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  1. First: Mandriva is not a KDE distribution, it offers KDE and GNOME and lots of other desktops. When I last touched upon RH, I noticed they did things to KDE that made it less usable than it is in normal unmessed state. If this is still the case on Fedora, I'd say, stick with GNOME there. With Mandriva you can go either way. I use KDE and like certain applications better than their GNOME counterparts. Also, the way KDE applications work, it's better to run KDE with your preferred KDE and GNOME applications than to run GNOME with GNOME and KDE apps, because any KDE app will have practically all of KDE loaded (to have the framework functional, kioslaves and all kinds of other things that I admittedly know nothing about), whereas the way I understood this is not the case with GNOME applications. Now on to the GNOME applications that I use and like: grip - cd ripper - have set it up once, ages ago, and since I set it up the way I want, there's no reason to change. Works for me, works fine. gqview - photo viewer - I know kuickshow, just don't like how the selected photo pops up in a different frame, gqview does what I want it to do and works the way I expect. evolution - mail program - I started using this since I started with GNOME, because at that time there was a strong anti-kde-the-licence-is-bad sentiment going on, and still use it, works fine Yeah, short list - I have lots more KDE apps that I really dig: K3B, digiKam, Konqueror (web and file and then some), ...
  2. In KDE try kcmshell khotkeys and see if you can change the settings for how much it changes. I'm not at my Linux machine, so can't try...
  3. Shame all of those names are in CAPITALS whereas in reality they are not, and UNIX filesystems are case sensitive... Otherwise, nice overview, thanks for posting. I just realised: they didn't yet include the recently more popular /media for ehm, external media (thumbdrives and such).
  4. Correction: no-one has their specs really out in the open. Intel has open source/ free software drivers, in the mainline kernel, including 3d accelleration. This means: any recent kernel will have 3d accel out of the box on Intel graphics. But their specs are not freely available. So ATI goes from number 3 to number 1 - pole position! Well, as soon as functional 3d drivers are a reality. Way to go AMD!
  5. Ok already found it, followed the advice here: http://www.captain.at/programming/kernel-2.6/ Now I just have the problem of the Module.symvers which was missing; I loaded the module with modprobe -f anyway, and I know it works ok, loading without the -f won't work, so I will fix it - figured out to get the Module.symvers I have to compile the kernel. Well, that's ok.
  6. The question: How do I tell the kernel build system that there's an extra module to be compiled, and ideally, how do I tell it just to compile that one module? The story: I'm very happy with Mandriva 2007.1 Spring, it's working great. But now I got a Bluetooth headset, and to use btsco to use the headset for VoIP, the module snd-bt-sco is needed... With urpmf snd-bt-sco I found that the multimedia kernels do have this module. So I installed the multimedia laptop smp kernel. There I can manage to record with audacity from the bt mic, and play music to it (crappy quality) from xmms. So it does work. BUT: no wifi, ... well, it connects to the fully open AP of my neighbours, but not my WPA protected one - actually, it does connect, /var/log/messages tells me 'link beat detected' (this is of a connection with my AP), practically directly followed by 'link beat lost', and then detected again, but with the neighbours AP. And what good is my bt headset for VoIP if I have no network connection.... I also had problems with suspend to disk and more, so I really don't like the multimedia kernel.... I tried running the regular kernel with the mm kernel module. Yeah I know, don't try this at home. Forced the module, but it doesn't work. All apps trying to use the extra alsa device just hang. What I then thought, since I'm happy with the regular kernel, is: just take out the module from the multimedia kernel source (3rdparty/snd_bt_sco IIRC) stick it in the source of the regular kernel, and compile. I've not had to compile any module in ages (and when I did, it was a patched one that was already available and known to the system), but I went through the steps without thinking: make but then I saw (after a long wait) that it didn't make the new module. With make xconfig I actually don't see the new module. My question is: how do I tell the build system that there's extra code to be compiled, and ideally, how do I tell it just to compile that one module? I did look at the various FAQs and such, but all just explain how to compile a kernel, not how to add a module that wasn't there in the first place...
  7. You can now find my configuration page for Mandriva Linux 2007.1 Spring at this location: http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/configuration2007.1.html If you have any comments, please post them here - corrections, additions, etc. Edit: thanks to Dexter the link is now ok.
  8. arctic - the walkthrough of 2007.0 was so much like the one of 2006 that I didn't think anyone would miss it. I myself missed my config page for 2007 when I set up 2007.1 though... :) Ian - unfortunately, I can't change the URL - this is from a free hosting service who are also internet provider, and to use the new 'mandriva' name, I have to directly connect to their service, and for that I'm not even in the right country...
  9. My installation walkthrough for Mandriva Linux 2007.1 Spring is now available, please check it out: Mandriva Linux 2007.1 Spring 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
  10. Hmm, you could try just adding the correct 1280x800 mode to the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf (make a backup of the old one just in case). And taking out all other modes, naturally. To debug things, you may want to look at the logfile at /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or likewise, depending on which xserver number you were running). Otherwise, you may want to try out krandrtray (if you're using KDE) to see if that will allow you to switch resolutions, it's a try icon. From the command line you can try xrandr for more info, try man xrandr Hope this helps, I know it's a lack of comfort to have a laptop without proper suspend to ram and to disk... I've always been lucky enough to manage so far (knock on wood!)... BTW I'm trying out Mandriva 2007.1 and it uses a different suspend method (swsuspend vs pmsuspend I think....). I've not had to muck about with anything (well, rc3, lots of mucking about, but not for suspend/hibernate), so you might want to give it a try (maybe the final, not the rc, though it's quite ok for me).
  11. studmuffin007, why are you trying to convince your friend to switch to Linux? Why would it be a good thing for him to do, in your eyes? Why doesn't he see that? About that article, it's not relevant to this discussion at all - though I can explain very simply why Linux has more traction than BSD. It's in the GPL - you can't take Linux without giving back. Meaning: a company that invests in BSD openly (meaning, they give back the code) can have their code taken by a competitor, closed, improved and sold. I'm in the mobile phone business, where there's currently quite a rush to get entry level phones running on Linux onto the market; I'd say that within about 2 years most new low to mid end models will very likely be running Linux. Note also that most Linux developers are actually getting payed, they're employed by those same corporations that Theo de Raadt is complaining about that they are using the work of unpaid Linux developers.... Now back to the matter of this friend who, in your opinion, should switch to Linux. Which of the following arguments have you used: technical: quality of Linux philosophical: GPL, sharing of code open source free software (question: do you see and care about the distinction between OS and FS?) economical: price legal: no piracy required to get all cool free Linux software Why do you use Linux yourself? Do your reasons apply to your friend? Are you sure he's ready for Linux? I wrote this back in 2003, but quite a bit of it still holds: http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/switchsuccess.html I'm looking forward to your answers...
  12. One thing in this thread I have to object against: the complaint that Mandriva drops in quality, that other distros are somehow better. Yes I'm looking at you gowator ;-) My point: no one gets further than circumstantial evidence; there's no hard numbers, and if you look on any forum of any distro, you find people with problems and issues - some of which were not their fault. Second: after finding something doesn't work, people switch distro. Why? Because that other distro works. Well, they switch until they find a distro that works (mostly). Then, what if a future iteration of said distro also doesn't work? Remember, we're on the 2.6 kernel series, where the distro kernels are much closer to Linus' vanilla kernel. So, first proper thing to do if hardware doesn't work properly: get a different kernel from the same distro version. Failing to do so gets you a note 'newbie' from me ;-) As Linux distros go, Mandriva is quite decent, not better or worse than the other big distros. And as it is still a bit distro, it is still relevant. On a side note, what has to happen for Linux to become (more? somewhat?) relevant is that preinstalled machines should show up in shops. Any distro that can make that happen in a big way will be the most relevant one. I say, now with Vista, Linux has a great opportunity.
  13. I had no problems on my wife's pc, on my pc and on my new laptop. My old laptop had some sound setup issues - unlike before where it just worked. Note that my new laptop is Linux certified by Novell (came preinstalled with Suse, no MS Win) and all my desktop hardware is Linux certified by me. And it just works. Not that I didn't have to figure things out, like how my laptop wireless works etc. But on the whole, I've been quite happy with Mandriva 2007 - I'm just not around much anymore since I'm a parent now (well, since about 6 months).... hence my late reply to this thread...
  14. You're not running Mandriva 2006 by any chance? This sounds like a problem that 2006 had and which was explained in their errata....
  15. Techically, I'd say, probably yes. What you'd have to do now that I think about it, is: get the bootloaded part out of the iso, modify it so that it will be able to read your filesystem, mount the iso image as a cdrom drive and use it, place the modified bootloading part somewhere on your filesystem, point lilo/grub to it, done. To be honest, personally I'd just burn the cd and spin it up.... it will certainly save you a lot of frustration, time and effort...
  16. You're a bit sparse on details,... which modules do your webcams use? Are they loaded on the new (dysfunctional) kernel? If not, what happens if you load them?
  17. Could you reinstall xine-ui? urpmi xine-ui Are you running a 64bit system (core 2 duo, athlon64)? Can you view dvds with mplayer? Make sure the mplayer-gui package is installed and use the command gmplayer to start it, then see if it will play (right click the video window for options; 'preferences' is where you can indicate your dvd drive). Do you have more than one drive? The videoplayer must be trying the correct one...
  18. Quick comment: the stock Mandrake kernels should be able to cope with up to 4GB of RAM. Just in case people get the wrong impression that they can't - at some point in time this was different, the stock kernel used to be able to deal with 1GB only (well, I think it was ~980MB or so, the rest was HiMem for which an option had to be turned on, at the cost of a slight penalty for those with less memory than 1GB...). BTW to see how much RAM you have (or, how much the system can use), use the command free on a side note, it also allows to determine if adding RAM will help a lot or not; if no swap is used, adding RAM will not have a beneficiary effect, and is thus a waste of time and money...
  19. aRTee

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    Are you sure that USB2.0 is turned off? Did you check that with transfer speeds? Anything over 1.2MB/s indicates that USB2.0 is functioning (at least, that the system is not running at usb1 speeds). Otherwise, you may want to try some kernel and/or BIOS options, one that comes to mind is 'plug and play OS' which you may want to change the setting of (turn it on if it's off, and vice versa...)...
  20. The big problem with this kind of issue: if it happens to windows users, they sort of accept it - that's the way things are, right? If it happens to windows users moving to Linux, it's Linux that is "not ready yet"... Windows does not 'just work all the time', it too has to be made to work at times...
  21. Does anyone know if the reverse engineered 3945 bsd drivers is ported to Linux? That would make my laptop fully open source/free software operated..!
  22. try to start the mandriva control center via a shell / konsole, just issue the command mcc and see if that prompts for a root password.
  23. On a side note - apologies for butting in and for not directly answering your question - you can use kpdf which is much faster and (imho) nicer. If you're not on KDE but GNOME you may want to use evince (which I have no experience with)...
  24. mldonkey does bittorrent, edonkey, overnet and lots more. I only use it for bittorrent and edonkey.
  25. I think you'll find that there are some usb sound cards. I've never seen a pcmcia sound card, since normally the built in sound works. BTW are you sure the built in sound cannot work with Linux? It may just be that you have not set the right parameters - I know from my compaq armada PIII 650 that with mandriva 2007 for the first time, the sound doesn't work. But a bit of fiddling and it does. I have trouble to believe your onboard sound cannot work...
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