AussieJohn

I too support Pauls suggestion. What a sad state in Linux history. It seems that a lot of former staff from Mandriva have already signed on to the fork so I think that is an excellent start and a good pointer to future success. Hopefully this will also attract other former Mandriva people, users, contributors etc. This is one of those times I feel totally helpless in not having any in depth Linux skills to help push things along but I will continue to try and help newcomers where I can. I am not about to leave for some other OS. Cheers. John.

Thanks Willie. What you describe is close to what I normally usually experienced. Thanks Keith. That is also what I normally experienced, but I found that a lot of the time I was able to drop the icon at the panel end I preferred if I hovered over the panel for a short instant longer or something like that. Of course you will have noticed that as you did the drag, that it was an icon of the application that you had selected. In this present problem there is NO icon change to the pointer as you try to drag, indicating that the drag function does not seem to be working so therefore there is nothing to drop. Weird huh ???. Cheers. John.

Thanks Willie. Yes I have done so, so that is not the problem unfortunately. One thing I have noticed in particular is that when I click on and hold to do a drag, the pointer does not change. There is no indication that it has grabbed anything at all so obviously there is nothing to drop. I am wondering if there is some sort of permissions problem but I cannot see any. Cheers. John.

I have done a clean install of Mandriva-Spring (i586) on a completely reformatted 320Gb WD drive. I can set up a panel on the left side of screen OK. What I cannot do is drag and drop icons on either of the two panels (usual bottom and the added side) as I usually can do. I can drop widgets OK, but that is not what I need/want. When I was trying out the 64 bit Spring, I had no such problem. Any ideas anyone, Please. Cheers. John. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Hello CxOrg. You are to be congratulated on your patience and doggedness in fixing your problems. You are to be even more commended in the way you have detailed all that you did, tried and succeeded with. This is must be tremendously helpful to anyone else in seeking solutions to similar problems. It is just a shame that no one was able to assist you at all but that is the way the cookie crumbles. Great stuff. Cheers. John.

No problem, Camorri. I am glad it helped you out. Cheers. John.

When installing 2010-Spring, to be able to install the nvidia drivers you need to place a tick in the non-free line in MCC software handler. In prior versions of Mandriva that was not necessary. Cheers. John.

Hello M_R, I presume you are referring to the OpenGL Screensavers ???. If you are then it is because you most likely using a generic video driver which has no 3d acceleration. You need to install the Mandriva supplied driver from your Video card maker e.g.Nvidia, or install the driver obtained from the Video company (which is not really necessary most times.) To access the card driver you need to make sure to tick the Non-Free in The MMC Software Install/Remove. Then go to the MCC Hardware then Setup the graphical Server. Next click on the Graphic Card bar and in the sceen presented, double click on the highlighted line . This will open another window . At the top you should see a message saying a special driver is available and do you want to install it (or words to that effect). Do so and let it do its thing. When it is done, log out and back in and you should find that all the OpenGL related Screensavers now work. I hope this helps. Cheers. John.

Thanks to keithp over in Mandriva forum, as we would say in Australia.. "your blood is worth bottling". Thanks heaps and heaps and heaps. He came up with the recommendation of (as root) going into /usr/share/hplip/data/models/models.dat. In <models.dat> look for the line [photosmart_b109a_series] and changing it to read [photosmart_b109a-m] and saving the change. Making that change makes the <models.bin> entry exactly the same as the one in2010-official which has always worked normally. I wonder why it was changed along the line ??. Me thinks a little stuff up by someone, but I could be wrong. The scanner worked immediately after the change. The printer required logging out then back in and running the procedure in MCC.....Hardware....Printer Setup and away we went. Now I have Full Printer/Scanner functions once again. Cheers and thanks to him again. John.

Hello Ian. There is no error message when setting up. There is just no printer of any kind shown. The printer page has no printer icon or any icon, the page is basically blank apart from the toolbars etc. Regarding the scanner, when the xsane icon is pressed, the normal pop-up "scanning for devices" occurs and then fades out. Nothing more happens. No messages, nothing. I have even bought a new USB cable today just in case it might have been due to something weird happening caused by the original cable. Now I have a spare USB cable :) This has been a wasted 3 day exercise (day and Night). It seems like I am running in circles. In the past, with earlier versions of Mandriva, when the printer was first switched on after a new clean install, a popup window would say it had detected a printer, a device, and ask to start installing the drivers etc. This does not happen with 2010-spring. Nothing happens. That is why I do not believe it to be a driver problem but rather a hardware or usb detection problem. The drivers cannot be the problem surely if the device is not even detected in the first place. At least that is my understanding of how the system works. Isn't hardware detection done during the boot-up process ??. If no device then drivers are irrelevant and can do nothing. This problem does not occur in 2010-official. The two, 2010.0 and 2010.1, are on different hard drives and both are WD sata II. 2010.0 is on a 160Gb drive and 2010.1 (spring) is on a 320Gb drive and newer than the other. Everything else is common to both OSs. What are some of the packages that are involved in hardware detection, please, so I can work on the problem from that angle. Cheers. John

Hello Speedball. Yes, every package that should be installed is installed exactly the same as exists in the 2010-official install that works, including the ones you mentioned. I do think the problem is with whatever package or packages that are supposed to detect the Printer/Scanner device in the first place. Cheers. John.

Hello Speedball. Yes, every package that should be installed is installed exactly the same as exists in the 2010-official install that works, including the ones you mentioned. I do think the problem is with whatever package or packages that are supposed to detect the Printer/Scanner device in the first place. Cheers. John.

The installer routine appears to be screwed up in both 2010.0 and 2010-spring. I have a feeling that Mandriva is distracted at the moment and not paying as much attention to fixing mistakes made as distinct from bug fixing, but thats for discussion somewhere else. My solution was to download the bin file directly from Google and it downloaded into Downloads. If you download it into a different place then transfer it to Downloads so it will be easier to follow my directions. Open Konsole ....type su....press enter then type your password then press enter again. Type in....... ls /home/(your user account name. mine is john, naturally)/Downloads....press enter. This will show the name of the bin file you had placed in Downloads. Press the up arrow key and it will show the line you had earlier typed in. Change the ls to cd so it now reads .....cd /home/(your user account name.)/Downloads.....press enter. Type in ......sh GoogleEarthLinux.bin.......(easy way is to type in the first 3 or 4 letters of the title you saw earlier and press the tab key, this will complete the title for you.) Now press enter again and it will do the install. When completed you will find Google Earth in Menu under Internet. You will also likely find an Icon on your desktop. Hope this makes it easier for you. Cheers. John.

I have clean installed Mandriva2010-Spring three times at least so far and have been totally unsuccessful in installing this Printer/Scanner device either in printing or scanner mode. It works perfectly in my Mandriva2010.0-Official that I use for my working OS and has done so for the Past 6 months. Until I can fix this problem I am not changing over. No matter what I try, the device seems to be invisible to 2010-Spring...i.e., it is not detected at all. I have tried all the many suggestions at Mandriva but none of them makes any difference. I have even carefully noted all the packages that are in 2010-Spring are similar to those in 2010-official. It seems to be a detection problem but I do not know where to look in that regard. A week ago I just completed a clean reinstall of my Working OS, Mandriva2010-Official, and for a day or so I thought I had the same problem but strangely it seemed to correct itself and I was able to install both the printer and scan functions. I thought it might have been a cable problem but that seems not to be the case since I have moved the cable many times and the printer/scanner still works perfectly but not when I go into 2010-Spring. The suggested solution of using my browser to connect to Cups via <http://localhost:631> to install doesn't work either. It brings up an error message Any ideas please, are welcome. (Note: I have posted this problem in the Mandriva Forum earlier) Cheers. John. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Hello vampire, and a big warm welcome to MUB. I am not sure that it would be a driver problem since your Machine is not very old and not excessively new. I would suggest that you may have a defective burned Disc. Try burning a new disc but be certain to do it at the SLOWEST speed available and check it against the Checksum. Then let us know if that makes a difference. Cheers. John.

Hello Flongbox. Welcome to MUB. Did you burn the ISO to the dvd disc or did you simply copy it to the dvd. From what you say in your post it seems that you may have unpacked the iso and placed all the rpms in a folder or partition of the hard drive. I think you may be thinking Windows style install. Please give us a more detailed description of everything you did after downloading the ISO so we can more clearly see where you may have gone wrong. Remember, the Windows way of doing things is not the LINUX way of doing things even though using Linux may seem to be similar to use as Windows. Cheers. John.

Update. Problem solved. I found that by going into Appearance then into Style then into Tuning then into Graphical Effects and selecting.....High Display Resolution and High CPU.....Logging out then back in, now all the images in all 4 Picture Frames are now Ok. So that is one problem out of the way. Just 2 more to go. :) Cheers. John.

Some further info. I set up so I can boot into root. I find that I can leave and reboot or log out as normal but cannot do the same from my account. Seems the problem is with my account. Since that is the case, what I don't understand is why so when I have not changed anything from the defaults. And since /home (a separate partition as recommended good practice) has been reformatted each time I did the clean installs there obviously cannot be any carry over of some kind of setting from the previous install. All I have ever done is use MCC to get rid of the Guest account but never touched permissions or anything in relation to my account. Cheers. John.

Hello all, thanks for coming in on this and it is greatly appreciated. The attached images are in KDE4's Plasma "Picture Frames". The apparent size differences are of no consequence since the Frame sizes can be varied but are approximately the same anyway. The seeming difference is the result of my not precisely selecting the same area for the snapshots.These are NOT full screen snapshots. As I mentioned earlier I have gotten the same results on 3 clean installs of 2010-Spring and have never gotten the problem with 2010.0 ever and that includes a clean reinstall I did 2 weeks ago of my 2010.0. I just remembered something. In my 2010.0 I had no trouble installing the Mandriva Nvidia supplied driver so have not needed to install Nvidias' proprietary driver, ever. However The Mandriva supplied nvidia driver for 2010-Spring could never ever be made to work so I resorted to installing the Nvidia proprietary diver to get things to work. Otherwise I had to resort using "nv", so no hardware acceleration etc., meaning no OpenGl things like my favourite screensaver , Euphoria, to name just one item, or mahjongg-3D to name another. The problem does appear to be a Mandriva problem with KDE4 in 2010-Spring because my chosen settings in the 2010's is identical. After another closer look at the Wallpaper backgrounds it appears that they are OK after all in 2010-Spring and it is only the Picture Frame images that are effected. Since I have a 24" screen, I have 4 Picture Frames set up with one in each corner so one can see most of the background wallpaper as well. So three Points: First...Cannot get the Mandriva supplied nvidia driver to work...necessitating installing the nvidia proprietary driver. Second....Cruddy reproduction of images in Picture Frames. Thirdly...Every update is installed and up to date. Cheers. John.

Click on "Leave" either from the desktop right click menu or from the Menu button, opens the pop-up menu appears. Clicking on any of the selections such as Logging out or Reboot closes the Menu but produces no result. To achieve either choice requires doing Ctrl+Alt+F2. This problem existed in 2010.1-rc2 so I was amazed that it still existed in the final release. As with the other 2010-Spring problem in another post, this problem has appeared in all three clean reinstalls. I have no such problem with 2010.0 Please, any ideas anyone ???. Cheers. John. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

In 2010-Spring I have set it up the same style as my 2010.0 working system. I have the same Nvidia driver installed in both OSs and image settings are the identical. You can see from the two screen shots that one is very poor quality (the one in 2010-Spring) and the second one is Normal and AOK (2010.0). All the images in 2010-Spring Picture Frames and the desktop wallpapers suffer this same ugly effect. I must point out that the images are from the same folder and used by both OSs. I have done 3 clean reinstalls of 2010-Spring with a clean /home each time and still get the same results. All updates are installed to this date. Has anyone else encountered this problem and does anyone have suggestions as to what might be causing it in 2010-Spring ???. Cheers. John. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Have you tried using Totem (Movie Player) or VLC or Dragon Player ???. Do you get the same result ???. If one of them works OK then why bother with mplayer ?. :) Cheers. John.

su then enter password. urpme --auto-orphans. Read carefully through the list before deleting anything. To remove anything from the list that you think should not be deleted, press the i key ( This allows you to edit the list. i as in insert) then use the arrow keys to move to the line you want excluded from the list and remove the line by means of the back space key. When done, press the Esc key then type :wq then enter. type a lower case y then enter. Cheers. John.

I am pleased it helped. Cheers. John.

I think it s telling you that it has a problem with a Windows partition which is shown as fat32. I had a similar problem just recently. The Windows partitions were corrupted and Mandriva trys to fix it during the boot up. Fortunately it was on another drive so I was able to temporarily disconnect it and after that I removed the reference to it in fstab. Rebooted with no problems after that. Reconnected the HD and since I had no important data on that HD, I wiped the disc completely and reformatted it to its original layout using the Mandriva Control Centre. It has worked AOK ever since. I don't know if you have Windows installed on your particular drive, but if you have and Windows is still working on it, it doesn't mean that Mandriva is at fault, because Windows is so sloppy technically that it often ignores problems and just moves on until it gets so bad that you get the famous BSOD. I hope this helps. John.