zibi1981

One of the members of http://www.mandrivaclub.pl forums reported a very strange issue with Catalyst Drivers installation process. After taking care of all the necessary requirements and running the installation script of the drivers provided by AMD/ATI, it gave her some errors in the console ================================================== ATI Technologies Linux Driver Installer/Packager ================================================== Detected configuration: Architecture: i686 (32-bit) X Server: X.Org 7.1 and later releases DKMS part of installation failed. Please refer to /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log for details Removing temporary directory: fglrx-install.C19203 The /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log showed only Errors during DKMS module removal Errors during DKMS module removal [Error] Kernel Module : Failed to add fglrx-8.501 to DKMS None of us was able to find a solution. Googling haven't been of much help either this time, as it gave back only two results, of which one website is in Russian, and the other in Spanish, I guess... Did anyone ran onto a similar problem? What could be wrong?

Well, I got plenty of fonts on my system, and they are working perfectly in Opera or Konqueror. Why should I install more of them? My favorite are Liberation fonts and I set them to be default also in Firefox. Maybe they don't work as they should be in this browser. I'll try to use different fonts then. EDIT: It got better after I changed proportional font, in Firefox fonts settings, to be sans-serif instead of serif. But it's still far for perfect :unsure:

I'm recently using Firefox 2.0.0.11 and have some problems with fonts. In fact on some (but not all) web pages (i.e. on this forum) they are very small. Here are my font settings in Firefox I don't have such problems when using Opera. I also don't want to use msfonts, as the native work perfectly in my system and other browsers. Couldn't find any solution on this board. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Yea, I noticed that... I thought rather about Con Kolivas' patches. The newest is for 2.6.22 and I wanted it for 2.6.24 which will be out probably till the end of the week.

The second option. The only thing I didn't remove before installing 1.4 was ~/.etqwcl/ folder.

Unfortunately after applying the new patch (ver. 1.4) I'm not able to run the game at all :sad:

And what about the up-coming 2.6.24 kernel?

I managed to resolve my problem with a little help :) The key to this solution was the discovery that my SWAP partition haven't been mounted automatically with other partitions, and so Mandriva didn't see it (hence free -m command was showing Swap: 0 0 0, and my SuperKaramba monitor 0 of 0 MB). After I mounted SWAP manually in the MCC, finally system started to show the correct information [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1011 630 381 0 32 215 -/+ buffers/cache: 381 629 Swap: 1019 0 1019 [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda5 partition 1044184 224 -1 That was until reboot. The problem was in my /etc/fstab, where I had following entry regarding SWAP LABEL=swap swap swap defaults 0 0 but SWAP don't have a label on my system... Problem was solved when I changed this entry to /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

On my Mandriva 2008.0 KDE 3.5.8 I also noticed that system doesn't ever use SWAP, or maybe something is wrong with the monitoring? [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1011 996 15 0 31 564 -/+ buffers/cache: 400 611 Swap: 0 0 0 I'm also curious why every SuperKaramba theme I used never showed any SWAP usage. And what happened to 13 MB of my RAM (I have 1024 MB and Mandriva sees only 1011...)?

I get this message when trying to access mentioned IRC channel Maybe I'll try the mailing list... EDIT: O.K., I got the list of patches for my kernel :D If someone is interested, it's here.

Where can I ask those questions? Is there an IRC channel or something? Maybe someone on this board know the answers :)

Recently I'm interested in my system's throughput and fast start. I did a bootchart test and optimized the boot process. Now it's time to face the heart of every OS - the kernel :D Firstly just wanted to say I'm not a geek, but I like to read and learn ;) I did some research and search across the web and found some articles in Polish and English about making system kernel smaller, faster and preemptible. After collecting some knowledge I decided to recompile Mandriva's standard kernel, which in my case is [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.22.12-desktop-1mdv I'm not familiar with every option in the kernel config (who is???), but managed to recognize many and disable some of which I know will never be useful on my rig. Then I found, that there are some patches, like realtime-preempt. Before I try to apply one of them I wanted to know if: 1. Is it safe on Mandriva's kernels? I read somewhere that Mandriva and other user friendly distros have heavily patched kernels already and another patch may result in unstable kernel or even on one that would not compile at all. 2. Which patch from the page linked above is suitable for my kernel? 3. Which patches Mandriva's developers use to patch the kernel? Maybe some of them are crucial to its stability and security, so I wanted to know before I try to play with the kernel. Thx in advance for all responses :)

Got it, thanks much :) It installed without problems but I don't know how to use it :blush: When I click on a channel I get this

Yes, I would like to try it. Hopefully it'll work on my system too :)

The script don't need to be installed, just copied to /usr/local/bin (or started from it's original folder). Then, according to my knowledge, I only need to do two things: 1. Run in console sp-sc sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/6098 3908 8908 > /dev/null & where 6098 is an example of channel number, 3908 is an example for local port, and 8908 - an example of program's port. 2. Run in my favorite player http://localhost:8908/tv.asf and that's all. Unfortunately it don't work on my system. BTW, I've unlocked those ports in Firestarter. Below is an example of the console output of running a channel in MPlayer, which I know is active at the moment: [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ sp-sc sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/26119 3908 8908 > /dev/null & [1] 7904 [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ mplayer http://localhost:8908/tv.asf MPlayer 1.0-1.rc1.20plf2008.0-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 3200+ (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 0) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. 98 audio & 216 video codecs mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://localhost:8908/tv.asf. Resolving localhost for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: localhost Resolving localhost for AF_INET... Connecting to server localhost[127.0.0.1]: 8908... connect error: Connection refused STREAM_ASF, URL: http://localhost:8908/tv.asf Resolving localhost for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: localhost Resolving localhost for AF_INET... Connecting to server localhost[127.0.0.1]: 8908... connect error: Connection refused Failed, exiting. Resolving localhost for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: localhost Resolving localhost for AF_INET... Connecting to server localhost[127.0.0.1]: 8908... connect error: Connection refused File not found: 'localhost:8908/tv.asf' Failed to open http://localhost:8908/tv.asf. Exiting... (End of file) [1]+ Exit 152 sp-sc sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/26119 3908 8908 > /dev/null Finally I have to say I can watch TV via MPlayer or Kaffeine when using TVUPlayer or TVAnts via Wine, but I would prefer to use native Linux application.

Well, I tried to pass the options you mentioned, but they changed nothing in the matter of giving some info about what's wrong... [root@localhost Sopcast]# rpm -ivh --test qsopcast-0.3.5-2mgc.i686.rpm sp-sc-1.0.2-1mgc.i686.rpm ostrzeżenie: package file qsopcast-0.3.5-2mgc.i686.rpm was skipped ostrzeżenie: package file sp-sc-1.0.2-1mgc.i686.rpm was skipped [root@localhost Sopcast]# rpm -ivh --conflicts qsopcast-0.3.5-2mgc.i686.rpm sp-sc-1.0.2-1mgc.i686.rpm ostrzeżenie: package file qsopcast-0.3.5-2mgc.i686.rpm was skipped ostrzeżenie: package file sp-sc-1.0.2-1mgc.i686.rpm was skipped [root@localhost Sopcast]# rpm -ivh --requires qsopcast-0.3.5-2mgc.i686.rpm sp-sc-1.0.2-1mgc.i686.rpm ostrzeżenie: package file qsopcast-0.3.5-2mgc.i686.rpm was skipped ostrzeżenie: package file sp-sc-1.0.2-1mgc.i686.rpm was skipped [root@localhost Sopcast]# rpm -ivh --obsoletes qsopcast-0.3.5-2mgc.i686.rpm sp-sc-1.0.2-1mgc.i686.rpm ostrzeżenie: package file qsopcast-0.3.5-2mgc.i686.rpm was skipped ostrzeżenie: package file sp-sc-1.0.2-1mgc.i686.rpm was skipped [root@localhost Sopcast]# rpm -Uvh qsopcast-0.3.5-2mgc.i686.rpm sp-sc-1.0.2-1mgc.i686.rpm ostrzeżenie: package file qsopcast-0.3.5-2mgc.i686.rpm was skipped ostrzeżenie: package file sp-sc-1.0.2-1mgc.i686.rpm was skipped I don't think "Kaffeine succeeded" as it didn't give me any picture or sound...

Didn't find any topic related to my problem on the board. I wanted to watch internet TV with SopCast. It has a Linux version available here. Unfortunately rpms which I got from the site don't want to install on my Mandriva [root@localhost Sopcast]# rpm -ihv sp-sc-1.0.2-1mgc.i686.rpm ostrzeżenie: package file sp-sc-1.0.2-1mgc.i686.rpm was skipped [root@localhost Sopcast]# rpm -ihv qsopcast-0.3.5-2mgc.i686.rpm ostrzeżenie: package file qsopcast-0.3.5-2mgc.i686.rpm was skipped (BTW "ostrzeżenie" means "warning" in Polish) I also tried to use command line version, but with no succes. When I follow the instructions in the README file, I get [zibi1981@localhost sp-sc]$ ./sp-sc sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/6098 3908 8908 > /dev/null & [1] 8634 [zibi1981@localhost sp-sc]$ mplayer http://localhost:8908/tv.asf MPlayer 1.0-1.rc1.20plf2008.0-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 3200+ (Family: 6, Model: 10, Stepping: 0) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. 98 audio & 216 video codecs mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing http://localhost:8908/tv.asf. Resolving localhost for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: localhost Resolving localhost for AF_INET... Connecting to server localhost[127.0.0.1]: 8908... connect error: Connection refused STREAM_ASF, URL: http://localhost:8908/tv.asf Resolving localhost for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: localhost Resolving localhost for AF_INET... Connecting to server localhost[127.0.0.1]: 8908... connect error: Connection refused Failed, exiting. Resolving localhost for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: localhost Resolving localhost for AF_INET... Connecting to server localhost[127.0.0.1]: 8908... connect error: Connection refused File not found: 'localhost:8908/tv.asf' Failed to open http://localhost:8908/tv.asf. Exiting... (End of file) [1]+ Exit 152 ./sp-sc sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/6098 3908 8908 > /dev/null and when I try to use Kaffeine instead of MPlayer [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ kaffeine http://localhost:8908/tv.asf kaffeine: PLAYLIST kaffeine: PlayList: add 1 items to playlist kaffeine: PlayList: Check for kaffeine/noatun/m3u/pls/asx playlist kaffeine: PlayList: Try loading kaffeine playlist kaffeine: PlaylistImport: kaffeine: /home/zibi1981/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine/playlists/NOWE.kaffeine kaffeine: Window manager: KWin found kaffeine: SystemTray: Create System Tray kaffeine: Kaffeine:: Try to load service: xine_part kaffeine: This is a KaffeinePart... kaffeine: XinePart: Creating new XinePart... kaffeine: XinePart: Using xine-config file: kaffeine: KXineWidget: Using default config file ~/.xine/config kaffeine: PlayList: add 1 items to playlist kaffeine: XinePart::openURL(): http://localhost:8908/tv.asf kaffeine: XinePart: Check for kaffeine/noatun/m3u/pls/asx playlist kaffeine: ERROR: XinePart: Nie można połączyć się z serwerem localhost (port 8908). kaffeine: XinePart: Got single track kaffeine: XinePart::slotPlay() kaffeine: KXineWidget: Xinerama extension present kaffeine: KXineWidget: 1 screens detected kaffeine: KXineWidget: Display aspect ratio (v/h): 1 kaffeine: KXineWidget: Using xine version 1.1.8 kaffeine: KXineWidget: Post-init xine engine kaffeine: KXineWidget: Use audio driver alsa kaffeine: KXineWidget: Use video driver auto kaffeine: KXineWidget: Init video driver kaffeine: KXineWidget: Init audio driver kaffeine: KXineWidget: Init OSD kaffeine: KXineWidget: Font for OSD: sans kaffeine: KXineWidget: Unscaled OSD available kaffeine: KXineWidget: xine init successful kaffeine: XinePart: load config kaffeine: Set volume to: 86 kaffeine: KXineWidget: New visualization plugin: goom kaffeine: PostFilter: Create Postprocessing Filter: tvtime kaffeine: PostFilter: Parameter: method kaffeine: PostFilter: Parameter: enabled kaffeine: PostFilter: Parameter: pulldown kaffeine: PostFilter: Parameter: framerate_mode kaffeine: PostFilter: Parameter: judder_correction kaffeine: PostFilter: Parameter: use_progressive_frame_flag kaffeine: PostFilter: Parameter: chroma_filter kaffeine: PostFilter: Parameter: cheap_mode kaffeine: PostFilter: Get input kaffeine: PostFilter: Get output kaffeine: PostFilter: SetConfig tvtime:method=LinearBlend,enabled=1,pulldown=none,framerate_mode=half_top,judder_co rrection=0,use_progressive_frame_flag=1,chroma_filter=0,cheap_mode=1 kaffeine: PostFilter: Set parameter 'method' to value 'LinearBlend' kaffeine: PostFilter: tvtime Apply integer value 2 on offset 0 kaffeine: PostFilter: Set parameter 'enabled' to value '1' kaffeine: PostFilter: tvtime Apply integer value 1 on offset 4 kaffeine: PostFilter: Set parameter 'pulldown' to value 'none' kaffeine: PostFilter: tvtime Apply integer value 0 on offset 8 kaffeine: PostFilter: Set parameter 'framerate_mode' to value 'half_top' kaffeine: PostFilter: tvtime Apply integer value 1 on offset 12 kaffeine: PostFilter: Set parameter 'judder_correction' to value '0' kaffeine: PostFilter: tvtime Apply integer value 0 on offset 16 kaffeine: PostFilter: tvtime Apply integer value 0 on offset 16 kaffeine: PostFilter: Set parameter 'use_progressive_frame_flag' to value '1' kaffeine: PostFilter: tvtime Apply integer value 1 on offset 20 kaffeine: PostFilter: Set parameter 'chroma_filter' to value '0' kaffeine: PostFilter: tvtime Apply integer value 0 on offset 24 kaffeine: PostFilter: Set parameter 'cheap_mode' to value '1' kaffeine: PostFilter: tvtime Apply integer value 1 on offset 28 kaffeine: PostFilter: tvtime Apply integer value 1 on offset 28 kaffeine: KXineWidget: Deinterlace enabled: 1 kaffeine: PostFilter: Get output kaffeine: PostFilter: Get input kaffeine: KXineWidget: Playing: http://localhost:8908/tv.asf kaffeine: KXineWidget: xine event: progress info kaffeine: KXineWidget: xine event: xine message kaffeine: KXineWidget: xine event: xine message kaffeine: WARNING: KXineWidget: Message: 'Po??czenie zosta?o odrzucone. Prosz? sprawdzi? nazw? serwera. (couldn't send request)' was blocked! kaffeine: XinePart::closeURL() kaffeine: KXineWidget: Playing: /usr/share/apps/kaffeine/logo [zibi1981@localhost ~]$ kaffeine: KXineWidget: New video frame size: 700x700 - aspect ratio: 1 kaffeine: KXineWidget: Switch to audio channel -1 kaffeine: KXineWidget: xine event: playback finished kaffeine: Kaffeine: destructor kaffeine: PostFilter: Get output kaffeine: PostFilter: Get input kaffeine: KXineWidget: Shut down xine engine kaffeine: KXineWidget: Unwire video filters kaffeine: PostFilter: Delete Postprocessing Filter: tvtime kaffeine: KXineWidget: Dispose event queue kaffeine: KXineWidget: Dispose stream kaffeine: KXineWidget: Close audio driver kaffeine: KXineWidget: Close video driver kaffeine: KXineWidget: Set CD/VCD/DVD path back kaffeine: KXineWidget: Save xine config to: /home/zibi1981/.xine/config kaffeine: KXineWidget: Close xine engine kaffeine: KXineWidget: Close xine display kaffeine: KXineWidget: xine closed kaffeine: XinePart: destructor kaffeine: XinePart destructor: calling saveConfig() kaffeine: XinePart: save config Simply nothing happens in both cases. Anyone has an idea?

No one uses KDM Theme Manager in Mandriva 2008.0??? :o

Less configurable? How is that?

So for now I got back to Firestarter, although I prefer KMyFirewall...

Totally agree, QW rocks!

Please tell me that KDE4 will have Konqueror...pleeeeeeease

I'm also very interested in changing the look of the default Mandriva's login theme. I have KDM Theme Manager installed, and also I installed some nice themes from KDE-Look. Unfortunately when in administrators mode I choose a theme, press apply button and then reboot, I still see the default theme. It happens with every theme I tried. What can be wrong? Do anyone have KDM Theme Manager working properly on 2008.0?

I also had problems with sound under 2008.0, which I didn't have when using 2007.0/2007.1 previously. I have two sound cards: one integrated AC'97 (disabled in BIOS), and a Sound Blaster on PCI. I had had the first one selected in KMix as a default mixer, and that was the case. One of the users from polish Mandriva fan site advised me to put the driver for the AC'97 sound card on a blacklist and it did help. Here's how I did it: 1) In /etc/modprobe.conf: 2) and in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mdv: Now I have sound everytime I reboot to my 2008.0. Maybe it will help someone. P.S. Unfortunately I can't install ATI drivers...

Sorry to hear :sad: Did anyone succeed with installing those drivers on Mandriva 2008.0? I think something is terribly wrong with this release, as people don't have such problems on 2007.1... It's maybe be due to my Opera 9.5 beta, but I'm not sure.