boatman9

After installing an ATI Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] video card (according to lspci) and doing a fresh install of 2010.1 kde4 version I encountered a curios problem. After booting I soon noticed that the kde4 desktop icons and wallpaper seemed to be missing, however the task bar appeared normal. I could tell that the unseen icons were still there because left-click over the expected icon location would bring up the usual icon menu. While experimenting in the Guest account I found that disabling Compositing made the desktop icons and wallpaper appear. What is Compositing and how does it cause desktop icons and wallpaper to disappear?

Anyone tried flvstreamer?

You can see some details of the video file, including which codecs are used, by using the command ffmpeg -i output.mpg Note that the video and audio codecs used in your avi file may already be the codecs you want. If so, use the "copy" special value to specify that the raw codec data must be copied as is, see the ffmpeg man page for details.

What about libxine1? I see there is a package named libxine1-1.1.16.3-2plf2010.0.i586.rpm at the link you mentioned. Would that do me any good? Actually, I'm using Cooker, and PLF free packages are at link below, which seems to have more xine packages than some other PLF repositories. http://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/plf/mandriva/cooker/free/binary/i586/

While trying to rip a DVD to disk using this command xine dvd://1'#save:dvd-video' I encountered the following error message: I tried two (not copyrighted) DVDs but encountered the same error each time. Is there a way to rip a DVD using xine, maybe a PLF version of xine?

I am not sure, but it seems to me that Wireshark must be run as root in order to capture packets from any interface.

Here is my Wireshark technique for finding the URL of the video. It's useful only in some instances. In this example the video is not a live stream. Take your browser to a web page where a video is available, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deepwater_Horizon_fire_seen_by_US_Coast_Guard_helicopter.ogv Don't start playing the video yet. Set up Wireshark for capture, I usually clear all the tick boxes in Display Options. Activate Wireshark capture, then go to the browser and begin playing the video. After the video has begun to play, stop it, and also stop the Wireshark capture. Click on one of the captured video packets somewhere in the middle of the captured video segment. Under Analyze, select "Follow TCP Stream". A new window will open, near the top you will see GET /wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Deepwater_Horizon_fire_seen_by_US_Coast_Guard_helicopter.ogv HTTP/1.1 Host: upload.wikimedia.org Translate it to a URL, download or play the video using wget, xine, mplayer, or another tool: wget http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Deepwater_Horizon_fire_seen_by_US_Coast_Guard_helicopter.ogv

Changing to wget seemed to help. I am using urpmi from command line, so I added the below command in my urpmi command line. --downloader wget --wget-options '-c' I'm not sure if the -c option is useful when using wget with urpmi, but it should not cause any problem having the -c there.

If you post a link to a video that does not work for you, I or someone else may be able to tell you what's needed to play it. I think it helps to have the package codeina installed. I guess the PLF version is likely to be best.

There is no password problem with any of the distros you have mentioned. I have used them all from live CD recently. Most recently I booted up Mandriva 2010.0 kde4 which I have at hand, no password was needed for the live account, no password needed for the root account either, I just typed su and was immediately in root mode.

Have you tried download-flash-player-plugin or anything else I suggested above? What was the result?

Which version of Mandriva have you installed? I guess you installed one of Mandriva's free versions, otherwise you'd already have flash. There are at least two ways to get Flash Player. 1. Install the flash-player-plugin package, it's in the PLF Non-free repository. 2. As root run a program called 'download-flash-player-plugin'. In case your media sources are not well configured then you may want to try the below script. The script will enable PLF free and Non-free, Main and Main updates, Contrib and Contrib updates, Non-free and Non-free updates. # initialize.sh # To see which media are active # urpmq --list-media active # reinitialize urpmi's setup urpmi.removemedia -a # add some repository media using commands from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/$RELEASE.$ARCH.list' urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' # activate "Non-free" and "Non-free Updates" urpmi.update --no-ignore Non-free 'Non-free Updates' urpmi.update -v Non-free 'Non-free Updates'

Anyone have an idea or guess about the release date for the final of 2010.1?

Is khexedit available in Mandriva? I have not been able to find it.

You should try using a headset. Have the remote party to do the same.

Sometimes the media stream URL is hidden in a web page or something. In some cases I've used Wireshark to find the correct URL. Don't hesitate to ask for help if you need it. Mostly I'm just asking questions on this board, it's nice to be able to answer some questions as well!

Often streams can be saved using xine or mplayer. I don't know if it's possible to view and save simultaneously with mplayer but xine can do it. I was not able to view your suggested example media, however I was able to view a short video at http://livestream.rai.it.edgestreams.net/ which said "Sorry, this content is reserved to the users in the Italian country". Before saving with xine be sure to configure the directory for saving streams, you will find that in xine's settings menu; Settings/Setup/Media. Using xine: xine mmsh://livestream.rai.it.edgestreams.net/#save:edgestream.wmv if you prefer to save without viewing or listening use: xine --hide-gui --hide-video mmsh://livestream.rai.it.edgestreams.net#save:edgestream.wmv\;noaudio\;novideo Using mplayer: mplayer mmsh://livestream.rai.it.edgestreams.net/ -dumpstream -dumpfile stream.wmv edit: I just noticed two packages that are supposed to save streams, however I have no experience with them. They are mms_client and mmsrip.

Occasionally I see this "retrieving failed" error when trying to use urpmi.addmedia. When the problem occurs I usually have to wait a few days, then try again and it works. The example below is from 2010.1 x86_64 cooker RC2, however I have had the same problem with released versions so I don't think it's a Cooker issue. What causes this problem and how can I fix it? [root@localhost urpmi_stuff]# urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' adding medium "Main" adding medium "Main Updates" adding medium "Main32" adding medium "Main32 Updates" adding medium "Main Testing" (ignored by default) adding medium "Main Backports" (ignored by default) adding medium "Main debug" (ignored by default) adding medium "Main Updates debug" (ignored by default) adding medium "Main Testing debug" (ignored by default) adding medium "Main Backports debug" (ignored by default) adding medium "Contrib" adding medium "Contrib Updates" adding medium "Contrib Testing" (ignored by default) adding medium "Contrib Backports" (ignored by default) adding medium "Contrib debug" (ignored by default) adding medium "Contrib Updates debug" (ignored by default) adding medium "Contrib Testing debug" (ignored by default) adding medium "Contrib Backports debug" (ignored by default) adding medium "Non-free" (ignored by default) adding medium "Non-free Updates" (ignored by default) adding medium "Non-free Testing" (ignored by default) adding medium "Non-free Backports" (ignored by default) adding medium "debug_non-free_release" (ignored by default) adding medium "debug_non-free_updates" (ignored by default) adding medium "debug_non-free_testing" (ignored by default) adding medium "debug_non-free_backports" (ignored by default) $MIRRORLIST: media/main/release/media_info/20100603-165332-synthesis.hdlist.cz ...retrieving failed: 0B/s|/var/cache/urpmi/partial/20100603-165332-synthesis.hdlist.cz ...retrieving failed: 0B/s|/var/cache/urpmi/partial/20100603-165332-synthesis.hdlist.cz ...retrieving failed: aria2 failed: exited with 3 problem reading synthesis file of medium "Main" [root@localhost urpmi_stuff]# [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

During the past year when I installed Mandriva on 32 bit computers I included win32-codecs, libdvdcss2, and gstreamer0.10-pitfdll. Today when I installed the 2010.1 RC2 free CD on a 64 bit laptop I noticed that three packages in my list are missing from the x86_64 repositories. I have activated the following repositories. PLF Free PLF Non-free Main Main Updates Contrib Contrib Updates Non-free Non-free Updates What problems can I expect to encounter, if any, from the lack of those three packages?

Yes, "urpmi.update --no-ignore <medium>" worked but for some reason I had to follow that with another line "urpmi.update -v Non-free 'Non-free Updates'" to complete the job. I will be installing Mandriva on a bunch of machines, so I created a short script to configure the repository media. # To see which media are active # urpmq --list-media active # reinitialize urpmi's setup urpmi.removemedia -a # add some repository media using commands from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/$RELEASE.$ARCH.list' urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' # activate "Non-free" and "Non-free Updates" urpmi.update --no-ignore Non-free 'Non-free Updates' urpmi.update -v Non-free 'Non-free Updates'

After installing the 2010.0 free version and adding some repositories using the following lines urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/$RELEASE.$ARCH.list' I find that 'Non-free' and 'Non-free Updates' are not active. How can I activate the 'Non-free' and 'Non-free Updates' repositories from command line? [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

When trying to get PCMCIA or USB plug-in devices to work with Linux I usually begin by looking at the dmesg lines generated when the device is connected. Sometimes dmesg will log a request for a firmware file, I then find the firmware, place it in the correct place, and the device will then work with native Linux drivers. The dmesg lines can also provide terms you can use in google to find reports of how others have fixed the issue.

Yes, that's it. I had installed the free version. After enabling 'Non-free' and 'Non-free Updates' I was able to add those packages.

Are some RPMs yet to be built for 2010.1? I can't find unrar, a small utility which I was using in 2010.0. I also failed to find java-1.6.0-sun-plugin in cooker.

Speaking of java with 2010.1 cooker, I can't find java-1.6.0-sun-plugin in the 2010.1 repositories. Is it still being packaged? How do I enable java for Firefox in Cooker? Can I use java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin instead?