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Just a wild guess, but you could try the alsaconf program. I once had a laptop with a newly installed version of Mandriva which played all sounds too fast and at a high pitch, and also with gaps of silence. After running alsaconf the sound worked fine.

On my Compaq laptop computer I enable output to the external monitor by holding Fn key and pressing F4. There may also be a BIOS setting for the external monitor. I think most laptops have a similar procedure to toggle between internal LCD and external monitor. Read the computer's user manual for instructions specific to your computer.

I don't know a lot about the Mandriva package repository system, however I have some notes and a procedure that worked for me. Of course all commands were done as root. I used the following commands in the order shown. urpmi.removemedia -a (reinitialize urpmi's setup) Next I went to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and reviewed the options, and chose the command line method. urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST' urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/$RELEASE.$ARCH.list' urpmi.update -a (to get the most recent package lists) urpmi --auto-select --auto --sortmedia PLF (to update packages with preference to any PLF sources) urpmi --auto --sortmedia PLF codeina flash-player-plugin ffmpeg mencoder mplayer mplayer-gui vlc win32-codecs libdvdcss2 gstreamer0.10-a52dec gstreamer0.10-mms gstreamer0.10-pitfdll gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gstreamer0.10-amrnb kaffeine (adds any packages you may want, prefer PLF source if available) urpmi --clean (clears your local rpm package directory in case you want to free some disk space)

Thanks guys. I installed the beta (version 1.99.2) and it seems to be working.

After loading package 'moon' I still can't view www.sipsorcery.com. The error message is "Moonlight was compiled with 1.0 support only. This page requires 2.0 support.". Is there any way I can get the 2.0 support for Firefox 3 ? [moved from Software by Greg2]

I am looking to do something like that. When not at home I'll be connected to the Internet through usb and my mobile phone. I would like to connect a VoIP phone adapter to my laptop computer's Ethernet port. I saw a post here that's marked "solved". Someone there must know how to get the job done. I have only one Ethernet port in my computer. When at home I want to connect an Ethernet switch to the Ethernet port and use the same physical port for two different subnets, one subnet to connect to the broadband modem, and the other to connect to a VoIP phone and another computer on my LAN. I know this can be done but I'm not sure how to do it.

Disabling ipv6 may have improved speed a bit, but the real problem was something gone wrong with flash player. After installing flash-player-plugin Firefox is back to normal and flash is working too.

The ipv6 setting in Firefox was already off. I set /etc/modprobe.conf to be: install scsi_hostadapter /sbin/modprobe ata_piix; /sbin/modprobe ahci; /bin/true install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe ehci_hcd; /sbin/modprobe ohci_hcd; /bin/true options snd-ac97-codec power_save=1 alias eth1 orinoco_cs # install ipv6 /bin/true alias net-pf-10 off and rebooted, but problem persists. Maybe it's time to install the most recent Mandriva.

/etc/sysconfig/network is merely one line: NETWORKING=yes /etc/modprobe.conf contains the following lines. install scsi_hostadapter /sbin/modprobe ata_piix; /sbin/modprobe ahci; /bin/true install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe ehci_hcd; /sbin/modprobe ohci_hcd; /bin/true options snd-ac97-codec power_save=1 alias eth1 orinoco_cs install ipv6 /bin/true Should I delete the last line or change it to "install ipv6 /bin/false" ?

The same problem occurs when using Seamonkey browser, therefore I believe the problem is not within the browser. Test results: # lsmod | grep ipv6 ipv6 251300 20 I already use openDNS, thanks for the tip.

Firefox has become slow to load pages from sites which have third party links, such as ebay. Firefox seems to stall while loading extra items commonly found on ebay pages, such as things from google analytics and pn1.adserver.yahoo.com. I am using Firefox 3.0.10 and recently did a full package update. The problem may have started immediately after the update, I'm not sure. Anyone else have this problem?

While using Firefox I noticed that youtube videos first download to ~/.mozilla/firefox/4e1crz72.default/Cache but as soon as download has completed the file disappears. Where does it go? Is it moved to some other directory?

This mencoder command line will convert videos to the 3gp format used in many mobile phones. Be sure to adjust the crop parameters as appropriate for the source video. mencoder -vf crop=374:306:69:43,scale=176:144,hqdn3d=4:3:6 -af channels=1,resample=8000:0:2 -srate 8000 -oac lavc -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=h263:mbd=2:vbitrate=160:acodec=libamr_nb:abitrate=12200 -of lavf -o out-file.3gp in-file.flv A similar conversion can be done with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i in-file.mpeg -s qcif -vcodec h263 -acodec libfaac -ac 1 -ar 8000 -ab 32000 out-file.3gp

I tested Ekiga on a second PC with the same results, there was no way to answer a call. In both cases I am using Mandriva 2009.0 with KDE 3.5.10. Is there something wrong with this build of Ekiga?

The target computer's USB port is USB 1.1, not 2.0. In order to have fast performance I will be using an adapter to connect a CF card in place of the hard drive. It will be an interesting project. Thank you all for the advice.

I can hear incoming calls ring but I don't see any way to answer. I am using Ekiga version 3.0.0-1mdv2009.0. Is that what you have?

Thanks. Seems like just the lower of the two options, "Switch to custom media selection (not recommended)", is required, no? Below are the commands I intend to use. urpmi.removemedia -a urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/2009.0.i586.list' 'PLF Free' '../../../2009.0/free/release/binary/i586' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/2009.0.i586.list' 'PLF Non-free' '../../../2009.0/non-free/release/binary/i586' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/2009.0.i586.list' 'PLF Free Backports' '../../../2009.0/free/backports/binary/i586' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/2009.0.i586.list' 'PLF Non-free Backports' '../../../2009.0/non-free/backports/binary/i586' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list' 'Main' 'media/main/release' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list' 'Contrib' 'media/contrib/release' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list' 'Non-free' 'media/non-free/release' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list' 'Main Updates' 'media/main/updates' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list' 'Contrib Updates' 'media/contrib/updates' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list' 'Non-free Updates' 'media/non-free/updates' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list' 'Main Backports' 'media/main/backports' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list' 'Contrib Backports' 'media/contrib/backports' urpmi.addmedia --mirrorlist 'http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/basic.2009.0.i586.list' 'Non-free Backports' 'media/non-free/backports'

Unfortunately the only action buttons shown at easyurpmi.zarb.org are "Add official medias", "Add PLF medias", "Refresh commands", and two that are not recommended. Switch to manual mirror selection (not recommended) Switch to custom media selection (not recommended)

After using "manual media selection" it appears I have found the commands to add backports. As this thread is about another topic, I am linking to my thread HERE.

I am having a similar problem, cannot add backports. I click on that little box but I can't get the tick mark to appear there. :huh: I wonder if it has something to do with the way I added the repositories. I did it from command line, in three lines; urpmi.removemedia -a urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist 'http://plf.zarb.org/mirrors/$RELEASE.$ARCH.list' urpmi.addmedia --distrib --mirrorlist '$MIRRORLIST'

I am trying to use the Ekiga SIP user agent. When a call comes in, Ekiga makes a ring tone but I don't see any option to answer the call. Anyone know how it's done?

Can I add backports by editing some of urpmi's configuration files? Which files would be the ones to edit?

What would be a good Linux to use on a laptop with an 8GB flash disk? How about Mandriva Mini? I see an iso file named "mandriva-linux-2008.0-free-mini-dual.iso" HERE, what's that? Of course an OS for use on a flash disk should not write to the disk often, so I am looking for something with a non-journaled file system and very little system logging.

That fixed it. I have no KDE Control Center in the menu, maybe because I am using KDE 3.5 on 2009.0. The program's name is kcontrol and I was able to call it from command line.

My 2009.0 installation has three instances of artsd running after it boots. At least one of the three is preventing one or more other programs from having access to sound output. $ /usr/sbin/lsof | grep snd gconf-hel 3728 user mem REG 8,3 1809984 230949 /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1.0.18 artsd 4541 user mem CHR 116,16 3015 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p artsd 4541 user 8r CHR 116,33 0t0 2769 /dev/snd/timer artsd 4541 user 9u CHR 116,16 0t0 3015 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p kmix 4548 user 10u CHR 116,0 0t0 3062 /dev/snd/controlC0 In order to run certain programs which use sound I must first run the following command to remove the three instances of artsd. killall -TERM artsd Is the presence of artsd immediately after boot a bug in Mandriva 2009.0? How can I automatically remove artsd so that other programs can use the sound system without me having to fix things up manually after each boot?