati card getting xgl on a big desktop? I believe there are two ways to configure a big desktop, using xinerama and using ati's tool, "aticonfig". I have only been using aticonfig so far. I can get dual screens up, but it hangs before even showing the mandriva splash screen (just get a mouse cursor with a busy sign). However, if i disable xgl altogether, the dual screens come up fine, but doesnt look too pretty anymore. Im pretty sure I had this enabled before, but that may have been with aiglx and the open source ati drivers, however I need the binary ones so I guess xgl is the only route available!
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whats weird, is when i unplug the laptop from the mains, it goes down th 800mhz, when i plug the power in, it goes to a minimum of 1.6gig, with periodic chanages up to 2.1gig (it automatically changes the cpu governor from ondemand to performance from time to time!)
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Hi, I am running mandriva one 2007 kde on a thinkpad t43p laptop. When i am running from the battery i have klaptop set to run the computer in a low-speed 800mhz mode, which it does (as confirmed by cpuinfo from kde-apps.org). However, when I have the laptop plugged into the power, again, trying powersave mode, it jumps up to 1.6ghz. (the processor is a 2.13 centrino / pentium M by the way). Is there someway of getting the laptop to run slower when in powered mode - as it tends to get quite warm when its unnecessarily running fast! [moved from Hardware by spinynorman]
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Any ideas? I got the nice screen on boot back, but no hibernate...
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hi, i have been trying out the new mandriva 2007 one kde disc, and installed from the live cd. Everything works, apart from hibernate. I read somewhere that there is a multimedia kernel, so I installed this, and lost my wifi, and the grub boot menu that appears when i switch the computer on lost its pretty orange screen. I am wondering if it is possible to get hibernate working from klaptop within the default mandriva kernel (as my wifi and stuff works in this one) ? thanks!
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Hi, i am new to mandriva but have been using kubuntu and suse a while. When I have been setting up dual-screen with my ati laptop card, i have been using a tool (invoked from the terminal) called 'aticonfig'. This should be installed along with the fglrx drivers - its ati's official tool for configuring all things fglrx related. invoke it with no arguments, and see the different options you can use. I normally end up doing something like 'aticonfig --dtop=horizontal' - keep in mind if you use the 'aticonfig --dual-head' you will effectively end up with two different X's on each screen, not one big desktop ;-) good luck!