isadora

Tonight Mageia announced release 1 of the brand-new distribution!!!

I have found on Mandy 2010.2 that some packages appear to install and then I cannot find them. For example, I installed kdewebdev and I cannot find Quanta Plus anywhere. Anybody else having these problems?

 

It is good to see some traffic on this forum again.

 

Thanks,

Banjo

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To me it seems kdewebdev4 does not install much more than:

‎/usr/share/doc/kdewebdev4

‎/usr/share/doc/kdewebdev4/README

For Quanta i can't give you any information, for i cannot install it through MCC.

I am using Mandriva 2010.2-64bits.

Same experiences here.

Use Mandriva and KDE for many years.

And together with KDE KMail got introduced.

My wife still used it until lately, when big troubles arose with KMail.

I have a workaround, i translated for you from Dutch into some kind of English.

It was the way i converted mails from KMail to Thunderbird.

In KMail create maps for PostIn, Sent items, Archive and/or others (depends on what maps you have)

Be aware, these new-made maps must be of type "mbox".

Next step is to copy messages from the original maps to the new-made-ones.

 

In Dolphin (or whatever filemanager): copy the mbox-maps to the thunderbird-profile-map:

(/home/.thunderbird/pkh8vohu.default, or some name similar ) of Thunderbird.

You can find the mbox-maps in:

/.kde4/share/apps/kmail/mail

Addressbook imported by use of LDIF.

Wish you all good luck and a shiny Thunderibrd-experience.

Installed here as well, no problems during installation.

Updates during installation works , as expected ;-)

Flash-install went smooth after clicking link in Youtube-video for installing Flash, very nice.

Rock-stable so far, and great expectations for the official.

Of course John,

Mageia for me is rock-stable without major problems.

Reported bugs is taking care for within the shortest of time.

I expect a good first release within scheduled time.

PS: Release Candidate 1 is out now!!!

Mint is a nice distribution, used it a while in virtual machine.

This, of course, was Mint 9, code-name "Isadora". B)

Roger,

There have not been that many updates lately, but surely more than one.

Probably re-configure your repositories through MCC?

I have a list of updates i received to my laptop over time, so you can have an impression of what has been released through time at:

http://www.mandrivaclub.nl/site/index.php?showtopic=11057&st=360&start=360

isadora

John,

Using your webcam in VLC, the following workaround should work:

In VLC->Media->Open capture device...

...under "Device Selection" fill out for "Device name": /dev/video0

(In my case it was /dev/video1, because there is another webcam integrated in

my laptop).

When done, hit the "Play"-button.

isadora

John,

Maybe something else you can take a look at, is v4l2cup.

Nice tool for fiddling around with different settings, and testing.

isadora

Don't use the cam very often myself.

But do know it works in aMSN, VLC, and had it working in Skype some time ago.

 

The only disappointment I have with Mageia is that a number of my preferred applications are or seem to be missing, namely......knemo, xmms, apcupsd plus gapcmon,and mahjongg3d. There may be others and they may all still appear in the final release.

 

Cheers. John.

You are absolutely right John. There are still many packages waiting for

introduction.

Anyone is encouraged to fill out a "New RPM package request" through Bugzilla:

https://bugs.mageia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mageia&format=guided

As for knemo, there has already been placed a request:

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=834

isadora

John,

When i connect my webcam, no activity-light is shown on my webcam neither.

But when opening Cheese (for example) instantly the activity-light on the cam

is showing up. And the cam produces pictures.

In MCC->Hardware the webcam-information showing up, is as follows:

Identification

Vendor: ‎Logitech, Inc.

 

Description: ‎QuickCam Pro 9000

 

Media class: ‎Video|Video Control

 

Connection

Bus: ‎USB

 

Bus PCI #: ‎2

 

PCI device #: ‎3

 

Vendor ID: ‎0x046d

 

Device ID: ‎0x0990

 

Misc

Module: ‎uvcvideo

Have no similar configuration at hand, but would guess one could tweak

configuration-settings through NVIDIA X Server Settings -> X Server Display

Configuration.

At beforehand i suggest to check first through Mandriva Control

Center under hardware in set up graphical server that "Enable duplicate display

on external monitor" is set.

Now you should be able to enable TwinView.

Downloading through Ktorrent mageia-1-Beta2-DVD-i586.iso went pretty smoothly,

approximately two hours.

Installation in a virtual machine (VMPLayer 3.1.4 build 385536) went without

falter.

The familiar rituals that everyone knows by now.

Configuration used for the virtual machine:

* RAM: 1500 MB

* Hard disk: 50 GB

Installation to reboot, including updates (only 4 packets) lasted 24

minutes.

Reboot went smoothly without errors in desktop.

Ready-to-use desktop (all starts) in Alpha 2 in 77 seconds.

For the Beta 2 was 53 seconds.

When installing a package message appeared, saying that the CD-ROM

CoreMedia could not be found.

Have this medium disabled via "Software Management" now.

installing Flash Player plug-in went without difficulty through "Software

Management ". Flash worked flawlessly.

And then just a short test for libre-office.

It took 35 seconds before I could begin in a text document.

In a second attempt I could start using a new text-document within 12 seconds.

And a libre-office calc document I could use after 12 seconds.

So far very pleased with this next version in the preliminaries.

Downloading here, and installing it into a virtual machine later on.

Did the Alpha's the same way, and worked all just fine.

Hi John,

Have a Logitech webcam myself.

For Windows i had to install a whole bunch of things, but in Mandriva it worked just out-of-the-box.

Need to say, i have another type/model, Logitech Pro 9000.

Very nice cam this C910 HD.

Good luck,

isadora

PS: And a little something to read.

Could not think about anything else then changing events through "Power Management" in "System Settings".

By editing profiles one should be able to effect settings for monitor-handling.

Have a good time around John.

For what it concerns Mageia, i am quite happy with the two Alpha-versions so far.

All is working very well, must say, this gives me trust in their future products.

Banjo,

Isn't dual boot with one of the latest Mandriva-versions an option?

That way you can test out, and decide later.

isadora

Don't think one can say "MandrivaUsers-forum" is dead, no.

But i can tell, activity has been greater in former periods.

Same thing is happening to the Mandriva-forum, especially the English part of it.

And also the Mandrivaclub.nl-forum, in my own country, experiences a drop-down.

For where it concerns Mageia, this distribution does not have a forum yet.

Topics are set up for Mageia in the aforementioned forums, and are neither over-populated.

On the other hand, one could say, all Mandriva-users are quite satisfied with their distribution, and don't have reasons to visit.

But your idea about changes of population since the overtake of Mandriva S.A., i also could second.

Let's hope for the best, and maybe the introduction of Mandriva 2011, later in the year, will spark things up.

Edit: Mageia has a mailing-list-forum.

Then maybe John, an idea using the 2.6.36.4-desktop-nrj.69mib-kernel?

use konqueror as gui then

 

fish://user@host

Or fish through Dolphin. (hm? fish-dolphin?)

Googmorning John,

Think Ken means:

cd /usr/local/bin

./googleearth

And another link explaining sound in Linux, not just and only PulseAdio, that is.

 

If I regularly perform updates is it worth using?

 

When updated 2010.1 regulary, you're system should be at 2010.2 right now.

It is no more and no less then an 2010.1 including all updates for it.