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And just to top it all off, after installing mandrake i can switch USB2 support back on and it works fine.
Thanks once again, I'm glad i've discovered these forums, i'm sure i'll need plenty more help with mandrake in the future and now i know whre to come :D
Cheers
Owen
Make sure to do your updates after installation. Also do a google for "easy urpmi". You will be glad you did.
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Solved: the disk was damaged. New disk->no problems
Anyway thank you to those of you who read the post.
I seriously doubt that your disk was damaged. The konqueror issue is a documented error with a documented fix. Simply do your updates after installation. If you are still convinced that your disk is damaged, feel free to send it to me for "service".
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I am a little confused. i thought that you were supposed to be doing the updates to Community 10.1 from main and not from cooker. Can someone please provide an authoritative answer to this issue?
Thanks.
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yuyo:
nice to see some other suggestions. but i have to say, that the desktop you designed is filled with too much stuff. it might be your favourite, but think of what the average user or average business needs. i don't think that noia is a good selection for a business desktop, it looks too cute for business imho, although i do like noia and had it for a long time as default. :D
Sorry I didn't make myself very clear. I didn't want to completely redesign my desktop or to suggest that anything like it be used by default.
Lazyness got the best of me. :)
I did want to suggest the provided color scheme for the desktop as default as well as the other suggestions I already made in writing. I find Noia very complete and very usable, but I'll take yoru word for it about the missing icons.
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okay, here is a new preview-version testing nuvola icons and some of your suggestions. i do think this looks better now. i also added some additional folders to the /home folder and added a link to the different folders in the kicker. notice that the temp folder was hidden.
i am still unhappy with the window decoration. the coloring of the mandrake theme is very difficult. most color combinations look dull, dark or too bright and i must say now, the best thing would be to use plastic or other decoration instead of the galaxy theme. sorry, but the coloring makes galaxy unusable. :unsure:
http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?act=Att...ype=post&id=951
what about the background? darker, lighter, other color, other picture? no picture at all? any suggestions? B)
OK, I took your suggestions for the background and used #506294 and combined with #1D2D36 to create this:
http://www.mialug.org/downloads/images/dis...ts/Mandrake.png
http://www.mialug.org/downloads/images/dis...s/Mandrake1.png
http://www.mialug.org/downloads/images/dis...s/Mandrake2.png
The only thing I would change in the above shots is the size of the deskstop icons. They should be smaller for general consumption, although I like them fine that way.
Specific suggestions:
*Improve Mandrake's Control Center, particularly the Internet configuration center and the font installer leave a lot to be desired.
*Make Noia the Default Iconset.
*Provide better backgrounds. I emailed Mandrake offering a free set of backgrounds with pictures that a professional photographer friend of mine had taken. Mandrake never got back to me. If anybody has a way of reaching mandrake, let me know through my site: http://www.porcel.net
*Make Plastik or .NET default Style
*Make Plastik or MDK square default window style.
*Make fonts bigger all around. The first thing I always do is go to KDE's Control Center so that the fonts become legible.
*Place dictionary and desktop access applet on Panel by default.
*Default Icons should be: Desktop Access, Home, Browser, Email, IM, Application Button that provides access to the Office suite.
*Provide by default some of the very useful KDE service-menus available at kde-look.org
*Beyond looks, test, test, test, test, test, test, test the heck out of the release. There should be no obvious bugs.
I love Mandrake. These are all just friendly suggestions.
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But more important, we put a Mandrake 9.2 Discovery in a machine we sold in march and now we installed Mandrake 10 CE in the machine we are about to deliver.
DOS as Windows :lol: Of course we changed the label in lilo.
I find what you are doing utterly irresponsible. Mandrake Community release is meant as a testing distribution for those that want to live on the bleeding edge such as myself and many of the folks in this forum. It is absolutely not what you give a customer.
Either give them a patched 9.2 or get a club membership and give them MDK 10 official.
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Okay... have encountered one problem. Totem is unable to play my DVD's. With some DVD's it can play the intro. But it never makes it to the movie before crashing... LG DVD/CDRW. Any ideas?
Do you have libdvdcss installed?
Tha's all I needed to install to get DVD playing going smoothly with Totem.
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Sagittarius,
I am a little confused by your post. Should we used your rpms to install kde 3.2 on Mandrake 9.2 or should we use Mandrake 10 Community rpms? I am just a bit confused by what you say in your web page.
If we should use Mandrake's 10 Community rpms, how do we add those to the list of repositories?
Are they any negative side effects to just installing from your rpms?
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What you want to do doesn't make any sense. Why?
Because the cheap raid that comes with the SATA chipset is not really hardware raid. The Windows driver is doing all the work. Thus, Mandrake gets confused when it sees the odd partition layout that the sata-raid driver presents.
Secondly, Raid 0 is a waste of time and potentially of your data unless you do tons of video-editing.
If you want to do Raid properly, get a 3ware controller. The drivers are part of the kernel and work perfectly with all OSs.
I always tell people to avoid getting Raid or SCSI built into the motherboard. Save the money and invest it into a card that you can take with you when you upgrade boards/cpu.
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Don't leave any USB devices attached to the computer until you are passed that stage and see what happens.
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Dear Mandrakians,
After being unable to play DVDs by using the Ogle rpms available through
plf, I decided to do a little bit of research. Now I have perfect playback
and I thought this info might benefit other folks.
To get Ogle to play in Mandrake 9.2,you need to install the
the following package from the third CD of the download distribution:
XFree86-compat-libs-4.1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm
Then, Go to this page:
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/redhat.shtm
Where you will find a convenient link for the following rpms:
libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.fr.i386.rpm
libdvdread-0.9.4-fr3.i386.rpm
ogle-0.9.1-fr3.i386.rpm
ogle_gui-0.9.1-fr2.i386.rpm
I used the freshrpms link for each of the above. Make sure you download theactual rpm and not the devel or source package. Install each the usual way,i.e. rpm -ivh "nameofrpm"
That's it. Enjoy perfect and beautiful DVD playback in Mandrake 9.2.
But it gets even better. Once you install the above. Totem, the media
player included with Mandrake will be able to play your DVDs too. So now
you have mp3, DVD, CDs and mpeg playback from a very cool looking app.
I am having fun and enjoying this new release.
Ps: The plf packages for Ogle are junk. I repeat junk, so don't bother using
them. And I was using the 9.2 plf available through easy urpmi. Anyway the above works perfectly.
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Dear Mandrakians,
After being unable to play DVDs by using the Ogle rpms available through
plf, I decided to do a little bit of research. Now I have perfect playback
and I thought this info might benefit other folks.
To get Ogle to play in Mandrake 9.2,you need to install the
the following package from the third CD of the download distribution:
XFree86-compat-libs-4.1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm
Then, Go to this page:
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/redhat.shtm
Where you will find a convenient link for the following rpms:
libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.fr.i386.rpm
libdvdread-0.9.4-fr3.i386.rpm
ogle-0.9.1-fr3.i386.rpm
ogle_gui-0.9.1-fr2.i386.rpm
I used the freshrpms link for each of the above. Make sure you download theactual rpm and not the devel or source package. Install each the usual way,i.e. rpm -ivh "nameofrpm"
That's it. Enjoy perfect and beautiful DVD playback in Mandrake 9.2.
But it gets even better. Once you install the above. Totem, the media
player included with Mandrake will be able to play your DVDs too. So now
you have mp3, DVD, CDs and mpeg playback from a very cool looking app.
I am having fun and enjoying this new release.
Ps: The plf packages for Ogle are junk. I repeat junk, so don't bother using
them
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I am generally very impressed with Mandrake 9.2. It seems more stable and faster than any other edition I have used. For instance, using my external USB2 drive used to lock the computer hard. Now it works perfectly.
It is however not without problems. Among them:
*DVD playback. I added the plf source to urpmi and proceeded to install
Ogle, which has always run great. Now, opening a DVD causes the program to seg-fault and quit. I just discovered the included Totem Multimedia player that appears to be able to play DVDs.
What do you have to do to make Totem play DVDs?
Alternately, is someone using Ogle successfully with 9.2? If so, how, and where did you get your rpms?
Finally, Totem plays music CDs perfectly, it even grabs the CDinfo from the web. KSCD will "play" them, but it produces no sound.
If you can throw an light on the above and how you went about resolving it,
I'd be thankful.
Good day.
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firstly congratualtions on choosing NFS....
I use it even when the share is SAMBA'd ...
For NFS: Are extended latin characters supported ??
For Samba the solution is I beleive something like filename mangling.
You can set it as a common or share specific option.
I think eventually you may find that you get problems.... sooner or later if you use regional charecters problems occur.
I'm afraid I don't know Spanish spelling rules. I know the french insist they can't spell a word without them BUT if its in UPPERCASE then they are entirely optional...... so obviously they can when they want??
As usual with Windows theirs a 'quick fix' but this comes at the expense of robustness.
I found this on NFS
9. InternationalizationNFS version 2 and 3 are currently limited in the character encoding
of strings. In the NFS protocols, strings are used for file and
directory names, and symbolic link contents. Although the XDR
definition [RFC1832] limits strings in the NFS protocol to 7-bit US-
ASCII, common usage is to encode filenames in 8-bit ISO-Latin-1.
However, there is no mechanism available to tag XDR character strings
to indicate the character encoding used by the client or server.
Obviously this limits NFS' usefulness in an environment with clients
that may operate with various character sets.
Ok, so I am not going crazy. I did read about the eight bit encoded of filenames, but I was under the impression that the latest versions of NFS actually supported it. What is a little puzzling is that I am sure NFS is being used to share files in Spanish speaking countries, so there has to be a work around. By the way, I can live without the accents on filenames perfectly fine, but the "ñ" is absolutely needed. Not to put a fine put on it, but the difference between "ano" and "año" (anus) and (year) is just that one mischievous letter.
Thanks for your help. I also found that there is an internationalization option for Samba where one can specify the character set. Unfortunately, this hasn't resolved the issues for me yet either.
Anybody else? Is there no resident Spaniard in the house?
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service -R
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Kinda like a fast reboot but you could also try
init 1
or
telinit 1
then back
If these don't do it then the kernel is not happy about something...reboot/upgrade/and or compile the kernel.
How about less drastic approach for someone who is clearly struggling with the basics? Go to /var/log and look at your messages. YOu want to read both a file called "dmesg" and "messages".
There might be plenty of juicy information there explaining what's going on. Additionally, if you haven't upgraded your kernel, do so, but do it the easy way for now, which is go to mandrakesecure.net and download the rpm for the kernel. Install it by doing urpmi nameofkernel but BEFORE YOU DO SO make sure that you make a backup of your old /etc/lilo.conf before doing so.
To do so:
mv /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.backup
Issue now :
urpmi nameofkernel
After you are done, make sure that you add one additonal stanza for your old kernel to your new lilo.conf that points to the old kernel, just in case. All of this is explained in greater detail at mandrakesecure.net, but my feeling is that you will not have to do any of this if you go through your logs.
And easier way to access your logs, I just happened to remember, is to go to Mandrake's control center and use the logging tool that's in there.
Good luck.
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Hi Guys,
I just finished setting up a Mandrake 9.1 file server. Everything went great and I am using samba to share files both with the rest of my Linux machines and the one lonely windows box. So far so good, but for some reason, Samba does not appear to like the ñ or any accented character that are common in the Spanish language. The files that have these characters have a lock on them when mounted and can only be accessed from the windows box, but not from any of the Linux boxes.
I find this perplexing, since I would presume that two boxes using the same version of samba would understand each other better than a Samba server and a Windows box.
Anybody has any pointers how to correct this naming issue?
In the meantime, I decided that the weird file naming surely must have
something to do with the fact that CIFS is a microsoft protocol that is not fully documented. So NFS here I come!
I create my /etc/exports as such:
/home/network 192.168.1.3(rw)
And for added security specify the following in /etc/hosts.allow:
portmap: 192.168.1.2 , 192.168.1.3, 192.168.1.100
lockd: 192.168.1.2 , 192.168.1.3 , 192.168.1.100
rquotad: 192.168.1.2 , 192.168.1.3 , 192.168.1.100
mountd: 192.168.1.2 , 192.168.1.3 , 192.168.1.100
statd: 192.168.1.2 , 192.168.1.3 , 192.168.1.100
and /etc/hosts.deny:
portmap:ALL
lockd:ALL
mountd:ALL
rquotad:ALL
statd:ALL
So far everything is going honky dory, all of my daemons are running, so I proceed to mount the share. And it mounts, BUT. Here's the big BUT.
1) The naming issue that manifested itself between samba server and samba clients also appears between the NFS server and NFS clients, with the Samba server and Windows 2000 as the only combination to get it right.
2) The mounted share /home/network has three subdirectories /backup
/Documents /Music but I can only write to /Documents but not to any of its subdirectories and I can only do so some of the time.
Leaving the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files empty and doing "service nfs reload" and "service nfs restart" does not make any difference. I have read and re-read the NFS-How-To, Red Hat's and Mandrake's documentation on the subject, etc.
What incredibly obvious thing am I missing?
What in the world is going on?
If you have made it this far into my post, I humbly thank you.
Ps: I am looking forward to proper ACLs and some rational directory services in Linux. That's what the folks at Novell had promised to deliver and I hope they do as some of these things can be a bit trying. Granted, Samba's file sharing took me 2 minutes to set up and it works well with the exception of the naming issues. Thanks for your help.
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Guys, don't reinvent the wheel. Why not help the folks at rythmbox:
http://www.rhythmbox.org/index.phtml
Rhythmbox is already very impressive as it is. It just needs a few more people to make it truly great. I am not a developer, but of all the media players, this is my favorite.
For DVDs, nothing beats Ogle.
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the problem looks identical to the one I am having with my Acer.
What happens, if you try CTRL-ALT-F1 under X? How does your console look then?
Under MDK9.0 and below, all worked fine, but now this... I tried the updated kernel from cooker, no result. I uninstalled X and reinstalled the X from 9.0 - no result.
Can anyone from Mandrake developers check on this - it must be something related with the 9.1 architecture.
Let's keep our fingers x that we get a solution, because TwinView does not work either due to these problems-
NDEE
I am having the same problems. X in 9.1 is severely broken. My laptop work with the Xfree86 server that shipped all the way back to Mandrake 7.2 and now it doesn't. 9.0 works fine, but don't we all want the latest and greatest.
As an aside to this, I installed Mandrake in another laptop and it wouldn't recognize a Xircom card that is widely supported. Every time I have had an issue, Red Hat always works.
My desktop constantly reboots under 9.1. I think it is because it doesn't see all the memory installed (1.5GB). Again Mandrake 9.0 or Red Hat don't have any issues. My uptime on the destkop was measured in months and as soon as I went back to Mandrake 9.0 all was good.
Somebody at Mandrake needs to begin smelling the coffee. This cannot go on. I am so enraged because I have recommened Mandrake to a LOT of people and it has come back to bite me.
Mandrake's quality assurance just plain SUCKS. I have never seen a distribution that is nicer looking, but I have never come across one that is so BROKEN.
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I have a D-Link Wireless 650 that works fine in RedHat 8.0.
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I have been using Mandrake since the 7.1 days and this is the first time that I have experienced serious showstopper bugs. I want to help by submitting a few bugs, but I have no time to be involved in Mandrake's ongoing development process. I read thorugh Mandrake's site and it asks me to send an email to qa@mandrakesoft.com to obtain a bugzilla account.
Why can't I just email them the bugs and get a reply by email, particularly when I have documented the bugs sufficiently?
Mandrake 9.1 does LOOK very nice and polished. Unfortunately, it needs to be far more stable to be usable.
On My Desktop:
*I have a USB 2.0 HD connected to the USB 2.0 ports provided by a Maxtor USB 2.0 PCI Card.When I attempt to copy from the USB drive to my desktop, the computer hangs hard and requires a reboot. There is no way to restart X, keyboard is unresponsive, the whole machine just hangs.
This happens irrespective of whether I use ext3 or ReiserFS as the file system.
*If my desktop computer is left on the Mandrake Login Manager, the computer randomly reboots itself. No, this is not a hardware issue. My prior uptime with this computer was of 167 days and the computer again remains stable in RedHat 8.0.
Could this be caused by the ACPI-kernel that is supposed to be included in Mandrake?
*The version of ogle that mandrake installs is old. Somehow neither 0.85 or the newer 0.91 play DVDs which I am able to do without issues in RedHat 8.0.
On My Laptop: (Pro-Star 8593)
This is one of the most standard laptops around. All hardware is recognized and configured by Mandrake 9.0 and Redhat 8.0
In Mandrake 9.1, there is no way to get XFree86 to display correctly. This laptop has worked without issues in Mandrake for the past few years. Inputting the vertical and horizontal refresh rates does nothing. I have also tried choosing different LSD monitors, the custom option, etc in XFdrake.
I have Mandrake's XFConfig file in case somebody wants to look at it. I also have RedHat's XF86Config file as well as the the XFree86.0.log and XFree86.setup.log from /var/logs.
If anybody can help or knows who I can contact in Mandrake to get these issues resolved, I would be very grateful.
Thanks.
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I was looking at http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/oper...rating_sys.html and wondering if SUN provides a way of downloading the source code for the cobalt linux kernel. I could not find one. The site http://www.gurulabs.com/rhl-cobalt-howto/r...e3.howto.4.html mentions a cobalt-linux-2.4.16C2_III-ext3fs.patch but ftp://ftp.cobalt.sun.com/pub/products/qub...l/updates/SRPMS only has a 2.2.16 kernel.
I would also love to know as I own a Sun Cobalt Nasraq and I am stuck with the 2.0 MIPS kernel. I cannot use bigger hard drives on it because of this.
I have the ISOS for the NASRAQ, but no source code. While the Nasraq has been the most reliable linux server I have ever run, running for over two years, it is pain in the ass to put yourself in the hands of a hardware manufacturer who can decide at any point to stop supporting a product, as it happened in my case.
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If you have a linux site, especially one that has beginners introductions/tutorials and explanations, please post your link to it here.
I want to make links in 2 categories:
1- about linux (mandrake, or other), for the beginner (practical)
2- about why to use linux / open source as opposed to 'that popular OS' (advocacy)
Please post the link to your site (or any site that you know/like and that hasn't been mentioned before) and indicate if it falls into category 1 or 2 (or both). Oh, and please indicate in which language it is!
My site (English only for now) will be up soon (=sometime this month) at www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr
I will post in this thread when it goes live.
The category 2 links I will probably put on another website, for which the url will be something like: with.ms.you.cant.be.free.fr
:)
Or howabout: without.ms.you.can.be.free.fr or with.ms.you.wont.be.free.fr
(only restriction: must end in .free.fr ....)
BTW DOlson, already got the link to your site, and of course already made links to this excellent and beginner friendly forum!
How about linux.set.me.free.fr?
I will eventually provide a link to my site once it's up and running.
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Don't get a Western Digital hard drive. Although they are good hard drives, Western Digital specifically states that they do not support Linux on them. I have 2 WD's, and have had a variety of problems during installs. Eventually it worked, but, it was querky at first.
I don't believe this to be accurate. Where does WD say that?
I have nothing but Western Digital drives for the past 3 years and they work great. Fastest drives right now, too.
Of course, they are not going to help you troubleshoot operating system questions, just like they will not help you if you don't know how to install a windows OS.
All of their diagnostic tools just need a dos floppy, which you can obtain from bootfloppy.com.
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In my opinion. Palladium or anything like it will fail totaly. No because of any philosofical belief but in the plain fact that " if man makes it man can break it".
You have to think of this as a type of lock. Given time( something we know we'll always have) the code can and will be broken or emulated. So since it can be( all things can be)hacked then the thing will have to have a way of being updated by software on the net. And since it can be reprogramed then it can be turned off or rendered useless. I don't think a million computer users in china are going to let this work for long. Just look at the Xbox. Even M$ is starting to give up on securing that one. And they have a billion dollers to just throw at the problem.
As soon a hack is out for it, and the company that is supposed to keep track of and update the code can't block the hack, then every corporate user out there that thought this was going to keep them safe will rethink their choice.
Can you imagine the lawsuits coming out of this," Use our chip and code and you'll never be hacked again". I for one would sue the pants off of the chipmaker for failing to keep their end of the deal. Billions could be lost if just one bank is hacked or just one credit card company is intruded on. Let alone if a code can be found to shutdown or lock up everyones computer with this in it. Go online, get your e-mail and BAM your computer is shut off untill you change the chip.
And M$ thought the slapper virus was bad this weekend.
We are going around in circles. I agree that the damn Fritz chip will not increase security. Most security breaches and privacy violations are inflicted by trusted sources.
Bypassing an instruction set built into a CPU will not be trivial. For the social and political implications of all of this, please read:
help with wireless driver
in Hardware
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Do all your regular updates. Then proceed to update your kernel
As root, type this:
# urpmi --update kernel
Then install the kernel-source
# urpmi kernel-source
Then install ndiswrapper and follow the instructions on the Readme to make it work.
In short, you will have to modprobe the new installed driver and then configure the card.
# modprobe nameofdriver
Go to MDK's Control Center and configure your card.
You could also buy a supported card and avoid all the above hassle. Linspire's website has a decent list of supported wireless cards in its knowledge base. Those will work fine under MDK.
Good luck