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I've just tried to install Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.12.36 on my Mandriva Linux release 2009.0 (Official) for x86_64 (free edition), unsuccessfully I downloaded the package from Adobe website to a local directory and run as root # urpmi flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm then I tried to run nspluginwrapper to enable the i386 plugin for my x86_64 firefox-3.0.3-2mdv2009.0 browser. Unfortunately nspluginwrapper was not installed by default. So I had to # urpmi nspluginwrapper and then # nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so but I've got this error message *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory nspluginwrapper: no appropriate viewer found for /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so so I installed libnss3 # urpmi libnss3 and once again # nspluginwrapper -i /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so this time there were no errors. I checked the plugin directory, npwrapper.libflashplayer.so was there # ls /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ libjavaplugin.so@ libtotem-cone-plugin.so* libtotem-mully-plugin.so* npwrapper.libflashplayer.so* libtotem-basic-plugin.so* libtotem-gmp-plugin.so* libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so* npwrapper.so@ Then I restarted firefox. Unfortunately all the flash objects appear as grey boxes. I don't have my Mandriva 2008 edition any more to compare installation. Maybe I should have created a link from one of the browser plugin directories to /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so? Anyone facing the same problem?

I've installed Mandriva 2007 i586 Power Pack from DVD. After adding media main following easyurpmi guidelines and updating to the latest packages I'm trying to install kipi-plugins. Unfortunately installation fails due to missing libMagick++-10.3.0.so.0. Indeed I have libMagick10.4.0 installed on my system. libMagick10.3.0 is not available. But > urpmq -d kipi-plugins | grep libMagick yields libMagick10.4.0. So libMagick10.3.0 shouldn't be required In fact I've successfully installed kipi-plugins on my other x86_64 box. The versions of packages are: libMagick10.4.0-6.2.9.2-1.1mdv2007.0 kipi-plugins-0.1.2-3mdv2007.0 very much the same that wouldn't install on i586. What worries me most is that no one else seems to have the problem, at least no one reported it here and it couldn't be unnoticed. Weird... [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

I installed 32 bit version of mplayer and now everything works fine. Problem is solved. Thanks for help!

To export addressbook from Thunderbird Address Book in LDIF format open Address Book and go to Tools>Export... The format of the generated file is determined by extension so you shall type something like addressbook.ldif P.S. You couldn't find Export option as I bet you've been looking in the Tools menu of Thunderbird Mail

I feared I would hear this answer. It's a bit of haslle to install 32 bit packages when all my urpmi media are pointing to 64 bit repositories. But I'll try. Thanks for help.

I have the same problem. More details in my previous post. The only workaround I've found was to use GDM. Thanks diehl for submitting a bug report! I should have done it myself, maybe it would be fixed by now.

I'm running Mandriva 2006 Power Pack edition on AMD 64 processor. I've installed win32-codecs from plf and tried to play some .wmv files with mplayer (mplayer-1.0-1.pre7.12.1.20060mdk.x86_64). Unfortunately it didn't work. I removed win32-codecs package then and manually installed win32 codecs from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ site. I've tried both essential and all package with the same negative effect. It looks like my mplayer doesn't recognize installed win32 library at all. Maybe it's the same issue as with 64bit firefox and 32 flash plugin which are not compatible. Anyone experiencing the same problem?

There are some issues to consider when connecting IDE/ATA drives to the PC: the main/fast hard disk shouldn't be connected on the same channel as ATAPI device (e.g. CDROM). Also in the old systems two drives on the same channel would work with the fastes mode of the slower drive. Luckily modern controllers use the so called Independent Master/Slave Device Timing and they run every drive in it's optimum mode. If you have a cdrom as hdd I wouldn't swap hdc and hda drives as of course you're going to work with Mandriva, not Windows :) As it was said already Windows feels belittled if it's not on the first hard drive and so doesn't want to boot (thus I would expect you shouldn't be able to boot Windows at all!?). But it is possible to rise a self estime of a poor guy to make it work. Unfortunately your self estime lowers at the very moment... There is a map command in grub that exchanges an order of hard dirves in BIOS so you don't have to do it physically. Of course you won't need to dupe Linux that way (you couldn't). Similar command shall exist in lilo too. I don't expect your problems are caused in any way by MBR of hdc drive as lilo shouldn't need to access it at all. If you still have problems maybe you can attach your lilio.conf to the next post.

Nop, I don't think agpgart is loaded by modprobe.preload. I had there an entry amd64-agp which I commented out but it seemed to be a bogus one. It did got reported as loaded in /var/log/messages but then I've tried also to load some fake module and it was similarly reported in /var/log/messages as loaded. I expect agpgart was precompiled in my kernel though I'm not really sure how can I prove it. Does anyone knows a command or text file listing modules precompiled in running kernel? The difference between 857fps and 842fps is indeed small. Probably would be bigger for a new card that is more demanding on system resources!? One more question: does running glxgears takes also for you 100% of CPU?

I didn't find agpgart.* in /lib/modules/2.6.12-14mdk/ I guess it does mean it's a statically linked module. To try out nvagp I would have to recompile the kernel. I would like to ask for a favor: could someone please who has an nVidia card temporary switch off AGP support with Option "NvAgp" "0" in xorg.conf file, "Device" section and let me know how much it decreased the performance of the card in glxgears!? I would know then if AGP is a good lead

I have enabled Fast Writes with the relevant option to nvidia module. That was reported correctly in /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status, unfortunately no improvement to glxgears performance whatsoever :( I then disabled AGP support completely with Option "NvAgp" "0" in xorg.conf file. This in turn did not decrease performance of glxgears whatsoever. Does it mean that my AGP doesn't work even if /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status says it does? I have been trying then to use nVidia NVAGP driver rather than standard AGPGART to check if that's maybe problem with agpgart. Unfortunately I can't use nvagp if agpgart was previously loaded and it does gets loaded. Since lsmod | grep agp produces no output does it mean that agpgart was statically linked to my kernel? Anyway that doesn't look good, I probably shall issue a bug/problem report on nvidia website... Thanks for help! P.S. chalex20 AFAIK there is no need to use "depmod -a" step to reload nvidia module with new options

I was wandering what kind of speed I can read from nvidia-settings utility as there were none but then I've forgotten I haven't switched on the coolbits option on. That's what I've finally got: for both 2D and 3D GPU is 350MHz and Memory 400MHz. That's actually not according to the spec which says GPU 300MHz and memory 550MHz though I expect that the difference if any is not enough to blame for so low performance (1300fps in glxgears only). I've checked the software side of my installation quite carefully: if the correct drivers are lloaded, correct libraries, extension modules. It looks good. Also no errors are reported in /var/log/Xorg.0.log nor /proc/driver/nvidia/warnings/ Maybe I have some kind of hardware problem. No clear idea really :( And the output of nvclock -i is NVClock v0.7 Segmentation fault (core dumped) Err...

I've checked my BIOS settings with nVidia recommendations (Thanks AussieJohn and Ixthusdan for a link!) There were 1 or 2 parameters to modify but it didn't influence the performance :-( Here is the contents of files in proc directory: [mini@gandalf ~]$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/status Status: Enabled Driver: AGPGART AGP Rate: 8x Fast Writes: Disabled SBA: Enabled [mini@gandalf ~]$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/card Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Supported AGP Rates: 8x 4x Registers: 0xff000e1b:0x1f004302 [mini@gandalf ~]$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/host-bridge Host Bridge: PCI device 10de:00e1 Fast Writes: Supported SBA: Supported AGP Rates: 8x 4x Registers: 0x1f00421b:0x00000302 So unless Fast Writes are supposed to be enabled everything looks rather OK. Stef your xorg.conf looks very similar to mine, I just don't have coolbits option on. Any other ideas? Thanks for help so far

Thanks for a prompt response! Unfortunately I had a busy weekend and it's only today that I had some time to play with my system. I went trough the installation of nvidia drivers (from their website). Before that I've updated my kernel to 2.6.12-14mdk to have the latest. Mandriva provided nvidia driver (7676) was doing 1300fps in glxgears, nvidia driver from their website (8178) is doing... 1370fps. Looks like it doesn't make any difference :-/ So the problem with the low performance of my graphic card lays somewhere else. Does someone know how much approximately this card shall score in glxgears? Does performance of glxgears depends strongly on CPU speed? After all I may have a problem with configuration of my system rather than the graphic card itself. sjaglin you've failed to attach your xorg.conf file. If you don't mind I would be thankful to have a look there. Also I'm not playing games and I don't really need to squeze the last bit of performance out of GPU so I won't play with coolbits option neither nvclock but I would be glad to hear how much (%) did you manage to improve performance of your card!? Thanx

I have a Shuttle XPC barebone for AMD 64 processors with nVidia GeForce FX5200 250MHz, 128MB DDR 400MHz graphic card. But the graphic card had a fan and this guy was just driving me crazy. I've decided to change to a card with a pasive cooling. I got nVidia GeForce NX6200AX 300MHz, 256MB DDR 550MHz. It seems like I've upgraded my system. NO, I didn't. I"m running Mandriva 2006 x86_64 Power Pack and using nvidia driver (Mandrake compiled I didn't care to instal one from nvidia website). The FX5200 scored around 2750fps in glxgears and NX6200 around 1300fps Any idea on what could go wrong, where to look and how to fix it!? By the way glxgears takes 100% of my CPU, I would expect that it should rather be tough on nVidia graphic chipset... For the curious my xorg.conf and output of glxinfo as an attachment xorg.conf.txt glxinfo.txt