theYinYeti

I don't know if "calibration" is possible, but swapping coordinates is possible:

http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/mouse.4.html

See options InvX, InvY.

 

Yves.

Nice initiative. Future will tell us if it is put to good use or not.

 

Yves.

Nautilus can be unnerving. Maybe you have the same problem I had:

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=43655

where Nautilus thinks you would be in danger by opening this file…

 

I use ROX now. All files open as I expect them to.

 

Yves.

Indeed!

/boot/grub

I don't know what this OpenJDK is, but were I you, I'd use either Sun JDK 1.6 or "IcedTea" 1.7.

 

Yves.

See:

http://www.shorewall.net/FAQ.htm#faq7

 

(FAQ 7) When I stop Shorewall using “shorewall[-lite] stopâ€, I can't connect to anything. Why doesn't that command work?

 

Answer:The “ stop †command is intended to place your firewall into a safe state whereby only those hosts listed in /etc/shorewall/routestopped' are activated. If you want to totally open up your firewall, you must use the “ shorewall[-lite] clear †command.

 

Yves.

In very short:

+ If there's something I don't like, I can remove/change it.

+ If there's something I want, I can do it.

+ All of this for almost free.

 

- Finding the solution to a problem can be time-consuming.

- WiFi is driving me mad.

 

On a broader scope:

+ Nice platform for UI experiments (Metisse, Gimmie, LFS…).

+ A strong foothold for free software in general.

 

- Too much is done to look/act like Win or Mac.

 

Yves.

I've used most of the cited software. Apart from K3B, I find the most versatile, powerfull, and reliable is xcdroast. It takes a little time to get used to it, but it is rather well organized.

tkDVD does little, but it does it well; its biggest shortcomming in my opinion is its GUI.

 

Yves.

I'm using Easy-Urpmi from there:

https://mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/old/

 

At step #2, there's a checkbox:

"[X] Utilise les index compressés, plus petits que les normaux, mais avec moins d'informations"

=> Use the compressed indexes, smaller than the normal ones, but with less information

 

I don't know how to transpose this tip for 2008.1, or even if it is possible at all…

 

Yves.

adamw, although you have the theory right (as expected ;) ), you're wrong: a broken system can happen after an unfinished upgrade.

This happened to me once because internet went down (not Linux' fault).

 

Now, I tend to do the upgrade in two steps:

# urpmi --auto-update --noclean --no-install --force

# urpmi --auto-select

 

Yves.

It seems I had the same problem as John, but with Mdv 2008.0; the problem appeared about a month ago. I "solved" it by removing the bad media, and adding it again with the "synthesis" file instead of "hdlist". I'm not sure this can be transposed in 2008.1, though…

 

Yves.

My "sedentaire" PC is upgraded from each Mandriva version to the next using Easy-Urpmi since… Mandrake 10.0 if I remember correctly (or was it 9.1?). And it is still running fine.

I always:

- Uninstall unneeded RPMs, as well as those absent from Mandriva/PLF/Jpackage repositories (this is just a security, not an absolute requirement).

- Do the upgrade, one version at a time.

 

Yves.

You will have to build a kernel from source, and mandriva has never been particularly good at this.

Why would Mandriva be worse than any other? I have compiled many kernels on Mandriva without problems. Never Mandriva's kernels, though; only kernels from kernel.org.

 

Yves.

I'm no expert at this, but it seems to me that the "bad driver" thing is not an issue at all. usbmouse would be the generic kernel driver/module for all usb things that move the pointer, and wacom would be the xorg driver/protocol for this specific device as managed by xorg.

 

Yves.

I like the "handheld mode", or whatever it is really called. Nice for the web developer I am.

 

Yves.

I don't know more than I already said… but I have one last suggestion: you could try putting more input devices in your "ServerLayout".

Currently, there is only "Cursor1" for the wacom device. You could try more lines with all, or combinations of, "Eraser1", "Stylus1", "Pad1", and "Cursor1".

 

Yves.

Welcome!

 

It seems to me that your hardware is at least partially recognized when the pointer jumps up and down, BUT probably with the wrong protocol.

Try and see if this page I wrote helps you or not:

http://yves.gablin.club.fr/gablin.php?page...le=config_mouse

Note that this article is quite old and the file is now named /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Don't hesitate to ask for details if you don't understand some part.

 

Yves.

Or there's a rather nice distribution that will install all this with no effort. I use it at work (LAMP + SMTP + NNTP + SMB) and I'm satisfied with it.

It's called "Mandriva". I don't have the link at hand right now but you should find it on google. Try it, I'm sure you'll like it :P

 

Yves.

I like the way it deals with self-signed certificates so that you don't keep getting warning dialogs all the time. You can simply add them as being safe and then never get prompted again :)

At last!!! :)

 

Yves.

You could try Damn Small Linux.

That's indeed the fastest (installed on hard disk of course) and lightest distribution I ever installed on my nomade laptop (see spec in signature). Nowadays, I'm happy with Debian and IceWM (although I find Debian slow to boot).

You could use any distro in essence

Not quite; 2.6-kernel-based distributions won't install on too-old hardware. For example, on my nomade laptop, Mandrake 9.1 was the last Mdk/Mdv I was able to install (and it ran slow). You can always try and use Live CDs to test.

 

I recommend IceWM or ROX as the desktop.

 

Yves.

He's not talking about wireless, just simple ethernet.

My wife happens to use Mdv 2008.0 on a Dell Inspiron 1401 (probably the same ethernet driver), and ethernet is working fine. I'll soon switch it to Mdv 2008.1; I'll see…

 

Yves.

No problem with hardware. However, most power-saving features (suspend to ram, suspend to disk, dynamic CPU clock…) won't work anymore.

 

Yves.

Excellent! :) It works:

[yves@localhost ~]$ truncate 
usage: truncate size filename [filename...]
[yves@localhost ~]$ echo "hello hello" >testfile
[yves@localhost ~]$ echo "bye bye" >>testfile
[yves@localhost ~]$ ls -li testfile 
711918 -rw-r--r-- 1 yves yves 20 2008-06-03 10:27 testfile
[yves@localhost ~]$ cat testfile 
hello hello
bye bye
[yves@localhost ~]$ truncate 10 testfile 
[yves@localhost ~]$ ls -li testfile 
711918 -rw-r--r-- 1 yves yves 10 2008-06-03 10:27 testfile
[yves@localhost ~]$ cat testfile 
hello hell[yves@localhost ~]$

Thanks again.

 

Yves.

a quick search for linux and truncate revealed this links: http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl2_truncate.htm

This is a C system call. I cannot use it directly.

 

which according to pbone.net is either in the ltp package: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idp...0.i386.rpm.html

And those are just test cases for the kernel function that is called by the above system call.

 

or in the embutils package: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idp...1.i586.rpm.html

 

based on the description it does not move the file so it seems like what you are looking for.

I didn't notice this one before. It may indeed be what I'm looking for, even though it's deep under /usr/lib… Thanks, I'll try.

 

Yves.