Greg2

So does this also fix the problem with wmii? I ask because you were going to submit a bug report, and if you did please make a comment in the report. :)

I'll pin the topic for awhile, so it gets more publicity. :)

why did you move it? :mellow:

It's a request to take a survey. I don't see any other surveys in Portal News, so I didn't think it was the place for a survey. If anyone else thinks it belongs in the News, please let us know and I'll move it. :)

You can use

rpm -q --requires <rpmname>

to find a complete list of depends for an installed rpm. However, be very careful with what you remove from that list as other 'stuff ' may depend on it.

Should I remove it?

No. I only ask because I have read where some KDE4 users had to set it up and enable it's cut (or copy) and paste actions for the right-click menu's, and or Ctrl-v to work properly.

I hear the last step at Hinckley is the hand drill .. to add the patented triumph oil leak ;)

Triumph is like Harley-Davidson... they don't leak oil, they leave their mark. :D

I don't have KDE4 installed to check this, but do you have klipper installed and set up on your panel (kicker)?

When displaying manual page of something inside an (rxvt) terminal window

 

-snip-

 

rxvt displays inverted question marks, dashed squares or other non-standard characters

I believe the problem you're having is that rxvt is unable to display in UTF-8 encoding. I would suggest using rxvt-unicode or xterm to view man pages.

I've moved this from 'Tips and Tricks' to 'Hardware' for you. Welcome aboard! :)

What version of Mandriva are you using? What DE are you using?

Does this mean that the system is actually using and seeing my 8Gb of RAM but not "reporting" it to the hardware management tool of the Mandriva Control Center?

It appears that way. I would also like to see the output of

free -m

just for my curiosity.

Why don't you install the devede package from the official Mandriva repos with your gui package manager? It will install all the depends for you and then you shouldn't have any problems.

OK, go to 'install and remove software' > Options > Media manager, then configure your sources (mirror list). I would suggest you enable these:

Main

Main Updates

Contrib

Contrib Updates

Non-free

Non-free Updates

PLF Free

PLF Non-free

and disable anything else. Then in the same Media manager window, go to File > Update, and select what you want to update. I would suggest you select and update all the repos I've listed above.

Now try to install amule. Please let us know if that works?

I just discovered Handbrake 0.93

That's a nice transcoder application, thanks for pointing it out to us. :)

I've just compiled it on Mandriva 2009.0 without any problems. If I find some spare time between Christmas and New Years, I'll work on a spec file. However, it looks like it's going to be a complicated spec file to create. :unsure:

You need HPTalx, but you will have to compile it.

Here's the manual: hptalx.sourceforge.net/manual

Here's the downloads: hptalx.sourceforge.net/download

If you have any problems let us know.

You've confused me. You said you have no music sound, but you have sound without video. Would you please explain what problem you have a bit more for us? Also, would you please open a terminal and post the output of

grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf

and

arecord -l

dexter is correct, add the PLF repos with easyurpmi and you will find it listed.

You still haven't told us what application you're using to do the USB transfer. There were some problems with some models of Panasonic and Olympus cameras using Mandriva, and since you're using version 2006, this may be your problem.

Security update available for Linux Flash Player 10.0.12.36 and Linux Flash Player 9.0.151.0

Security bulletin and download here: adobe.com/support/security

What camera do you have? What application or card-reader are you using to transfer the files to your pc?

I believe the translation would be closer to 'desktop'.

Do you have a multi-port card reader or a USB hub installed? What's the output of (as root)

lsusb

I'm sorry it has taken you this long to get any help here... I missed this one.

Welcome aboard! :)

If the file command doesn't identify it as jpeg, then Gimp won't either. Here's what I get

[greg@halfway ~]$ file /home/greg/Pictures/kdm-test/pc070177.jpg
/home/greg/Pictures/kdm-test/pc070177.jpg: JPEG image data, EXIF standard 2.21

This tells me that Gimp is not your problem. It appears that the jpeg files are corrupted somehow.

A quick google shows that to be a corrupted jpeg file error. Please post the output of

file /home/rowan/Download/pc070177.jpg

It opens without any problems for me using GIMP 2.4.7 that comes with Mandriva 2009.0, and I'm fairly sure it would have opened in the version that came with 2006 for me. It's just a .jpg image. Open GIMP with the cli in a terminal with

gimp

then open the image and post any errors for us to see.

Anyway here is one of the photos that won't open - it is only 1.18mb.

Where? :huh:

There are only three Linux module types available for the Prism 2/2.5 chipsets:

hostap

orinoco

prism2_usb

and these are already in the Mandriva distro by default. One of them 'should' work.