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  2. Show off your desktop May 2008

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    Jaraeez, Mind my asking... You use KDE?? Will AWN work well in KDE althought it is for GNOME...

    Hi, yep it's KDE, & yes it does work in KDE rather well actually :)

    As dude67 states I also installed it from the repositories (Mandriva 2008.1) along with the plugins although some of the plugins don't quite work yet (on going build i think)

     

    By the way, your artwork look really nice! Otherwise, the weather at your home area is cloudy and shower?? Eh?? :huh:

    Thank you & lol -- there's a saying in the North of England 'it never rains in Manchester, just POURS' ;) so if your ever thinking of visiting make sure you bring your waterproofs :)

  3. No root passwd

    in Cooker

    Posted

    Hey i am using Mandriva Free 2008 Spring. i am not having any such problem.

     

    The issue was for Mandiva 2008.1 & not 2008 though I have to stress this is now resolved.. :)

  5. Show off your desktop April 2008

    in Art And Design

    Posted

    Jaraeez, Mind my asking.. did you get weather from KDE-Look.org (14.8 version)?? I tried that, but it required PyQT?? I am using 2008.1 as well as yours... is it 3.5.9 you are using??

     

    Also, is your networking (download and upload) showing activities?? Mine is dead, might need to edit it??

     

    Thanks!

     

    HI,

     

    Liquid Weather from http://liquidweather.net & the version is 14.8 as you stated. Can't remember now but I do believe it requires PyQT which you can obviously download first. Finally yes the networking shows both upload & download speed - you'll problably need to open the skz file in kwrite & maybe change the interface (eth0, wlan0, wlan1 etc) to your choice..

     

    hth

  7. How do I connect to the Internet?

    in Networking

    Posted

    Hi & welcome,

     

    can you open a terminal window & then type 

    su

    then enter the root (administrator) password, then type 

    ifconfig

    .. what does it show?

    Normally if all is well what should happen is that your router hands out an ip address & you should be good to go just like windows I guess. I take it this isn't happening?

  10. No root passwd

    in Cooker

    Posted

    Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this issue. I've installed Mandriva 2008.1 RC2 3 or 4 times now (various reasons!) & each time entering the password for 'root'. Once i'm in my user account & need to use an application that requires root priviliges I have not been prompted for a password! After doing a 'passwd root' all was well... a bug or is it just me?

  13. My Mandriva 2008 Rant (I know it's 'Beta')

    in Everything Linux

    Posted

    Install a rolling distro (Debian any flavour, Slackware, Arch, Gentoo, Mepis... even PCLinuxOS). Problem solved.

    Releasing new versions that break pretty much everything was common practice some years ago, when regular upgrading via a phone line was translated to $$$.

    It's incomprehensible that not all distros follow a rolling release cycle anno 2008, but sadly enough quite a few (and major ones) still do just that.

     

    I have to totally agree with your point. In some cases users will use older version distro's which have stopped security updates & the reason the users are still using the older version is because it works the way they want, it's configured the way they want & to upgrade in most cases will mean breaking their system in one way or another - though these systems are now are at times vulnerable..

  15. Dual Screen Trouble (one more)

    in Hardware

    Posted

    OK .. well here's my xorg.conf for ref:

     

    # File generated by XFdrake (rev 57713)

# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier	 "Multihead layout"
Screen	  0  "Screen0" LeftOf "Screen1"
Screen	  1  "Screen1" 0 0
InputDevice	"Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice	"Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
Option		"Xinerama" "off"
Option		"Clone" "on"
EndSection

Section "Files"
# font server independent of the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"

# minimal fonts to allow X to run without xfs
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia/libglx.so"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName	"Dell 1702FP (Analog)"
DisplaySize  340	270
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync	30.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh  56.0 - 76.0
#Option		"dpms"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor1"
VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName	"Dell 1702FP (Analog)"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync	30.0 - 80.0
VertRefresh  56.0 - 76.0
#Option		"dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Videocard0"
Driver	  "nvidia"
VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
BoardName   "nVidia Corporation NV17GL [Quadro4 200/400 NVS]"
	Option "RenderAccel" "True" 
	Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true" 
	Option "BackStoring" "True"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Videocard1"
Driver	  "nvidia"
VendorName  "Videocard Vendor"
BoardName   "nVidia Corporation NV17GL [Quadro4 200/400 NVS]"
BusID	   "PCI:1:0:0"
	Option "RenderAccel" "True" 
	Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
	Option "BackStoring" "True"
	Screen	  1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device	 "Videocard0"
Monitor	"Monitor0"
DefaultDepth	 16
SubSection "Display"
	Viewport   0 0
	Depth	 16
	Modes	"1280x1024" "1024x768"
	Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device	 "Videocard1"
Monitor	"Monitor1"
DefaultDepth	 16
SubSection "Display"
	Viewport   0 0
	Depth	 16
	Modes	"1280x1024" "1024x768"
	Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
   Option "Composite" "Enable" 
   Option "RENDER" "Enable"
EndSection

#Section "DRI"
#Group		0
#Mode		 0666
#EndSection

     

    can you run this command as root 

    lspci

    & post the output?

  16. Dual Screen Trouble (one more)

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by jaraeez

    One thing I've noticed (maybe there's many more ..) you have 

    Option "Xinerama" "true"

    as well as 

    Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"

    within you xorg.conf file - which to my understanding means your asking for one big desktop "Xinerama" & two small desktops running separately "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone" at the same time which won't work - You could try by hashing out one or the other then restart X11 (copy your xorg.conf first :) )

  20. Trouble installing devede

    in Command Line, Kernel and Programming

    Posted

    Hey,

     

    I've used devede (excellent program) & the version I run 2.12 states the following (which works fine for me)

     

    Installing DeVeDe in your Home 

DeVeDe 1.1 and later can be installed in other directories, like your own home directory. This allows to use DeVeDe in machines where you don't have root access. To do so, just copy the files:

* devede.py
* devede.glade
* barras.png
* estira.png
* devede_convert.py
* devede_gtk_helper.py
* devede_other.py
* devedesans.ttf

into a folder, and run devede.py from that directory ("barras.png" and "estira.png" are in the "pixmaps" directory).

     

    hth

  23. Apache2 notice

    in Security

    Posted

    Without any further evidence I can honestly say this is a hoax.

     

    Did you check the message source of the Email? This should enlighten you a little. The patch that they recommend to install is most likley an 'exe' file?

  24. USB 2.0 - Speeds

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Yes, writing to a journaled file system via USB would be slower. In all fairness I should add that my faster transfer speeds were to a FAT32 file system. :)

     

    lol.. well thanks again. The problem I have with FAT32 is that I have some VMware images I copy back & forth which are over 8GB each & from my understanding FAT32 has a file limatation of 4GB?

  25. USB 2.0 - Speeds

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Cheers for the heads up Greg.

     

    Well it looks like it's using high speed 2.0

     

    dmesg |grep USB

     

    SLOT KBC0 MSE0 PWRB USB4 USB1 USB2 USB3
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
uhci_hcd 0000:02:0b.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
uhci_hcd 0000:02:0b.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
ehci_hcd 0000:02:0b.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 7
ehci_hcd 0000:02:0b.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
usb 6-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
USB Mass Storage support registered.

     

    dmesg |grep usb

     

    usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb usb7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
usb 6-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 6-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb-storage: device scan complete

     

    & i suppose 17MB/s is probably the best I'm going to get with my H/W

     

    I have two partitions on a 250GB external HD (100GB = NTFS, & 130GB ext3) I noticed that on the slower of the partitions (ext3) it shows as journaling=ordered where I have the option of ordered, all data, or write back. Could this option be the problem with the slower transfer speeds on the ext3 partition?

     

    cheers

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