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  2. Problem with Mandriva 2008.0 and nVidia driver

    in Hardware

    Posted

    You need to recompile the nvidia kernel module note the whole kernel. And you have to do it every time you upgrade\update the kernel. To do that automatically there's a package called dkms-nvidia. For recompiling this module you also need the kernel-source-devel package or the whole kernel-source matching to your kernel.

     

    From this message by Adam I understood the whole process was supposed to take place automatically.

     

    Could you please be more specific with the names of the packages I need?

     

    I looked at the MCC - Software installation tool. I found a package called dkms-nvidia96xx already installed. Besides I found kernel-source-2.6.17.13mdv and the kernel-source-2.6.17.22 is not installed (but kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.22.9-1mdv is installed), and no package as kernel-source-devel of any sort, installed or in the repos. Should I install something, like the kernel-source-2.6.17.22, could that be the reason? Wasn't it supposed to be installed on the upgrade? And how can I make sure there aren't any other important packages missing?

     

    Sorry for all the questions, I'm a bit lost here.

  3. Problem with Mandriva 2008.0 and nVidia driver

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Hi all,

     

    I upgraded my MDV 2007.1 to 2008.0 from the CD's with no special problem. Of course the nVidia proprietary driver was not upgraded. After I logged in I changed my driver to the nVidia GeForce 3-4 (96xx) one - the same as I ran in 2007.1 with no problem (including the 3-D effects and all that jazz). After installation of the package and activation of the proprietary driver I got the following message:

    An error occurred:
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure
(EE) NVIDIA(0):	 that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and

Try to change some parameters

    After approval I was asked to log out and in. After logging out I got a message in text mode saying it can't start the X-server, asking me to try another driver. So for the meanwhile I'm running with the non-proprietary one.

     

    I also tried running from the Live CD, and got all the 3-D effects out of the box. Of course I prefer not to do a fresh installation from the live CD.

     

    Maybe I need to re-compile the kernel? Any advice? Thanks!

  5. Upgrade from 2007.1 to 2008

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    What I was trying to say is that the CDs or DVD contains the same rpm packages like the ftp mirrors. There are only less packages on the CDs\DVD of course. The package manager doesn't really care about where the packages are coming from it installs them just the same. It's generally the same process.

    Those packages which are not on the CDs or DVD obviously won't get upgraded. But you can upgrade them later if you like by adding the non-free or the plf repos and using "urpmi --auto-select" again.

     

    Thanks for the explanation. I think I'll go with the network installation after all.

  12. Problem with downloading Mandriva 2008 [solved]

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted · Edited by yossarian

    THIS isn't far away from my previous link... :D

    Personally I always prefer the boot.iso installation method (at least since I've got ADSL).

     

    You see? We have a phrase in Hebrew: When you explain to me slowly, I understand quickly...

     

    I think I'll try to install from the boot.iso as well, but I prefer to have the 3 CD's just in case something goes wrong.

     

    EDIT: Wait! I just saw on the link that there is Gnome One version. Just the other day Adam explained that they didn't create a Gnome live CD, only KDE. What's going on?

  16. Problem with downloading Mandriva 2008 [solved]

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted · Edited by yossarian

    Hi everyone,

     

    I downloaded Mandriva 2008 Free in the form of the three CD's from here. While the md5 check sum of CD's 2 and 3 are correct, the checksum of CD 1 I get is:

    7e15581103d1737bbf6c026b2d08718d

    While this in the site is:

    cf131e82623c3409a8930774b8b9329b

    I downloaded CD 1 twice, and got the same answer twice. Has anyone downloaded CD1 and can tell me what md5 sum he gets? Thanks!

  18. install "make"

    in Software

    Posted

    Ok I'll try that, be back in about a minute...

    Edit: Ok so it seems that urpmi is not installed either...

     

    rpm is apparently installed. So is there a place where I can find the rpm for make?

     

    You can configure your urpmi through the MCC (Mandrive Control Center). I haven't seen the MCC of 2008, but it should be under Software management, then click "Select from where software packages are downloaded" or something like that. From there you'll find your way, if not please come back.

  19. Very slow BitTorrent

    in Networking

    Posted

    Or you can use ftp and http file tranfer for download mandriva isos.

    The program is aria wich for me took 1 and a half hour to download the dvd iso image.

    If you use aria and metalinks the download is multi-segmented into various connections to various ftps at the same time......so all you need is a fat pipe and you will get the latest Mandriva version in a short while.

    This way i did get a very speedy download,aprox 1 MB/s .

     

    Cheers....

     

    This is exactly what I do. But even using aria, I get a connection of only ~20kb/sec. Besides, using the cd's won't update the proprietary drivers (as Adam mentioned), so I'm still considering upgrading from the network and not locally.

  22. Very slow BitTorrent

    in Networking

    Posted

    It's quite likely that your ISP is throttling P2P traffic. MANY ISP's do that, unfortunately.

    Change your torrent TCP port from 6881 to a random number (say 54321) and enable encryption. It should help quite a lot.

     

    Thanks, I'll try it.

  23. Upgrade from 2007.1 to 2008

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    If you do an upgrade from the Free edition, any non-free packages won't get upgraded.

     

    My *personal* preference would be to do an upgrade network install, following the instructions at http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Docs/Installin...or_the_Internet , selecting the upgrade option.

     

    Hi Adam,

     

    in the page you linked to it says one should start the upgrade process from booting the computer from a boot.iso image. Where can I find it? It isn't in the 2008 mirrors. Do I need this boot.iso file from 2008 mirror, 2007 mirror, or it doesn't matter?

  24. Very slow BitTorrent

    in Networking

    Posted

    Hi everyone,

     

    I'm trying to download Mandriva 2008 via BitTorrent (my first time using this method). Teh connection is very slow, like 0.1kb/sec. After 20 minutes of running I see the following messages in the log tab:

    [5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:01] DEBUG   : created torrent
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:02] DEBUG   : created torrent, initializing
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:02] DEBUG   : _initialize: self.working_path=/home/uri/.bittorrent/incomplete/4232e3c0-fd86
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:02] DEBUG   : _initialize: returned from Storage startup.
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:12] DEBUG   : starting torrent
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:13] DEBUG   : started torrent
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:20] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('81.203.35.221', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.2.1.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:22:24] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('86.20.229.7', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.4.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:27:35] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('86.20.229.7', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.4.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:27:36] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('82.235.122.23', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.4.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:27:38] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('81.203.35.221', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.2.1.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:27:38] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('89.3.85.32', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.2.2.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:32:44] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('201.92.98.53', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.0.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:32:44] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('82.235.122.23', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.4.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:32:49] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('86.20.229.7', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.4.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:32:52] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('81.203.35.221', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.2.1.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:33:00] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('88.177.82.214', 56881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.2.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:37:51] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('201.92.98.53', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.0.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:37:54] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('81.203.35.221', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.2.1.0')
[5.0.7 2007-10-12 17:38:05] INFO	: message length exceeds max (323119476 > 8388608): '\x13BitTorren', count:0 ('86.20.229.7', 6881) ('KTorrent', '2.1.4.0')

     

    Whats is the problem? can it be that it takes the Torrent some time to "heat up" or something (like with emule), delaying my request as it is relatively new, and things will improve later?

     

     

    [moved from Software by spinynorman]

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