David Batson

I installed the Java updates anyway without any problems I am aware of.

However, see the following: http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=115562

This works on my T42 ThinkPad in Mandriva 2009.1 KDE Powerpack edition.

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?p=688521#688521

You should apply your own advice to your criticism of Mandriva and it's employees. So far in this thread, you've flat out called a few of them liars, without valid reason. You've claimed they gave you the shaft, without even knowing what was going on behind the scenes.

I have been following this issue on four different forums. I have read lengthy threads on the MandrivaUser.de forum and on forum.mandriva.com (International), as well as shorter threads on forum.mandriva.com (French), and Mandrivausers.org. When you read all that has been said, you get a much better idea of what transpired.

"you've flat out called a few of them liars, without valid reason" Wobo contacted Anne at Mandriva by telephone offering MandrivaUser.de members to man the Mandriva booth at LinuxTag after Mandriva decided not to attend the booth themselves (MandrivaUser.de members had manned their own booth at previous LinuxTag events, but did not this year because Mandriva S.A. was to have their own booth). He was told she would contact him by the next day with a reply in the affirmative or not. Wobo has not heard from Anne since. This is a lie no matter how you cut it. A common one, but nevertheless a lie. Wobo was told that Mandriva did book a hotel for him in Berlin for Linuxtag (on the day before Mandriva cancelled), and they would give him the specifics later. He never heard again about this hotel room. Rightly wobo wonders why he was never given any specifics when they told him the room was already booked. While the room might have been booked, evidence points to the contrary. To the best of my knowledge, wobo was never even told which hotel was supposedly booked.

The whole episode looks shady when you consider "Nov. 2008 --> Mandriva (Vanessa Wall) asks wobo for help in organizing and operating a company stand at the Linuxtag 2009 in Berlin.", and Mandriva continued to maintain the event was on until June 19th - yet important event planning details were never given to wobo, such as hotel reservations details, and information that the CEO was going to attend. This information that the CEO was to attend did not come out until Mandriva said they were cancelling because the CEO had broken his leg and could not attend.

Wobo got the shaft when he did not receive replies to requests for necessary information. Wobo was told to book his own train ticket, and that he would be reimbursed (but has not been to date AFAIK). As things stood, if wobo did not go to LinuxTag on his own, I believe his train ticket would have been forfeit. Wobo got the shaft because he was going to attend LinuxTag whether Mandriva S.A. did or not. Wobo had to make a last minute hotel booking, perhaps not where he would have chosen, and not at the rate he could have gotten if he had made the reservation some weeks in advance on his own.

EDIT: Wobo's real beef is that Mandriva did not communicate with him so that he could make his own plans in a timely manner. Requests for necessary information was ignored. Guaranteed replies never came.

I installed kima, but I don't know whether to take it seriously or not.

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=33257

I haven't tried kima in 2009.1, but I did use it in 2007.1 and 2008.1.

I had a faulty fan assembly on my T42 ThinkPad after it was about 3 years old. The fan did run, but apparently not fast enough or else it was clogged. My T42 was under warranty, and the shop replaced it. Problem solved.

I used kima to monitor my temp. settings. I understand imsensors does this as well, but I believe I like kima better. In my case it was the GPU that was overheating, not so much the CPU. This I found out with kima. My laptop actually shutdown when the GPU reached about 98 deg. C. (a safety feature).

Other things that can cause a laptop to run hot (esp. the base) is the WLAN card and the Hard Drive.

They (someone) does make cooling bases for laptops so that your legs don't burn. My wife's nephew had one for his Sony laptop.

Here is a followup thread on the German forum MandrivaUser.de: Opinion MandrivaUser.de (Google translation into English)

Original: http://www.mandrivauser.de/viewtopic.php?id=25967&p=1

My comment was specifically about the last post from wobo, which to me looks like over-the-top childish revenge, the move of the mandrivauser.de communitiy to distance themselves from Mandriva is not what I criticised and is perfectly legitimate IMHO.

Wobo did attend the LinuxTag event at his own expense. Featured this year at LinuxTag were French Linux companies. Wobo states that many of their products were running on Mandriva at the event. Mandriva S.A. had paid 4200 Euros for a booth at LinuxTag and were on the program to be there. Mandriva put up on The Official Mandriva Blog, the day before, on June 18th, that they would be at LinuxTag and would be happy to answer questions. They pulled out the next day on Friday, June 19th, only stating that they would not attend because the CEO had broken his leg. They also removed their blog post on Friday. Wobo (aided by MandrivaUser.de forum members) offered to fill in and man the booth in their steed. Mandriva S.A. said they would decide the next day, but wobo never heard again from them about it. Wobo had been manning a MandrivaUser.de booth at LinuxTag for the last several years, so he knows the drill. Unfortunately, these events transpired too late to arrange for a MandrivaUser.de booth this year.

LinuxTag attendees who were not privy to the above news expected Mandriva to be at the event. When they discovered the booth Mandriva had paid for being occupied by other sponsors, naturally questions were raised. Wobo along with some others from MandrivaUser.de were at the facility wearing their shirts with the MandrivaUser.de logo on it. Many asked wobo directly why Mandriva was a no show. He gave the official answer that the CEO had broken his leg, so Mandriva decided to cancel. Many (including myself) find this answer a bit thin. Sure, the CEO might have broken his leg (which apparently is true), but why couldn't Mandriva use other employees man the booth and answer questions. As wobo said, no one knew the CEO was slated to attend until he cancelled.

Of course questions abound with "what really happened". Many, especially the reporters, are waiting for an update on this hot story. Many asked wobo personally to fill them in on any developments. He told them he would, so he obliged. Wobo is operating in the open, not behind closed doors. If anyone at Mandriva S.A. gave a care, they would have been communicating with wobo. Mandriva S.A. should have been on the lookout for any fallout from the sudden decision to withdraw from LinuxTag at the last minute. Mandriva really needs a PR person. I honestly believe if Adam W. was still at Mandriva, events would have unfolded differently. Adam W. understands PR. Apparently no one else at Mandriva S.A. does.

Mandriva S.A. has had more than a week to "set the record straight", but they are playing the ostrich, and waiting for the tempest to blow over. I also find it oddly coincidental that Mandriva decides to do website maintenance today. Hmmm.

MandrivaUser.de of opinion about the events at the German Linux Day 2009

 

The behavior of the company to the German Mandriva user community, as well as against its MandrivaUser.de administrator us to publish this opinion. This opinion goes to the following recipients:

International Mandriva Forum (in English)

DistroWatch (English, upon request of the operator)

Linux users (at the request of editor)

ProLinux (on request of the operator)

free magazine (at the request of the editor)

 

The following persons are those comments received by mail:

Hervé Yahi (Mandriva CEO)

Anne Nicolas (Technical Director Mandriva)

Vanessa Wall (Communications Manager Mandriva)

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...3D25899%26p%3D6

Sorry, Mandriva S.A. shot themselves in the leg. Wobo did not pull the trigger.

While I can understand that you are upset and that you wanted to cut your links with Mandriva, this is going way to far.

IMHO this is very childish revenge behaviour that doesn't benefit anyone other than your ego.

If I was a member of mandrivauser.de I would give up my membership after reading this.

Wobo did not make a lone decision here. This a consensus statement of MandrivaUser.de forum members discussed in a 6-page forum thread.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=e...3D25899%26p%3D6

Sorry for the typo, wobo. I edited my initial post to correct it.

The following repercussions stem from Mandriva SA's last minute pullout from LinuxTag and virtual cutoff of communication with wobo (Admin. MandrivaUser.de) with whom they were collaborating with.

I must say that IMO, Mandriva SA really dropped the ball here.

Public Statement of MandrivaUser.de

Statement of MandrivaUser.de about Mandriva's behavior concerning German Linuxtag 2009

 

The behavior of Mandriva (the company) towards the German user community MandrivaUser.de (short: MU.de) and the administrator of this community has caused us to compile and publish this statement. In this statement you will read the sequence of actions to understand the consequential measures from our side.

 

Timeline of the events:

 

Nov. 2008 --> Mandriva (Vanessa Wall) asks wobo for help in organizing and operating a company stand at the Linuxtag 2009 in Berlin.

Jan 2009 - March 2009 --> wobo compiles a calculation, advises on options. MandrivaUser.de decides to do without their own stand at the event to be able to help Mandriva. Mandriva is informed about this decision and appreciates it.

Early April 2009 --> wobo talks to Anne Nicolas and Vanessa Wall in person (at the Linux Solution in Paris). Both Mandriva employees agree on the necessitiy of the community's help. Both agree to pay for wobo's expenses. They state that Mandriva will do the hotel bookings.

Early April - Mandriva sends the application form for a stand to Messe Berlin

 

April - Mid June 2009 --> repeated mails from wobo to Vanessa Wall and Anne Nicolas, asking for information about the procedings. Most of these mails were not answered at all, others were answered with the promise to get back to wobo the other day - which never happened.

June 15th --> 8 days before the event Mandriva has not given any information to wobo about their plans for the stand nor about the status of the hotel reservation. Upon another mail from wobo he received an angry reply from Vanessa Wall, telling him to stop sending annoying mails, she will tell him when there are any news. Nothing more after this.

 

June 19th --> Mélody, an assistent to Vanessa Wall, sends a mail with 2 lines to wobo and Messe Berlin, Mandriva has to cancel their participation because the CEO has broken his leg. Nino Gruettke from Messe Berlin confirmed this.

June 19th --> wobo calls Anne Nicolas on the phone and offers to operate the stand in case no Mandriva employee is available. Anne promises to inquire and call/mail back the next day.

June 20th - 21st --> no contact at all

June 22nd --> Messe Berlin gives Mandriva a deadline for 2 pm the same day. wobo sends another mail to Amme Nicolas and Hervé Yahi.

June 22nd --> Messe Berlin sends a mail to Mandriva and asks for an official statement for the press

June 22nd, 3pm --> Nino Gruettke informs me that Mandriva has not replied to his mails and the exhibition space will be given to free projects.

June 22nd, 4pm -- > Vanessa Wall sends an official statement to Messe Berlin with the same words as before: Mandriva can not come because the CEO had an accident, nothing else.

June 22nd, 4pm -- > Vanessa Wall sends a mail to wobo, complaing about him being unfair to Mandriva, making all that noise about the cancellation of Mandriva's participation in Berlin.

 

After this there has not been any communication between Mandriva, wobo and/or Messe Berlin.

 

Some details:

 

During the preparation (early 2009) Mandriva repeatedly told wobo how much they appreciate his help and the necessity of his participation at the stand as well as the participation of other helpers from the community. They were also aware that MandrivaUser.de did not apply for their own booth but focussed on helping Mandriva. This proves that these facts were well understood and there were no misunderstandings because of a language barrier.

 

During all that time from the first mails to the last (cancellation of the stand) nobody ever mentioned that the CEO planned to come to Berlin. As the main German contact one should believe they would tell wobo if that was planned.

 

Also one should assume that a company who is going to participate in a major European exhibition would do some planning and discuss this with the assisting community. Instead of communicating they complained about getting "annoying mails". More annoying still was the fact that not one single promise to reply a mail was held - not one.

 

Even the offer by the German community to "save" Mandriva by operating the stand in this situation was simply ignored, not even commented. the result was that Mandriva has to pay 4,200 Euros and does not even show their name at the exhibition - which had a special focus on french Linux companies!

 

 

Measures

 

At first we want to make clear that this reaction is not caused by the cancellation of Mandriva's participation in Berlin. This may have reasons which were/are not to be disclosed yet, we are not in a position to judge Mandriva's business decisions. This statement and all consequences from our side are our reaction to the way Mandriva, namely the persons in charge, treated a well known community leader and the whole German community.

 

The discussions about our reaction were ruled by the following criterae:

 

- our measures must not hurt the German users

We turned down all suggestions like quit working in the i18n team, translating Mandriva wiki pages or even closing MandrivaUser.de for good and turning our help and commitment to another user community.

 

- our measures must be visible to Mandriva

 

- our measures must be published in a way that Mandriva and the public understand that they are not aimed at the community nor the distribution but only against the company Mandriva.

 

We, the community MU.de as well as single users of our community will continue to

 

- operate and expand the independent project MandrivaUser.de, including our RPM repositories, the Mandriva Linux mirror, the release of a community magazine and our other activities for the German users.

- promote Mandriva Linux in Germany by showing up at events (FrOSCon, Chemnitzer Linuxtage, Linuxtag in Berlin)

- contribute our translation work (i18n, Mandriva Wiki).

 

We will

- not be visible as German Mandriva community by the link in the header of the official Mandriva forum.

We ask the webmaster of http://forum.mandriva.com to immediately remove the link on said website. By this measure we show that we do not regard MandrivaUser.de as part of those regions of the Mandriva universe where the company has any influence

 

- not be a part of the Mandriva Assembly any more. As of today wobo resign from his position as representative of the German community in the MUGs group, there will no successor to this position.

Unrelated to the issue of this statement we came to the conclusion that Mandriva did not show any interest in suggestions or actions of the MUGs if those suggestions were not Mandriva's suggestions. Mandriva seems not to be interested in a bilateral communication on equal terms but is rather interested in having an instrument for a better steering of the community's work. Therefore we believe that the German users do not lose anything by this withdrawal.

 

- not plan any more actions with Mandriva nor offer our help for any Mandriva actions in Germany.

We will, as said above, continue to participate in events but only as MandrivaUser.de, not related to Mandriva. If Mandriva plans to come to the Linuxtag 2010 we will only help if we have more manpower than we need to operate our own stand.

 

- limit our communication with Mandriva to the normal cases where a user has to communicate with the distributor of his distribution.

If Mandriva contacts us we will listen and discuss the issue at hand. But we do not promise to reply.

 

In short:

Mandriva Linux (the distribution) and the support for the German users - yes, with all the commitment as during the previous years!

Collaboration with Mandriva (the company) - no.

 

About this statement

 

This statement and the measures listed will be immediately effective after publication/sending. The text of this statement and all measures were discussed in public in the MandrivaUser.de forum. This forum is readable for everybody and all registered users were invited to participate in the discussion. This is to show that this statement was compiled under complete transparency.

 

On behalf of the independant German user community

MandrivaUser.de

 

wobo

Founder & Administrator MandrivaUser.de

These items have disappeared off the list:

 

Software issues

10.7 Amarok 2.0.2 does not play mp3 files with gstreamer backend on some computers

That was fixed for Powerpack users by an update to gstreamer-fluendo. See following bug report.

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=48191

If you are using Mandriva 2009.1 Powerpack edition, there is an update to the gstreamer-fluendo codec in the restricted repositories that fixes the issue of MP3's not playing in Amarok. If you add the restricted repositories, make sure they are the 2009.1 repositories. You may need to edit the URL (from 2009.0 to 2009.1) to the restricted repositories in Configure Media.

If you are not using the Powerpack edition, install phonon-xine to be able to play MP3's in Amarok.

You can try changing some settings in MCC > Hardware > Sound Configuration. You can also look for possible problems there.

This time it semed to think the disk was already mounted and the options I got were to either move files or keep them hidden. I decided to move them and it began to format the partition. I knew straightaway I'd made a fundamental error but wasn't sure how bad. Of course you people who read manuals will know that I'd erased the BIOS of my computer. I now have to buy a new chip because theres no way Im going to attempt to programme the existing one, even with the tools putting in the new one which comes fully operational is going to be a physical nightmare.

I wonder why for the sake of people who aren't born complete with knowledge of how to use Mandriva tools there isn't a warning like "You are about to lose your computer please stop".

This does not make any sense. Formatting a hard drive has nothing to do with the BIOS. Even partitioning the hard drive will not affect the BIOS. Are you saying you get no BIOS or manufacturer splash screen when you turn on your computer after it has been shut off (cold start)? If you boot up a Live CD such as Mandriva One you don't see anything on the display? Do you at any time see anything on the display?

Some computers, especially laptops have a hardware mute button. Make sure yours isn't muted.

Check your volume control settings, there are several. Star > Sound & Video > PulseAudio Volume Control. Star > Sound & Video > KMix Sound Mixer (or applet on taskbar). Configure Desktop > Multimedia.

Maybe disable pulse audio for a check. You can do this from MCC > Hardware > Sound Configuration.

Try some headphones to check sound output there.

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.1_Errata#..._Dimension_4550

I discovered today that the restricted repositories added to 2009.1 were 2009.0 on my system. An mdkonline update fixes this, but only if done before the restricted repositories are added. I had to manually edit Restricted and Restricted Updates in Configure Media on my system.

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=51614

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

See my post here that should help some in the meantime. I have the ATI Mobiliy Radeon 9600.

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...st&p=617173

Looks like what I just read on Fedora 11 bugs this morning.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_b...n_Thinkpad_X41T

I tried the following suggestions from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs in Mandriva 2009.1 and they help quite a bit for speeding up 2D rendering for me. That means that browser and application windows write to the screen quite a bit faster. I can move windows around the screen with much less lag. There is a third option that I did not try, add Option "AccelDFS" "off" to xorg.conf.

Miscellaneous problems with ATI / AMD graphics adapters

 

As with the Intel driver, the Radeon driver for ATI / AMD graphics adapters is going through substantial changes, and it is worth noting some configuration options that may help address various problems with such adapters. If you are experiencing failure to start the graphical desktop, hanging or freezing, corruption, or slow performance with an ATI / AMD graphics adapter, you may try the following.

 

Some issues may be worked around by disabling kernel mode setting. To do this, add nomodeset as a kernel parameter. If this solves your problem, please check whether a bug has already been reported for it, and if not, file a new bug report on the xorg-x11-drv-ati component, explaining your symptoms, and providing all the usual information required for X.org bug reports. In future kernel mode setting will be the only available method, and so we wish to ensure all problems caused by kernel mode setting are fixed.

 

If this does not resolve your issue, one other potential workaround is to change to a different acceleration method. To do this, add a line:

Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"

to the Device section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf. If that file does not exist, you can run system-config-display as root to create it. Again, if doing this works around the problem you are experiencing, please check whether a bug report on the problem has already been filed, and if not, please file a new bug report on the xorg-x11-drv-ati component, explaining your symptoms, and providing all the usual information required for X.org bug reports. These legacy acceleration methods will be removed in future, so any bugs in the new acceleration method (EXA) need to be fixed.

Slow 3D performance on ATI / AMD graphics adapters

 

The use of kernel modesetting is known to have an adverse impact on 3D performance for ATI / AMD graphics adapters. If you notice poor 3D performance (and better 3D performance is more important to you than smooth graphical boot), disabling kernel modesetting should improve this somewhat. To disable kernel modesetting, add nomodeset as a kernel parameter.

I am in the same boat. Unfortunately, I do not have the option to change video cards in my laptop. :sad:

See my posts and the two links in it below. Unfortunately your ATI card has been moved into legacy status by ATI.

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=86363&hl=

I disagree about Canon. Canon only supports certain models in Linux. Fortunately I happened to buy one (by accident). I have the Canon PIXMA MP600. I found Linux drivers for it on Canon Australia's website. Both the Printer and Scanner work quite well with Canon's drivers using CUPS.

Actually X Server 1.6 and later are not supported by the ATI Catalyst 3 driver. Unless you stick with a distro released before Feb. 2009, that uses X Server 1.5 or earlier, you will not be able to use the ATI propriatary driver with the Radeon 9700. This situation is going to be true of all the up-to-date distros. If you want to use the propriatary ATI driver, you might want to use Mandriva 2008.1, which has been heralded as one of the best Mandriva releases. Myself, I am using the open source driver on 2009.1 PWP, just like you. I do miss the propriatary ATI driver. Hopefully the open source driver will improve soon (speed wise).

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linu...mp;lang=English

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news...m&px=NzExOQ

I have been getting occasional hard freezes with 2009.1 PWP. Mouse and keyboard totally unresponsive. Magic keys don't work. Have to do a hard reset to get the computer back. Never had these problems with 2008.1 or with Windows XP, Vista, or 7 RC1. No virtual machines here. No 3D desktop effects, no 3D apps or games. Only internet browsing and using ordinary Mandriva tools.

One person suggested that it might be the radeon driver for my ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 causing the problem. I really don't know what is causing this.

Got it installed. After installing the kernel headers and a couple of dependencies, I was able to install the Phoronix Test Suite (206 deps). After it was installed, I found it in the kmenu under Tools > System Tools. I opened the app and found that I still had to install any tests that I wanted to run. I installed one test from within the app and ran it. So far, so good.