arctic

I have it already up and running on my laptop and so far it works very well. Pleasant colours, good behaviour, good response time and the Live-installer got better, too. Being a long-long-time Red Hat/Fedora user, I must admit that this release is way better than the previous two releases, which I found rather irritating. Seems as if the developers got back on the right track after making some weird decisions in the past years.

Geocities does still exist? I thought it had died already years ago... :unsure:

A very old announcement, indeed. :D

 

In order to avoid any further confusion, I'll close this topic. ;)

...but this will be most probably attributed to a plasmoid leaking memory

That is quite probable. After all, KDE 4 is rather new, has a completely new code and thus new bugs which will need some time to get sorted out. The concept of KDE4 is very good IMO, but the implementation still needs some serious work before I will even consider a migration to KDE. But then... Gnome 3.0 is currently being developed. ;) Who knows, maybe it will be great, maybe it will be horrible. If both desktops begin to suck, I'll probably switch to Fluxbox, Windowmaker, Rox or IceWM. :D

KDE 4.2.2 is WAY less resources-hungry than Gnome 2.2.6 (or 2.2.4).

On the other hand, GNOME is more usable right-out-of-the box, but it's still a pain in the butt to configure (the ony way is the utterly shitty gconf-editor, while the regular graphical configurator does not even touch the surface).

I guess you are talking about Gnome 2.24 and 2.26, right? Nobody uses 2.2.6 anymore. :P

 

Well, as you might know, I usually run Gnome and honestly, KDE uses way more RAM and CPU power than Gnome on my computers. (I switched from KDE to Gnome because KDE was becoming a RAM-Monster already years ago.) An example: In Gnome, I can run Compiz and at the same time run 3D-accelarated games like BZflag without the system going crazy. If I run KDE and launch the same game, then the whole system starts to choke, to get hiccups because too much power is drawn towads the desktop-enhancing effects. And no, my systems are not that outdated: System A: 1,67 Ghz CPU, 1 GB RAM, 512 MB Nvidia card. System B :1 Ghz CPU, 512 MB RAM, 256 MB Nvidia, System 3: Dual Core 2,4 Ghz CPU, 4 GB RAM, 512 MB ATI. So... something is eating up the ressources in KDE :unsure: , way more than in Gnome - although Gnome also loves to eat RAM.

I hope that they somehow manage to improve KDE so that it uses less resources instead of more with each new release. I found 4.1 and 4.2 to be rather resources-hungry.

btw: artwork for the free edition was indeed not so good imho but pwp and one was good...

I found the artwork of all editions horrible.

Currently I don't use Mandriva. I simply didn't like 2009.0, although it is hard to tell what I disliked except the graphics (bootloader, wallpapers,... looked like an amateurish early 90s OS to me...). Currently I run Ubuntu, but don't like it either. :lol: (rather slow and somehow doesn't feel right and... brown with orange... *shudder*) I want to install something else but haven't really decided which distro I'll install (Fedora? Debian? Arch? Other?) and .. I don't have the time needed for a reinstall right now...

I know only one term in turkish: Güle güle. :)

Welcome aboard and good luck with the forum. :)

 

I'll move this to Portal News, where everyone will see the news. I hope that's okay with you.

Hey Arctic,

 

There is this site, www.obamicon.me, where you can upload pictures and prepare posters in the spirit of Obama's campaign posters. So I took the liberty to play with your avatar. Hope you like it.

 

(I know it has nothing to with the Show Your Desktop topic, but I don't have my laptop with me at work and I don't feel like diving into code I need to revise right now, so you will have to take what there is.)

You should WORK, not play around!

 

/me continues his work. ;)

Here we go again... :)

I logged on to guest account.... after that What should i do??? I just know that if I press "su" i l go to root.... tell me how to continue install from there on....

Before you even consider installing the Operating system, type

startx

and report the error you get. Also: please post the output of the command

lspci

especially the information about your video card.

 

When you booted, there was once big "Failed" message visible in the video. Can you tell us exactly, which service it was that the system was unable to start? I couldn't decipher it on the video.

 

Just a note: It's somehow weird that Fedora 7 ran on your system just fine (as it seems), while Mandriva 2009, which is newer and supports more hardware than Fedora 7 hangs up. :huh: In any case, it you are unable to get Mandriva running, there are many other distros available that you can test. (Distro-hopping can be quite some fun... from time to time :) )

can u people tell me how to calculate md5 hash given a particular iso file

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=4638

Welcome aboard. :)

 

It could be several things that made the boot-process freeze. First of all, before you burn an iso image, you should verify that the md5sum is okay (=that the iso-image is in tiptop-condition). Secondly, it can be that some piece of your hardware is not fully compatible/not fully implemented yet into Mandriva. When the system boots, you can press "Esc". The bootup screen should then switch to a mode where you see what the system is doing, that is which services are initiated and which ones probably got stuck. Try that boot method and take care where the system says "Failed" instead of "OK".

 

If you get a black monitor, it usually means that the graphical server didn't kick in. Could you tell us which graphics-card you have? That will probably make it easier for narrowing down the problem.

 

The installation process is never started unless you tell the system do start the installation process. Once the instalaltion process starts, you will see several windows where you have to answer some simple questions/make decisions about your system setup.

 

PS:: crtl+alt+del, if pressed twice will reboot the system. ctrl+alt+backspace will reboot the graphical server.

Uh yes... Will edit it. :woops:

 

Thnx, tyme. :)

Please change the file so that it looks more like this as you did a reinstall with only two partitions (Check the UUID!!!! It could be different from my proposition):

 

timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu

default 0

title linux
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=1e73fdac-def8-4859-afa2-99e6411c0cb0 noapic nolapic splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

 

If you have problems with the UUID, you can alternatively try /dev/sda and similar pointers. They should basically work.

 

Hope this helps

I guess we simply need to check if your grub (the bootloader) is configured properly. You do have two different UUIDs there (which is the first unusual thing that I see) and probably some paragraphs not placed correctly in your /boot/grub/menu.lst file (I had that once, too after a kernel update. Don't know why, but it happened).

 

In order to fix that, we need to know a bit about your partition setup and harddisk-type. Please boot the live CD and run in a terminal the command "fdisk -l", which will list all partitions and harddisks of your system. Please post the result in here, as well as the contents of your /boot/grub/menu.lst file. (in order to do that you will have to mount the /root partition of your install. It can be done like this:

 

root@linux:~#  fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GByte,blablablah

  Device  boot.	 start		end	 blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *		   1		1216	 9767488+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2			1217		9733	68412802+   5  extended
/dev/sda5			1217		1459	 1951866   82  Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6			1460		9733	66460873+  83  Linux

now run e.g.:

root@linux:~# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt ... (that means: mount -t filesystemtype-of-linux-partition located at partition /dev/sda1 at mountpoint /mnt)

Once, this is done, you can read the menu.lst file by navigating to the /mnt/boot/grub folder.

 

If you need more help/info about mounting partitions, launch in a terminal

 

mount --help

 

or

 

man mount

Which Mandriva version are you using?

 

BTW: I am using a cheap external card-reader for transferring my pictures (cost: 7 Euros). Way easier than dealing with the camera itself IMHO (especially if you have to transfer, as in my case, hundreds of pictures from several DSLRs to your desktop. :) )

Just a tip: for mpeg4, I recommend (as already mentioned) to use the vlc multimedia-player. It just works with that file format, while others are quirky with mpeg4 from time to time.

As Lex said, please give us some detail about the Mandriva-Version you are running, the Desktop Environment (KDE?) and such stuff. It is impossible to give you an answer if you only point us to "that window" which could be basically everything.

Mandriva has several kernel ‘flavours’.

 

‘desktop’ supports any i686 or later CPU, and up to 4GB of memory.

‘desktop586′ supports any i586 or later CPU, and up to 1GB of memory.

‘laptop’ supports any i686 or later CPU, up to 4GB of memory, and has tuning for better power consumption on laptops.

’server’ supports any i686 or later CPU, and up to 64GB of memory. it has some tuning appropriate for server use.

 

So basically, desktop should detect it all immediately. :huh:

 

Similar topic: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...ernel+recognize

Quick fix for moving and deleting the files:

 

In a terminal type as root

 

chown -R username:username /home/username

 

Replace "username" with the name of your account. This command will change/correct the permissions of all files in your user-directory recursively.

just today silly me after knowing i need to avoid itunes i just bought Pearl Harbor for $9.99 on itunes

 

Fedora is by far the most annoying (its amazing the creator of the rpm, red hat, makes such a crappy hellish packaging system in fedora that would make people think .rpm distro sucks.

Most annoying like "boring" or most annoying like "doesn't work"? :huh: If you meant boring then I'd say yes and no. In my case, Fedora has been pretty stable for a bleeding edge distro and thus some kinda "boring" as there rarely breaks anything system-critical (but it is very exciting compared to CentOS where absolutely NEVER anything broke on my boxes ). And if e.g. a kernel or dbus goes crazy ... well ... it's bleeding edge. You should know your way around in Fedora or don't use it - it is not a distro designed for newcomers (like Arch, Slackware, Debian et all). And if you mean "doesn't work"... well, it's bleeding edge stuff ... experimental. Trial and error. B)

 

About RPM being shitty: You should differentiate between RPM, the package-manager and the package-manager frontend. RPM works. Yum works. Packagekit works mostly (broke only once on my system due to a faulty library package) but is far from finished - in fact, the version available in Fedora right now is still a work in progress. Again: Bleeding edge. ;)

 

PS: Mandriva managed to screw up their package manager and their package manager frontend more than once...

*sigh*

 

I haven't customized my desktop since I installed Fedora and Centos. Everything still has its basic look. I guess I didn't have enough time to play around lately.

 

(no, my job doesn't involve peeing :P)

Ah yeah?... Prove!