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I have no idea what hardware that review is based on. So, for one person with some kind of mostly unknown hardware, some things that Mandriva 2007.1 did well work less good. That supposedly means that overall Mandriva 2008.0 has worse hardware support than 2007.1? I have not kept up to date with this board, nor the official mandriva forums, but I know from all people around me 2008 is a very smooth ride. Of my own systems, I have 3 that now run 2008 and they run it well. My cardreader in my laptop now works (never worked before), the external vga is autoactivated and configured upon connection. Sure, none of it by Mandriva developers. So what? Anyway, with a sample quantity of one, there's just not much to say. But there are plenty of things to do. Mandriva 2007.1 better? Then downgrade. Or hop distro. Perhaps all the way to Vista? /me, cynical? Never! :D BTW: I'm not a dev, but this kind of comment: would sure piss me off. I wonder if the guy has actually purchased a Powerpack or not. If he didn't spend a penny, it's fine by me if he complains, but ridiculing the efforts of the developers is plain bad form. If he did spend good money, he should either ask it back or keep pushing for fixing of his problems via bugzilla (as he's doing), but still I find that comment out of line... I would just have a tad bit more understanding for it.. Ps: in the english version, it's internet -> ff (and lots more) Edit: just saw the comments, fun reading... About the menu, it sounds like the default menu people get is the new one,.. but I just got the stock old one on both installs... Another missing detail: which version did this person install?? Free, Powerpack?

My installation walkthrough for Mandriva Linux 20078.0 is now available, please check it out: Mandriva Linux 2008.0 Installation Walkthrough. If you have any comments to that page, please respond here. I'll be tracking this topic for (spelling, grammar, whatever) corrections, additions, any kind of feedback. Let me know if you like it, and if there's things you don't like, tell me what they are. Thanks, and happy installing! aRTee

IMHO the major thing hasn't been mentioned yet,... it is a combination of two factors: - windows by default strips the file extension - email attachments can be executable, which is determined by the extension Which makes a tiny bit of social engineering enough, just call your (self replicating and forwarding to any email address it finds on the system it's run on) trojan anna.kournikova.naked.jpg.exe and send it to a couple of people. It will show up as anna.kournikova.naked.jpg in most peoples email inboxes, and lots of them would love to have a quick peek... Clicking it will run it. Sure, filtering email and scanning for such stuff is possible, but a fixing after the fact, which is that windows has this gaping hole in the name of convenience and backwards compatibility. I cannot for the life of me imagine a single situation where you need an executable sent as attachment to be executed at once upon clicked.. On Linux, email attachments are by default not executable, it requires fiddling to make them executable. So the uninitiated cannot mess up their system through social engineering (those who'd fall for: you have to do this command: chmod +x ... are not able to do it, and those who can do it wouldn't fall for it). Briefly, one could say that MSWindows sacrifices security for convenience. Hmm, where have I heard this kind of thing before....

Go to an Apple store and find out..? I guess you may have to hack up the good old xmodmap for your son, or he'll have a harder time having to press 2 keys at once. Or you might get him a us keyboard - ah, no good without accents keys and having to use deadkeys for sure... To mess up an old fable about the querty keyboard, seems like the french azerty keyboard was really intended to slow people down. It's nice to have a keypad and use it, but how do you deal with laptops that don't have it?

Interesting how this thing is playing out... Good that Mandriva got the deal back. Ironic that the Nigerian government is more honest than Microsoft. Or is it? ;)

I agree with John, especially, but not only, related to the backups part and risk of data loss. One thing I'd like to add: for a proper installation, indeed you need only a / (root) partition, a /home partition and a swap partition. BUT I'd like to recommend that you create another partition that can serve as a future root partition. Experience shows that once people get into Linux, at some point they'll want to install a different version: either a different distribution, or a newer release of the same distribution. If you have a 'spare' partition that you can use as root partition for this new system, you can try it out without burning any bridges behind you.

what you should do, is copy the contents of your /usr partition to your / partition, copy the contents of your /home directory (folder) to the current /usr partition, then unmount your /usr partition and remount it as /home followed by the proper modifications of /etc/fstab So this begs the question: how much experience with the command line do you have? Or rather: how much do you want to get? All sarcasm aside, with a bit of fiddling, you can make this work without having to reinstall, and it shouldn't take more than a few minutes and a few commands. It would be helpful if you could post the contents of the file /etc/fstab It may well be possible for us to come up with the few commands you need, that you can put in a script, all in graphics mode; then you'd have to log off, go to non-graphics login, log on as root, execute the script and voila, all fixed.

My setup looks like this: head one: AGP: NVidia GF4200ti with 18" sxga (1280x1024) lcd head two: PCI: ATI Radeon 9250 with 720p (1280x720) projector I managed to configure the second head to work properly. Somehow, this is not doable with the drakx tool, where it does detect both graphics cards, but upon configuring both heads independently, it decides I want to configure both heads on one and the same card... Furthermore, it detects the 18" monitor on the PCI Radeon card... weird. Anyway, I managed to create a nice xorg.conf file that allows me to have both heads working fine with KDE and kwin; with Compiz-Fusion (and Beryl / Compiz before), there's just a warning that it's not capable of managing display :0.1 My question: how can I get 3d accelleration working on the second head? If I run glxinfo on the main head I get the following: $ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation server glx version string: 1.4 whereas I get this when running on the second head: $ glxinfo name of display: :0.1 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: No server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation server glx version string: 1.4 Naturally, it shouldn't show NVIDIA for glx vendor string, or should it? Also, I get this when I run glxgears on the main head: $ glxgears 15683 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3136.599 FPS 13219 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2643.692 FPS 15673 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3134.457 FPS 15773 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3154.557 FPS 15460 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3091.958 FPS 16234 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3246.664 FPS And this on the second: $ glxgears Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual On the other hand, from the log file I gather that some kind of rendering accelleration is enabled, though DRI gets turned off - no clue why... (**) RADEON(1): Initializing backing store (==) RADEON(1): Backing store disabled (WW) RADEON(1): Direct rendering disabled (**) RADEON(1): Setting up final surfaces (**) RADEON(1): Initializing Acceleration (II) RADEON(1): Render acceleration enabled for R200 type cards. I'm including the xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log files for your perusal... # File generated by XFdrake (rev 230776) Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" EndSection # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort) #DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "ch(de)" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse2" Driver "evdev" Option "bustype" "0x0003" Option "product" "0xc506" Option "relBits" "+0+1+2" Option "HWheelRelativeAxisButtons" "7 6" Option "vendor" "0x046d" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "LircMouse" Driver "mouse" Option "Device" "/dev/lircm" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Plug'n Play" ModelName "Philips 180P2" HorizSync 30-82 VertRefresh 56-76 # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor2" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "1280x1024 @ 60 Hz" HorizSync 31.5-64.3 VertRefresh 50-70 # modelines generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1280x720_75" 95.65 1280 1352 1488 1696 720 721 724 752 -HSync +Vsync ModeLine "1280x720_60" 74.48 1280 1336 1472 1664 720 721 724 746 -HSync +Vsync ModeLine "1280x720_50" 60.47 1280 1328 1456 1632 720 721 724 741 -HSync +Vsync EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 3 - GeForce 4 (96xx)" Driver "nvidia" Screen 0 Option "DPMS" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device2" BoardName "ATI Radeon" Driver "ati" BusID "PCI:0:13:0" Option "DPMS" Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "832x624" "800x600" "640x480" "480x360" "320x240" EndSubsection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen2" Device "device2" Monitor "monitor2" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x720_60" "1280x720_50" EndSubsection EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "LircMouse" "SendCoreEvents" Screen "screen1" Screen "screen2" LeftOf "screen1" #Option "Xinerama" EndSection And the log file: X Window System Version 1.3.0 Release Date: 19 April 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3 Build Operating System: Linux_2.6.12-12mdksmp Mandriva Current Operating System: Linux zurich 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 04:07:04 CEST 2007 i686 Build Date: 01 October 2007 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Nov 5 23:16:08 2007 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (==) ServerLayout "layout1" (**) |-->Screen "screen1" (0) (**) | |-->Monitor "monitor1" (**) | |-->Device "device1" (**) |-->Screen "screen2" (1) (**) | |-->Monitor "monitor2" (**) | |-->Device "device2" (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard1" (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse1" (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse2" (**) |-->Input Device "LircMouse" (WW) No FontPath specified. Using compiled-in default. (==) FontPath set to: catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d (==) RgbPath set to "/usr/share/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" (**) Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" (**) Extension "Composite" is enabled (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) (II) Loader magic: 0x820e520 (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.3 X.Org Video Driver: 1.2 X.Org XInput driver : 0.7 X.Org Server Extension : 0.3 X.Org Font Renderer : 0.5 (II) Loader running on linux (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libpcidata.so (II) Module pcidata: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.2 (++) using VT number 7 (II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex) (II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 1106,3099 card 1043,807f rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:01:0: chip 1106,b099 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01 (II) PCI: 00:09:0: chip 1106,3038 card 1043,8080 rev 50 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:09:1: chip 1106,3038 card 1043,8080 rev 50 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:09:2: chip 1106,3104 card 1043,8080 rev 51 class 0c,03,20 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0c:0: chip 10ec,8169 card 10bd,3202 rev 10 class 02,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0d:0: chip 1002,5960 card 17af,2020 rev 01 class 03,00,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0d:1: chip 1002,5940 card 17af,2021 rev 01 class 03,80,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:0e:0: chip 109e,036e card 0070,13eb rev 11 class 04,00,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0e:1: chip 109e,0878 card 0070,13eb rev 11 class 04,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0f:0: chip 1102,0004 card 1102,1007 rev 04 class 04,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0f:1: chip 1102,7003 card 1102,0040 rev 04 class 09,80,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:0f:2: chip 1102,4001 card 1102,0010 rev 04 class 0c,00,10 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:11:0: chip 1106,3147 card 1043,808c rev 00 class 06,01,00 hdr 80 (II) PCI: 00:11:1: chip 1106,0571 card 1043,808c rev 06 class 01,01,8a hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:2: chip 1106,3038 card 1043,808c rev 23 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 00:11:3: chip 1106,3038 card 1043,808c rev 23 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: 01:00:0: chip 10de,0253 card 1462,8700 rev a3 class 03,00,00 hdr 00 (II) PCI: End of PCI scan (II) Host-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 0 I/O range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-PCI bridge: (II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:1:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xc6000000 - 0xc6ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B] (II) Bus 1 prefetchable memory range: [0] -1 0 0xe7700000 - 0xefffffff (0x8900000) MX[B] (II) PCI-to-ISA bridge: (II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:17:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set) (--) PCI: (0:13:0) ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] rev 1, Mem @ 0xd8000000/27, 0xc4800000/16, I/O @ 0xb800/8, BIOS @ 0xd7fe0000/17 (--) PCI: (0:13:1) ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) rev 1, Mem @ 0xc8000000/27, 0xc4000000/16 (--) PCI: (0:14:0) Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture rev 17, Mem @ 0xc7800000/12 (--) PCI:*(1:0:0) nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200] rev 163, Mem @ 0xc6000000/24, 0xe8000000/27, 0xe7800000/19, BIOS @ 0xe77e0000/17 (II) Addressable bus resource ranges are [0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B] (II) OS-reported resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xf0000000 from 0xf7ffffff to 0xefffffff (II) Active PCI resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xc3000000 - 0xc3003fff (0x4000) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xc3800000 - 0xc38007ff (0x800) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0xc7000000 - 0xc7000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0xc5000000 - 0xc50000ff (0x100) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0xc5800000 - 0xc58000ff (0x100) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [6] -1 0 0xe77e0000 - 0xe77fffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [7] -1 0 0xe7800000 - 0xe787ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [8] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [9] -1 0 0xc6000000 - 0xc6ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [10] -1 0 0xc7800000 - 0xc7800fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a01f (0x20) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a41f (0x20) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a80f (0x10) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b007 (0x8) IX[B] [15] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b43f (0x40) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d0ff (0x100) IX[B] [17] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[B] (II) Inactive PCI resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0xc4000000 - 0xc400ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0xc8000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [2] -1 0 0xd7fe0000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [3] -1 0 0xc4800000 - 0xc480ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [4] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [5] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[B](B) (II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps: [0] -1 0 0xc3000000 - 0xc3003fff (0x4000) MX[B] [1] -1 0 0xc3800000 - 0xc38007ff (0x800) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0xc7000000 - 0xc7000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0xc5000000 - 0xc50000ff (0x100) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0xc5800000 - 0xc58000ff (0x100) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [6] -1 0 0xe77e0000 - 0xe77fffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [7] -1 0 0xe7800000 - 0xe787ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [8] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [9] -1 0 0xc6000000 - 0xc6ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [10] -1 0 0xc7800000 - 0xc7800fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a01f (0x20) IX[B] [12] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a41f (0x20) IX[B] [13] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a80f (0x10) IX[B] [14] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b007 (0x8) IX[B] [15] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b43f (0x40) IX[B] [16] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d0ff (0x100) IX[B] [17] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[B] (II) Inactive PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps: [0] -1 0 0xc4000000 - 0xc400ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [1] -1 0 0xc8000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [2] -1 0 0xd7fe0000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [3] -1 0 0xc4800000 - 0xc480ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [4] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [5] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[B](B) (II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI: [0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] (II) All system resource ranges: [0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0xc3000000 - 0xc3003fff (0x4000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xc3800000 - 0xc38007ff (0x800) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xc7000000 - 0xc7000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0xc5000000 - 0xc50000ff (0x100) MX[B] [8] -1 0 0xc5800000 - 0xc58000ff (0x100) MX[B] [9] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [10] -1 0 0xe77e0000 - 0xe77fffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0xe7800000 - 0xe787ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [12] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [13] -1 0 0xc6000000 - 0xc6ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [14] -1 0 0xc7800000 - 0xc7800fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [15] -1 0 0xc4000000 - 0xc400ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [16] -1 0 0xc8000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [17] -1 0 0xd7fe0000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [18] -1 0 0xc4800000 - 0xc480ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [19] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [20] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [21] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [22] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a01f (0x20) IX[B] [23] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a41f (0x20) IX[B] [24] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a80f (0x10) IX[B] [25] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b007 (0x8) IX[B] [26] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b43f (0x40) IX[B] [27] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d0ff (0x100) IX[B] [28] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [29] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[B] [30] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[B](B) (II) LoadModule: "dbe" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdbe.so (II) Module dbe: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3 (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER (II) LoadModule: "v4l" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//v4l_drv.so (II) Module v4l: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 0.1.1 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.2 (II) LoadModule: "extmod" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libextmod.so (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.3 (II) Loading extension SHAPE (II) Loading extension Multi-Buffering (II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD (II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS (II) Loading extension SYNC (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER (II) Loading extension XC-MISC (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension (II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA (II) Loading extension DPMS (II) Loading extension TOG-CUP (II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information (II) Loading extension XVideo (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation (II) Loading extension X-Resource (II) LoadModule: "type1" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts//libtype1.so (II) Module type1: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.0.2 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.5 (II) Loading font Type1 (II) LoadModule: "freetype" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/fonts//libfreetype.so (II) Module freetype: vendor="X.Org Foundation & the After X-TT Project" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 2.1.0 Module class: X.Org Font Renderer ABI class: X.Org Font Renderer, version 0.5 (II) Loading font FreeType (II) LoadModule: "glx" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libglx.so (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.9639 Module class: X.Org Server Extension ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1 (II) Loading extension GLX (II) LoadModule: "nvidia" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.9639 Module class: X.Org Video Driver (II) LoadModule: "ati" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//ati_drv.so (II) Module ati: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 6.6.3 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.2 (II) LoadModule: "kbd" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so (II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 7.2.0, module version = 1.1.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.7 (II) LoadModule: "mouse" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.2.2 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.7 (II) LoadModule: "evdev" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//evdev_drv.so (II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.1.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.7 (II) v4l driver for Video4Linux (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 1.0-9639 Mon Apr 16 20:21:54 PDT 2007 (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs (II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.6.3) for chipsets: ati, ativga (II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets: ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility M4 MF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility M4 ML (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PA (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PB (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PC (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PD (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PE (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro GL PF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PG (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PH (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PI (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PJ (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PK (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PL (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PM (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PN (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PO (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PP (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PQ (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PR (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PS (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PT (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PU (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PV (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PW (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro VR PX (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 GL RE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 GL RF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 RG (AGP), ATI Rage 128 VR RK (PCI), ATI Rage 128 VR RL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SE (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SF (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SG (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SH (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SK (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SL (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SM (AGP), ATI Rage 128 4X SN (PCI/AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TL (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TR (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TS (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TT (AGP?), ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TU (AGP?) (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP), ATI Radeon QE (AGP), ATI Radeon QF (AGP), ATI Radeon QG (AGP), ATI Radeon VE/7000 QY (AGP/PCI), ATI Radeon VE/7000 QZ (AGP/PCI), ATI ES1000 515E (PCI), ATI ES1000 5969 (PCI), ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP), ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 M7 LX (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LY (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility M6 LZ (AGP), ATI Radeon IGP320 (A3) 4136, ATI Radeon IGP320M (U1) 4336, ATI Radeon IGP330/340/350 (A4) 4137, ATI Radeon IGP330M/340M/350M (U2) 4337, ATI Radeon 7000 IGP (A4+) 4237, ATI Radeon Mobility 7000 IGP 4437, ATI FireGL 8700/8800 QH (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 QL (AGP), ATI Radeon 9100 QM (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 AIW BB (AGP), ATI Radeon 8500 AIW BC (AGP), ATI Radeon 7500 QW (AGP/PCI), ATI Radeon 7500 QX (AGP/PCI), ATI Radeon 9000/PRO If (AGP/PCI), ATI Radeon 9000 Ig (AGP/PCI), ATI FireGL Mobility 9000 (M9) Ld (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 (M9) Lf (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 (M9) Lg (AGP), ATI Radeon 9100 IGP (A5) 5834, ATI Radeon Mobility 9100 IGP (U3) 5835, ATI Radeon 9100 PRO IGP 7834, ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 IGP 7835, ATI Radeon 9250 5960 (AGP), ATI Radeon 9200 5961 (AGP), ATI Radeon 9200 5962 (AGP), ATI Radeon 9200SE 5964 (AGP), ATI FireMV 2200 (PCI), ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 (M9+) 5C61 (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 (M9+) 5C63 (AGP), ATI Radeon 9500 AD (AGP), ATI Radeon 9500 AE (AGP), ATI Radeon 9600TX AF (AGP), ATI FireGL Z1 AG (AGP), ATI Radeon 9700 Pro ND (AGP), ATI Radeon 9700/9500Pro NE (AGP), ATI Radeon 9600TX NF (AGP), ATI FireGL X1 NG (AGP), ATI Radeon 9600 AP (AGP), ATI Radeon 9600SE AQ (AGP), ATI Radeon 9600XT AR (AGP), ATI Radeon 9600 AS (AGP), ATI FireGL T2 AT (AGP), ATI FireGL RV360 AV (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility 9600/9700 (M10/M11) NP (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 (M10) NQ (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 (M11) NR (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility 9600 (M10) NS (AGP), ATI FireGL Mobility T2 (M10) NT (AGP), ATI FireGL Mobility T2e (M11) NV (AGP), ATI Radeon 9650, ATI Radeon 9800SE AH (AGP), ATI Radeon 9800 AI (AGP), ATI Radeon 9800 AJ (AGP), ATI FireGL X2 AK (AGP), ATI Radeon 9800PRO NH (AGP), ATI Radeon 9800 NI (AGP), ATI FireGL X2 NK (AGP), ATI Radeon 9800XT NJ (AGP), ATI Radeon X600 (RV380) 3E50 (PCIE), ATI FireGL V3200 (RV380) 3E54 (PCIE), ATI Radeon Mobility X600 (M24) 3150 (PCIE), ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M24) 3152 (PCIE), ATI FireGL M24 GL 3154 (PCIE), ATI Radeon X300 (RV370) 5B60 (PCIE), ATI Radeon X600 (RV370) 5B62 (PCIE), ATI Radeon X550 (RV370) 5B63 (PCIE), ATI FireGL V3100 (RV370) 5B64 (PCIE), ATI FireMV 2200 PCIE (RV370) 5B65 (PCIE), ATI Radeon Mobility X300 (M22) 5460 (PCIE), ATI Radeon Mobility X600 SE (M24C) 5462 (PCIE), ATI FireGL M22 GL 5464 (PCIE), ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 5A41 (PCIE), ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5A42 (PCIE), ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 5A61 (PCIE), ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5A62 (PCIE), ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 5954 (PCIE), ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE), ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 5974 (PCIE), ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5975 (PCIE), ATI FireGL V5000 (RV410) (PCIE), ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 (M26) (PCIE), ATI Mobility FireGL V5000 (M26) (PCIE), ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL (M26) (PCIE), ATI Mobility Radeon X700 (M26) (PCIE), ATI Mobility Radeon X700 (M26) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X700 PRO (RV410) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X700 XT (RV410) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X700 (RV410) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X700 SE (RV410) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X700 SE (RV410) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X800 (R420) JH (AGP), ATI Radeon X800PRO (R420) JI (AGP), ATI Radeon X800SE (R420) JJ (AGP), ATI Radeon X800 (R420) JK (AGP), ATI Radeon X800 (R420) JL (AGP), ATI FireGL X3 (R420) JM (AGP), ATI Radeon Mobility 9800 (M18) JN (AGP), ATI Radeon X800XT (R420) JP (AGP), ATI Radeon X800 SE (R420) (AGP), ATI Radeon AIW X800 VE (R420) JT (AGP), ATI Radeon X800 (R423) UH (PCIE), ATI Radeon X800PRO (R423) UI (PCIE), ATI Radeon X800LE (R423) UJ (PCIE), ATI Radeon X800SE (R423) UK (PCIE), ATI FireGL V5100 (R423) UQ (PCIE), ATI FireGL unknown (R423) UR (PCIE), ATI FireGL unknown (R423) UT (PCIE), ATI Radeon X800XT (R423) 5D57 (PCIE), ATI FireGL V7100 (R423) (PCIE), ATI Mobility FireGL V5100 (M28) (PCIE), ATI Mobility Radeon X800 (M28) (PCIE), ATI Mobility Radeon X800 XT (M28) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X800 (R430) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X800 XL (R430) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X800 SE (R430) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X800 XTP (R430) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X850 5D4C (PCIE), ATI unknown Radeon / FireGL (R480) 5D50 (PCIE), ATI Radeon X850 SE (R480) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X850 PRO (R480) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X850 XT (R480) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X850 XT PE (R480) (PCIE), ATI Radeon X850 PRO (R480) (AGP), ATI Radeon X850 SE (R480) (AGP), ATI Radeon X850 XT (R480) (AGP), ATI Radeon X850 XT PE (R480) (AGP) (II) Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (--) Chipset NVIDIA GPU found (II) Loading sub module "fb" (II) LoadModule: "fb" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libfb.so (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.3 (II) Loading sub module "ramdac" (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"(II) Module already built-in (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call: [0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0xc3000000 - 0xc3003fff (0x4000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xc3800000 - 0xc38007ff (0x800) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xc7000000 - 0xc7000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0xc5000000 - 0xc50000ff (0x100) MX[B] [8] -1 0 0xc5800000 - 0xc58000ff (0x100) MX[B] [9] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [10] -1 0 0xe77e0000 - 0xe77fffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0xe7800000 - 0xe787ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [12] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [13] -1 0 0xc6000000 - 0xc6ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [14] -1 0 0xc7800000 - 0xc7800fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [15] -1 0 0xc4000000 - 0xc400ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [16] -1 0 0xc8000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [17] -1 0 0xd7fe0000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [18] -1 0 0xc4800000 - 0xc480ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [19] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [20] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [21] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [22] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a01f (0x20) IX[B] [23] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a41f (0x20) IX[B] [24] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a80f (0x10) IX[B] [25] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b007 (0x8) IX[B] [26] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b43f (0x40) IX[B] [27] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d0ff (0x100) IX[B] [28] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [29] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[B] [30] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[B](B) (II) ATI: Candidate "Device" section "device2". (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:13:1) found (--) Chipset ATI Radeon 9250 5960 (AGP) found (II) resource ranges after xf86ClaimFixedResources() call: [0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0xc3000000 - 0xc3003fff (0x4000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xc3800000 - 0xc38007ff (0x800) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xc7000000 - 0xc7000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0xc5000000 - 0xc50000ff (0x100) MX[B] [8] -1 0 0xc5800000 - 0xc58000ff (0x100) MX[B] [9] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [10] -1 0 0xe77e0000 - 0xe77fffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0xe7800000 - 0xe787ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [12] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [13] -1 0 0xc6000000 - 0xc6ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [14] -1 0 0xc7800000 - 0xc7800fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [15] -1 0 0xc4000000 - 0xc400ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [16] -1 0 0xc8000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [17] -1 0 0xd7fe0000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [18] -1 0 0xc4800000 - 0xc480ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [19] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [20] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [21] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [22] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a01f (0x20) IX[B] [23] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a41f (0x20) IX[B] [24] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a80f (0x10) IX[B] [25] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b007 (0x8) IX[B] [26] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b43f (0x40) IX[B] [27] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d0ff (0x100) IX[B] [28] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [29] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[B] [30] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[B](B) (II) Loading sub module "radeon" (II) LoadModule: "radeon" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//radeon_drv.so (II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 4.2.0 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.2 (II) resource ranges after probing: [0] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [1] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [4] -1 0 0xc3000000 - 0xc3003fff (0x4000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0xc3800000 - 0xc38007ff (0x800) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0xc7000000 - 0xc7000fff (0x1000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0xc5000000 - 0xc50000ff (0x100) MX[B] [8] -1 0 0xc5800000 - 0xc58000ff (0x100) MX[B] [9] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xefffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [10] -1 0 0xe77e0000 - 0xe77fffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [11] -1 0 0xe7800000 - 0xe787ffff (0x80000) MX[B](B) [12] -1 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [13] -1 0 0xc6000000 - 0xc6ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [14] -1 0 0xc7800000 - 0xc7800fff (0x1000) MX[B](B) [15] -1 0 0xc4000000 - 0xc400ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [16] -1 0 0xc8000000 - 0xcfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [17] -1 0 0xd7fe0000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x20000) MX[B](B) [18] -1 0 0xc4800000 - 0xc480ffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [19] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [20] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B] [21] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B] [22] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B] [23] 1 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B] [24] 1 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B] [25] 1 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B] [26] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [27] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [28] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a01f (0x20) IX[B] [29] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a41f (0x20) IX[B] [30] -1 0 0x0000a800 - 0x0000a80f (0x10) IX[B] [31] -1 0 0x0000b000 - 0x0000b007 (0x8) IX[B] [32] -1 0 0x0000b400 - 0x0000b43f (0x40) IX[B] [33] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d0ff (0x100) IX[B] [34] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [35] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d81f (0x20) IX[B] [36] -1 0 0x0000b800 - 0x0000b8ff (0x100) IX[B](B) [37] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B] [38] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B] [39] 1 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B] [40] 1 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B] (II) Setting vga for screen 0. (II) Setting vga for screen 1. (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888 (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is (II) NVIDIA(0): enabled. (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce4 Ti 4200 at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 65536 kBytes (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.25.00.29.10 (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 4X (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce4 Ti 4200 at PCI:1:0:0: (--) NVIDIA(0): Philips 180P2 (DFP-0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Philips 180P2 (DFP-0): 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (--) NVIDIA(0): Philips 180P2 (DFP-0): External Single Link TMDS (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0 (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "480x360"; removing. (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes: (II) NVIDIA(0): "1280x1024" (II) NVIDIA(0): "1152x864" (II) NVIDIA(0): "1024x768" (II) NVIDIA(0): "832x624" (II) NVIDIA(0): "800x600" (II) NVIDIA(0): "640x480" (II) NVIDIA(0): "320x240" (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1280 x 1024 (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (90, 89); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config (--) NVIDIA(0): option (**) RADEON(1): RADEONPreInit (II) RADEON(1): MMIO registers at 0xc4800000: size 64KB (II) RADEON(1): PCI bus 0 card 13 func 0 (**) RADEON(1): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32 (II) RADEON(1): Pixel depth = 24 bits stored in 4 bytes (32 bpp pixmaps) (==) RADEON(1): Default visual is TrueColor (**) RADEON(1): Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" (II) Loading sub module "vgahw" (II) LoadModule: "vgahw" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libvgahw.so (II) Module vgahw: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.2 (II) RADEON(1): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000 (==) RADEON(1): RGB weight 888 (II) RADEON(1): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC) (==) RADEON(1): X server will not keep DPI constant for all screen sizes (II) Loading sub module "int10" (II) LoadModule: "int10" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libint10.so (II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.2 (II) RADEON(1): initializing int10 (II) Attempted to read BIOS 128KB from /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:0d.0/rom: got 52KB (--) RADEON(1): Chipset: "ATI Radeon 9250 5960 (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x5960) (--) RADEON(1): Linear framebuffer at 0xd8000000 (--) RADEON(1): BIOS at 0xd7fe0000 (II) RADEON(1): PCI card detected (II) RADEON(1): Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory (II) RADEON(1): Detected total video RAM=131072K, accessible=131072K (PCI BAR=131072K) (--) RADEON(1): Mapped VideoRAM: 131072 kByte (64 bit DDR SDRAM) (II) RADEON(1): Color tiling enabled by default (II) Loading sub module "ddc" (II) LoadModule: "ddc"(II) Module already built-in (II) Loading sub module "i2c" (II) LoadModule: "i2c"(II) Module already built-in (II) RADEON(1): I2C bus "DDC" initialized. (II) RADEON(1): Legacy BIOS detected (II) NVIDIA(0): Connector0: DDCType-2, DACType-1, TMDSType-0, ConnectorType-3 (II) NVIDIA(0): Connector1: DDCType-3, DACType-0, TMDSType--1, ConnectorType-2 (II) RADEON(1): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0. (II) RADEON(1): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed. (II) RADEON(1): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0. (II) RADEON(1): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed. (II) RADEON(1): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0. (II) RADEON(1): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed. (II) RADEON(1): DDC Type: 2, Detected Type: 0 (II) RADEON(1): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0. (II) RADEON(1): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed. (II) RADEON(1): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0. (II) RADEON(1): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed. (II) RADEON(1): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0. (II) RADEON(1): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed. (II) RADEON(1): DDC Type: 3, Detected Type: 0 (II) RADEON(1): (II) RADEON(1): Primary: Monitor -- CRT Connector -- VGA DAC Type -- Primary TMDS Type -- NONE DDC Type -- VGA_DDC (II) RADEON(1): Secondary: Monitor -- NONE Connector -- DVI-I DAC Type -- TVDAC/ExtDAC TMDS Type -- Internal DDC Type -- DVI_DDC (II) RADEON(1): PLL parameters: rf=2700 rd=12 min=20000 max=40000; xclk=16600 (WW) RADEON(1): Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode disabled (==) RADEON(1): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (II) RADEON(1): Validating modes on Primary head --------- (II) RADEON(1): monitor2: Using hsync range of 31.50-64.30 kHz (II) RADEON(1): monitor2: Using vrefresh range of 50.00-70.00 Hz (II) RADEON(1): Clock range: 20.00 to 400.00 MHz (II) RADEON(1): Not using mode "1280x720_75" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "640x350" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "320x175" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "640x400" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "320x200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "720x400" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "360x200" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "640x480" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "320x240" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "400x300" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "400x300" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "400x300" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "800x600" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "400x300" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "512x384" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "512x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "512x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1024x768" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "512x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1024x768" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "512x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1152x864" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "576x432" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "640x480" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1280x960" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "640x480" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "640x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "640x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "640x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1600x1200" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "800x600" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "896x672" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1792x1344" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "896x672" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "928x696" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1856x1392" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "928x696" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "960x720" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "960x720" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "832x624" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "416x312" (vrefresh out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "576x384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "700x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "700x525" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "800x512" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1920x1440" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "960x720" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1024x768" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1024x768" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "2048x1536" (hsync out of range) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1024x768" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1400x1050" (width too large for virtual size) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1280x1024" (height too large for virtual size) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1280x960" (height too large for virtual size) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1152x768" (height too large for virtual size) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1024x768" (height too large for virtual size) (II) RADEON(1): Not using default mode "1024x768" (height too large for virtual size) (--) RADEON(1): Virtual size is 1280x720 (pitch 1280) (**) RADEON(1): *Mode "1280x720_60": 74.5 MHz, 44.8 kHz, 60.0 Hz (II) RADEON(1): Modeline "1280x720_60" 74.48 1280 1336 1472 1664 720 721 724 746 -hsync +vsync (**) RADEON(1): *Mode "1280x720_50": 60.5 MHz, 37.1 kHz, 50.0 Hz (II) RADEON(1): Modeline "1280x720_50" 60.47 1280 1328 1456 1632 720 721 724 741 -hsync +vsync (**) RADEON(1): Default mode "800x600": 40.0 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 60.3 Hz (II) RADEON(1): Modeline "800x600" 40.00 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync (**) RADEON(1): Default mode "800x600": 36.0 MHz, 35.2 kHz, 56.2 Hz (II) RADEON(1): Modeline "800x600" 36.00 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync (**) RADEON(1): Default mode "640x480": 25.2 MHz, 31.5 kHz, 59.9 Hz (II) RADEON(1): Modeline "640x480" 25.18 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525 -hsync -vsync (**) RADEON(1): Default mode "400x300": 20.0 MHz, 37.9 kHz, 60.3 Hz (D) (II) RADEON(1): Modeline "400x300" 20.00 400 420 484 528 300 300 302 314 doublescan +hsync +vsync (==) RADEON(1): DPI set to (75, 75) (II) Loading sub module "fb" (II) LoadModule: "fb" (II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libfb.so (II) Loading sub module "ramdac" (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"(II) Module already built-in (**) RADEON(1): Using EXA acceleration architecture (II) Loading sub module "exa" (II) LoadModule: "exa" (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libexa.so (II) Module exa: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 2.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.2 (II) RADEON(1): No MM_TABLE found - assuming CARD is not TV-in capable. (!!) RADEON(1): For information on using the multimedia capabilities of this adapter, please see http://gatos.sf.net. (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp (II) do I need RAC? Yes, I do. (II) resource ranges after preInit: [0] 1 0 0xc4800000 - 0xc480ffff (0x10000) MX[B] [1] 1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B] [2] 0 0 0xe7800000 - 0xe787ffff (0x80000) MX[B] [3] 0 0 0xe8000000 - 0xefffffff (0x8000000) MX[B] [4] 0 0 0xc6000000 - 0xc6ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B]

I agree that F B's letter was far from perfect professional public communication. To be more specific: - it should have been corrected in terms of spelling and grammar - it comes across as a five year old: "mommy, Stevey took my pencil!", due to the phrasing/choice of words - it fails to capture (large parts of) the audience, can easily be mistaken for sour grapes and name calling However, there are some more points to make... I'm quite sure that Steve Ballmer actually knows what Mandriva is, they know who their potential competition is. Microsoft may not have been bribing anyone; they may have called Nigerian "bluff" which may have gone further than they expected. As I get it, Microsoft was in the race for this deal, and they fell out. As usual, if one pretends to examine Linux, one can get better prices for MS software. Nigerians may have pushed harder than MS wanted at the time, so they said: go ahead, go with Linux/Mandriva. However, they are free to give away their product, incuding support to get it installed, etc, to Nigeria - no bribes there, and it would finally give Nigeria what they possibly wanted all along: a much lower price than what MS offered before the deal with Mandriva was done. Some more things we can learn: - MS will not give an inch. So any inch Linux gains is a great victory. It started in Spain in the region Extremadura and passed by Vienna, Munich and other places. - Linux offerings will bring down MS Windows prices, all the way if necessary. THIS IS NOT GOOD FOR MS. In the short run, they can easily afford it. In the long run, they can't. - In the Linux camp we can see this Nigerian deal as our loss at the moment, but it shows the strength of Linux - at least in the eyes of MS - things are turned around: Mandriva cost them something, Windows was free (most likely)... if that doesn't say it all, I don't know what does - If MS hadn't done anything, Nigeria would have used Mandriva Linux - meaning, in their opinion and after their investigation, it's a viable platform - something to point out to IT admins and CIO's all the same

Zac, a few comments from my point - another old timer who's not got near enough time for Linux, but then a baby girl will one day become independent whereas computers will always need to be told what to do at a lower level...... 1 - Welcome! You've found the right place for help with Mandriva / Linux 2 - Not distro hopping is the smartest thing, if you can sit through the early annoyances and if you don't have problems you can't fix with your current choice of distribution 3 - at my place of work, we had someone external who had a dualboot linux/windows laptop; windows to show powerpoint slides, linux to show off their software. He just couldn't get his RH to display at xga resolution (1024x768) so we were stuck at svga (800x600); I offered to have a look during the break, but someone higher up decided that our IT (UNIX) specialist should have a look. Now I'm the local Linux pusher, but not an IT guy (a designer instead). In walks the IT guy, sees me, goes: did you ask Rob to have a look?, they said yes, he said, well, that's probably what I would have done.... Moral: a 10+ years UNIX sysadmin has no problem asking a hobbyist 5 year (less experienced) Linux user about things _he_ doesn't _yet_ know about. Neither should you. 4 - read some reviews about the various packages of software that are available for Linux. You can always mix and match KDE/GNOME and other type applications, but sticking with kde apps in kde makes things look more uniform. I strongly dislike the gnome file save/open dialog, but other than that mix and match to my hearts desire. BTW there are quite a few topics here on which apps are cool, have a look at those. 5 - take your time, but don't _waste_ your time looking for answers. Asking 'dumb' questions is not a problem, people who don't like your question can always ignore it. Asking questions in the wrong way (as sometimes 'recommended' on Usenet, slashdot and other places: just rub Linux users to get your answer, i.e. don't say: I have trouble getting my printer working, but say: Linux can't even handle my printer which it supposedly supports - if it can't even do that, I don't see why I should consider it even over my old Win ME installation...) is a problem, but that has more to do with general politeness than anything else. It's like someone coming to your home and telling you that how you live is crap without having tried it. Reminds me, I actually had a guy over at my place (boyfriend of friend of my S.O.) whom I showed my (Linux) desktop and he went: "Linux? But no one uses that crap...!". I would have thrown him out if not for his girlfriend being a friend of my wife... People who come here complaining about Linux generally even get help, and I think that this board can take all kinds of abuse and still get people's linux problems fixed, so it truly is an excellent forum. Me, I just ignore the flaming messages. 6 - I do hope you will start answering as soon as you find you have anything to contribute - you're a new linux user, so you'll be much closer in terms of experience to what other new users have, so you can relate more easily. I can't relate to people switching from XP, because I never had XP and I never used it (at work, I still have a 2k machine...). BTW K3B is (was?) actually called "Burn, Baby, Burn!" with the not-quite-mandatory K thrown in, hence K3B.... A last thing I'd like to add is that I have an exceptional situation due to my job (microelectronics designer), we have windows for email and office stuff, but run all real stuff on Linux machines (which replaced UNIX machines), so I see the other side of things compared to most people (who can't switch to Linux because their productivity software runs natively only on windows)...

I read the review of Jem Matzan, he's picky as Adam said, but for him that was indeed very positive. I believe that that kind of positive criticism is more important to the 'hey look everyone can use Linux, it just works' type of stories. Not saying the other review was like that, but those kind of reviews are out there. ... usually about Ubuntu. Nice to see quite a few comments on the web lately (even on Slashdot and similar places) where it's said that it looks like Ubuntu is finally catching up with Mandriva in terms of GUI wizards and such - usually adding the remark that Mandriva is still ahead. It's true that Ubuntu gets way more attention, I think that ShipIt has lots to do with that as well. Adam, I believe that Mandriva should be sending out way more LiveCDs and Powerpacks to newspapers. Now about 3d eye candy: it's really useful and good for productivity, provided it works and after the initial phase of 'wow, it can do THAT...?!?!' multiple desktops: cube: so, so, expo plugin is way better for overview. scale (apple's expose): fabulous, if you believe that the kde or gnome window list has anything on scale you're not using your machine the way I am mine. Open the gimp with a bunch of images and do some cross image pixel hacking... or do some video editing with Cinelerra. Too many windows with similar names. BTW I like the shift-switcher, though I think it may not be as useful, it's just gorgeous. And considering how many people have asked me how to get this 3d stuff going on Linux (IRL) just shows how big of an attraction it is. Won't any of you nay-sayers think of the children? My 12 and 15 year old nephews wanted Linux, just for 'the Cube'.... 3d desktop does for linux what Bill G has been doing for Windows through the educational systems: get them while they're young! :) Edit: forgot to mention: Jem says he's used the Powerpack, but his screenshot is of the FREE edition....

AdamW, thanks a million. I'm posting this with the iwl driver, and indeed I didn't have any of the adobe utopia fonts installed. Installed all three, and glest works fine. Now I'll be off to see what can be done about fusion-icon...

No lirc modules? Why not??

I think /dev/dsp is usually a link to /dev/snd/dsp or /dev/sound/dsp and it may be that which throws off fuser. That or you may have to create said links - which would surprise me for Mandriva, never seen that... You could also try to start aa like this: soundwrapper aa might help, not sure...

The whole problem with software patents are that they are about protecting an idea, not the implementation of an idea. Contrary to regular patents (which are in this kind of context called hardware patents), where the idea is not protectable, but the implementation is. Essentially, for a patent, your invention must be: 1- novel (i.e. any prior implementation will invalidate it) 2- non-trivial, non-obvious to someone skilled in the art (i.e. no matter how clever some invention is, if anyone who is skilled in the same field were to face the same problem, he would come up with the same solution in little time; that doesn't mean that if you see something and you immediately see how it works that it shouldn't be/have been patentable - it should be non-obvious in a world that hasn't seen the solution yet, in that hypothetical world it must be difficult to come up with) 3- useful, have industrial application (not sure how this is limited / how this is determined) From this it is derived that the thing you normally patent (i.e. you get temporary monopoly rights to) must be a solution to a problem, i.e. an implementation to solve some blocking thing, that makes something useful possible. If you look at the reasoning, it's not too bad: a patent means you get an exclusive right to a specific solution, in return for disclosing your 'hi-tech', so that in time it will not get lost but be available to all. If it's really new (requirement nr 1) it should not be a problem if you have the sole rights to it for some time - without you/your invention, the idea is that no one would have it anyway. If you get this kind of reward, it will motivate you to disclose your developments, and do more developments. You stand to gain money for your developments, and the patent system will enable you to capitalise on your investment. Without patents, if you invest and develop novel and non-trivial solutions, what will stop competitors from copying your product as soon as it hits the market? They don't have this investment to recoup, so they can be much cheaper. So you go out of business, and the quick copyers get to make money, as long as there are some new developers from time to time. So copiers have an unfair advantage: no high investments, easy money. Original solutions makers are penalised and would likely try to keep things under wraps, possibly leading to loss of knowledge (see the art of violin making that was lost when Stradivarius died), which means big setbacks for humanity... So that's not good for advancement of science. With patents, those who invest in creating smart solutions are able to get protection, and if someone comes up with a different way to solve a specific problem, they get to have a patent on their implementation. Which is ok, they also invested in their solution, and if theirs is simpler, and therefor cheaper to develop, or was found quicker, more luck to them. Good to push innovating companies. What is missing from the requirements for patentability is that if something didn't take any investment to invent/come up with, why should you be able to protect it? Now to software patents.... Here, the implementation itself is already protected by copyright, and usually not available (closed source). So what is protected is the idea, not the implementation. A UI where one can click a button...? Or where one can drag and drop? All ideas, there's nothing about implementation. The stupid thing is, as soon as you ask any software developer: can you write some code that does this or that, they can. And the investment is similar to all competing parties: just some development time (may not be trivial depending on the functionality). So there is no unfair advantage to anyone copying anything - they face the same investment cost!!! So there should be no patent protection for such things. On the other hand, if you look at MP3, it really takes a lot of investment to figure out how to do that kind of lossy compression and still end up with something acceptable. I'm not talking about the implementation or the algorithm (algorithms are not patentable), but it takes a lot of research into psychoacoustics to figure out how to do your filtering and signal discrimination to compress without deteriorating the listening experience. I'm not sure how one can protect such investments...

Ram x 2 rule is from the times that whatever you did with your system, some swap would always be used. Use free to check; with 1GB of RAM you should see that no swap is used. Also, to be able to suspend to RAM it's nice (but again, since some time apparently not absolutely required) to have the swap larger than the RAM. If your swap is not used, and larger than RAM, doing a suspend just means writing out the ram data to swap partition. If the swap is used or smaller than RAM, the kernel first has to make place to be able to suspend... Be aware that many many embedded Linux systems have no swap at all. It just limits the system a bit more, you'll more quickly run into memory limitations. Having lots of swap will not hurt your system. You may also want to make sure you place your swap partition correctly. If you know you'll be using it a lot (say, on a laptop where you'll be using suspend to disk) you want it to be at the beginning of the harddrive, i.e. hda1. If you're not going to be using it (2GB of RAM, no suspend to disk / not a laptop), put it at the end of the drive. On my laptop, the drive throughput is 40MB/s at the start, and down to 22MB/s at the end (160GB ATA drive), both swap are 2GB in size. I have used either as swap partition to suspend & resume, and it takes twice as long if I'm using the swap partition at the end of the drive. BTW you can use dd to measure throughput. Does a large swap hurt? Well, if you put 10GB of swap at the start, and then the system root '/' partition, your apps will be started slightly slower than if you had only 1GB of swap. It seems linear with the drive, likely around half the speed at the end compared to the start of the drive. And yes, this is perfectly normal; unlike cds/dvds, harddrives are written from the outside to the inside, and they rotate at a fixed speed; at the same time, the 'length' of path per data is the same, so in one revolution the data the heads read at the start of the drive is more than one revolution at the end. No magic there.

Short reply to my message above.... the plugin I referred to is called 'expo'. Some more things that went missing: - 3d distance between windows when going to cube mode. - no way to turn off lighting when using the cube - I liked how you could see the backside of windows and such, now it's all so dark... Perhaps due to the font server change, glest won't start. You have to edit the file ~/.glest/glest.ini and exchange the string 'utopia' with a * to fix it. I tried putting a fontname there, no joy...

Don't (just) speak highly of it, help others move on to Linux with it! As they say, talk is cheap! ;)

What happens to your systems if you try this? (A side note, indeed, do not turn off swap.) I see what he means, it happens a lot on my internet/audio server. If I leave it for a few days, come back and try to use the konqueror on it, it really takes ages to react. Sure, the best way to deal with this is to add ram - if it happens often. If not, it shouldn't really be a big nuisance. But then again, my old server doesn't need upgrading, it needs getting replaced...

My laptop is linux certified, and with Mandriva Linux 2008.0 even the built in cardreader finally works. Installation is fully functional out of the box. I kicked out lindvd before running it, since I know it would set the zone of my dvd drive, which I don't want (it's 'good as new' as it is, I want to keep it that way, even though with libdvdcss it shouldn't matter). I have tremendous problems with compiz fusion - was very happy with beryl on 2007.1. Setting certain options completely freezes the machine; sometimes I can ctl-alt-F1 or ctl-alt-backspace, sometimes not even that, and I have to resort to alt-sysrq-[esuib]. And sometimes even that doesn't help. Basically, this happens when I turn on the 'reflection' thingy (there's one option called only reflection, that's the nasty one). Worst: I don't even know if it's cool, since I apparently can't run it.... Once I turned this off, it looks like things are more stable; I love the shift switcher (for looks) and the desktops overview (forgot the name, not on my laptop now; 4 desktops next to each other, to see and modify window placement). I do think that the system sometimes gets very slow/unresponsive due to compizfusion - which I didn't have with beryl on 2007.1. Need more time... Some things from beryl that I liked are gone now; I used the setting that sticky windows and objects (including kicker) should stay put whilst rotating the cube, as if they're stuck to the 'windshield' - that seems to have been taken out. The moving skydome doesn't move properly - it always resets to have you start from the same viewpoint, no matter what viewport /cube side you're on, meaning: I only get to see the half of it unless I switch more than one cube face. I miss beryl-manager; there should be something called fusion-icon (from ubuntu info on the web) but (afaics) Mandriva 2008 doesn't have it..! Makes it more difficult to choose different wm's and decorators. It's better to turn off compiz/beryl when using 3d apps like stellarium, celestia and games like glest... and without the tray icon, how are people going to do that...? (Yeah, I like the command line, so I can manage. It's not just about me, though on my laptop it certainly is..) I tried to use the iwl3945 to forego the ipw3945d proprietary daemon, but alas, no clue as to how to set it up. I do get as far as to have it show the device wlan0_replace, but it won't show any network with iwlist scan, so no joy there. It will need some more time. I had a look at kde4, not sure what I should look at exactly, but looks like a work in progress that's coming along fine. Other than some serious problems with compiz fusion, I must say that this Mandriva 2008 Powerpack is the best Linux (also the most recent, mind you) that I have ever installed/used (installation about 25mins, tops... great looking too). Everything works out of the box (well, it should, it's linux certified hardware, Intel core2duo and iig 945, but still): wifi, graphics, bt, gigabit ethernet, cardreader. With Lindvd even dvd playback in a legal way (for those regions where it matters) and with fluendo codecs the same for audio (mp3). Great work Mandriva developers (AdamW, I'm sure you'll pass it on)!

Early seeders just got the word. I started, but it's still a bit slow to download. Incidently, I figured it'd be fun to download the ftp cooker mirrors, so I did. over 54GB in what, half a day or so? (I got both x64 and i586...) I guess if you install now from cooker with network/ftp install, you get 2008.0.

It's not been released to early seeders yet, and from that moment on it will take a day or 2. And indeed, it's much better to release a week late than a day (and grave bug) early...

Thanks to Aussiejohn for your explanation. Addition and correction about FSB, AMD ratings/numberings, etc... Nowadays, AMD is using a different scheme for the cpu 'ratings' or numberings; for dual core cpu's with 1MB L2 cache, it's 2x the clock speed, so for a 4000+ amd64x2 with 1MB cache you have a 2 GHz cpu with 2 cores. For 512KB of cache, substract 200 points, and for only 256KB another 200. So a 2.6GHz AMD64x2 with 512KB of cache is named 5000+ As for the FSB, this used to be a really big deal before AMD put the memory controller on the CPU. In the 'old' days (which are still with us for any Intel x86 chip), the cpu would use the FSB to connect to the northbridge, which would connect to the memory and the southbridge. AGP was also connected to the northbridge I think, to have faster memory access. PCI, usb etc all connected to the southbridge, which also got to include LAN, audio, whatever else they could come up with. In any case, the FSB speed makes a terrible difference if the memory is connected to the northbridge. With recent AMD cpus this is not the case, so it becomes slightly less important. (One could argue that there's no longer a true northbridge nor a true FSB...) The memory controller on the AMD cpu die (chip, whatever) is related to the clockspeed, but not with a fixed ratio, and with limited flexibility; it must have a 'fitting' multiplier, i.e. multiplication factor of the memory interface clockspeed versus the cpu clock speed. Meaning: with a 2.4GHz AMD cpu your 800MHz DDR2 memory may run at 800MHz (multiplier of 3x), but a 2.6GHz AMD cpu will have it run at 742MHz. See also here for instance: http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/328 BUT the fact remains that an AMD cpu of 2.2GHz can and if necessary should run at 2.2GHz. My guess is that the /proc/cpuinfo data is collected once and not updated properly, so whatever the system said at that very moment is what this file will keep telling you. I think that on my Intel laptop it does change, will have a look later....

No need to mess with /etc/fstab just to see if things work. If you are not afraid of the command line, all you need to do is mount the devices as root: open a console (konsolo, xterm, whatever) su (enter root password) mkdir /mnt/testdir mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/testdir (or, mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/testdir -t ntfs if the other command doesn't work) if this allows you to read the data on that partition, all is ok. If not, you need to tell us what errors you get. You can unmount with: umount /dev/sda5 or umount /mnt/test NB: the spelling of the command to unmount is: umount (no _n_ so be warned). Built in harddrives can be managed with diskdrake in terms of mount points and what not. It will get you proper entries in /etc/fstab - I think yours may not be correct. For a fat32 partition I have: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0 (actually, I think having defaults and umask specified is conflicting; furthermore, you should not use spaces after commas IIRC) External drives should become visible upon connection - this includes thumbdrives, photo cameras, etc. In KDE you get a popup that asks what you want - choose to open a file browser. Also, if you use KDE you can open konqueror and browse to: media:/ which should show you all your drives/partitions and also if they're mounted or not. EDIT: Point 4: this should be the case if you disconnected the drive as for point 5, I think you need nvidia 9xxxx driver. you should add the repositories (easy-urpmi link at the top of this page) and then set up your graphics adapter (in MCC) choosing to use the proprietary driver, it will know which one to install.

My guess is that you would need nvidia97xx-1.0-9755.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm but instead of just installing that one, I suggest you add the various repositories (link at top of this page: easy-urpmi ) and then use the MCC to setup your graphics, then choose to use the proprietary driver. If you need more precise info, just ask here.