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So what do you recommend that I do? Im just going to go buy the official version of Mandrake but I don't want to pay $370 for that power pack or what ever what is better about it?

-Luis

I thought fire fox was a browsers like Konq and Mozilla? click on the K>SYSTEM>CONFIGURANTION>PACKING>REMOVE SOFTWARE

Thats what they told me to do to remove stuff. I just don't know how to use it.

-Luis

P.S al go on GAIM

I by acciden't I ran the urpmi xscreensaver without the -gl and it installed it, but threres nothing that says matrix or anything.

-Luis

yeah I guess I got to call him and tell him to sign on with his darn name.

-Luis

This is what I get when I run " urpmi xscreensaver-gl "

# urpmi xscreensaver-gl

To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed (18 MB):

chbg-1.5-8mdk.i586

fortune-mod-1.0-31mdk.i586

xscreensaver-4.14-4mdk.i586

xscreensaver-gl-4.14-4mdk.i586

Is this OK? (Y/n) y

Please insert the medium named "Installation CD 4 (x86) " on device [/dev/hdc]

Press Enter when ready...

What I don't understand is that I have run the EASY URPMI and I believe that the contrib source is already installed, what do I do so I just add the contrib source, Or how do I test or find out which sources are and not installed? This is getting weird.

-Luis

This is what I get on my computer when I run the " glxinfo "

$ glxinfo

name of display: :0.0

display: :0  screen: 0

direct rendering: No

server glx vendor string: SGI

server glx version string: 1.2

server glx extensions:

    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context

client glx vendor string: SGI

client glx version string: 1.2

client glx extensions:

    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context

GLX extensions:

    GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context

OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org

OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

OpenGL version string: 1.3 Mesa 4.0.4

OpenGL extensions:

    GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp,

    GL_ARB_texture_cube_map, GL_ARB_texture_env_add,

    GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3,

    GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_blend_color,

    GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_texture_env_add,

    GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3,

    GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias

glu version: 1.3

glu extensions:

    GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess

 

  visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav

id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat

----------------------------------------------------------------------

0x23 16 tc  1 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None

0x24 16 tc  1 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  0 0 None

0x25 16 tc  1 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None

0x26 16 tc  1 16  0 r  .  .  5  6  5  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None

0x27 16 dc  1 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None

0x28 16 dc  1 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  0  0 16  8 16 16 16  0  0 0 None

0x29 16 dc  1 16  0 r  y  .  5  6  5  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None

0x2a 16 dc  1 16  0 r  .  .  5  6  5  8  0 16  8 16 16 16 16  0 0 None

Im guessing thats good?

-Luis

Well I guess that I don't have that rendering thing,

$ glxinfo |grep direct
direct rendering: No
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect

How do I change it or install it so that it will say " YES " lol how did I star soo may posts..........I only had 1 running, and everyone stopped replying to it...

-Luis

by the way I'm at my house, on my computer, the other posts was my friend, and I got him his own name but I guess that he does not use it and keeps on using mine. This is straight from my computer.

Lol, I guess he didn't sign me off when he was typing at his house........anyways hes t_101 im Luis.........]

-Luis

P.S. SIGN OFF MY NAME, AL.............

Also when I was at his house I didn't install his urmpi the only thing that I think might of failed was maybe the contrib. I just got done updating mine, and now im gona install gaim and all that good stuff. I'll post back with any new issues.

Thank you sooo much Iphitus for the help I succesfully got everything loaded just now my only question is how do I replace Gnutella with another program? Would I just save over it in the file that it is located in? This should be my last question then I think I can handle Linux. Thanks dude.

-Alec

I have logged in "root" and then typed all the necasary files like " cd Documents" and all that then when I got to type the name of the file it says directory does not exist. Am I typing the wrong thing? And I did use the urpmi. Since I am a newbie could you please walk me through this process I am still trying to learn. Thanks for your patience and cooperation.

- Alec

I want to download a p2p program and after I find one and download it and save it to a folder what do I do next as far as running it and what codes do I need. And if you have any advice as to what progam I should get or any possible usable tutorials please let me know. Thanks.

-Alec

This is what my friend is running on his computer

Vendor: ?Nvidia Corporation

Bus: ?PCI

Bus identification: ?10de:1f0:1043:80c0

Location on the bus: ?2:0:0

Description: ?nForce2 Geforce 4 Integrated

Module: ?Card:NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)

Media class: ?DISPLAY_VGA

Hope this helps, I just got this from the hardware section.

-Luis

Im in the process of building a personal gaming computer. And for the video card I went down to my local LAN Party and I'm getting the G4 FX 5700 LE 256 MB and has some stuff on tv and all that stuff I will have to check later what it is, you won't find many GeForce 4 with FX 5700 only and handfull I sure could not find one on the internet. Nvidia is soo much better besides the fact that almost every game in under the " The way it's meant to be played " logo, which the developers of games hook up with Nvidia to make sure that every game runs the best on their cards, ATI I hear has the most problems. And I hardly see any game that is made for that card, You can't go wrong with Nvidia. You can also go to Nvidia's website and find out where the local LAN party is, and you can stop in or call for info on video cards, I would only do this if you are going to use it for gaming in general, if it's just to upgrade it then you'll be find with just an FX 5700

www.tigerdirect.com

You can find them here for a great price....

-Luis

I think the game is already up to 1.14 in Windows for patches. I coould not find out in Linux how to get the current version that it is running at.

First try to go to their website. If there is only specially made for Linux users better, if not then I don't know, also you might want to try those gaming websites like GameSpy, Fileshack, etc............. Those usually have something good. But I think that most of those updates are in that .exe format, and If I'm correct linux can't run those or something?!

-Luis

Ok Well I ran the ' glxinfo ' and this is what I get

$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual

  visual  x  bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer  ms  cav
id dep cl sp sz l  ci b ro  r  g  b  a bf th cl  r  g  b  a ns b eat
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x21 24 tc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
0x22 24 dc  1  0  0 c  .  .  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 0 None

What does it mean and what do I have to do so that it does not say ' missing display ' Besides that look for direct rendering? On the message that I got from running glxinfo? I couldn't find anything that says direct rendering I don't know if I was even looking in the right place or where I was supose to be looking.

-Luis

Well thanks scoopy my friend didn't keep on looking to the ones at the bottom but he found one, but the only thing that he says is wrong with it is that it's too fast and it really doesn't look like the matrix code is looks wayyyy different. since you said that you go this installed do you think that you can provide one of us with a screen shot to see if thats the one or did you get a different one than what we did or what. or if not then I guess how can we fix that GXL not supported speil.

-Luis

If you guys can go to installing mandrake forum and then to the one that says " help with mandrake' by Luis101 this has the same problem, just so i can get answers to what seems to be the same problem in 1 place.

Thanks,

-Luis

CD4 means Contrib. Yo have to add Contrib as one of your urpmi repositories.

 

See an earlier reply by SoulSe (http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/) on howto do that.

I already remember doing this kind of download, does this mean that 1 or the mirrors didn't work or something? Or is this completely different, I just remember doing something like this when I was installing urpmi.

that should have been:

 

CODE

 

 

$ glxinfo |grep direct

 

 

Sorry, my brain is soup today - working hard. If that doesn't work, just lash 'glxinfo' and look for the line about direct rendering.

By the term "lash" do you mean remove the ' glxinfo ' and just type in grep direct with the | if not what did you mean?

I was able to run xscreensaver from the terlmina just by typing that, but then when it came to the actual GLMatrix it said the GXL or something was not found or the extention or it. So it's not running Im going to go ahead and try some of the other screen savers and see if the run. Check the topic " Help With Mandrake " by me under installation to see what im talking about that topic is preety much talking about the same thing Im just triying to puzzle your answeres to their answers and see what I get out of it.

-Luis

Thanks Scoopy!!! Well it doesn't work. Ther seems to be some kind of error it flashes on the screen kinda fast.

Something about the screen missing and GLX exstansion on screnn " 0.0"

What does this mean? wha should I do and if you did the same matrix screen saver did you get any error messages?

-Luis

To check if you have direct rendering working, do the following from the CLI:

$ glxinfo grep | direct

That should return a yes or no for whether or not you have direct rendering.

This is what I get

glxinfo grep | direct
bash: direct: command not found

so Im guessing this is a big " NO "

The xxx in xscreensaver-glxxx are actually digits. Don't type them. urpmi xscreensaver-gl should be enough. (or look in the mandrake control center->software->install)

 

If gl screensavers don't show make sure you have 3D acceleration working.

I tried it and this is what I get

# urpmi xscreensaver-gl
Please insert the medium named "Installation CD 4 (x86) " on device [/dev/hdc]
Press Enter when ready...

I don't have cd 4 and I quite frankly have never heard about it. Also how do I make sure that Im running 3D acceleration? About the Kazaa i don't know what my friend is talking about. I don't see anything in his directory about kazaa. Can some one provide steps to installing a screen saver in general, we are wanting the screensaver that looks like the matrix code trickling down.

-Luis

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Well we are triying to install a screen saver but we do not know how to, I have tried urmpi and things but it does not work.

# rpm -ivh xscreensaver-matrix-4.14-4plf.i586.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
       package xscreensaver-matrix-4.14-4plf is already installed

Now when we right click on the desktop>Configure Desktop>Screen Savers

Nothing shows up under screen savers besides the one that already camed installed in Linux or Mandrake. We just need to know how to access this file and make it appear on the Screen Savers menu. thats all

-Luis

hey guys,

umm he corrently has the Urmpi tool installed, I installed it for him. So we are using that, right now we have a huge deal with installing screensaver and he want's to get some kind of kazaa installed on his computer. But we download the file and red package don't reconize them or wont run the. He is very new to linux I just installed linux on his computer this morining so if you do give instructions please give step-by-step.

thanks,

-Luis

What do I do with it, I installed it and nothing happeneds. how do I run it or whatever? do I use this code

rpm -Uvh  xscreensaver-matrix-4.14-4plf.i586.rpm

Or what? anyways I already did something like that but it does not show up in the " available screensaver" What to do?

-Luis

Thanks guys for the help,

Im not on my computer I'm on a friends right now. For some reason his computer frezeez when theres a certain amouts of programs running. I think it is because we don't have the 3rd cd and we didn't install it.

My other question is I would like to change my sceensaver. We would like something like the matrix coding and so that it moves and stuff. But we can't seem to find any linux sites that offer this we found one but the download was .exe which I guess linux does not run. Also on top of all we have no idea how to do it so if you guys can help us change a screensaver and if anyone has a link to some webpage that really does have linux screensavers it will be great.

-Luis

Does is Konqueror in Urpmi can I run a plug in to Konq? Also how do I acces those directories when I do they say that they don't make since.

Sorry scoopy that I wasn't more clear on my last post, I already had tried that here is what happeneds when I hit Enter

Please enter the installation path of the Mozilla, Netscape,
or Opera browser (i.e., /usr/lib/mozilla):

WARNING: Please enter a valid installation path.

I really don't know what do type in I tried typing in whats in the ( ) but it says that same message, I substituted the usr for the user name,

-Luis

P.S. how can I start to remove programs? I don't want Mozilla anymore but I can't delete from the home directory it says that access is denied. Also what else should I learn? Now that we pretty much got this whole speil over and done with. I just need this macromedia flash player installed and it should be done.