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RVD and Dan, that is also how I feel about 2009-kde, fullstop. My 2008-Spring works great. A couple of niggles but I will deal with them one at a time. I don't like Gnome and ever have done even though I try it each time in each version. Basically all KDE in 2009 is a great pain I can do without. I will play around with it but that is all. I think it will be 2009-Spring before I change from 2008-Spring. Cheers. John.

Thank you all for your input. Naughty Naughty Naughty Mandriva. If Ask made a deal then it would explain why most of the search results are about online retailers, something I, and I am sure a lot of other people can well do without. I did your suggestion Ian and I am back to normal again. Cheers. John.

Has anyone noticed that mandrivas updated Firefox in 2008-Spring and in the new 2009.official is using Ask as its search engine instead of Google ???. I have repeatedly tried it, and compared to Google it is a piece of garbage. Sure it comes up with search results but most seem to be for online retail sites. I went through pages and pages of Ask results that still didn't locate what I knew I had located readily in the past using Google. You can ASK but why waste your time ?. In the Mandriva-spring Firefox there is also no button anywhere that I can see to enable search for Add-ons, Extensions or Themes. Without it I cannot hope to find an extension for Google to get rid of this useless Ask, in particular. What is going on Mandriva ??. Is it a case that I selected Ask without knowing it ???. I really don't think so. Or has Firefox done a deal with Ask and dropped Google ??. I would be very surprised if that were the case since most of mozillas money comes from Google. What do fellow MUB members think ???. Cheers. John.

As far as I know, you are advised to install both. At least that is what I did in the past. If you were selecting kernel-source for just enabling Proprietary Nvidia video driver installing and not intending to compile a kernel then install kernel-development instead. It will still enable the driver install to take place. It is likely OK for ATI video cards as well but you would need to check or someone here at MUB can give you an answer here. Cheers. John.

Hello Creekpeople and Chris H. Chris H it was referencing to one of your other threads.....Either you did not read it or forgot it. QUOTE :- ¨ At this stage, regarding KDE4 I think you may have to read many of the KDE4 how-to files. It is all to do with Plasma and Plasmoids. smile.gif smile.gif smile.gif There may be someone who can detail it for you but you may have to wait a while. Cheers. John. ¨ Sorry I can´t be more helpful than that. John. :)

Hello Jim. I think you have just discovered the answer. All previous versions installed the basic printer packages and when the printer was detected it gave popup asking for permission to proceed which then downloaded the balance of the packages required for the particular printer. It seems that 2009 does not install those basic packages hence having to go into MCC. When one finally works out how to start or work the process (definitely not at all intuitive), only then does it start to install any printer packages. The entire process is a totally backwards step, back to the hard old days. Jim, I will keep that in mind for the future but I think instead that I will next time use Custom during install and make sure the basic packages are installed for printing in the first place. Cheers. John.

I have just installed the 64 version of 2009-Official. What I found was that the driver you need for NVIDIA must be a 64 version as well. This is why I wasn't able to install the Nvidia driver I had downloaded, it was a 586 version. Cheers. John.

I too now have the 64 running. No signs of anything really troublesome yet. I selected KDE instead of my usual Custom in the install so I have the KDE4 setup to give it a full tryout and see if it can win me over. Sound works no problem. Left Thumb Mouse Button works out of the box. [Why the heck an update in 2008-Spring can't be supplied to do so also, really beats me. It is a real pain in the a++e having to use the AdamW workaround (thanks Adam for that) each and every time I reboot.] One thing I am particularly NOT impressed with is the nonsense installing a printer. Reminded me of the pernickety setting up of printers back in versions 2006 and 2007. In 2008-Official and 2008-Spring the routine was almost automatic and almost no hands-on whatsoever. Immediately you switched on the Printer, you got a popup asking if you wanted the printer installed. You clicked OK and away it went. 2009 is a huge step backwards now regarding printers. I will take some of these thoughts into another new thread. Cheers. John.

I am not sure. As far as I know, I have. In the past, 2008-Spring, I just downloaded a single DVD iso that was listed. This time there is two DVD versions listed. Maybe they were combined in 2008-Spring and because of size restraints for DVD have now been separated. I seem to recall something about 2008-Spring that it would install what was needed, namely one or the other. I could be wrong on that, I really don't know. If the one I am downloading now (presently just past half way) doesn't work then I will simply download the other one. :D Cheers. John.

I am now downloading 2009 from Bigpond. It was posted about a half an hour ago. Download time expected to be 7.5 hours. It is the ....mandriva-linux-free-2009-dvd-x86_64.iso.....I presume this is the correct one for my Athlon 64X2 Dual-core 6400+ processor. Cheers. John.

If a drive fails while in raid one, Your system will still be complete in every single detail because in Raid 1 they are Mirrored to one another. There will be no need to pull out the good drive and put it in another Machine to read it. If a drive fails then close down and remove the faulty one. Go into the bios and disable the raid setup (this will not interfere with the data on the good disc). Close out of the bios and reboot. Your OS will boot up normally as if nothing had happened. When you get the new drive then close down again, install the drive, restart and go back into the Raid part of the bios and recreate the Raid1 to recommence the Mirroring. When it is completed then reboot up into your OS again. Regarding your Mainboard choice, I will gogle it and see what I can find out. Cheers. John. Have a look at the snapshot. It says you can setup Raid without the OS installed so you should be good to go.

See my answer to your other KDE4 related post. Cheers. John.

At this stage, regarding KDE4 I think you may have to read many of the KDE4 how-to files. It is all to do with Plasma and Plasmoids. :) :) :) There may be someone who can detail it for you but you may have to wait a while. Cheers. John.

You don't need to compile your own kernel. All you need to do is install the kernel-development that matches the exact version number of the kernel you are currently booted into. Then enter a console as root and type init 3. Then type in root and then root password. Type in cd /"where you have the Nvidia driver located" then enter (note the space after cd). Type in sh NVI (note the space after sh) then press tab and the driver should complete its name. Press enter and then follow through. When completed, type in reboot and press enter. Why make a simple process difficult when it doesn't need to be ?. Cheers. John. I just noticed that you are using 2009 so the above will likely not work. I have never been able to get the proprietary driver to install despite trying just about everything known. In 2009, even installing the Mandriva driver is useless. It installs but basically changes nothing and is thus more than useless. Gl screensavers and gl based applications such as mahjongg-3D just don't work. I have 2009-kde3 setup and not kde4 (the less said about it the better at this time). JB

G'day mate. Welcome back. John.

Hello Banjo. You mention a number of lib packages seemingly connected to lm-sensors and then later installing lm-sensors, before starting to get anywhere. All I have ever done during the OS installation is select lm-sensors and let the installation take care of installing whatever packages were required. The end result is that on rebooting, I just opened a console as root, typed in the sensors-detect and clicked enter all the way through. I need to reboot otherwise the lm-sensors semsors-detect thing (process) can't happen. No dramas no hassle. I suspect you made it much harder for yourself than it needed to be. I have used my routine for over something like 5 years (not totally sure...but a heck of a long time) and all the Mandriva version during that time. :D :D I am glad you finally got there though. Cheers. John.

Hopefully for me, Bigpond will have it up quite soon. They have been extremely quick in the past, especially with the recent beta and rc versions, so I am prepared to wait that little longer. Cheers. John.

Thanks David for your comment. I especially endorse the line...Quote :_ ."You can build the RAID without an OS installed." That is the most important point so far as I am concerned. Cheers. John.

Ianw. I am not a technical expert but I am not sure what you say is totally correct about Raid on Motherboards. The earlier Asus A7V-600-x I had, had on board Raid that could be truly described as hardware raid because the entire Raid setup was done solely within the Bios settimg mode, namely BEFORE booting up, with the result that the OS just installed as per normal with NO adding of drivers and so on because it just saw the Raid as a single Hard drive, therefore no complications. Purely technically it may still be software Raid but I think that would be hair splitting and only confusing the issue. To argue a point about fakeraid doesn't help anyone. When using Windows years ago I started with Promise Raid cards and used them for years, they were excellent and expensive. I learned a lot about raid in those days, even having to install drivers during the Windows install process before you could hope to successfully install the Windows OS. Then eventually the newer Promise Raid cards advanced that it was no longer necessary to install drivers during the OS installation. When I started using Linux the Raid aspect was a complete mess that I gave up using Raid until I started using the ASUS board I have mentioned and its predecessor. And never had a setup problem since until the present Gygabyte Board. In a Raid1 setup if a drive failed then you replaced it and re-entered the Bios Raid setup and had it mirror from the still operable Hard drive and when it completed you continued the boot up routine as per normal. No dramas and couldn't be any easier. The same cannot be said for software Raid. By the way, My drives were SATA on both Mainboards, and there was nothing slow about them in normal use in Raid1 mode using the ASUS board.. Replacing a drive and subsequent mirroring took a while but once done that was the end of it. The present board that I have is a Gygabyte MA790X-D94 and while it claims to have Raid capability, it really is a con because it requires a floppy (or CD) insertion of the Windows driver first before installing the OS. The same applys with Linux. So yes this Mainboard Raid is software raid. In fact I have emailed Gygabyte on this matter and made it perfectly clear that had I known this point, I would never have bought their product not withstanding the excellent quality, long Warranty and reliability of their product. So Xboxboy, I suggest you look for a Mainboard that has Raid along the lines of the Asus one and avoid the ones of the Gygabyte type. It means not making assumptions that all claimed Mainboard Raids are equal. That is how I got caught. I am led to believe that a lot of the Mainboard brands have the Ausis style of Raid so check them carefully first. The most important reason being that the ASUS type are not favouring of any OS whereas the Gygabyte favours the Windows OSs with supplied drivers, even though Linux can be installed with some effort using Linux Raid applications. Machines with excess of 512Mbs do NOT need anymore than 1Gb of Swap, regardless. In fact there is hardly any need for more than the 512Mb. Cheers all. John.

Sadly, in the digital world, three years is almost ancient. :lol2: :lol2: Cheers Banjo. John.

Welcome and congratulations ALRoss for keeping up an optimistic outlook. Just to reassure you a little.....It is highly unlikely though not totally impossible that in installing Mandriva that it damaged you Windows setup. We have all had those kind of doubts when we first started trying Linux for the first time after long use of Windows. You will have a very supportive crowd here at MUB to help make your transition Smoother. As you gain experience and confidence you will wonder why you didn't make the transition earlier but you will certainly be glad you did. Cheers. John.

Hello Banjo. If you go to your account and open Home in your new OS, and in Konqueror you set View (at the top) to show hidden Folders you will see .kde click on it and follow through to Share then Apps then Kmail you will see a folder titled Mail. Copy the Mail folder in your earlier OS and paste it into this same place as the new Mail, it will ask whether to overwrite......click yes. This detailed explanation is for any newer members since you obviously know about .kde thing. Log out then back in again and you should find all your old emails (received and sent) in place. You will however have to go through the setup procedure again for kmail again in your new os. If you can find a Kmail Folder in your old OS then copy and paste it into the similar Kmail in your new os and do the overwrite procedure instead of the above Mail one. This should not cause any problem. Certainly the .kde transfer from old to new WOULD cause a lot of problems considering the vast changes in KDE over the years. A good precaution is to go open kmail in your old OS and export your addressbook and such onto a usb flash drive as a backup to be ultra safe. Although I used 2006, that was a very very long time ago so I don't remember exactly how kmail was setup back then but I hope this info helps. Cheers. John.

I have had no problems installing libdvdcss into my test OS of 2009-rc2 (cooker). And it works. That is why I suggested it otherwise I would have said nothing. Of course there is no PLF in cooker and I made that clear by recommending using easy-urpmi to set up to plf-free, I don't think I could have made it any clearer. I used 2008-Spring for the repos. I can play dvd movies in both Kaffeine and also Totem. Just also make sure to install most of the plugins for xine as well since both these players use xine. Cheers. John.

You need to install .....libdvdcss......obtained from the website plf-free. This means setting up easy-urpmi first to connect to plf-free. Cheers. John.

Are you using KDE or Gnome ???. I am using KDE and Konqueror. I generally use default settings so there is nothing tricky or fancy going on here. By the way regarding the icon on the left of the title bar, left or right clicking on it does nothing for me at all. John.