David Batson

Assuming you are talking about a single hard drive, you will need to remove one of the primary partitions, then create an extended partition with one or more logical drives within it. http://en.kioskea.net/contents/repar/partitio.php3

What if you try: xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x768 --rotate normal --pos 0x0 --output HDMI-0 --mode 1920x1080 --rotate normal --left-of VGA-0 --pos 1024x0

I saw this on the official Mandriva forum this morning. If John's suggestion doesn't solve your problem, maybe this thread will help. http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=132104

Only that sometimes the printer or the computer get out of whack with each other. Try rebooting the computer and turning the printer off and back on again. Make sure and allow enough time for everything to be fully loaded up, then try printing again. You might have to delete the printer in CUPS, then readd the printer and make sure you select the driver you just installed.

See if you have the following installed, or something similar: epson-inkjet-printer-nx420-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.i486.rpm You can enter the following command in terminal to find out: rpm -qa epson* You can get the above driver from: http://linux.avasys.jp/drivers/lsb/epson-inkjet/stable/RPMS/i486/epson-inkjet-printer-nx420-1.0.0-1lsb3.2.i486.rpm After downloading, right-click on the file in /home/~/Downloads/ Then choose "Open with Software installer". See the following: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-NX420_Series

Well, Mageia does have several ex-Mandriva employees aboard - likely still thinking like Mandriva the company. Those employees could very well be steering this decision not to use MUB. Heck, Mandriva's own forum is still phpBB version 2 which was retired by phpBB two years ago: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=900655 Mandriva's official forum does not show forward thinking...

Ahmad Samir posted an announcement in the official Mandriva forum that the non-free repositories will be installed with the Free edition, but they won't be enabled by default (new for 2010.1). You have to manually enable them in MCC if you want to use them. Something about the 'Free' philosophy. Myself, I'll be upgrading in about a month when I have cable modem service available. :lol:

Here is the thread I was talking about in my previous post. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=246920 Here is another. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=245615

I and some other users on another forum were having problems such as this only when running the flash videos full screen. Try running the flash videos in a window instead of full screen. It doesn't seem to be caused by the video card, as some users had nVidia and others ATI. Sorry, I don't have time to search for that other forum thread just now.

For Fedora 13 I had to run the following command to get LIRC to start at boot up. # chkconfig lirc on See the following bug report for additional information. According to that, I could have used /usr/share/lirc-remotes/devinput/lircd.conf.devinput to configure my remote. I have not tried this yet. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=600725#c5

Using the Opera browser, I usually just go to the cache folder in /home/~/.opera/cache/ and look for the large file to save. I rename it after saving it. For some reason, this method does not work so well in Windows though. There are also some Fedora rpm's I tried in the past with Mandriva to save youtube videos (don't need these rpm's if you use Opera). These rpms are abby and cclive. clive, cclive, and abby - .flv extactor Here is another related link: Can you download youtube videos? If so, how? EDIT: I should have read your post more carefully. I was writing about saving videos, not livestream feeds. I have not tried to save a livestream feed.

2010.1 is not out yet. There is some question of when exactly it will be released. Best guess is in a few days. There should be a 2010.1 Powerpack edition, but until 2010.1 actually comes out, it might be premature to say that definitively. http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=128843

As wobo points out in the following post, the CEO's statement is a repost of Vanessa Wall's statement (or maybe vice versa). http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?p=800866#800866 http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?p=800410#800410

FWIW, xbmc-9.11-1 is in the official contrib/backports repository.

AFAIK you install task-gnome. You can do this from Install & remove software (Software Installer in MCC). After rebooting, change your desktop environment to Gnome from one of the icons on the login screen. You should still have KDE (or other DE) there if you want to go back.

Maybe you'll find something useful here: http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9746/README/

Well, I am no expert, but I would be looking into KMS as I wrote in my previous post. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KernelModesetting#Detailed_Description

Just speculation. What if you add nomodeset to the kernel parameter boot line? This would disable KMS (kernel mode setting). Was /etc/X11/xorg.conf existing from the initial install or was something like system-config-display (Fedora) used to create it?

You might find this thread from the Fedora Forums useful. http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=244293

To enable S-Video (TV Out) on my system, I had to issue the following xrandr commands. I would imagine you need something similar (addmode and output). $ xrandr --output S-video --set load_detection 1 $ xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600 $ xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600 I also have the following in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105+inet" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "radeon" Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" Option "AGPMode" "4" Option "GARTSize" "64" Option "EnablePageFlip" "on" Option "ColorTiling" "on" Option "DPMS" "on" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection EDIT: The above xorg.conf was from Fedora 12 (previously edited Driver "radeon" to Driver "ati") with the same laptop I have Mandriva 2010 installed on. Below is the actual xorg.conf from Mandriva 2010 that I am using. # File generated by XFdrake (rev ) # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "False" # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort) #DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "glx" # 3D layer Load "dri" # direct rendering EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "Flat Panel 1400x1050" HorizSync 28.8-90 VertRefresh 60 # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" BoardName "ATI Radeon X1950 and earlier" Driver "ati" Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" Option "AGPMode" "4" Option "GARTSize" "64" Option "EnablePageFlip" "on" Option "ColorTiling" "on" Option "DPMS" Option "set load detection" "1" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1400x1050" "1024x768" "800x600" # Here you can set virtual screen size: Virtual 2800 1050 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" Screen "screen1" EndSection

See if the following is any help. http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/randr-2007-02-06-17-50 http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2 Three page guide: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=927 There is also something called monitor-edid. You might need to install that, or a newer version of it from backports. Don't know too much about it. http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Tools/monitor-edid

When using the propriatary drivers with ATI GPU's, the "test" graphics feature never worked for the last several releases AFAIK. However the driver worked fine. I would suggest trying to just not use "test" and see how it goes.

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=118236 Also: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205211

Edited post #2 above to include what is necessary to get VLC media player to work with lirc in Fedora 12. To get VLC to use the remote, start VLC with the following command: vlc --extraintf lirc It is worth repeating what I wrote in post #1 (edited for Fedora below). I had to do this in Fedora 12 after not using lirc for awhile. Likely an update caused the problem. If you have trouble getting the hexdump, try the following in terminal as root... # /etc/init.d/lirc stop # lircd -d /dev/input/event8 {lircd -d device [read from given device]} Now press the special keys such as Volume Up, Volume Down, Mute, etc. When done pressing each of the special keys, then enter the following in terminal as root... # /etc/init.d/lirc start Now the hexdump will hopefully work. Fixed it for me. EDIT: To edit the Fedora Gnome menu for VLC, install alacarte. After installing alacarte, go to > System > Preferences > 'Main Menu' and edit the entry for VLC Media Player by double-clicking on it, then set VLC to start with the following command: vlc --extraintf lirc %U

I just ran the manual update process (I do not have it set on automatic). I was surprised to see 380 packages - including KDE 4.3.5! I last ran the update process 3 days ago.