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  1. The primary monitor is VGA-0, and sometimes it's desired to play a video on the big monitor which is HDMI-0. I've got this xrandr command line which works nicely except that the KDE4 task bar and desktop icons all move over to HDMI-0. How can I keep the task bar and desktop icons on VGA-0 ?

     

    xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1024x768 --rotate normal --pos 0x0 --output HDMI-0 --mode 1920x1080 --rotate normal --right-of VGA-0 --pos 1024x0

  2. ... why would anyone who really has found a trojan on his box trust random strangers on the Internet to fix his problem?

    Maybe because you guys are not random strangers, but are long time mandrivausers.org forum member strangers. I frequently consider the advice of you strangers, and often take such advice, seems to be working out quite well for me so far :thumbs:

     

    I do however suspect the OP doesn't have a real problem, but is perhaps more interested to read the replies than to solve an actual problem. It seems to me that anyone with a real problem would have mentioned some specific symptoms of the alleged problem in the first post, and also made a second post by now. Of course I could be mistaken.

  3. A friend has asked me how to enable sound output from the HDMI port on a desktop computer (KDE4, Mandriva 2010.1, 64 bit edition). Sound output from the sound card to the speakers is fine. HDMI sound is not heard when running Mandriva, however HDMI sound works when using the other OS on this dual booting machine. Not having HDMI on any of my own computers I'm not sure what to do.

  4. Data burned to optical media is not always retained permanently. Over time read errors may develop. In my experience it seems that the data loss is accelerated by warm temperature. For the best chance of successfully reading faulty optical media I would suggest trying to read the media in as many different drives as you can. If the data integrity is marginal you will likely find that the discs read OK in some drives but not others.

     

    By the way, when using a dd command such as "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=~/my-old-distro.iso" you may be able to increase read speed by adding a block size option such as bs=8192 or bs=32768. Without the bs option the block size will be 512 bytes.

  5. M_R,

     

    I also use 2010.0. Using Dolphin, I can rip a CD to mp3 files by using drag and drop. I guess your 2010.0 install is missing one or more necessary packages. I am not sure which packages are required for ripping to mp3, but will explain what I do to get a multimedia installation of Mandriva up and running.

     

    First I use the command 'urpmq --list-media active' to make sure the following repositories are active.

    PLF Free

    PLF Non-free

    Main

    Main Updates

    Contrib

    Contrib Updates

    Non-free

    Non-free Updates

     

    Then I make sure all packages are updated with preference towards packages from PLF

    urpmi.update -a -v
    urpmi -v --noclean --auto-select --auto --sortmedia 'PLF Free','PLF Non-free'

     

    Of course --noclean is optional, in case you want to save the rpms for use with another computer.

     

    Then I add a pile of new packages, with preference for PLF packages.

    urpmi -v --noclean --auto --sortmedia 'PLF Free','PLF Non-free' myspell-en_US system-config-printer kate codeina flash-player-plugin win32-codecs libdvdcss2 vlc-plugin-dvdnav gstreamer0.10-a52dec gstreamer0.10-x264 gstreamer0.10-mms gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-faad gstreamer0.10-resindvd kaffeine ffmpeg mencoder mplayer mplayer-gui vlc transcode lsdvd lshw lsof nano bind-utils whois traceroute zip unzip unrar ntfsprogs fdutils smartmontools wireshark gimp digikam okular k3b smplayer k9copy dvdrip devede vobcopy a52dec lame sox libdvdnav4 gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg java-1.6.0-sun-plugin moon amarok audacious

     

    After all that, check on package kdemultimedia4-core, add it if it's not already installed.

     

    Obviously, most of the above packages are not related to the problem you are trying to solve, but I don't have time just now to sort through the list.

  6. I hope your files were not deleted by some malicious hacker. If you check the timestamp on the empty directories you might see the time of the file deletions. Maybe it's only some kind of weird file system error but the files are actually still there. You could run e2fsck with -f (force checking even if the file system seems clean).

  7. Please run xrandr from command line and post the output.

     

    Read the man page for the driver (radeon), which you can find on your computer or here. There are some commands there you may find helpful, for example "IgnoreEDID". The commands are specific to the driver, so the commands for the radeon driver may be different than in my nvidia driver example.

     

    For example, to disable use of EDID data when using the radeon driver, you would find Section "Device" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and add a line as below.

    Option "IgnoreEDID" "TRUE"

     

    After that you may be able to set display resolutions by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf, either direct editing or using MLCC.

  8. I am able to see the laptop's screen on the TV, but the TV always cuts some of it off.

    I had that problem with a TV earlier this year. The computer was a desktop with an nVidia video card, the card's DVI output was connected to the TV's HDMI input through an adapter and cable.

     

    I suspect the problem was caused by the TV sending incorrect EDID data, or not sending any EDID data. Examine your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file for any mention of an error encountered when trying to read EDID data. I solved the problem by editing xorg.conf so that the EDID data is ignored. Below is the relevant section of my xorg.conf file.

     

    Section "Device"
       Identifier "device1"
       VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
       BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX to GeForce 4"
       Driver "nvidia"
       Option "DPMS"
       Option "ModeValidation" "NoWidthAlignmentCheck, NoDFPNativeResolutionCheck"
       Option "DynamicTwinView" "false"
       Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
       Option "ExactModeTimingsDVI"
       Option "UseEDIDFreqs" "FALSE"
       Option "UseEDIDDpi" "FALSE"
       Option "ModeValidation" "NoEdidModes"

     

    Another odd thing: I normally use higher resolutions on the laptop screens, but when I tried to reset them to 1360x768 (which was offered as a setting in MCC) the screens did not actually seem to change resolution on the laptops' screens.

    I suggest leaving the laptop display at it's native pixel count, or whatever resolution you prefer to use on it. You can set the TV's resolution independently using xrandr commands in your .bash_profile file. For example, I have an external display connected to a laptop, I use the following xrandr lines to activate the external monitor.

     

    xrandr --output VGA-0 --off
    xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1400x1050 --rotate normal --pos 1400x0 --output VGA-0 --mode 1400x1050 --rotate normal --left-of LVDS --pos 0x0

    For some reason, I must turn off VGA-0 before I can use it, that's why I use that first xrandr command.

  9. This computer is using Mandriva's standard grub boot manager, dual booting Windows XP and Mandriva 2010.1. I would like to delete the second NTFS partition and expand the Linux partition to include the newly freed space.

     

    I can backup the files from the Linux partition using rsync, then delete and recreate that partition as sda2, format it ext4 and restore the files.

     

    What should be done to make sure the computer will still boot after the change? Is there an easier way to do the job?

     

     

    Output from fdisk -l

    Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9726 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0xef06ef06
    
      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sda1   *           1        2431    19526976    7  HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda2            2432        4863    19535040    7  HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda3            4864        9350    36041827+  83  Linux
    /dev/sda4            9351        9726     3020220   82  Linux swap / Solaris

     

     

    [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

  10. I don't know much about compiling drivers from source code.

     

    Are you sure there's no via driver in your Mandriva 2007? At the moment I'm using 2010.0, and there seems to be a via driver located in

    /lib/modules/2.6.31.13-desktop586-1mnb/kernel/drivers/video/via/

     

    By the way, I think support for 2007 has been dropped. If so, then you are not getting security patches and bug fixes.

  11. I don't know how to correct the /var/log/Xorg.0.log

    Xorg.0.log is not something to be fixed, it's a log file. Earlier this year I had problem similar to yours. While examining my Xorg.0.log I saw an error message, something about can't read monitor EDID data, and something about defaulting to certain display resolutions. I don't recall the specifics, but it lead me towards a solution.

     

    Probably there's no driver specified for the Asus k8v-vm, however you can use the command line utiliy 'lspci' to see which 'VGA compatible controller' has been identified.

     

    If you have a recent Mandriva live CD you can try booting that and see if that allows the wide screen display. If it does, find which driver is being used.

  12. How do we know that the Mageia fork will be better than the new Russian owned Mandriva fork?

     

    How will the Mageia developers earn money? Will work on Mageia be their full time job, or just a sideline or hobby?

     

    Seems to me the world doesn't need anymore Linux forks, but instead needs consolidation of distros so that developer's time isn't wasted reinventing things separately at each distro. Isn't there already more than enough work for the world's Linux developer's?

  13. I used to use fdisk and never had any problem with it. I switched to cfdisk after reading the following warning found in the fdisk man page:

    fdisk is a buggy program that does fuzzy things - usually it happens to produce reasonable results. Its single advantage is that it has some support for BSD disk labels and other non-DOS partition tables. Avoid it if you can.
  14. I noticed two strange features in the partition table of my new Acer netbook.

     

    Firstly, the partitions don't all start and end on cylinder boundaries, so I can't use cfdisk to modify the partition table. Of course I can still use ntfsresize to shrink the NTFS file system. fdisk would allow me to modify the partition table but I've read that it's buggy.

     

    Secondly, there is a gap between the end of /dev/sda1 and the beginning of /dev/sda2. The data there is not all zeros. Is that gap important or did the manufacturer just get sloppy?

     

    This is the output from 'fdisk -ul /dev/sda'

    Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x9a92f804
    
      Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
    /dev/sda1              63    20980889    10490413+  12  Compaq diagnostics
    /dev/sda2   *    20981760   312578047   145798144    7  HPFS/NTFS

     

    What's the best way to free space for a Mandriva install?

  15. kfoss,

     

    Thanks for those comments. I was able to watch TV using mplayer and the HVR-850. I used a command line as follows:

     

    mplayer tv://9 -tv driver=v4l2:alsa:immediatemode=0:adevice=hw.Em28xxAudio,0:norm=ntsc:chanlist=us-cable -vf pp=ci,hqdn3d=4:3:6

     

    You'll notice I used the ci deinterlace filter. Of all the deinterlace filters it seemed to do best.

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