arctic Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 Mandriva has just released the first CDs of the development release Mandriva 2007 Alpha. Currently there is a KDE and Gnome based Mandriva-One CD available. Read more here: http://distrowatch.com/3538 Just in case someone wants to take a first look at it and do some bugtesting. A note: Do not use the direct iso-link provided in the release announcements, it seems that the server is already under heavy workload. Use another mirror for adequate download-speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 22, 2006 Report Share Posted June 22, 2006 Just beware that it includes Xorg 7.1, which last time I checked, does not work with the closed source nvidia and ati fglrx drivers. You can still use these cards, but not with acceleration. It is expected that ati and nvidia will update them in the coming months to be compatible. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 Definitely of interest for Notebook-users: laptop-(aka multimedia)-kernel is now officially supported this is nice to hear, since this kernel was the only way to get suspend working on many notebooks for some time so all notebook-users that are interested in Mandriva should give it a test Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 Just an addon: Found this info on the net. The Nvidia drivers are working with Xorg 7.1 and kernel 2.6.16. You have to tweak things a bit though. You need to add the following line in the Device section of xorg.conf file : Option "RenderAccel" "false" It's only the ATI drivers which are not working. [root@togo ~]: # lsmod | grep nvidia nvidia 4526516 12 agpgart 26000 2 nvidia,via_agp i2c_core 16400 8 nvidia,w83627hf,eeprom,i2c_isa,i2c_viapro,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom [root@togo ~]: # rpm -q xorg-x11 dkms-nvidia xorg-x11-7.1.0-1mdv2007.0 dkms-nvidia-8762-3plf2007.0 [root@togo ~]: # grep GLX /var/log/Xorg.0.log (II) Loading extension GLX (II) Loading extension NV-GLX (II) Initializing extension GLX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted June 23, 2006 Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 (edited) They are still pretty broken, try glxinfo or glxgears to see what I mean.... (edit the xorg drivers do work however, only the propiertary drivers dont work) Edited June 23, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2006 I can't... I don't use ATI or Nvidia. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted June 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2006 Wow, they improved something. The bootup-speed. I just installed a cooker partition and with the new up-4GB-kernel, my system boots from grub to GDM on a Sempron 2400+ in a whopping 23 seconds, and that without tweaking anything. Quite nice. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted June 27, 2006 Report Share Posted June 27, 2006 they improved a bit more than that, first of all they install the up-1GB-kernel by default (its the only chance to get suspend-to-disk working on my notebook), and first-time ever I have hardware-3D-acceleration on an ATI radeon mobility with native 1400x1050 resolution (HAPPY :D :D ), but now for the bad: suspend-to-ram still does not work (ok can live with that) and my sleep-button does not work anymore, which still works great in mandy 2006, seems best solution for me would be x.org 7.1 on my actual 2006 off topic: one nice feature with the live-install is the possibility to add your bootloader where YOU want, ubuntu just installs it into the mbr, where I DON'T want it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 2007 Beta-1 has hit the mirrors: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03603#0 Again: Use the mirrors. Main server is overloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexicon Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 There OK this I have Mandriva 2008? with KDE 3.5.4 ....Lex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 I guess Mdv2008 will ship KDE 4, not 3.5.4. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexicon Posted July 31, 2006 Report Share Posted July 31, 2006 I pity You, my Mandriva 2006, all right working.....Lex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 people who use cooker know that it's unstable. that's the point. if they wanted somthing that was stable, they wouldn't be using cooker ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 There OK this I have Mandriva 2008? How you manage that? ;) Mandriva 2007 is only in testing right now. Mandriva 2008 is probably only the apple in somebody's eye right now :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted August 1, 2006 Report Share Posted August 1, 2006 I tried the new snapshot: mandriva-one-2007-thor-gnome.i586.iso on these two machines and neither would come up. Truman - Test System -------------------- Intel, P4 530J 3.0 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2, LGA 775 GigaByte GA-8I915G Pro" i915G Marvel Yukon 88E8001 Gigabit LAN Intel High Def Audio, Azalia (C-Media 9880) Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (on Intel 915) Kingston 1G(512MBx2) DDR400 PC-3200 Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6B080M0 80GB 200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA KingWin SATA HD Rack/Tray subsystem Sony CD/DVD-RW DW-D26A P600 - Test System ------------------ Pentium III (Coppermine), 600Mhz, 256Kb Cache 440BX MoBo DIMM1 128MB, DIMM2 128MB = 256MB ATI Rage 128 GL AGP 1x/2x 32MB All-In-Wonder TV Tune/out SoundBlaster Live (snd-emu10k1 driver) USB Intel 82371AB PIIX4 D-Link DFE 530 TX+ Fast Ethernet DVD-ROM (hda) Hitachi DVD-ROM GD-2500 CD-RW (hdb) Sony CRX140E Floppy 1.44MB KingWin HD Rack/Tray subsystem (Multiple HD's) Boot Sequence - Floppy -> DVD-ROM -> HD Seems to get through the initial sceens the last being the Y/N GMT time then disconnects from the terminal. Are the video (frame buffer) drivers not in this thing? Is there away to dumb it down to a simple 1024x764 generic driver? Maybe I should try the KDE version. FWIW both of these machines run 2006.0, 2005 LE, 10.1, 9.2 and so on and so forth just fine. The ISO burn is verified and just fine. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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