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  1. install mandriva on win7

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    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

     

    A disk may contain up to four primary partitions (only one of which can be active), or three primary partitions and one extended partition. In the extended partition, the user can create logical drives (i.e. create the impression that there are several smaller-sized hard drives).

  4. Epson Stylus NX420 continuously feeds paper

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by David Batson

    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.

  5. Epson Stylus NX420 continuously feeds paper

    in Hardware

    Posted

    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

  6. forum?

    in Mageia

    Posted

    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:

    Commencing Wednesday 1st October 2008, phpBB 2.0.x download links will be removed from the download page at phpBB.com. Anyone wishing to obtain phpBB 2.0.x can continue to obtain the 2.0.x package at sourceforge.net.

     

    Commencing Thursday 1st January 2009, phpBB 2.0.x will be formally retired, and support will no longer be actively provided for 2.0.x. Converting from 2.0.x to 3.0.x will continue to be supported.

     

    Security patches, if required, will be provided until Sunday 1st February 2009.

    http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=900655

     

    Mandriva's official forum does not show forward thinking...

  7. Mandriva Spring 2010 released

    in Portal News

    Posted

    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:

  9. Crashes playing Flash videos

    in Audio and Video

    Posted

    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.

  11. saving film from a livestream

    in Audio and Video

    Posted · Edited by David Batson

    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.

  15. install gnome if I have kde already

    in Software

    Posted

    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.

  18. Monitor stuck in 800x600 mode

    in Hardware

    Posted

    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?

  20. Monitor stuck in 800x600 mode

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by David Batson

    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

  22. Mandriva2010.1-beta

    in Cooker

    Posted

    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.

  24. Get Cyberlink Remote working w/ Mandriva & Fedora

    in Tips and Tricks

    Posted · Edited by David Batson

    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

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