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Okay... I didn't manage with the tablet, but I guess it's not that important considering that I don't use it to do any actual work and am pretty bad in drawing/graphics... But the "my-wireless-keyboard-receiver-thinks-he-is-a-joystick" is pissing me off. It really disturbs playing games that use a joystick, and especially those that lack the option to not use a joystick. For example in Trackmania Nations Forever (via Wine, works pretty good) the car turns right at race start unless you quickly hit some key on the keyboard. It's annoying because holding a key doesn't work and it always manages to turn a little bit and giving the opponent a headstart, which really does matter on more difficult tracks. So, is there any way to make the receiver realize that it is *not* a joystick? Or to remap it to js1 from js0, so that my actual joystick could be used as js0 (some games only use js0 even if other joysticks are available)?

Thanks for the reply, I've been busy for a few days and haven't had the time to try. I followed the instructions, but now the area where the pen is usable is limited to 1/4 of the size of the tablet... and drawing still doesn't work. I guess I did something wrong, but I don't know what.

Hello there. I'd need some help with my Aiptek 12000U tablet. I have the driver installed (I guess it's installed by default?), but I have no idea how to configure it. The pen works, I can point it and the cursor follows happily. But when I try to press it against the tablet to draw, nothing happens. I can't click with it, though I can use it to move the cursor and then click on the mouse button. But of course this is too difficult and there is no pressure detection, so it defies the point. I think the configuration is just off, but any tutorials I find with Google are way outdated. I haven't managed to get them to work. It seems I have to manually edit xorg.conf; can someone give me instructions for doing this correctly? Thank you. Then another, smaller problem. Mandriva detects my wireless keyboard and mouse adapter as a joystick: K Control Center says "Microsft Microsoft Wireless Desktop Receiver 3.1A (/dev/js0)". The pointer is way off, in the upper left corner. This causes problems with wine, and I can't use my actual joystick as it's js1 and most games seem to use js0. Is there any way to disable joystick or to switch the adapter to js1 from js0? Thanks. [moved from Hardware by spinynorman]

You should also add Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds Survivor to the list :) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=arti...games&num=1

Well, I heard from a new Fedora 8 user that he was having trouble with audio after switching from Ubuntu to Fedora, and had had no problems before the switch. He said that sound would work pretty randomly, he opens an audio player, sound works, closes it and after he opens it again, sound doesn't work. Uhm, would that mean that openSUSE and RedHat RPM:s would be compatible with Mandriva...? Anyway, can't wait to try out the new release in April... Mandriva just keeps getting better.

Well, if it gives you nothing that must mean you have none installed, which is exactly what you want at this point... But I ran out of ideas :/

All seems to be fine there... Are you sure you have uninstalled all of the fglrx packages with the package manager or urpme...? They might be messing up your new driver install. Mine didn't work with them installed, at least.

I'd like to see xorg.conf too... I don't know if I can find anything interesting there, but curious :P

Yup: I had the exactly same problem. Try removing the kernel-source package and installing kernel-desktop-devel package, or reinstalling it if already exists. That's what I did and finally got it working that way.

Could you post your /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log file here? It can tell a lot about what's wrong.

Now I'm very pissed. I finally had it working with 8.42.3 in October, but there was a funny thing yesterday: Mandriva Update told me there is a kernel update available, and I installed it. There was also a new release of fglrx yesterday, ATI Catalyst Linux 7.11. After installing the kernel I rebooted and tried to install the new ATI driver. But oh no: /usr/share/ati/fglrx-install.log said the kernel source include file versions were AGAIN mismatched compared to the kernel! I thought it could be a problem with the new driver, so I tried to install 8.42 again. It said the same thing. Also, the kernel-devel packages say they should be enough to build 3rd party drivers against the kernel, but without the kernel source package it complains there is no kernel module build environment! The kernel update obviously messed up the build enviroment again. So... I'd like some instructions to bypass this problem once more. EDIT: ROFL. I re-installed kernel-desktop-devel package for my kernel, which solved the module build environment thing, but still had no direct rendering. But then I did something unheard of: sudo aticonfig --initial and rebooted. Ta-da: everything works. Problem solved :D

Or you could run winecfg from Konsole/Terminal, choose tab "Drives" and change the drive letter from there... it might be an easier way :P And I love Mandriva too. :D EDIT: Just noticed my cdrom drive was set D: by default...

Ok now I messed up bad. On the Phoronix forums other people had the same problem, and one said that it was a conflict with older modules. So I removed the fglrx packages, and accidentally removed the dkms package too. Now I can't boot (well it boots, but then it just goes black, all of it. can't even use ctrl+alt+f1 or anything... stays black), and I need to be able to boot to safe mode, without X. But there has never been a safe mode option in my GRUB, I don't know why. So I need instructions how to set the kernel parameters (or whatever they were called) so that it boots to safe mode... so that I can urpmi the dkms package. EDIT: now I got it working, just all packages out and install, but there is one bug that is making desktop use very painful. Logging out produces the ****ING annoying black screen with nothing to be done. And this happens EVERY time I log out. That is, every time I shut down the X server. This is a bug listed on the release notes, but there it says it might happen 'sometimes'... and this happens on no other distro... that is, the earlier versions did this too on Mandriva, but I had no problem with any other distro.

Well, now there's some progress: 8.42.3 installs (using the 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv kernel, not 2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv, because got 2 Gb RAM now), but running glxinfo I get direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose) Works no differently with the test kernel... And in addition to that, after trying out the test kernel I now always get some kernel module build errors on nvidia drivers and such... though I wouldn't be using them anyway... and the build attempts take long, increasing boot time noticeably.

Actually when I still used Ubuntu 7.04 I had 8.41.7 installed, and it wasn't that unstable and it made an incredible performance boost with fixing Goole Earth and Call of Duty Multiplayer. Neither of those worked with 8.40.4. Nope, doesn't work, when setting my card to HD 2300 or later and pressing test it complains I have an incompatible kernel module (even without any other versions or packages of fglrx installed). Neither does that work, that's what I've been trying all the time. I just used the 8.41.7 installer to debug (fglrx-install.log told me what's actually wrong). If I uninstall all the fglrx packages, run the drakx11, let it install the packages, then it does work when trying "test" but when I log out and back in again, it gives me a segmentation fault on startup of any 3D-accelerated application... and OpenOffice doesn't work either. It gets a SIGSEGV with the backtrace seeming to have something to do with display stuff. Is the updated kernel package already out...? If not when will it be released...? And as I did run make mrproper following the instructions of some old article talking about configuring kernel source (which I just can't find anymore :D), what should I do? Thanks for replying.

Now I've tried even more stuff: re-installed kernel to make the Error: kernel includes at /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv/build/include do not match current kernel. they are versioned as "" instead of "2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv". disappear. Well, now it doesn't find the version.h, because it simply isn't there. If I copy it there from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ it disappears when I log out and back in again. And if I try to install the driver when it's still there, it complains the same thing: includes are versioned as "". Please help me, I don't want to reinstall...

Oh, yeah, sorry forgot that :P Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "ATI Radeon X1300 - X1950" Driver "fglrx" Option "DPMS" EndSection EDIT: Ok now I think I have an idea what's the problem; I once tried to get 8.41 working because of some bugfixes and performance improvements over 8.40, but it always gave an error when testing. Then, I think, I removed all the fglrx packages (all, both 8.40 and 8.41), and after that the problem has started. After that I've tried to install 8.41 with the .run installer, which complains in fglrx-install.log [Message] Kernel Module : Trying to install a precompiled kernel module. [Message] Kernel Module : Precompiled kernel module version mismatched. [Error] Kernel Module : No kernel module build environment - please consult readme. So I would have to install kernel source or headers, right? Well, I can't find the headers, and shouldn't it be able to install in an environment without them, as originally the source was not installed but the drivers were? But I think that somehow it can't, and after installing the kernel source the installer still complains that Error: kernel includes at /lib/modules/2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv/build/include do not match current kernel. they are versioned as "" instead of "2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv". you might need to adjust your symlinks: - /usr/include - /usr/src/linux [Error] Kernel Module : Failed to compile kernel module - please consult readme. And I can't find instructions to configure the kernel sources(so that I could make it match the kernel version). That is, not to compile a new one. Some could someone help me to configure my kernel source so I could get my driver working? :)

@Greg2 Thanks a lot, I had looked at it, but because it the errors were totally different, I didn't try it. But as I installed the packages it works. Still, I wonder why it needs them; they were plugins after all. fglrx still not working, 2d stuff is okay but gives a segmentation fault on any 3d activity.

Well, I don't have the option to enable it in the first place; it says that my system doesn't support it... So it is disabled. EDIT: After removing and re-installing the fglrx packages, the driver works; to some extent. 3D acceleration still doesn't work, for example running glxinfo or glxgears returns a segfault. 3D is enabled in driver options. EDIT2: Another thing that really has nothing to do with this one - I just don't want to make extra topics - is that I just can't get Eclipse working. First I tried to install it, chose the j2sdk-ant -package when asked, downloaded a hell of a lot other packages, and then it complained that some packages conflicted with j2sdk-ant. Then I uninstalled all that I had installed earlier with j2sdk-ant, and chose the ant -package installing Eclipse. Well, It did install, but I get a long error message when I try to use Eclipse: No idea how to fix.

Hi, I was using fglrx 8.40 with XGL to run Compiz Fusion, but as 3D applications don't work with XGL, I switched the 3D-desktop off. Everything went okay, until I switched the 3D-desktop on. I tried to log out, but I got a black screen with only one _ on the top left, and nothing worked, except Ctrl-Alt-Del, which rebooted the computer. Even Ctrl-Alt-F1, -F2... didn't work. Then, after reboot, the screen was only some 10 cm in width and height, and resolution was something never seen before. Ctrl-alt-f6 and then I run XFdrake, chose avivo (I've got an R570 -chipset), and avivo works fine enough. But I can't get fglrx working, it just gives me the black screen with _ on top of it, and I can't get anywhere from there. I've tried to uninstall and reinstall all fglrx packages, but that didn't help. I'd like to get fglrx working again, because though avivo works perfect in 2D use, I'd like to be able to have 3D acceleration. I use Mandriva 2008 One. Thanks, anyone

XGL probably causes it; I have to use XGL to use Compiz Fusion and then I lose my options too. Has nothing to do with Gnome or KDE, I think, because I once had both installed and lost the shutdown options from both when using Compiz (with XGL).

Hi! I'm having some trouble with the newly downloaded Mandriva One 2008. I first burned it on a CD-RW, the burning went fine, and the .iso md5 checksum matched the one found on the mirror. Still, when trying to boot the CD, I got something like this (impossible to say accurately, it doesn't keep these visible long enough for me to write them up on paper): ACPI WARNING: Incorrect checksum in table [(put something here) along with some errors having something to do with processor_core, saying they are not found. They were ACPI errors, too. After those I got a long list of hard drive IO errors. After that, it still tried to boot, and got stuck while just showing the cursor and nothing else. I thought it might have been an error in the burning process, and I burned it on another disk (DVD-RW this time, I wanted to test if it the other disk was damaged), and no; all went well while burning but then again at booting it gave me the ACPI errors. The hard drive errors were gone, and now it went up and I'm writing this using the One cd (haven't installed it yet). Now the ACPI errors seem to cause nothing, but delay the booting a little bit, and I want to know what causes these errors and if they can make my system instable before installing. These errors have not appeared on any other distro (openSUSE, Ubuntu) nor with the 2007.1 release. My processor is Intel Core 2 Duo E6300, motherboard ASUS P5LD2 SE. Someone willing to tell me what causes these? :unsure: EDIT: A stupid question, but how can you launch the Compiz Fusion settings manager? I can't find it... :D

Uh, yeah I just meant that I won't install this before its the final release, I don't want to mess up my current stable linux installation :D and on top of that, I wait for fglrx 8.42, so I don't have to use XGL for Compiz Fusion (I have a r500 -chipset, so there's no opensource driver for it yet) :P I, too keep checking distrowatch and phoronix for news on either Mandriva 2008 or fglrx 8.42 :P EDIT: Whoops, I replied to the wrong message xD Now fixed the quote...

Sounds like the driver's installation process also destroyed the previously used driver... You can check if you have 3d acceleration at all by typing glxinfo | grep rendering in the konsole... (or terminal if using Gnome) Were you installing the drivers via rpm or from a .run -file (don't know how nVidia packs them, ATI:s driver-installers are in .run format)? If the latter, then it's possible you didn't have the needed dependencies (kernel source / headers, etc.). I don't really know how this goes with nVidia... it doesn't say it needs any packages on the nVidia website, but I'd think it needs the kernel source or headers. Check if you have installed them... Here's some howto on how to install the drivers... http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Instal...rake.2FMandriva There also seems to be a part that tells how to remove a failed install.

I tried the RC2, and liked it a lot. 2007 Spring didn't fully support my hardware (wireless usb-stick and sound didn't work), but on this release they both worked perfect. I too hope the final release will be out soon... can't wait for Compiz Fusion ^^