Greg2

Mandriva 2010.0 Beta is now available on most public mirrors, and will be available on all public mirrors soon.

From the cooker mailing list:

For this beta release you will find:

- 2 Free DVD isos, 32 and 64 bits

- 2 One isos, KDE and GNOME will come next week as Plymouth takes more

time than expected

 

All these isos are hybrid isos. You can then use Mandriva-seeds to dump

it on USB key for installation.

2010.0 Beta development and planning: mandriva.com/en/2010.0_Development#Planning

If I want to drive a 1600x1200 monitor (which has both VGA and DVI in), will it make much difference which input I use?

I have a 1680x1050 LCD, and the only thing that I can see a difference with is a very demanding 3-D graphics app or game. Then the DVI is noticeably better.

I've found several users that do have the nvidia driver version 185.18.14 working with your laptop's GPU. Here's the info they have posted:

nvnews.net/vbulletin

and

drivers-for-nvidia-geforce-g105m

These both have instructions for using Ubuntu and the nvidia drivers from nvidia.com, and manualy editing the xorg.conf file. However I have just checked and I see that dkms-nvidia-current-185.18.31-1 is available in the official/2009.1/non-free/backports repo, and it lists support for the G 103M. So if you'd like to try that, we could help you if you would have to edit your xorg.conf file.

It's not as hard as it may sound. :)

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Does it work now, or is it still switching to a driver that doesn't work?

OK, delete the 'stale_upgrade_in_progress' file in your /var/lib/urpmi directory, and that annoying message will be gone.

OK, I've got it working for you. Comment out lines 1104 and 1105 in the Widget.pm file. Like this

#$mw->Tk::bind($class, '<MouseWheel>',

#	      [ sub { $_[0]->yview('scroll',-($_[1]/120)*3,'units') }, Tk::Ev("D")]);

If you're using it from within the lida-03.00.00 directory, run it with ./lida instead of ./lida.pl.

Please note that this is a hack and not a proper patch, but it works.

It's not a question of “who cares about its outdateâ€, as long as it still works 'on your system'. :)

Because of it's older code, you are either going to have to patch your perl-Tk at the /perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Tk/Widget.pm file to work with the lida.pl, or you're going to have to patch your lida.pl to work with the perl-Tk.

My throbber doesn't with this version.

On later versions of Firefox, 3.5 and up, the activity indicator is not shown on the top toolbar. This can be fixed by right clicking on the toolbar, and selecting customize. Once you are in the Customize Toolbar window, just drag the activity indicator to where ever you want it.

killall -9 plasma

then

plasma

If that doesn't work for you, try

kquitapp plasma
rm -fv ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma*
plasma &

After you do this you will have to set up your desktop again, the way you had or want it.

urpmi.addmedia KDE-4.3.0 <mirror>/kde/stable/4.3.0/Mandriva/2009.1/RPMS/i586 with media_info/hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia KDE-4.3.0-noarch <mirror>/kde/stable/4.3.0/Mandriva/2009.1/RPMS/noarch with media_info/hdlist.cz

First remove what you have with

urpmi.removemedia -y kde43 kde43-noarch

or in your case

urpmi.removemedia -y KDE-4.3.0 KDE-4.3.0-noarch

then do

urpmi.addmedia kde43 ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.3.0/Mandriva/2009.1/i586/media/kde43
urpmi.addmedia kde43-noarch ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/4.3.0/Mandriva/2009.1/noarch/media/kde43

That's correct if he's using vi, vim, or nano. But if he wants to use a gui editor he needs to do

su -

@steves850, are you using KDE, Gnome, or what?

I dont think so. I have Firefox 3.5.1 now (updated via automatic update for a few weeks ago) , so Firefox 3.5.2 will be in official repository very soon I think.

I don't think so... unless you're using cooker and/or cooker repos.

Firefox 3.5.2 has been released. Release notes and downloads here: firefox/3.5.2/releasenotes

Fixed security issues: security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox35.html#firefox3.5.2

I've scoured around, but haven't come across anything packaged for Mandy yet :P

According to the cooker mailing list, KDE 4.3 will not be officially backported to the 2009.0 or 2009.1 repos. However it is now available at: kde/stable/4.3.0/Mandriva

Could it be that, like myself, other people don't have the bandwidth available to download 3/3.5Gb of data for a testing distribution?

I don't have that much bandwidth available either. It would take me 15 – 19 hours to d/l it. But, if you have a wired connection you can use the boot.iso, it's only 31.4 MB.

Mandriva 2010.0 Alpha 2 is now available on public mirrors.

2010.0 Alpha 2 info: mandriva.com/en/2010.0_Alpha_2

2010.0 Alpha 2 development and planning: mandriva.com/en/2010.0_Development#Planning

Please post the output (as user) of

ll /var/lib/urpmi | egrep -i upgrade

I believe the package name is 'vte'. I would suggest checking to see if your:

/usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm

and

/etc/termcap

files are ok. If they aren't, please post here and I will give you a copy.

Are you using Mandriva 2009.1?

Yes, it's a new remastered buntu distro. It's Hannah Montana Linux :D

You can read all about it and download it here: hannahmontana.sourceforge.net

It hasn't made the DistroWatch list yet.

I first read this on the LKML, but I didn't think about posting it here at the time. Here's the first announcement on lkml: lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/20/

and here's the patches: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/

for whoever wants to see them.

I think that the package that is needed for those pages is coreutils-doc.

You're correct. Thanks. :)

I just did a fresh install of 2009.1 One on my system and found that the man pages are incomplete.

I'm guessing about this, but if you installed from the One CD, the man pages may not have been included because of size constraints. So I would suggest you check it with

rpm -qa | egrep -i man-pages

if it's not installed, install them with

urpmi man-pages

as jkerr82508 has already noted.

How do I find out if I am running the right versions? (kernel/KDE)

Run this (as user) in a terminal

lsb_release -d; konqueror --version; uname -r

the output will give you the versions.

OK, if you're not using the arts sound server, I would suggest that you (as root) run

alsaconf

to set things up. Then (also as root) run

alsactl store

to save your settings. Now try your sound again with an audio app.

Hmm, 2008... you may have an arts problem. What's the output (as user) of

grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf

and

/usr/bin/artsshell status

If the arts sound server is running, I would suggest that you try disabling it. Then test your sound again with an audio application.