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diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120910/af321486/attachment-0001.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120910/af321486/attachment-0001.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e60aa129e --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120910/af321486/attachment-0001.html @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">blind Pete <0123peter@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> +<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: monospace; margin-top: 0px">My test computer has an old nVidia card in it. <br /><br />Mageia 3 alpha installs quite happily on it, but <br />it won't boot to a GUI. It gives error messages <br />about nouveau, even though the modules has been <br />deleted and XFdrake run to try "nv" then "vesa". <br /><br />BTW there is also an EDID check sum error from <br />the monitor which could be confusing things. <br /><br />There is a repeat of 8 lines of hex data and<br />[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1 <br /></pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all">I only solved this after modding my init-rd:<br> +<br> +<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-12-nouveau-nvidia-driver-solution-771248">http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-12-nouveau-nvidia-driver-solution-771248</a>/<br> +<br> +Later I realized I could force uninstall all the rpms that had to do with nouveau even though urpme wouldn't let me do it.<br> +<br> +I think I still had to mod initrd even though the rpms with the stuff were gone, but I'm not 100% sure.<br> +<br> +I could not compile a real nVidia for old TNT2 cards and got no sympathy from the nvidia forums. I used nv but its opengl was slow and I found a cheap newer card somewhere.<br> +<br> +My experience was with 2.<br> +<br> +Kbulgrien<br> +<br> +-- <br> +Sent from my Android tablet. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html></body></html>
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120910/af321486/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120910/af321486/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e60aa129e --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120910/af321486/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">blind Pete <0123peter@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> +<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: monospace; margin-top: 0px">My test computer has an old nVidia card in it. <br /><br />Mageia 3 alpha installs quite happily on it, but <br />it won't boot to a GUI. It gives error messages <br />about nouveau, even though the modules has been <br />deleted and XFdrake run to try "nv" then "vesa". <br /><br />BTW there is also an EDID check sum error from <br />the monitor which could be confusing things. <br /><br />There is a repeat of 8 lines of hex data and<br />[drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DDC responded, but no EDID for VGA-1 <br /></pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all">I only solved this after modding my init-rd:<br> +<br> +<a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-12-nouveau-nvidia-driver-solution-771248">http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-12-nouveau-nvidia-driver-solution-771248</a>/<br> +<br> +Later I realized I could force uninstall all the rpms that had to do with nouveau even though urpme wouldn't let me do it.<br> +<br> +I think I still had to mod initrd even though the rpms with the stuff were gone, but I'm not 100% sure.<br> +<br> +I could not compile a real nVidia for old TNT2 cards and got no sympathy from the nvidia forums. I used nv but its opengl was slow and I found a cheap newer card somewhere.<br> +<br> +My experience was with 2.<br> +<br> +Kbulgrien<br> +<br> +-- <br> +Sent from my Android tablet. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html></body></html>
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120910/f4399e8b/attachment-0001.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120910/f4399e8b/attachment-0001.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ec2fd0b85 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120910/f4399e8b/attachment-0001.html @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Shlomi Fish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shlomif@shlomifish.org" target="_blank">shlomif@shlomifish.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> +Hi Marc,<br> +<div class="im"><br> +On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:22:53 -0400<br> +Marc Paré <<a href="mailto:marc@marcpare.com">marc@marcpare.com</a>> wrote:<br> +<br> +> I am just wondering if it is just me, but, ever since the KDE update,<br> +<br> +</div>Which KDE update?<br> +<div class="im"><br> +> I had problems with my desktops and laptops (5 in total). I have had<br> +> to delete .kde4 (Home folder) on 4 of these boxes, and the last one<br> +> has not been updated yet (my son just finished his summer holidays<br> +> and was breaking in his Windows partition with his new install of<br> +> WOW);<br> +<br> +</div>Just a note - NEVER (!!) delete ~/.kde4/ as this will lose all your settings.<br> +You can instead move it away using the "mv" command:<br> +<br> +<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mv" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mv</a><br> +<br> +I'm just mentioning it so people won't be encouraged to do so (and you shouldn't do<br> +so in the future).<br> +<div class="im"><br> +> now that summer vacation is over and WOW time is reduced, he<br> +> will have to update. I was hoping he would try playing WOW on his<br> +> Mageia partition.<br> +><br> +> Has anyone else had any problems?<br> +><br> +> Some of the problems that I have had:<br> +><br> +> -- general slow down in speed<br> +> -- Klipper would disappear at login<br> +> -- the Lan connection Icon would disappear<br> +> -- some of the KDE preferences would somehow go back to their default<br> +> state<br></div></blockquote><div><br>That happened to my wife's laptop.<br>The background image got reset to a default option, and the picture she had originally set did not even appear as an option to change to. (Right click options on the desktop).<br> + </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"> +> -- log off widget in the taskbar (lower-right) would quit<br> +> responding<br> +> -- re-start option (Start button ...) would also stop<br> +> responding<br> +><br> +<br> +<br> +</div>I didn't encounter any of these problems either on Mageia 2 x86-64 or Mageia Cauldron<br> +x86-64. If you can reproduce them somehow, you can file bug reports on <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/" target="_blank">http://bugs.kde.org/</a> .<br> +<br> +Regards,<br> +<br> + Shlomi Fish<br> +<div class="im"><br> +> The problems happened intermittently. The KDE bug assistant did come<br> +> up on one of my 2 laptops but I did not have sufficient information<br> +> to submit the bug report, just general stuff like above.<br> +><br> +> I've deleted the .kde4 file and they all run fine now.<br> +><br> +> Cheers,<br> +><br> +> Marc<br> +><br> +><br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +--<br> +</div>-----------------------------------------------------------------<br> +Shlomi Fish <a href="http://www.shlomifish.org/" target="_blank">http://www.shlomifish.org/</a><br> +My Public Domain Photos - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/</a><br> +<br> +I’d do Windows-- , but this may result in an integer underflow.<br> + — an Israeli Linuxer.<br> +<br> +Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - <a href="http://shlom.in/reply" target="_blank">http://shlom.in/reply</a> .<br> +</blockquote></div><br></div> diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120910/f4399e8b/attachment.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120910/f4399e8b/attachment.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ec2fd0b85 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-discuss/attachments/20120910/f4399e8b/attachment.html @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Shlomi Fish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shlomif@shlomifish.org" target="_blank">shlomif@shlomifish.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> +Hi Marc,<br> +<div class="im"><br> +On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:22:53 -0400<br> +Marc Paré <<a href="mailto:marc@marcpare.com">marc@marcpare.com</a>> wrote:<br> +<br> +> I am just wondering if it is just me, but, ever since the KDE update,<br> +<br> +</div>Which KDE update?<br> +<div class="im"><br> +> I had problems with my desktops and laptops (5 in total). I have had<br> +> to delete .kde4 (Home folder) on 4 of these boxes, and the last one<br> +> has not been updated yet (my son just finished his summer holidays<br> +> and was breaking in his Windows partition with his new install of<br> +> WOW);<br> +<br> +</div>Just a note - NEVER (!!) delete ~/.kde4/ as this will lose all your settings.<br> +You can instead move it away using the "mv" command:<br> +<br> +<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mv" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mv</a><br> +<br> +I'm just mentioning it so people won't be encouraged to do so (and you shouldn't do<br> +so in the future).<br> +<div class="im"><br> +> now that summer vacation is over and WOW time is reduced, he<br> +> will have to update. I was hoping he would try playing WOW on his<br> +> Mageia partition.<br> +><br> +> Has anyone else had any problems?<br> +><br> +> Some of the problems that I have had:<br> +><br> +> -- general slow down in speed<br> +> -- Klipper would disappear at login<br> +> -- the Lan connection Icon would disappear<br> +> -- some of the KDE preferences would somehow go back to their default<br> +> state<br></div></blockquote><div><br>That happened to my wife's laptop.<br>The background image got reset to a default option, and the picture she had originally set did not even appear as an option to change to. (Right click options on the desktop).<br> + </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"> +> -- log off widget in the taskbar (lower-right) would quit<br> +> responding<br> +> -- re-start option (Start button ...) would also stop<br> +> responding<br> +><br> +<br> +<br> +</div>I didn't encounter any of these problems either on Mageia 2 x86-64 or Mageia Cauldron<br> +x86-64. If you can reproduce them somehow, you can file bug reports on <a href="http://bugs.kde.org/" target="_blank">http://bugs.kde.org/</a> .<br> +<br> +Regards,<br> +<br> + Shlomi Fish<br> +<div class="im"><br> +> The problems happened intermittently. The KDE bug assistant did come<br> +> up on one of my 2 laptops but I did not have sufficient information<br> +> to submit the bug report, just general stuff like above.<br> +><br> +> I've deleted the .kde4 file and they all run fine now.<br> +><br> +> Cheers,<br> +><br> +> Marc<br> +><br> +><br> +<br> +<br> +<br> +--<br> +</div>-----------------------------------------------------------------<br> +Shlomi Fish <a href="http://www.shlomifish.org/" target="_blank">http://www.shlomifish.org/</a><br> +My Public Domain Photos - <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/</a><br> +<br> +I’d do Windows-- , but this may result in an integer underflow.<br> + — an Israeli Linuxer.<br> +<br> +Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - <a href="http://shlom.in/reply" target="_blank">http://shlom.in/reply</a> .<br> +</blockquote></div><br></div> |