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  1. Did you turn on scanner sharing? See my review...
  2. I see Free as in Free Software - which is the other meaning, that they also intend. And that one is purely positive, IMHO. Where this in any way indicates that FC is the way to go is beyond me - FC is the RH testing distro where you don't get the final version... and where IMHO the online (fan-) support has quite a bit of catching up to do with for example this board, when it comes to newbies (RH/FC and Debian crowd are often more UTFS/RTFM types and less newbie friendly)....
  3. I don't know about this CC option - there's a subtitle system for deaf people which works via 'teletext' which can also offer lots of other data. On dvds this doesn't exist (at least not here), there are subs for the deaf, but they are just subs like any other - apart from the fact that they include extra descriptions of audible things, like 'sound of door being smashed shut' and such. Isn't it just the subtitles for the hearing impaired that you want? (I just read a bit about CC and it's normally in the sync line 21 which on dvd is not there - just the frame contents gets encoded, so the dvd player would have to add it - my guess would be that the data for it is just one of the subs...) Mmm, more here: http://www.dvdfile.com/site/faq/caption_guide/ "DVD Menu Chosen Subtitles and Closed Captions - With a DVD, and each is different, you can have alternate languages translated into subtitles as well as the native English track. Since the Closed Captions and any foreign language subtitles will both cost money to produce, studios have discovered that the label "Closed Captioning" can be used instead of "Subtitles." Thus, increasingly often, you will find that "English Captions For The Hearing Impaired" is being listed on DVD menus instead of English Subtitles. Albeit it has yet to be determined if they truly qualify for the nomenclature "Closed Captions."" and here: http://www.robson.org/capfaq/overview.html
  4. Yeah, but do you want one single desktop spread out over 2 monitors, or two independent desktops (which means you won't be putting windows from one onto the other)? The latter can be done for sure, the first, I'm not sure.
  5. ext2 instead of ext3 cannot be the issue, they are backwards compatible, meaning that any ext3 partition can be correctly read (not written to per se) by an ext2 driver. Why do you write: "but I have found a strange fact: the system mix up partition information"? I don't get/see what's wrong there, please explain.
  6. When you can install a Windows system on a regular Linux install without it messing up the Linux bootloader, come back and complain. Until then, it's rocket science for you. Linux as a sole system on your system wouldn't pose you any boot loader placement issues. It's your choice, and that's fine. But don't make it look like Linux has this bootloader issue and windows doesn't, because we all know it does. Don't compare apples and oranges.
  7. Arne, just two comments: first, in your case, you got a curl error and the download seems not to have finished. This is not okay! Second, I'm still using the stock powerpack nvidia driver, didn't bother to upgrade since I didn't read about any improvements....
  8. What are closed captions on a dvd? You mean subtitles? Those work fine, I use them all the time - mplayer has great looking subs, semitransparent at the edges and antialiased and all...
  9. Ian, Adrian, thanks for the responses, glad you liked it. Ian, I actually managed to land properly on my second attempt.. not half bad. Adrian, it's called the 'invisible' theme. BTW welcome to this board, and enjoy Linux!
  10. FYI: I installed and used flightgear on mdv06 - no forcing necessary at any point.... Just thought you'd like to know..
  11. Technically it should be possible. How to do it exactly I don't know, I just remember reading about a project (from 2001 when they first managed, IIRC) where they did just that, but with 2 mice and keyboards, and they used the machine for 2 people. As for using kde independently on both displays, I'm not sure how well KDE will behave; both KDE's will want to write contradicting info into the .kde files...
  12. Note that during the mdv installation you can opt to put the bootloader on a floppy, just choose /dev/fd0 as location to put it (on ide/ata systems it will default to /dev/hda, I'd guess it would go to /dev/sda by default on an SCSI/SATA system).
  13. Solarian, did you try Mainactor? It's comparable to Adobe Premiere. Including that you have to buy it and it's not Free Software. As long as you want to use non-free software, use (and buy -I'm against software piracy) that which is available on Linux...
  14. You may want to read this: Richard Stallman interview. Funny how he avoids mentioning Linus in the beginning. Great interview, clear and explicit. Oh, apologies, that should be: GNU/Richard Stallman I guess... :D
  15. I have done such a poll, about the cvs xorg being an issue: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=29366&hl=
  16. Chalex, the laptop button remapping was a hint at Linus' harsh words towards GNOME ;) Indeed, payed => paid. Thanks for your feedback! daniewicz, yeah, I couldn't leave it. I particularly liked a hint on slashdot about how to get the masses to stay away from DRM CDs by calling them 'drm infected'... Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for reading!
  17. This thread is for reactions to the third and final part of my Mandriva Linux 2006 review. Any comments, corrections, flames or praise, please leave them in this topic. I hope you'll enjoy the read, aRTee
  18. the soundcard driver is loaded: emu10k1 is present in the modules list. In case you had reset the machine, these errors happen sometimes. When fooling around with my xorg and then some, I got some lockups, and sometimes I had to reset the machine, and after reboot, I also got these errors; after a reboot, they are gone. If you ever had the mixer stuff, with lots of slides, then there's nothing wrong in your system. Reinstallation will not help, it will bring you to the same point. Just play with the mixers and switches, it should be ok.
  19. Well, I guess I should have written "Some GNOME people" because from the reactions of Havoc for instance, I gather that it's not necessarily a general thing, but somehow the argument 'HIG says ...' always wins... And your advanced button idea is something that could really improve things, so you may want to push the idea. I noticed that in KDE CC it shows up at some points, but not in a consistent way and not everywhere, so as stated, lots of room for improvement for the organisation of options there too.
  20. First of all, why would Linus just be another guy and have no clue about DE's? He's been using Linux wm's/de's longer than most of us. Second, read all the threads, there was more at the OSDL site. Third, the point that Linus tried to make is that the GNOME HIG Nazi's (not the non-HIG-nazi regular GNOME developers) block off the discussion about missing features every time. His point is not that one should put any and all features into the system that one can come up with, but that one should be open to the idea of adding features. Fourth, Linus did not complain about this on a public forum, he complained to the GNOME developers on an email list to motivate them to improve on what he sees an aspect to be improved. Linus argues that by dropping features, GNOME becomes less relevant, and I can't but agree there. Why do you think I advice everyone to use KDE, directly and through my site? I once was a GNOME user, until they took out a feature that I wanted/was used to/needed. This was at the sawfish => metacity change. I asked for help on a forum, where the first reply was: use KDE, just 4 clicks and you'll have what you want. I didn't want to change my DE, read my learninglinux story if you want to understand my mentality, just fix GNOME to do what I wanted. So I followed the advice of fellow GNOMErs and exchanged metacity with sawfish. Since GNOME was no longer made with sawfish in mind, some things just didn't work. This is just one example, but in general, it's very bad to drop a feature. Then there's these decisions all the time to do things 'the right HIG way', and no other way - whereas the G in HIG is short for GUIDELINES, not LAW OF NATURE. Strict adherence to the HIG is the reason for Linus to use the term 'HIG-nazi'. Immature? Maybe. But we all know the net doesn't allow for subtlety and proper communication, nor does Linus care about such, so whatever. To me it's beside the point. Now, the thing is that some GNOME developers have quit (read slashdot for instance), lots of people just got fed up. Once you start losing developers, you know something is wrong. Then there was this recent split off by some guys who do like GNOME, better than KDE or any other DE/WM, but want more features. Now, that means that again there is a loss of momentum. So, Linus has a point, and from the responses of GNOME developers, it seems that the strict HIG followers are not even the top developers. It's just that they shout the loudest. One of the funniest replies was the story that the guy who wrote the HIG 'complained' that people quoted from his work back to him without knowing he wrote that, telling that he didn't get it.... What I don't get is why KDE feature richness is an issue. As long as your defaults are okay, novice users will not even need to change anything. Once you get to the point that you want a detail differently, I agree the KDE CC can be less than obvious, but the built-in help works very well. Contrast that to GNOME where others tell me how to work, and tell me that if I don't like it, I'm working in the wrong way, instead of admitting that GNOME lacks what I _need_ (yes, I can determine what I _need_ in terms of a DE/WM/GUI, even though the word 'need' is exaggerated - heck, I don't even _need_ a computer at all, could probably do without Linux, etc...). And this is also the point that Linus made: GNOME took away features, they don't put in useful things (in this case the discussion started with the printer interface looks, options and info) out of fear it might not be in line with the HIG bible, and because 'it makes things more complex'. Linus' point was: you don't know what people may want/need, so best put things in, instead of leaving out useful features. And you don't really know what is useful and what is not. GNOME people tend to say: it's too complex, if you can leave it out, leave it out. But I liked Linus' comment that the subset of all majorities is the empty set. Basically, you will have no satisfied users at all with all the minimalism. Of course it's not so extreme, GNOME is still a very usable DE, it's not like they dropped the things that make it usable, they just drop and fail to include things that make it nice to use. Oh and by the way, most people on the GNOME camp talking about usability and such are also just desktop users, very very few people actually have more skills in that area than Linus. So why the ad hominem is beyond me (this is for those who say that Linus is just a kernel hacker, not a HIG buff. Yeah, well, so what. He's dead right and thought things over, you know...) It's better to get it half right the first time, get feedback and improve, than to get it all wrong. In development, KDE has the mentality to add things, see how it works and if people like it, polish it etc. The KDE CC has been improved quite a bit, and KDE is a very versatile DE/WM. And this is the correct thing to do - the features of KDE are not the issue, the issue with KDE is the CC. So that should be improved. What I like about GNOME is that it's really distinct, it doesn't try to follow any other DE (Win) or whatever, but I think things could be taken so much further if they would try out more.
  21. On most creative cards, the outputs are set to digital, not analog. I can hardly imagine you have a driver issue,... Can you open kmix or any other soundmixer? Play with the switches and levels, see if that helps. If not, post your output of lsmod here (hit F2, type 'konsole' without the quotes, hit enter, - or open whatever xterm - input 'su' without quotes, type your root password, then enter 'lsmod') this will tell you if you have the necessary modules loaded.
  22. I haven't used NDISwrapper (which I think you need with that card) on 2006 but you may find info on how to use it on my website, config page for 10.1: http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/configu...1.html#wireless If anything, it should be easier nowadays.
  23. To begin with, wanting only one linux partition is not a smart idea - the least is / /home and swap (3 partitions), I recommend / /alt (as other/future linux systems root partition) /home and swap. Second, Linux cannot be started without a bootloader - this can be put in the mbr of any drive - where you can select to start it by making the harddrive bootable in BIOS, or in the boot sector of a bootable partition which must be primary. If you're scared of messing up your other drives, can't you disable them in the bios? To be sure which is which, you could create a recognisable partition structure from within a current system where you know which drive is which, then install linux and view the partitions, so that you can identify the drive you want to use? Or, just boot from a live cd and see what it calls the designated drive? To avoid your install phobia, make backups of anything you care about. Your drives can break as well, so you need to backup anyway. Doing a backup before a new system install with which you don't have experience may be the right time if any... (No, a backup onto a local drive inside your system is not a real backup. A real backup does not reside in the same system and actually not even at the same location, and is not on a rewriteable/erasable medium. Besides that, you do have a really cool setup there! Apart from it not running Linux yet... :) )
  24. Mandriva hacked some things to have the 32 bit flashplayer working on a 64 bit os - not sure if the browser was not just 32 bits though... I have no 64 bit system, so I can't tell you if the powerpack 64 bit version also works ok... Since it seems to work in konq, there may be some issue with FF - not sure if something needs to be done there..? Maybe you could try the 32 bit version of FF?
  25. I have a PIII650 and it's not slow at all, I can even play Majesty on it (quite a bit more taxing than frozen bubble I think). Your celeron 500 should be ok, 128MB is not too bad. Use the command free to see if you have memory issues (swap being used is a hint), and if so, log on to icewm instead of kde and see if that improves (icewm is nicely lightweight, but also offers less features or bloat, whichever way you look at it). More memory is always ok, unless free tells you no swap is used at all, not even after hours of using OOo, FF and then some. Use hdparm /dev/hda to see if the dma is on on the harddrive. Use less /var/log/dmesg to see how the system booted (any hints there?) Edit: about light distro: it's a matter of running the correct programs, which are surely available in Mandriva - unless you want to run on a P1 200MHz or less, Mandy should do fine, if necessary after picking the right programs to run... On my laptop I run a stock install (well, I upgraded to kde3...), no performance issues.
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