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Try digikam especially if you use KDE (as it is a KDE app). I just bought a digital camera, and it was so easy to download photos using digikam (which is in contrib).

I suggest trying Totem, its a great Xine gui for gnome, just urpmi totem.

Hi I'm trying to get Openoffice to use the kprinter dialogue, which apparently works. But I can't get it to work I load spadmin, click properties for the generic printer and change the command to kprinter then click OK. It then shows in Printer Adminstration as having kprinter as the command. if I press test page, then the kprinter dialogue comes up! I then close the printer administration dialogue and start openoffice, but when I go to print I still get the openoffice dialogue. Are there any suggestions of what I am doing wrong, and how to fix it, thanks. ------ Edit, Actually this does work, I was just too stupid to realise it ;)

Hi, On further investigation I also found that it does load files extremely slowly. I also fixed this by uninstalling the copy that came with Mandrake 10 (CE) and doing an install of the version from the openoffice website.

Hi, No I didn't have any problems with the icons, they all displayed fine. In relation to the freetype rpm, it fixed my problesm, apart from the italics issue. It will be interesting if you have the same result. You should note though that if you install the plf freetype rpm, it's virtually impossible to uninstall, as urpmi says that practically every program you have is dependent on it and trying to force an uninstall is problematic.

Hi, Have you used openoffice before? It always takes a while to open, but it seems as fast as usual on my install. Openoffice fonts can be a bit dodgy, I suggest looking at their font faqs for help, http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html especially the bit about changing the user interface font. That should help improve the font for the menus and dialog.

Hi, Have you tried the tvtuner configurator which is part of the Mandrake Control Center, its under hardware. It trys to autodetect your card, but it also gives you the option of manually specifying your card from a list. If your card is on the list its worth trying that. I strongly recommend that you update your drakex tools before you do this as they are quite buggy without the update. hope that helps

I don't really need much help but I am intrigued by my situation. I had an annoying font problem with an installation of Mandrake 10 (CE) and after much mucking around, and despite some helpful advice, I couldn't fix it, so I decided to reinstall. I reinstalled on the same computer, with no hardware changes. The same partitions and even the same packages (I saved the package selection from the previous install). Yet none of the issues that I had on the first install have occurred, but I have completely different problems, eg. the nvidia driver needs to be modprobed on boot (which I got around easily thanks to the useful advice contained in the forum) despite using exactly the same driver etc. So what makes that happen? Shouldn't it have had the same problems not new ones? I think its trying to piss me off ;)

Thanks again for all your help, but I have ended up doing a reinstall, since I had spend so much time playing around with the fonts I figured it would be quicker just to reinstall. Now my fonts look good, I even reordered the font config files re: your suggestion thanks. One of the differences was that when I imported my windows fonts I ran drakfont from a terminal and ended up with many errors and bad fonts. I then removed these fonts and used the KDE font installer which worked great. thanks again.

Hi, Thanks for all your help, but unfortunately changing the order didn't make a difference. I changed the order to exactly what you suggested then There were no error messages. My .gtkrc and .gtkrc2 both say: So I don't think the problem is there. I've almost exhausted all the tips and suggestions I can find to improve the fonts, with no success, its very frustrating. Thanks for all your help, I might try doing a clean install on a spare partition and see whether I get the same problems. Cheers,

Here is a screenshot of what slashdot looks like for me, as you can see normal fonts are ok, but italics are terrible.

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Hi, I've been using Konqueror 3.2 on Mandrake 10.0 (CE) and whenever I hit the preview button it posts and comment and when I hit post it previews! Does anyone else have this problem?

Mine is According to xdpyinfo my dpi is 81x81 Playing with the font order doesn't seem to have made a difference so far. Any other suggestions?

Any suggestions on improving the fonts would be appreciated. I also found that after installing the upgrades my fonts didn't look so good. I also remember having to fiddle around in previous versions of Mandrake to get fonts looking good. but unfortunately I don't remember exactly what i did ;( I tried to fix the bad fonts by downloading the freetype2 rpms from the plf (libfreetype6-2.1.7plf) I think. This made all my antialiased fonts looked awful, but when I disabled antialiasing, my KDE fonts look ok now (please note that this will probably vary according to your screen resolution, mine is 1024x768). But it also created two problems: 1) Fonts on gtk2 programs look terrible (I assume they must be automatically antialiased). This is not a big problem for me as I don't use many gtk2 programs, but firefox with xft also looks awful. 2) Italicised KDE fonts look terrible. This makes webpages with lots of italics very annoying to read (eg. slashdot). All the rest of the fonts in Konqueror look good though. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix these problems, or generally to get good fonts it would be much appreciated. thanks,

Do without KDE, sacrilege!! I wouldn't mind myself so much, but my non-computer savvy partner also uses linux (she wanted to see what I was so obsessed about ;) and KDE is what she is used to. But anyway, the advice given above was correct, I downloaded the updates (over my dial up) and the problem is fixed. It was drakextools that needed to be updated. Now almost everything is working, the only thing not working right is xine, but I see there is an update for that available,so I'll give that a try.

Hi, I used the latest unpatched drivers from Nvidia, with a fresh install of Mandrake 10.0 CE, with just the drivers I was getting about 100 fps on glxgears, disabling vsync brings it up to the 400-500 mark. (sorry I don't have the exact numbers as I'm at work so I can't check)

Hi, I've also got a TNT2, the problem is that the newest nvidia drivers automatically enable vsync, which is great for newer video cards, but makes our crappy TNT2s even slower than normal ;) You need to disable vsync, try running glxgears with the following command: __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 glxgears It made a huge difference to my fps. If that works you can append export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 to your /etc/bash script to automatically turnoff vsync. Hope that works for you: PS I found this solution on the pclinuxonline website, so I can't take any credit for figuring it out :)

Hi, I haven't had any problems with Mozilla, but I noticed that there is a bugfix update for it, if you use the Mandrake update. It might be worth a try.

I'm so confused, surely Mandrake 10 CE is a final release (although not the final release of Mandrake 10.0). Otherwise why would they be selling it and have an errata page surely they don't normally have these for RCs do they? I thought from their press releases that it was something like debian, where cooker is unstable, CE is testing and Final is stable. This made a lot of sense to me. The way I saw it is that we would get a community release that would be equivilant to the normal release and then the extra bug fixes would be applied to the 'final' release that would be sold in boxed sets etc. This seems to make sense, we would get our normal cutting edge mandrake release, which is probably not what boxed sets need, they need really stable solid releases. If what the initial post says is correct that this is supposed to just be another RC, then that seems to me a very bad move on Mandrake's part for several reasons: 1) It annoys people like me who obviously didn't understand and expected something which was less buggy, this means that I am very unlikely to spend any money on mandrake in the near future as I'm so annoyed and feel like I've been tricked into beta testing. 2) It will get reviewed as a mandrake release (as Mandrake have been talking about is as a release, even if not the final one). These reviews will inevitably reflect the buggy nature of CE as it now stands, which will further damage Mandrake's reputation (which rightly or wrongly is seen as being a very buggy distro) I feel like I should add a little disclaimer here that I really like mandrake and really I want them to do well, but somehow they always seem to make things more difficult for themselves!

Hi, Thanks for your suggestions, now that I've played around I've worked out some of the problem and started a new topic here which explains it. If you have any sugestions I'd appreciate them!

Hi I posted a previous problemHere but I've since worked out what the actual problem is. I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 and am using KDE 3.2 and eveything works fine, except when I'm connected to the internet. When I'm connected KDE programs suddenly takes 10 times as long to open. It doesn't matter how I launch them, i.e via konsole, eterm, icon or clicking on the relevant file. I connect via dialup using kppp. Other programs such as xine and openoffice work fine, as does gnucash, but all KDE programs and totem are horribly slow. Are there any suggestions why this might be and how to fix it. Thanks

Hi I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 CE and it's all gone quite well except that opening any files in konqueror as a file manager is very slow. Things open eventually but only after about 1 minute. If I use the embedded preview they are virtually instantaneous. I should note this is only when opening another KDE programme, open office files open at normal speed as do movie files using xine (but not totem for some reason). I've also had konqueror as a web browser crash everytime I try use ftp. Are there any suggestions as why this might be and how to solve it? cheers,

Hi, I've just got two questions about magicdev 1) Does magicdev work with floppy disks too, i.e. will it automatically mount them? 2) Does it only work with gnome and KDE, i.e. if I try and access the floppy from some other program e.g openoffice will it still automatically mount it like supermount does? thanks, ----- Edit: I'll answer my own questions in relation to Mandrake 10.0 CE, now that I've had a chance to try out magic dev. 1) Magicdev does not seem to work for floppy disks, but in 10.0CE supermount seems to be automatically enabled for floppy disks and works fine. 2) Magicdev mounted the cds and dvds fine, but I've found it rather flaky so far so I disabled it.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try. Are you having trouble getting it to work under Mandrake 10 though? I'm planning to finally upgrade from 9.0 to 10 so hopefully it goes ok. I've already got a tv card but thanks for the suggestion. cheers,