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OK, I'm setting up a PC for my aunt with Mandriva 2006, and I definitely wanna replace Kaffeine 0.7.1 with 0.8.1 as it's interface is much improved, but I can't get any package of to work the way I need.

I have Mandriva installed with my local language, danish, and everything is nice, but Kaffeine 0.8.1 comes up in english even though the translations are included in the package, are any of you in here aware of why it would do this?

SOS packages are using the Mandriva packaging rules while Thac and Ze are not so strict about these rules.

Do they do that with all their packages or is it just something they do on KDE? Because I think following Mandriva's style is a good idea, has anyone been using the SoS packages? I might have a friend moving to Linux next week, and I think Mandriva will do very well for him, and I was wondering if I should give him KDE 3.5.1 and Xorg 6.9 or if he will be happier with the Mandriva provided KDE 3.4.2 and Xorg 6.8.2?

I may be 100% wrong about this, but I don't believe that Mandrake by default uses the vanilla sources for their distribution, I noticed on the update sites that there are an RPM for the kernel-source of version 2.4.28, but I was wondering if there is an RPM out for version 2.4.29 of the Mandrake kernel.

The reason I'm asking is because I'm tryng to get Mandrake 10.1 to run on my Xbox, and the newest kernel patches are for 2.4.29 as far as I know.

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After a clean install of 10.1 official (the 3 CD version download edition) - I wasn't able to log into KDE as my regular user.  If I wanted to run KDE, had to log in as root.  I ran the updates and all was fixed. Running good now  :D

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Well, if that problem is on a retail version of Mandrake 10.1 I'd say that hurts MandakeSoft's reputation, but how is KDE 3.3 on Mandrake 10.1 (I ask because I havn't been able to find a single screenshot), does it look different than 3.2.3 ? I like a desktop with a bunch of colors because it gets me in a good mood to look at something bright colorful like if you look at a rainbow.

Anything is possible 

 

I think you would have to make yourself a CD with all the KDE 3.3 rpms and add that source during the install process.  Maybe you could pretend its that CD4 that is always listed. I think this would work?

 

BTW: you prolly already know... KDE on 10.1 official has its problems.  But, for the benefit of others... At least install those KDE updates on the mirrors ASAP.

 

Good Luck,

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What sort of "problems" are you reffering to? It's because I'd really like to use KDE 3.3, a friend of mine bought a copy of SuSE Linux Profesional 9.2 and installed on his laptop and I was just amazed of the KDE 3.3 desktop. I won SuSE 9.2 in a local launch contest, sounds weird, but I actually did! B)

So I'm kind of thinking, should I go for SuSE 9.2 for the cool desktop and wonderful things like YaST or should I stick with Mandrake 10.1 for wonderful things like urpmi and the great amount of RPM packages available and easy to install.

I doing a major hardware upgrade during the upcomming christmas holidays, for example I will upgrade my current motherboard to Asus' nForce2 A7N8X-E Deluxe (nForce2 is good enough for me, and I don't have the money for AMD64). I also ordered Mandrakelinux 10.1 PowerPack from a local Linux reseller. OK down to my question, is it possible to install KDE 3.3 during the actual installation of the distro so that you don't have to install KDE 3.2.3 ?

I like to try different things in Linux, like different widget styles and all that, and Mandrake offers a few different styles of the KMenu, but after switching back and forth my menu is messed up, I think that the path to the directory that is set to be the the directiry where the folders and shortcuts of the menu is stored is not set to the corresponding directory of the style that is set. Does any one know where this path is specified? Seriously, my KMenu is really messed up, is there a way to restore it to a "Fresh-Installation" state?

I'm installing KDE on my Xbox running Gentoo, and I don't want to use the KDE that is requiring the most of the system's hardware, since the Xbox only has 733 Mhz and 64 MB RAM, which version of KDE would be best?

gentoo is much harder than mandrake but still a very good distro.  The big problem with it is that all apps are compiled from source - this means that the average install takes a few days.

 

Arch may be another one to consider. It's very up to date and installs using binaries which make for a quicker install.  It is also an "expert" distro though...

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If you're installing it on an older PC it's acsually great to compile from source because then the programs takes full advantage of the specific system's hardware.

open k3b->settings->configure k3b->devices-> look to the right of where it says "cdrdao driver". it will probably say "auto", or whatever. click that & a drop down box will appear. choose one of the generic drivers. click "apply"->"ok". you may have to close & restart k3b, not sure though.

 

if that don't work then do what Ixthusdan suggested & run the setup. it's in the same place........ settings->k3b setup.

 

Chris

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Thank you soo much chris z, that did the trick! :D

Run k3b setup and use the generic driver.

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I feel so dum, but I don't see anything about drivers on the permissions.

I have a classic problem with K3b and cdrdao, I have checked that the permissions are set right, but I can't get it to burn. I really need help on this one.

Mt debug report from cdrdao is this:

System
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K3b Version: 0.11.6cvs
KDE Version: 3.2 BRANCH >= 20040204
QT Version:  3.2.3

cdrdao
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Cdrdao version 1.1.8 - (C) Andreas Mueller <andreas@daneb.de>
 SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling
 Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty
Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables.
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'
ATAPI:/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/cd: PLEXTOR CD-R   PX-W5224A Rev: 1.03
WARNING: Cannot read driver table from file "/usr/share/cdrdao/drivers" - using built-in table.
ERROR: No driver found for 'PLEXTOR CD-R   PX-W5224A', available drivers:
cdd2600
generic-mmc
generic-mmc-raw
plextor
plextor-scan
ricoh-mp6200
sony-cdu920
sony-cdu948
taiyo-yuden
teac-cdr55
toshiba
yamaha-cdr10x
For all recent recorder models either the 'generic-mmc' or
the 'generic-mmc-raw' driver should work.
Use option '--driver' to force usage of a driver, e.g.: --driver generic-mmc
ERROR: Cannot setup device ATAPI:/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/cd.

cdrdao comand:
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/usr/bin/cdrdao write --device ATAPI:/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target1/lun0/cd --speed 24 -n -v 2 --eject --remote 16 /tmp/kde-troels/k3bk2vN2a.tmp.cue

Today I accidently removed my "Show Desktop" icon from the kicker panel, how do I get it back? I can't find it under the Applets section.

i haven't found yet any kde3.3 rpm on any mirror for mandrake and the official rpms, supplied by mandrake will take a long time. you might have noticed that mandrake decided not to use kde3.3 in its distros before the most serious bugs are sorted out (e.g. not being able to move sensitive data into newer versions of kontact from "older" databases) and until there are some good testing results from other distros, thus it won't be available until mandrake 10.2 ships out.

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Well, I'm glad they are using 3.2.3 ;)

3.2 is a over 6 months old :P