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I just got a Hercules GeForce 2 Ultra and added it to my machine. Upon booting, mandrake properly detected that I have changed the card from my old ATI and asked me if I wanted to install it. I said yes and it looks like a bunch of stuff with nvidia in it got installed. It looks like a new kernel with nvidia compiled in was added (?) as well as NVIDA_glx libraries. I try to test the setup but it told me it couldn't and to change some "options". I selected "quit" it finished boot and presented me with a command prompt (instead of booting in KDE) and I used that to reboot (shutdown -r now as root) This time the boot was successful and I see the NVIDA log flash before KDE starts up. KDE appear to be working just fine. If I try to run glxgears (as root) the screen goes blank (black) then I see the NVIDIA log and KDE restarts. I went into my XFree86Config-4 files and the relevant sections are here: Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)" Driver "nv" Option "DPMS" Option "IgnoreEDID" "1" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so" EndSection I highlighted in bold the only the differences between my file and the example given in the FAQ on this forum. Any idea? I'm way out of my league here. Thanks my monitor is a TFT500 LCD panel 1024x768 if it matters.

See if krfb works for for you. It's built in KDE and is the successor to x0rfbserver. Go to the KDE control panel and select remote desktop. If it's not there you need to install it: urpmi kdenetwork-krfb. Set it up for no confirmation of connection and whatever other options. I think there is a "start with KDE" option, if not it always starts with KDE. You can then use any vnc client to connect to it (on port 5900). I do have problems in mdk 10 with this setup because the server tries to do a reverse DNS lookup on the client's IP address and I don't have a DNS service for my LAN, so the lookup fails. If you're "never" going to sit at that machien though, you're better off doing remote X though, it'll be much more efficient.

How stable is the contrib repository? In the past I've had issues with instaling apps that were too "bleeding edge" that made me upgrade to the latest glibc or whatever and ended up breaking dependencies on other packages. Maybe it was all operator error but I eventually had to re0install from scratch (fortunately the next version of Mandrake had just come out as an incentive to re-install).

That looks good except that there is no mdk10 release in the "Stable" section. Just mdk9.2

Thanks, I'll give both GQVIEW and kuickshow a try. I really wish this was built in Konqueror. I knwo I can see thumbs but the whole point of what I'm trying to do is to move between pictures with a single click or keystroke. Thanks for the answers.

Is there software I could use to browse pictures? I'd like to just use a previous/next picture button or key to navigate them.

OK, I'm almost there: I added the rar package from plf. When I double clicked on a rar file Konq asked me what app to use to open the file, so I chose Ark (and told Konqueror to remember that choice). Ark complains that the file appears to be of type "application/x-rar-compressed" and that it's not a supported type format. Ark however gives me the option to choose the archive type myself and if I select rar from the frop down list it can actually open the file. How to I "teach" Ark that "application/x-rar-compressed" means "rar"?

or you can do this: lynx -source http://plf.zarb.org/plf.asc | gpg --import But of course, that means you trust plf.zarb.org Thanks for your complete explanation. I didn't know about the mandrake secure server and my main problem with keys was the fact that you had to trust the source for the key. I also didn't knwo how to find the key for a particular package. Mandrake is doing the community a disservice by not having proper signatures, it trains users to just ignore the fact that package are not checked.

it's not meant to be pronounced :) haven't ran into a user name conflict on any internet forum with that one though :) Does anyone know offhand how to install the plf key? I remember doing it with something like wget <some url to the key> | pgp <some key install options here> I'll check my notes tonight otherwise. Also, I noticed that some of the packages on the distribution CDs (power pack) also fail the signature check. I guess Mandrake didn't install the keys for the different commercial apps (maybe they can't because they come from lots of sources?). The warning is annoying though.

How do I get RealMedia streaming video to work? RealMedia G2 is installed but when I browse (using Konq) and click on a link it tells me there is no plugin configured?

I'm pretty sure I installed fashplayer 7 (not 6) precompile for mdk from somewhere but I son;t have my notes with me at the moment.

well this kind of is the easy way. basically it tells mandrake where to find additional packages. It's really not that bad, follow the instructions on the web easyurpmi web page (select PLF) and it will show you add the bottom a line to type on the command line on your machine (I usually cut and paste into a shell window). You will only have to do this process once. When you want to install software later, just go in the mandrake control panel jsut like you would install any other software, or use the urpmi command. An alternative is to download the package yourself, you can find it here: ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux...5-1plf.i586.rpm after you download it, go to the command line and type urpmi win32-codecs-1.5-1plf.i586.rpm (as root) to install the package. You will probably get a warning about bad signature (because you're computer doesn't have the plf key used for signing the packages), just continue anyway. Edit: the link to the package I gave you is for mdk10, if you're running an earlier version, just navigate the FTP site to find it.

That definitely would do the trick but I'm still a little confused as to why typing the "mail" command doesn't work. I don't remember ever having to set anything up on previous versions to get it to work but maybe I did it somewhat unknowingly (like by setting up Kmail or Evolution?). Just trying to learn more. The man page is not very helpful

how do I send mail from the command line then?

allright, let me rephrase this in a simpler way: how do I send email from the command line under mdk10?

Hiding SSID and MAC filtering do almost nothing towards wireless security. It's all BS from the manufacturers to make you fell more secure. The AP may hide its SSID but that means that the device will need to broadcast it as part of their probe requests in order to connect to the AP, so all you have to do is sniff a device connecting on. MAC filtering is just as useless: the driers in my wireless card allow me to change its MAC address at will, so all I have to do is sniff one packet and I know one authorized MAC address. 128 WEP can be cracked but it does take a long time, especially if you have light wireless traffic. Proprietary key rotation mechanisms help a lot. WPA is much better than WEP, each device has its own private key that changes over time. It can be harder to administer.

When I had mandrake 9.2 I could send mail from the command line typing: mail -s "this is a test" someone@some.address.org < test_file_to_send After installing mandrake 10, this doesn;t work, it tells me it can't find "/usr/sbin/sendmail". When I type mail at the command prompt with no options, it tells me there is not mail. I'm guessing that this means that my mdk10 install includes the ability to retrieve mail but not to send it outside of the machine? Should I simply do "urpmi sendmail" or was sendmail replaced with something else?

Yeah but that's how I think I ended messing my system up in the pat, I had contribs and plf in the list of media and think I must have accidentally picked up updates from there, but eventually everytime I installed something I got into dependency hell. Not really wanting to go there again. I downloaded the rar package and installed it. Thanks for the help. How do I add the plf key so that urpmi stops complaining about not being able to check the package?

found: http://mirrors.zoreil.com/www.plf.org/mand...0-2plf.i586.rpm on PLF. If I download this and install it with urpmi, am I likey to screw things up? this package is only 2 weeks old and I'm not sure how to tell if it's stable and fully compatible with mdk10. All I know is that it's the unurar entry i the mdk10 directory of the plf mirror I looked at.

nope. "no package named unrar" (Mandrake 10 OE Powerpack). That's the only thing I had tried. Is the package an official mdk package now? I found some old notes and the reason it used to work was because I had downloaded an unrar package from plf. I have had mixed luck with "alternative" rpm repositories (textar, plf, cooker, ...) they tend to mess up my installation and dependencies.

I have a lot of files in .rar format. I think there is a rar package for linux but I also think it's a command line utility. I would like to be able to open and browse the contents of my rar file files in KDE, just like I can do zip or tar. It's OK if it doesn't fully integrate with Konqueror the way zip files are, I'm OK with opening a new app. I know this used to work on a 9.x version of Mandrake, I think it used to ask me if I wanted to open the file with "file roller" or something like that. I need to do more research but maybe it's something someone here knows the answer to.

Does kpackage play nice with urpmi? I assume it's just a front-end to rpm, and I assume that rpm and urpmi play nice together (isn't urpmi a wrapper around rpm?) but I have always been wondering about that. Just to be safe I always use urpmi.

that's probably the answer, although someone at work said something about reverse DNS always going straight to the root server and possibly bypassing the local server, so I'm looking into it.

Yes, I'm talking about "Pc anywhere style" My point is, I don't think the VNC server can serve display 0 (but the client can connect to it as long as you use another server than the VNC one, such as krfb). If I'm wrong I'd like to know.

once again, please define "real". Does VNC let you do this: - sitting at your computer (computer A) open an application in kde, for example konqueror and navigate to google and do a search - now go to a different computer (computer B), fire up the VNC client and connect to computer A, do you see the google search you did on computer A? To the best on my knowledge VNC doesn't work like this on Linux, so I'm trying to understand if I'm wrong about it. Even the RealVNC page poitns you to x0rfbserver.