mtriley98

I had this problem with pclos and it turned out to be a problem with xgl. Go to the mcc - hardware - 3d desktop and in the advanced section choose something that is not xgl, native something is what I remember. I'm not at my linux machine at the moment.

I think you'll be pleased.

Make sure your non-free repositories are set, use Easy-Urpmi for good results. Then go to the Mandriva linux control center > Hardware > set up the graphical server, your video card should be highlighted, pick it again and you'll be asked if you want to use the proprietary driver. Tick yes and the driver will be downloaded and installed and you will have to restart the graphic server, I usually reboot. Also when your in hardware there is a box to configure the 3d effects. Your current xorg.conf is using the generic nv driver so you wont get any 3d action.

Good luck

Mike

Before you get to the video card selection, be sure you've enabled the non-free repositories,then select the video card from the list( I think you'll want fx or better) the manager will ask if you care to use the nvidia driver and enable the 3d effects, Tic yes and the rpms will be installed and the xorg,conf file will be changed to use the nvidia driver and you will be asked to restart your computer.

Cheers

Mike

Remember when you are burning the cd or dvd to burn a disc image and not a data disc. I remember windows disc burning programs always made me work to figure how to make an iso.

Welcome to the board

Mike

Open a terminal and type su

Then type draklive-install

That should get some action even if it complains that it can't find the command.

Cheers, Mike

You did it right. Every time you upgrade the kernel, go back to the control center and select the graphic card. It should let you know if there are proprietary drivers and it will download and install the ones you'll need. The control center has come a long way since Mandrake 8. Set up the 3d effects and try the cube, impress your friends.

Cheers, Mike

The short answer is the version of alsa that comes with mandriva doesn't work with the sound card on your laptop. At least the headphone part. I installed pclinuxos on my COMPAQ PRESARIO 3000 just to have the headphone volume work right. I check back with a mandriva live cd once in a while to see if the problem is fixed, but so far I haven't had any luck.

Go to configure your computer (mcc) then go to Boot, then Set up how the system boots, click on next, click on windows then click modify and tick the default box and click ok. That should make windows the default at start up.

Go to the control center ( mcc ) and look at the installable or at the removable software. The year 2006 or 2007 will be in the package discriptions.

Good luck

Click on the star on the left - click multimedia - click Sound - Kmix - then the input tab, adjust the mic level to your prefrence. Make sure the green lamp at the top is bright. The Switches tab has a mic select option that may be useful.

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For the screen saver, go to Control Center-Periphials- Display and at the top click the Power Control tab and make sure the Enable display power management is not checked.

For the date. go to Controll Center- Region & Accesability- Country Region & Language at the top click the Date & Time tab and change the short date format there. You will have to restart kde to make the date change permanent, I just reboot the computer.

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Remember to tick the apply button after everything you change.

In KDE go to the Control Center / Periphials / Mouse / Cursor Theme and pick a cursor without so much twirly action. Gnome should have something simular, but I don't know where.

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Fedora's test = Mandriva's cooker I've been so intrigued by yum-ex and smart gui that I haven't configured yum from a terminal for some time. Here is a link to fedora 5.90 repo

http://redhat.secsup.org/fedora/core/test/...os/Fedora/RPMS/

I hope this helps some but I'll try to help more when I have more time.

gotago

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When you installed linux did you install the boot loader in the root partition? When you install the gag46 loader I remember that you press a number to select the different hard drives but when you select the letter for the drive partiton it asks a yes or no question (I don't recall the exact verbage) but I select no and it seems to work. I've never multiple booted with windows or with a raid array so I can't be much more help than this.

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I never tried the dvd version but I did try the first beta release of Mandriva One and I couldn't get any where with it. The beta 3 release works well for me and I have a suspicion that the magazine is including a beta 1 or 2 version that is buggy.

Mandriva One (rc3) uses the cooker mirrors by default in the mcc setup. You'll have to set your sources to the 2006 release after it is installed to your hard drive. I didn't try it with the cooker sources, I just unchecked them in the software sources setup, and used easy-urpmi to set up 2006.

I normaly use gimp. There is an aquire tag under the file menu. I just tried this with Elive linux and I had to run as root to make it work and gimp uses xsane also. So back to square one. Good luck.

Thanks for the link to the java rpm. I have mandriva one on two different partitions. On one I used the java rpm from the above link and on the other I used the sun installer and tried sim links to anywhere I thought limewire might look. I couldn't get anything to work untill I installed the limewire-free rpm from the limewire site. Both partitions work now but the one with the java from the sun site I have to type limewire in konsole, I don't get any response using the run command. Kind of strange but like I said I've goot a few links too many. Anyway, when mandriva one final is available to me I'll do a clean install and try this from scratch and let yuo know how it turns out.

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[mike@mandyone ~]$ java -version

bash: java: command not found

[mike@mandyone ~]$ java -version

bash: java: command not found

[mike@mandyone ~]$ su

Password:

[root@mandyone mike]# java -version

bash: java: command not found

[root@mandyone mike]#

Well how 'bout that, can't run a java app without java. I figured urpmi would take care of that, I'll get something from the sun site and see what happens.

I tried to install limewire and I get simular results. If I open a terminal (Konsole) I get this:

[mike@mandyone ~]$ limewire

/usr/bin/limewire: error: Failed to set JAVACMD

/usr/share/java-utils/java-functions: line 127: -mx32m: command not found

[mike@mandyone ~]$ su

Password:

[root@mandyone mike]# limewire

/usr/bin/limewire: error: Failed to set JAVACMD

/usr/share/java-utils/java-functions: line 127: -mx32m: command not found

[root@mandyone mike]#

I'm using mandriva one with the 2006 repositories, I googled for -mx32m and didn't find the answer. So I went to bed with the intention of looking into this further, but the road to apollon is paved with such intentions. Sorry I couldn't help beyond letting you know I can duplicate the problem.

Cheers

On the xp box after you click My Network Places, click on My Workgroup Computers. None of my linux boxes show up in xp until I do that.

If you like ubuntu on the live dvd, I'd suggest if you install ubuntu go with the breezy edition and then download easy breezy to install flash, mp3, and other packages that don't come with install cd. Easy breezy works with the breezy edition of kubuntu, but I seem to remember that it wasn't as smooth an operation.

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I can't claim too creative, but I had fun makeing this:

Found this in 10.2 devel contrib ftp://ftp.phys.ttu.edu/pub/mandrakelinux/...2.1mdk.i586.rpm

the rpm has the file you need. I was able to install gnubg after I installed that rpm.

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OOo2 isn't really an update, Sun likes to think it's a whole new suite. Open a terminal and type openoffice.org-2.0 that works with fedora. Or type openof and hit the tab key let mandriva figure out where it's hidden. oppenoffice 2 looks like it is in the cotrib repo you might want to use that. Use the smart --gui command in a terminal then search for open and see if anything there suits you. while you are in the smart pm remove the versions of firefox and thunderbird that you don't need now.

Cheers