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So I selected the NVIDIA FX group, and then configure the NVIDIA card. XFdrake notified me that there is a proprietary driver available. Upon selecting yes to update, I get the message "couldnot install the dkms-nvidia173 package!"... Please advise!

Thanks, that worked for me. The printer config. option is now available in the KConfiguration tool.

I access the BIOS, and the video card is already set to PCI and not "Onboard". During the boot process the system seems to hang (screen blank out) right after "starting anacron"....

Thanks everyone - but when I run XFdrake, it correctly recognizes the monitor type, video-card type, and display resolution. However when I click on "Test" the screen just goes blank.... I don't know if I should tinker with the "Options", but nothing jumps out at me....

Hi, I am trying to install the 256MB geforce video card on my intel celeron machine runnng mandriva 2009. I am able to boot into level init3 but whenever I start displaymanager the screen goes blank.

I read that I need to install the NVIDIA driver using the yum command.

yum install nvidia-glx kernal-module-nvidia-'(uname -r)'

However that command is not installed and I am unable to urpmi it (failed to install, need updated sources, and also failed to update sources).

Is there an alternative to yum or how could I get the installation to work? I find that even when I plug the VGA adapter back to my old graphics slot, the screen just goes blank now....

HELP!

Hi,

I recently installed Mandriva 2009 w/ KDE4. However my printer,an canon-Pixma 2100, can't be recognized when I connect the USB port. I can't find the configuration tab to set this up manually. Help! This used to work automatically in mandriva 2008. Thanks.

Thanks for everyone who replied. It seems that most people are saying that KDE4 is the culprit - hopefully future updates will improve its funcationality - I like it for the most part. The transparency-based folder views work very well.

medo381 and tyme, you are right - there is a widget that which allows new media detection and it works fine. I also set up a folder view for the media folder. With regards to the annoying autocomplete url bar issue in firefox, I set the value urlbar.matchonlytyped to true and now it's fine.

I have to say that so far mandriva 2009 really is an acquired taste, but it is growing on me. Some of my programs became slower (3D desktop doesn't work as smoothly anymore, and having a VLC video open while scrolling through a webpage on firefox slows the system down considerably). Strangely OpenOffice is now loading faster than in mandriva 2008. Other complaints include a lack of customization (can't change the color of my panel) and that some widgets screw up the proportion of my icons.... Also, not all the buttons on my keyboard are mapped correctly - volume control no longer works!

Would an upgraded 256MB video card help smooth out some of the 3D desktop issues? I have grown accustomed to using it.. Would there be a patch/update soon?

Hi,

Noob here just upgraded to Mandriva 2009 and so far it's a mess... 3D desktop seemed to have stopped working as I am writing this post...

Just a few random issues:

1. Where can I set the auto-mounted devices to be automatically visible on my desktop? This used to be Right-Click on desktop -> Desktop Manager-> Behavior -> Devices etc, now I can't find it.. None of my USB drives are showing up.

2. how can I turn off that annoying option where if you single-click on an icon on the desktop, it shows you a transparent side toolbar with the option to rotate, zoom, or x-out that icon??

3. Firefox has an autocomplete function whenever I type in an URL - how do I disable that? I fiddled around with all the options to no avail.

Thanks and sorry to post all of these in 1 post but I think these are miniscule questions...

Thanks Ian. Good comments as usual.

AIrsnare is a wireless network intrusion software for windows that can alert the user to unfriendly MAC addresses. I wanted to know if there is an equivalent desktop tool for mandriva. However I can monitor MAC addresses by using the router web interface - it's just more cumbersome sometimes.

I'm not quite sure what you mean... total noob to Mandriva here. Is mono a substitute for dot net framework? How do I install it on a separate environment? Does having CompizFusion affect the execution of this program? (program seems to intiiate but then just disappears..)

Is there a desktop tool that can give me network info without logging onto the router website all the time?

Is there a good Mandriva tool that can monitor any unwanted users on a wireless network (as well as encryption status, etc)?

I am trying to install videora using Wine. At one point I was prompted to install Microsoft .NET framework2 which failed. However when I installed Mono Videora installation seemed to have completed. But every time I try to open videora I would see the bouncy icon for a few seconds and then nothing happens. Help! I really need a software such as videora to convert videos for my video ipod... Thanks!

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Hi,

I just set up a wireless network using my Mandriva machine as the main wireless access point. Is there a software similar to Airsnare for Windows that can allow me monitor the traffic and security on this network? Can I configure the wireless network (i.e. change master password etc) in Mandriva w/o installing the netgear CD?

I am using compiz and the 3D desktop. But even without it the vertical display doesn't work. I have an Intel 82845G video card. I am connecting the computer tower to the monitor using VGA. What SHOULD happen to the normally landscape desktop background when I use the vertical mode of my monitor? Is there just going to be blank space between the top and bottom or will it auto-resize?

I have a Hp w2207h 22-in LCD monitor connected to my intel celeron 2.2ghz w/ 1GB RAM, running Mandriva 2008 Spring. The screen resolution is 1680x1050 and the normal horizaontal display works fine. However, when I turn the screen sideways to the vertical viewing position the screen image is unchanged. If I change the orientation of the screen from normal to "rotate left 90 degres", the screen is turned for a few seconds and then blanks out and returns to the normal horizontal orientation. Is there a way to make the vertical display work in Mandirva? that would make webpage viewing fantastic. The HP monitor does come with MyDisplay software, which does NOT run under WINE...

Thanks.

Okay, now a new problem - when I use powersave to put the machine to sleep and then when I bring it back up the screen won't stop flickering! Is this a power management issue?

Thanks for the replies. The only explanation left is that the electric company made a mistake in reading the meter.

Hi,

I am running Mandriva Spring 2008 on an intel celeron G2.2hz computer. After setting up and using Mandriva for about a month now, I noticed that my electric bill this month doubled to 70$!! I don't have any other new electronics except for this computer running Mandriva, so this is probably the problem. Is it likely for this to happen ? (i.e. maybe the electrician read the meter wrong, even though he INSISTED that he didn't...) Can someone give me an idea of the normal computer electricity consumption as compared to say, a LCD TV or a xbox 360 system?

I didn't set up powersave (and mandriva doesn't automatically put the CPU to powersave) so if I don't shut down the computer the CPU just runs (sometimes overnight when I have downloads). How do I set up powersave in Mandriva? I coulnd't find it in KDE manager. ..

Thanks very much.

I find that resolv.conf becomes over-written after I change it so that the search lines are uncommented again. In fact, in resolv.conf it says "DO NOT EDIT BY HAND, CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN"....

In my resolv.conf, I have 3 name-servers, should I add 3 search lines? what does "search" do?

nameserver 68.105.28.12

nameserver 68.105.29.12

nameserver 68.105.28.11

SHould I add 3 lines of "search"?

I am running mandriva 2008 on an intel celeron 2.0gz processor with 1GB RAM. I have Cox cable internet which should have dl speed of 10mbps and ul speed of 2mbps. However loading webpages is much slower than on my windows vista pentium III laptop(!!). I already disabled ivp6 and tried Opera,Switchfox as alternatives to firefox, but no avail. So I have come to the conclusion that maybe the connection itself is slow as oppose to a problem with the web browsers.

Here is the output from ifconfig -eth0:

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:2B:4D:D7:CD

inet addr:72.195.139.201 Bcast:72.195.139.255 Mask:255.255.252.0

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:53502 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:11348 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:15228656 (14.5 MiB) TX bytes:2404471 (2.2 MiB)

Interrupt:20 Base address:0xe000

Any help would be greatly appreciated. The stuttering during web-browsing is almost unbearable and it is a shame because I really like mandriva thus far.

Install htop and run it from terminal and see if there's anything eating up your cpu. Do you have screenlets or superkaramba running? Or something like kiba-dock?

Did that and nothing really stands out as consuming too much CPU. I think the main problem is with mozilla firefox - connection speed is slower and just typing in the URL bar causes a hiccup... I have tried swiftfox and didnt notice any change. Even my Pentium III laptop running VISTA is faster at loading pages than firefox...