Chris H

The rpm and the standalone tarball both work for me until I make changes to cascades, then it bombs out. :sad:

Happened to me with Gnome. Post maybe help.

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...ice+gnome+icons

You don't need it in the repos. Just untar it to a directory and run the binary.

It's up to a stable 1.0 release now and is working remarkably well.

BTW the kde4 package of quanta is an empty (dummy) package. I think quanta hasn't been ported to kde4 yet, I might be wrong of course about the porting part but I am certain the quanta package in kde4 is an empty package : )

Indeed it is. Has caught me out before but never again!!

Sort of sorted.

The menu launcher was pointing to /opt/kde/usr/bin

The file was in opt/kde3/usr/bin

:huh:

Spooky!

£$%$%&%^&^£%£$^$%

It's gone, me quanta is gone I tell ya.

The applications menu lists it but I get a box pop up with "Could not launch menu item, Failed to execute child process "quanta" (No such file or directory)"

Nowt in /usr/bin either.

:huh:

Any ideas?

It means that compiz hasn't selected the wndow manager, whcih controls the 'frame' round windows.

There is a command line to use but I can't remember it, maybe someone else can.

Otherwise install fusion-icon and then run it. You'll get compiz running with a blue icon in the systray. Right click on that and then you can select the window manager, emerald, metacity or kwin depending on your desktop.

As above

Ie just installed gOS and found it to be exceptionally easy to install and use for non-techie people. After that it all went downhill though!

Not a good move, not a good move.

If it wasn't for Adam's hat-tip about a kernel balls up being fixed by Mandriva I wouldn't even be here now, likely still over at pclinuxos. And how many others through the linux forum world has Adam helped?

At a time when you need the customer interaction to retain business and customer base is this really the right thing to do?

Hmph.

Anyways, best wishes for the future Adam!

Thanks for the info Ian.

As it happens it did finally detect my phone via usb just before I left for work after an hours tinkering. Will bear the things to check in mind if it goes awry again.

Yesterday they worked fine, today when I plug in a usb device ( phone, mp3 player ) mandriva wo't detect it. No desktop icon ( gnome ), nothing in places, nothing.

Have rebooted and also logged in using kde but still no joy.

Any ideas?

Press scroll lock.

Cheers, will try it next boot.

The ati driver has never worked good for me with anything other than a plain desktop. Add stuff like compiz and it goes like a dog. Intrepid Ibex runs like this, hence my wanting to load fglrx and toasting the installation.

No 3D? glxgears gives me about 1500fps which is par for the course with this chipset.

The other thing that the ati driver didn't help with was hibernation/suspend. Would never work unless fglrx was loaded. Mind you, yet to get suspend working with anything other than debian based distros, but that's another post :D

Laptop is a Uniwill something, AMD 64-bit athlon 3400+, 1Gb RAM, ATI M9700 chipset.

Just rummaging through me xorg.conf file and find that the driver is actually ati and not fglrx as I'd assumed.

I am stunned as I've never had this level of functionality out of the ati driver before.

Amazing, truly.

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Thanks for the advice all!

The issue caused by installing intrepid ibex reminds me of how functional my mandriva install actually is.

So I think I'll try and find the error message which I see by pressing esc during boot and see if I can fix it.

So how do I access what whizzes past on the screen during boot?

Ta.

Both the vmlinuz and initrd.img in the boot directory and referenced in grub aren't linked to anything. Shouldn't these be linked to something??

Ignore the above for now, need to find out what the errors are first!!

What's the best way to find the information that's generated during boot?

Had a go with Intrepid Ibex on me spare partition, didn't like it and decided to write Mandriva's grub setup back to the mbr using the mcc.

However, there are errors occuring on boot.

Is there an easy way to reinstall or redo the whole grub setup from scratch?

Ta.

Edit. I think I may have misunderstood you here Chris, I see from a post on the other forum that there now seems to be some difference between kdesu su and su - . This is news to me. Anyway to cut a long story short su - does absolutely nothing. You have to start a root terminal and then launch the program that you want a root instance of in order for anything to work. PS I do hope the people at Mandriva are not going to cripple it with this nonsense, that is why I stopped using Ubuntu with their insistence on that sudo crap.

su and su - have always been around. Putting the - after it just means that you are in the environment for that person, ie ~/ goes to the root directory not to thr directory of the person you were. It also means that some environment settings and paths are available to you that maybe weren't just as su.

Sometimes things work with it, sometimes it's not needed.

Already have, but KDE4 is just too cpu intensive for my hardware.

Solved!

Kept getting error messages from evince - Too many failed attempts, something about authorisation, etc.

Turns out to be a line in the /etc/cups/printers.conf set to "AuthInfoRequired No"

:P

Well done for figuring it out.

Now you need to recreate your user profile or create a new one.

I should add that the elusive print jobs don't even make it as far as the queue. No extra disk activity, nothing, just preparing printing info box and that's it.

Oh, and this was the disk where the printing system wasn't installed by default and I had to add it later via urpmi. Maybe a package missing that should have been loaded.

Just done it again on a fresh install from lxf mag's mandriva disk.

Installing three extra openoffice.org-styles has again solved it.

Spooky.

Fairly fresh and up to date install 2009/kde/gnome

Have discovered that I can't get any print output from Firefox or the PDF document viewer.

Works fine with the test print from cups or openoffice.

A browse on the interweb suggests a printer variable maybe not set in my environment.

Any ideas?

Currently printing as pdf and opening in openoffice to print :P