qandd

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

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]

It works fine for me, 2008 under KDE.

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.

Public torrents for 2008 are becoming available

http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/

but, there is a bit of a problem,

Indeed, there's a problem with the Free torrents. We're fixing it now, it should be okay in a few minutes. The One torrent is okay. Sorry for the error.

http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/Ma...eeders_2008_one

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

but if I had to bet on it, I would say it will be as slow as

I'm glad I'm not the betting kind, I would have done my money :P

Early seeders just got the word. I started, but it's still a bit slow to download.

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.

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.

That would be, Right Click on Desktop - Create New - Link To Device

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.

how about if you boot to runlevel 3 - *no* X started at all, just poke around at the console a bit...is it still slow then?

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

Quandd, check your disk speed with hdparm:

 

# hdparm -t /dev/<insert drive for root partition>

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

Does gnome-system-monitor show *what* is using all that CPU?

No.

Quandd, check your disk speed with hdparm:

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 :(

Hehe... then give RHEL/CentOS or Debian stable a try.

If it wasn't for the old as Methuselah packages in Debian Etch/Stable, that's where I would be.

tried xfce, same deal :(

He probably missed your reply back in 2005 which had solved his problem.

I'm also impressed on how he could possibly miss such a clear-cut reply...

What !! ??

cue the twighlight zone music . . . do do do do, do do do do,

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.

Thanks all, thing is for me, it was exactly the same with 2007 and 2007.1, I just gave up on them, thought I would try 2008, but it's the same, I realize that with cooker/RC's, you maybe shouldn't expect to much, but like I said, it's the same for me with 2007 and 2007.1, and I used to use KDE then, not Gnome as I do now .

I just booted into 2008 RC1, but just couldn't use it, and booted back into Debian. Funny thing is, Debian (sid/unstable), is the most stable Distro I have tried.

Oh well, I'll try the next RC, and then the release, but I don't think anything will change, maybe Mandriva just doesn't like me :P

A few years back Mandriva (Mandrake actually) was my first experience with Linux, I have since changed distributions, but always check back to Mandriva every now and then, always try each new release. The problem I have, is that the last few releases, 2007/2007.1 and now 2008 RC1 (yeah I know, but) all have the same problem, they all run like crap for me, where as any other distro I try runs fast and smooth, over that time I've tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, PCLinuxOS, Sidux, and of course the distro I have been using for some time now, Debian (sid), they all run fine. My PC's, while not being bleeding edge, are certainly more than capable of running Mandriva, and I do not have any exotic or unusual hardware, I never have any trouble with hardware/hardware detection with any distor's.

With Mandriva things are just so slow and unresponsive, that I just can't be bothered using it, even things like just opening a directory are noticably slow. I have stopped and uninstalled Beagle, followed threads with recomended services/process's to stop etc, installed from the PowerPack, Free DVD, One CD, no difference, same result. Downloaded each a number of times, md5's always check out fine, the burns and subsequent verification by K3B are always fine, but it's always the same result, Mandriva runs like a Sloth, I just can't use it. This is not just isolated to 1 PC, it does exactly the same on both my PC's, both are similar, but not identical.

When I installed 2008 RC1, it was the same, as mentioned, I stopped, uninstalled Beagle, disabled various services/process's etc, all to no avail. Then one day I booted into 2008, and it was running fine, I thought, well this is good, so I decided to install the available updates, after that I rebooted, and it was back to it's usual slothful self, and has remained that way since.

[edit] it may have run fine for 1 or 2 days, before I decided to install the updates

Gnome system monitor shows CPU usage while the PC is idle, anywhere from 10% to 99%, whereas at the same time top will show things at maybe 1% to 3% at idle, which is roughly what I will get with Debian, although Debians Gnome System Monitor will also show the same 1% to 3%.

So has anyone got any suggestions of what it could be, or what I could try to get Mandriva to run properly, I would like to try 2008 when it is released.

Posted Nov 2 2005, 07:58 AM

Posted Today, 08:11 AM

:blink: , That's like nearly 2 years, I am absolutely astounded, and suitably impressed.

You Sir, are an Oak, and worthy of the highest praise, I bow at your feet, and wish I had but a small part of your resolve, or whatever else it is you have. More power to you

For any fellow Australians out there, Mandriva should now have more of a presence in Australia.

Story

http://www.mandriva.com/en/company/press/p...rtner_ecosystem

Mandriva Linux Australia Web Site

http://www.mandriva.com.au/

digikam can't handle exporting them to another file format, unfortunately.

Yeah it can, mine does anyway. You may not have the plug in or something?

Do you have the kipi plugins?

I am using digikam 0.9.2 on Debian sid

It can do the following

Portable Bitmap Image

PCX Image

Portable Graymap Image

X BitMap Image

Truevision Targa Image

PNG Image

Portable Pixmap Image

JPEG Image

X PixMap Image

Encapsulated PostScript Image

BMP Image

JPEG 2000 Image

SGI Image (RGB)

TIFF Image

You know, I've only been using Linux for couple of years [give or take] starting of with Mandrake, just before it became Mandriva, and to see the transformation that it has made in that short time is quite amazing, and not just in the OS/Distro's themselves, which is amazing in it's own right, but the acceptance that Linux has, is gaining, things like this, and more offerings of Linux pre-installed on PC's etc, it all bodes well for the future I think.

adamw, is there going to be an early seeders program for the 2008 release, I know the last one was a bit of a, well, not the best, but will there be?

I have missed out on the last couple, by the time I found out, it was to late, it was closed. How can I be sure not to miss out this time around, if there is to be one, without being a regular visitor of the official forums? Any chance of an Email mail out to club members, alerting them to the fact that Mandriva is now accepting submissions for early seeders or something?

Thank You

Thank you for trying, I'm quite happy with having to do the nfs-kernel-restart dance, it's not much of an inconvenience, hell, I used put up with Windows for 7 years or so, this is heaven in comparison.

Linux Whatever flavour

Is there a guesstimate/release schedule for Mandriva2008, and could you kindly point me in that direction. I been looking on the Mandriva website, but I can never find anything there, well that's a exaggeration, but it is very unintuitive, at least for me.

Thanks