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  1. I am not so sure about its performance (speed wise). Beryl was flawlessly doing its job for mr.

    In addition to the above I keep having a segmentation fault when invoking gsetcompiz, therefore I can't even configure it :wall:

     

    Once home I'll give it a try again.

     

    Thanks!

     

    Hello, I was like you, looking for beryl and forced to use compiz-fusion. But Compiz-fusion is great and in the backports repositories since yesterday. I advice you to do "urpmi.update -a" and "urpmi ccsm compiz-fusion emerald ....". It is quite stable and for me as fast as the former beryl.
  2. Thanks, I'll do.

     

    I have spring 2007.1 and latest complete repostitories enabled (upgraded yesterday) built from easyurpmi.

    I tried even removing all packages from both compiz and beryl (including emerald, gset-compiz and the alike to allow a 'fresh' install thru drak3d. But it didn't work....

    Beryl-core is only available in the 0.2.0 branch, not in 0.5.2..

     

    I checked on rpm.pbone.net and find a beryl-core for Mandriva 2007.1 - not sure which version you are running if 2007.0. It exists in the contrib repo, so presuming you have this added:

     

    urpmq --list-media

     

    will give a list of what you've added. Also, ensure that the repo is enabled and not disabled. You can do this within MCC and the install software section - not in Mandy now to tell you where exactly, but it's definitely there.

  3. Hi,

     

    Following several packages upgrades I do not find beryl-core to be available, anymore.

    This forces me to use compiz(-fusion) as standard desktop eyecandy manager.

    Despite its currently poor performance (if compared to standard beryl) I keep getting a segmentation fault when trying to run gset-compiz, thus ending up having a worthless manager.

    I’d like to go back and reinstall beryl but it seems impossible due to missing of the core package fro my repositories (all that are available thru easyurpmi).

     

    Can anyone give a good hint? I kinda miss my ol’looking beryl-powered environment.

    Thanks

  4. This probles has ben solved

     

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    I had installed a 7ports, externally powered USB HUB to face lack of available ports on my case.

    This hub strangely caused both external volumes to not being automounted when powered on.

    The issue was solved by simply removing the DC adapter plug from the hub, thus having the hub powered by my 500W power supply, though the case’s USB port.

    Even more weird was the fact that this situation was not occurring when running two other installed distributions: Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty and Ubuntu Gutsy b1 (future 7.10).

    Obviously I could never imagine it could have been a problem related to a self powered USB 2 hub.

     

    Thanks for your help and I hope this may serve as a solution to anyone else having to face the same snag…

     

    D*

  5. I do agree on NTFS-config. Does not do the job. However I might have simplified my issue. I can not access both of my external disks: NTFS AND FAT32.

    They simply don' show up in /media, once I turn them on.

    got a better clue?

     

     

     

    Not using automount myself, but I'm sure you were using either ivman or usbmount to automount your removable media, and somehow you either wiped their settings or they got removed/broken. Check the actual status and settings of the one you use.

    NTFS-config is a fat useless beast, which does a very simple thing and for that it needs to install a sheetload of gnome dependencies. Nobody needs it (not even Gnome users- only Ubuntu newbies may wrongly think they need it because it's "simple" and "idiotproof"), removable NTFS volumes can be initialized much easier:...

  6. Don't think it is my case. I do normally umount external volumes, not simply turn them off.

    It's weird: I upgraded some packages, thru the auo-upgrade feature and found myself with no access to neither NTFS NOR FAT32 external storage bxes.

    So I believe this has got really nothing to do with the filesystem type. Might it be something wrong with HAL?

     

    d*

     

    Perhaps the volume was not clean unmounted....the best way to solve this is to plug the drive to a windows box and run the safely remove hardware procedure....that should unmount the drive in a safe way.

    ntfs-3g should complain about this when you try to mount the drive...just check the syslog for any output on this.

    I myself had the same problem with this. :wall:

     

    Cheers....

  7. you could try (re)-installing and running ntfs-config

     

    I'v actually tried but it only allows selecting or disabling write acces to external NTFS volumes.

    That I checked and it is enabled...

    I am going insane on this.

     

    Is there a way I can check recently installed packages, thus backibg up latest known working status AFAYK?

    D*

  8. Yep - the MDK betas are great!  If I hadn't screwed up on not realizing that the "proceed to step 2" thing is a button that had to be pressed (EasyURPMI), it would have been very sweet indeed - as it was, it wasn't that bad and a bit of a learning curve for this MDK newbie.

    I totally agree with you kristi.

    :thanks:

  9. What kind of filesystem did you have on your root ( / ) partition? reiserfs? ext3?

     

    Where can I see this?

     

    I just deleted al my partitions, made new ones, and now installed winXP.

    I will install Mandrake as soon I know the problem is fixed.

     

    Well you should have known, in the first place. When you installed Mandrake you had to partition the disk, creat filesystems and install packages.

    You can do a 'cat /etc/fstab' to take a look at your mounted partition and see what filesystem resides on them.

  10. Yeah, I think I had source and modules out of sync which caused my prob throughout. In any case, the mm kern doesn't have that error and I learned a bunch so  :cheesy:    Apparently There won't be a b4 - I deduced that in reading that they hadn't planned a b3.  Wonder if they have alphas for 10.3 yet...  :banana:

     

    10.2 runs pretty solid though kde hickuped twice when I installed things, but a reboot cured it.  Nothing repeatable.  Still doesn't have that automatic espresso maker, though    :evilmod:  Maybe I should open a bug report on that...    :screwy:

     

    But great to hear you got it going, Darkstar!!!

    B)

    Kristi

    Thanks!

    I've been using betas, even alphas, when available, since Mandrake 7 (!!!!). Crashed so many times, had to go through a repartitioning lots but this is what I find to be somewhat exciting... My mandrake shows off cooker stuff all the times and evetually will crash, some times.

     

    :beer:

  11. How can I do a hard format?

    Is it possible to do it without deleting the partitions?

    I mean, it's no problem when my data is gone, but it is a problem when the partitions are gone. I know how to create new partitions, but I have a laptop, and the recoverydisk only works when I don't delete partitions.

     

    Can Partition Magic do a hard format?

     

    What kind of filesystem did you have on your root ( / ) partition? reiserfs? ext3?

    It might be useful to use rescue mode (boot cd1 and at the prormpt type 'rescue'), mount your partitions under /mnt and run a fschk.reiserfs or fschk.ext as appropriate to try fixing problems.

    It worked for me, a couple of time.

     

    Cheers

  12. acrtually, the previous attempt at 10.2b2 I used cooker to get urpmi stuff,. This time I just used 10.1 . Maybe that's a prob in itself

     

    Yeah, if you installed 10.2b2 and then added only 10.1 sources to urpmi to update stuff, this could very well be your problem.You should be using 10.2 sources or Cooker. Unfortunately, I don't see the multimedia kernel on my favorite mirror, but look on yours. It should be 2.6.10-3

    Nope, the only 2.6.10 I found was the kern source on CD3 of 10.2b3 (forget about b2 - that's gone.)

     

    I wonder what would happen if I installed 10.1, installed 2269 to that, and then "upgraded" to 10.2b3 ? Might be an interesting way to kill an hour! :cheesy:

     

    But first I will go try the one Steve pointed to...

    :wall: it feels so good when I stop! :mr-green:

    bak soon!

    Kristi

     

    :wall: Forget it. I did upgrade from 10.2b2 to 10.2b3 and had no luck. with 10.2b2 I had a fairly working nvidia enhanced Xserver but 10.2b3 isn't working at all.......

  13. kristi,

    There's a problem with 2.6.10 kernels and the NVidia 6629 driver. Look here for a possible solution and let us know if it works for you:

     

    http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=42964

     

    Thanks.

     

    :jester: I fixed the problem with 10.2b2 and got 6629 working fine (even if the installer complained about missing kernel modules, it configured it properly).

    However I've installed as an upggrade 10.2 b3 yesterday and X dies at startup..

    Used the tutorial found elsewhere (copied below) on 10.2b2

     

    Please post any possible valid solution for 10.2b3...if any

     

    cheers

    ----------------------------begin of quoted message

     

    first install the package kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-12mdk

     

    To install the nvidia driver

    first have to exit the xserver. This can be made easily by just opening the console, and

    writing:

     

    su root

    init 3

     

    log in as root

     

    Note that you have not to restart (or log in as diferent user) until the end of the installation

     

    Then go where the driver is and write:

     

    sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6629-pkg1.run

     

    Then it will say that there isn't precompiled kernel module for the kernel and that have to compile new.

    The installation will also say that there is rivafb kernel module that could conflict with the nvidia kernel module but it will install ok.

    After that you have to edit the file XF86Config (or xorg.conf but it is only symbolic link to XF86Config).

    Find the line

     

    # Load "glx" # 3D layer

     

    and delete "#" symbol so it will look so

     

    Load "glx" # 3D layer

     

    Find the section "Device"

    and change the line Driver "nv" to Driver "nvidia"

     

    the only think to do then is to write in console:

     

    modprobe -r rivafb

     

    and to add line in the file /etc/modprobe.preload

    nvidia

     

    then write

    init 5

    and run some games

    after restart there should have no problems

    ------------------------------------------------------end of quoted message

  14. i do trust that you edited the xf86config file the way it's supposed to be.  under the modules heading you need to load "Glx" and remove "dricore".  further you need to change the nvidia driver to nvidia from nv.

    I did acutally follow suggestions from the README file. It is most likely a kernell issue, compared to the standard SUSE9.2 kernel, which makes this module integration not only faster but smoother (no complains from the installer).

    What a heck! I am running 10.2 beta 2, chances are that some bugs are acffecting the overall performance, anyways.

    Thanks!

  15. You have an NVidia 6800? AFAIK the Open Source Nvidia drive (nv) doesn't support that card yet. Try downloading Nvidia's own driver and install it. But since you probably need GUI for that, try selecting something simpler, like vesa, during XFdrake.

    To install nvidia drivers (get them from nvidia repository) you MUST be in sonosle mode (init 3), do a rmmod nvidia (if previously loaded) and run, as root, the installer.

    Pls remeber kernel source MUST be installed for the installer to compile the module.

  16. You can start by running nvidia-settiings from the command line. That will bring up the NVidia Driver Configuration app.

     

    :help: I ran nvidia-settings, indeed. However the performance is slightly better tham my previous card (matrox G400)...

    Over that, same drivers installed onto the other ditribution (Suse 9.2) work a lot lot better...

     

    I'd like to know If I need to edit xorg.conf, manually, and what kind of fine tuning should I apply....

  17. :evilmod: I've installed 10.2 beta2 and tried to use my nvidia fx5500, running the uda from invidia (6629). altough kernel source was installed, the installer complains about missing kernel modules for nvida and tries to download from nvdidia repository.

    It then installs the module and configures it to be used with the kernel.

    The result is that nvidia driver is in use and also nvidia-settings work.

    However the performance observed is less dramatic (using gl-117 to verify) that it is on my other installed ditribution (SuSE 9.2).

    Can anyone tell me how to fine tune it?

     

    Thanks

     

    [formatted by spinynorman]

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