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  1. kde4 compositing doesn't work with Radion 7000

    in Software

    Posted

    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?

  7. saving film from a livestream

    in Audio and Video

    Posted

    ... After I see all the numbers all over the place, what number/line am I suppose to enter into xine or mplayer to record a livestream? ...

    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

  10. mandriva 2010 kde 4 livecd password

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    I tried many distro's now, mandriva kde4, fedora kde4, kubuntu kde 4... it all failed the same way

    i wonder why this has not been tested before releasing the live cd...

    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.

  12. Problem in Installation of Adobe Flash player 10

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by boatman9

    ...flash still not working...

    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'

  16. saving film from a livestream

    in Audio and Video

    Posted

    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!

  17. saving film from a livestream

    in Audio and Video

    Posted · Edited by boatman9

    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.

  18. urpmi.addmedia error "retrieving failed"

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    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]

  19. Missing packages in x86_64 repositories?

    in Cooker

    Posted · Edited by boatman9

    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?

  20. How to activate 'Non-free' from command line?

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    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'

  21. How to activate 'Non-free' from command line?

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    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]

  22. Can you recommend a wireless card?

    in Hardware

    Posted

    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.

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