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  1. You may find it a lot easier to just use the nvidia dkms packages from the repo's, you can get them from within MCC software manager, you will need to have non-free sources enabled, then it's just a matter of selecting the packages, clicking apply, let it do it's thing, then running XFdrake, follow instructions. it's real easy
  2. Well that's enough for me, I'm sold, I will be converting my PC's over to Mandriva 2008 this weekend, everything is working absolutely brilliantly, I've still got a smile from ear to ear. Excellent ! SOLVED [by Mandriva 2008]
  3. It works fine for me, 2008 under KDE.
  4. Seems to be fixed now, the other torrents are back up alongside one. http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/ Not actually sure I should have said this now, but it's out in the open at the club forums, where non club members can see it, so . . . :unsure: Adam can whip me if I have done a bad thing. I've transfered all the torrents I have downloaded via the early seeders over to the public torrents anyway.
  5. Public torrents for 2008 are becoming available http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/ but, there is a bit of a problem, http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/Ma...eeders_2008_one
  6. So, I installed MDV 2008 PP, and what do you think happened? The damn thing is running perfectly, been running it for a couple of hours, install was straight forward and trouble free, as always, hardware all detected etc, as always, but the big surprise is that it actually runs so damn good, I got a smile a mile wide. I'm going to keep testing it for a couple more days, a week maybe, then if everything is still going fine, I'm going to change both my PC's over to 2008, it feels really good so far No sign of high CPU usage, fast, responsive, just excellent, I'm having trouble tearing myself away so I can go to sleep, I got to be up in 4 hours :o I'm glad I'm not the betting kind, I would have done my money :P
  7. Yeah, we were let at it about 11 hours ago, and it has been slow for me, but picking up, should have had it hours ago though.
  8. Yes, Thats what I thought you meant, but I had had enough at that time, had to leave Mandriva for a while, but it has lured me back though, my first Linux love you know, I am downloading the 2008 PowerPack DVD torrent now, and currently running the 2007.1 ONE KDE cd Live, and if only Mandriva would run this good for me when installed to disk, except for when it has to access the disk, it's excellent, much better, faster than when I install to disk. Anyway, when I install 2008, I'll see how it goes, and see then if I can get it worked out, maybe it will work fine, but if I had to bet on it, I would say it will be as slow as, but time will tell.
  9. That would be, Right Click on Desktop - Create New - Link To Device
  10. Well, just for kicks, and for curiosity sake, and the fact that I am a Masochist, I wiped 2008 RC1, and installed 2007.1, disabled beagle, removed beagle, disabled unnecessary services, processes, done all the updates, rebooted, and it's exactly the same as 2007 and 2007.1 has always been for me, exactly the same as 2008 RC1 is, slooooow, and unresponsive, so then just for kicks, and because I had a bit of spare time, I wiped 2007.1, and installed Ubuntu, it is fast and smooth, so I still had a few kicks left in me, a bit more time to blow, so I thought I would install a KDE orientated distro, enter Kubuntu, yep, you guessed it, fast and smooth, a quick look at the old kick meter showed I still had a bit of kick left in me, and time was still on my side, so I thought I would even things out, and try another .rpm based distro, enter PCLinuxOS, yep, fast and smooth. So I don't know what it is, but Mandriva just doesn't like me, on 2 different PC's it does exactly the same thing, as said before I have downloaded the 2007 and 2007.1 PowerPack, 2007 and 2007.1 Free DVD, and the One cds, all more than once, and each time the md5's, the burn, the verification after the burn all say it's good, so to me that rules out bad download/media, same goes for 2008 RC1, but of course that is cooker, so . . . , but . . ., With the old kick meter now showing empty, and time running out, I just can't waste anymore time on this, I have reclaimed my HD space for Debian, and unfortunately said my farewells to Mandriva, Introducing all my Mandriva DVD's, and CD's to the hard sharp reality of the corner of my table (there's definitely a media problem now). I still find it strange how every other distro I have tried runs fine, but Mandriva not so, oh well, time to move forward and not look back. adamw, sorry, I never got to try that, even though I understand where you are coming from, the thought of just pokeing around at the console a bit never really inspired me :) Thanks to all who looked in, and gave advice/suggestions. [unsolved] pending release and installation of Mandriva 2008
  11. From Mandriva 2008 Timing buffered disk reads: 114 MB in 3.03 seconds = 37.64 MB/sec From Debian Timing buffered disk reads: 120 MB in 3.05 seconds = 39.40 MB/sec
  12. No. Who is this Quandd you speak of? ;) Will do when I next boot into Mandriva, although I have started to fear booting into it, it's so painful :( If it wasn't for the old as Methuselah packages in Debian Etch/Stable, that's where I would be.
  13. What !! ?? cue the twighlight zone music . . . do do do do, do do do do,
  14. KDE is all I used in Mandriva 2007/2007.1, and it was the same. I will however try xfce. Let you know how it goes.
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