flightcrank

i just coverted from mandrake 10.1 to unbuntu. and im happ i like how it installs nvidia drivers by default, and it just works !!

good luck

has anyone here actualy got it working on mandrake ? if so, what did u do and how did u do it ?

i installed everythin that it need but still no luck. bloodly hell linux is a pain somethimes

im fed up also, is runs fine for a while then jst gets worse and worse, ill try the new one that coes out, and if its bad ill change

mandrake sound fine, i hope they never chage it

i found this in mcc, under system, then menu.

it has the kde menu entry, however it is higlighted blue ? so it is there, any ideas

EDIT: the only problem i have is KDE optin not showing on the task bar, to solve i just made a shortcut to "Kcontrol" this gives you all the options to configure KDE3.4

so i fixed the login, and menu problems. all up i would say kde boots 60 70 % quicker its much faster. i recomend it the problem are easly fixed. or easy to work around.

ok i just insalled kde 3.4, this is what i did. firt of all some background info.

i have mandrake 10.1 about a month or two ago i updated the starndard 3.2 to 3.3 from thac's repositorys all was fine updated perfectly. no need to install any thing just need to add thacs repositys and updatde kdebase. thats it

then toaday i found that 3.4 is out from thac so i updated. heres what i did

i added these repositorys

1.mandrake main

2.mandrake contrib

3. plf 10.1 free

4. plf non-free

5. thacs rpm

then i updated xorg to 6.8.2

then i installed the new kde "kdebase3.4" and restartd x. and x didnt restart so i just rebooted. and that worked fine, however i got the login porblem where the login screen pops up but just loops, it also adds at lest 20 user entrys.

so i just cntrl-alt-backspace, login as a user, then type kde, and kde boots up fine,

my taskbar short cuts were all gone, no big problem i re-added them, it has a cool new feature when u leave you mouse poiter over the shortcuts now :)

the side image on the taskbar menu still said 3.3 even though i updated to 3.4 so i istalled this

mandrakelinux-kde-config-file

just go to mcc serch for "mandrakelinux" and slect mandrakelinux-kde-config-file its from thac's repository.

the side bar image now says 3.4 ( i think u may need to restart x for this to take effect.

also mu taskbar menus all had double entrys, also some were missing such as the configure>kde menu was completly gone. doing this...

su
*password*
urpme mdkkdm
urpme kdebase-kdm
urpmi mdkkdm

Reboot and everything *should* be fine. urpme is the command for uninstalling an rpm file.

did not work at for me at all.

however doing this fixed the double entrys

open a console or log in via cli

type: mv ~/.local ~/.local-bak

Run update-menus -v

Once that is done, everything should work for you

how ever the KDE menu where u can configure kde still dose not show up.

EDIT: i just rebooted my computer and i still have alot of menu entrys however it lets me login now without looping at all, so something i typed here worked !

has any one succuessfully installed kde 3.4 under mandrake 10.1 ? maby a tutorial is in order ?

For the kde freeze: Open /usr/bin/startkde with your favorite text editor, go to the line that says:

# the splashscreen and progress indicator

ksplash --nodcop

and comment it out (#).

 

Good luck.

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i did what u said but it just shows no splash at all, which i assume is what i commented out, and now it just crashes after that. i can move the mouse but cant click on aything.

oh yeah u can change your workgroup name without going through the wizard, just edit the conf file located in "etc/samba/smb.conf" and change your workgroup name from there, then save, and restart the samba server with "service smb restart"

hrrmm

well try typing in smb:/192.168.0.1 (in otherwords smb:/the.ipadress.of.the.pc) u want to access

or after u change your workgroup name u may have to reset the smaba its self, so it can re-load your smb.conf file and read the new changes. (thats just a guess)

type "service smb restart" in console, u may have to bee root to do this

well i still have this problem with my windows machines alwas losing the internet. when it goes down i can ping both my network cards fine, i believe the problem is in the routing,.

any ideas on why this is happing?? ive tryed everything

after a bit of googleing i changed my refresh rate to 60hz and my colours down to 32bit color,

but with limited success. the corupted images arnt as bad but there still there and the screen still freezes before it gets into kde

well i got them to install which is good.

i see the nvidia logo, then it boots into my kde desktop, as soon as this happens i get a corupted image on the screen, image is "garbled" and no displayed corectly, then it freezes.

i change my xfree86 file back to "nv" insted of nivida and my desktop works fine again,

i would like to play games :) but im outta ideas on how to get this to work

new nivida drivers are out i think,

any tryed installing them yet ?

i simply could not get the last ones working with mandrake 10.1

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i have another problem, i upgraded to mandrake 10 to mandrake 10.1 and after a period of inactivity, my windows machince have no internet access i get timeout messages.

so on my mandrake box i type

"service network restart"

and my internet connection shareing works again.

any idea on whats going worng, i like mandrake and dont want to change distros

wow get a life,

it seems u are the one with the problem,

let it go !

have a nice life :P

hold on while i just re-register under a diff name

u lose

i come for help, not a lecture. dont post if u cant help me on this topic, its a waste of bandwidth

thanks for the help Echylo

to the other two, its called the internet people can post what they want, get used to it

if course i have it installed. if any help could be provided that would be good. if not go help elsewhere

i like the small one the best, how ever i hate the superkaramba colored letters the clash with other wallpapers and also if someones "hostname" is longer than yous it runs over the colored letters and dosnt look that good.

other than that its good nice small and simple

duh.

some help would be good

by default the netbios port is open i think its port 139, apparently that 1 of the worst ports to have open. so how can mandrake be that secure out of the box if that port is open

wow i like it, i cant get borialus working, so i like yours better because u dont need to install anything and u can put it in any directory want,

but we cant configure it :( are you going to make it user configurable ?