Max4Lin: Gnome a kind of Leopard

Today is a cold and rainy day...
I cleaned up the desktop and I'm quite annoyed about standard gnome themes, googoling I find out this theme, it's more a complete restyle of gnome.

gnome-appearance-properties freezes Solved

Mandriva 2008/Gnome 2.20.0

I didn't a fresh install of 2008, I moved from 2007.1 Spring to 2008 Free.
running gnome-appearance-properties in the last days I got a lot of CPU cosumpion and the application was freezed.
Searching with Google, I found a post in Mandrivauser http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=46339 with the solution.

You must only rename the file, I suppose you can remove it too...
As ROOT user type:

mv /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libhcengine.so /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libhcengine_backup.so

That's it, Works!

The error was (I posted it only for google' spiders)

gnome-appearance-properties

(gnome-appearance-properties:16430): capplet-common-WARNING **: Could not open file "(null)"
gnome-appearance-properties: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libhcengine.so: undefined symbol: ge_cairo_inner_stroke_rectangle

ATI Only root run, solved

I'm pissed of about this problem,
today i decided to solve it.
I assume you are using ATI official drivers, and you have installed them yet.
Looking on the web I found a lot of infos...
1) Check your xorg.conf for:

Section "DRI"
  Mode 0666
EndSection

if not present add it.

2) Check your fstab.
cause running an fglx apps I got

Using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer
FGLTexMgr: open of shared memory object failed (Permission denied)
__FGLTexMgrCreateObject: __FGLTexMgrSHMmalloc failed!!!
FGLTexMgr: open of shared memory object failed (Permission denied)
__FGLTexMgrCreateObject: __FGLTexMgrSHMmalloc failed!!!
FGLTexMgr: open of shared memory object failed (Permission denied)
__FGLTexMgrCreateObject: __FGLTexMgrSHMmalloc failed!!!
FGLTexMgr: open of shared memory object failed (Permission denied)
__FGLTexMgrCreateObject: __FGLTexMgrSHMmalloc failed!!!
FGLTexMgr: open of shared memory object failed (Permission denied)

so....
add this
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0


you can find a lot more infos here :
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers


see ya,

Ra

List installed packages

This is an example for libgtk packages.

for x in `urpmq -Y -r libgtk`; do echo `rpmquery $x`; done | grep -v "is not installed"
libGtkScintilla0-0.8.2-5mdv2007

.0
libGtkScintilla0-devel-0.8.2-5mdv2007.0
libgtk+-x11-2.0_0-2.10.3-4mdv2007.0
libgtk+1.2-1.2.10-45mdv2007.0
libgtk+2.0_0-2.10.3-4mdv2007.0
libgtk+2.0_0-devel-2.10.3-4mdv2007.0
libgtk-linux-fb-2.0_0-2.4.14-6mdk
libgtkglarea2.0-1.99.0-9mdv2007.0
libgtkglarea5-1.2.3-9mdv2007.0
libgtkhtml-3.8_15-3.12.0-1mdv2007.0
libgtkhtml2_0-2.11.0-2mdv2007.0
libgtkmm2.0_1-2.2.12-3mdv2007.0
libgtkmm2.0_1-devel-2.2.12-3mdv2007.0
libgtkmm2.4_1-2.10.1-1mdv2007.0
libgtksourceview-1.0_0-1.8.0-1mdv2007.0
libgtkspell0-2.0.11-1mdk
libgtkspell0-devel-2.0.11-1mdk
libgtkxmhtml1-1.4.2-18mdv2007.0

acroread expr syntax error

Here the solution:

https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=26864&forum=12&post_id=114769

Summary:
I edited the startup script and and added two lines of code ater commenting out the old one as follows :-

418# echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'
419 echo $mfile| sed 's/libgtk-x11-\([0-9]*\).0.so.0.\([0-9]*\)00.\([0-9]*\)\|\(.*\)/\1\2\3/g'

644# MIN_GTK_VERSION="240"
645 MIN_GTK_VERSION="2040"

XGL & 2007.0

Hi all,
I have good news. I tried to run XGL on my machine since I installed Mandriva 2007.0, I have followed a lot of guides but no way.
I got it installing compiz-quinnstorm

urpmi cgwd csm cgwd-themes cgwd-themes-extra compiz-manager

Then, in /etc/sysconfig/compiz set COMPIZ=yes and /etc/system/xgl set XGL=yes

Restart your X server, it should start XGL and Compiz

I did in this way cause I had problem with Cube plugin; remember quinnstorm is a developer version not the stable one.
....
ADD SOME PHOTO.
....
Enjoy.

Mandriva 2007 & ATI

Work in progress...

Upgrading Mandriva 2006 to Mandriva 2007

Simple:
1) download the iso image of Mandriva 2007.0 and create a bootable DVD
2) select upgrade during the installation process
3) get a big cup of coffe
4) Enjoy.

The process is not so smooth but at the end works.
Y'll probably get problems with Xorg.

First of all you must update your urpmi.cfg, that's mine:
2007Main ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/official/2007.0/i586/media/main/release {
hdlist: hdlist.2007Main.cz
key-ids: 70771ff3
update
with_hdlist: media_info/hdlist.cz
}

2007Contrib ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/official/2007.0/i586/media/contrib/release {
hdlist: hdlist.2007Contrib.cz
key-ids: 78d019f5
update
with_hdlist: media_info/hdlist.cz
}

2007PlfNonFree ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandrake/2007.0/non-free/release/binary/i586 {
hdlist: hdlist.2007PlfNonFree.cz
key-ids: caba22ae
with_hdlist: ./hdlist.cz
}

2007PlfFree ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandrake/2007.0/free/release/binary/i586 {
hdlist: hdlist.2007PlfFree.cz
key-ids: caba22ae
update
with_hdlist: ./hdlist.cz
}


urpmi.update -a
urpmi --auto-select

The upgrade procedure make some mistake, cause it leaves some old package so, you must clean your system by hand , for example in my case I had to uninstall all gnome 2.10 libraries.

WPA

I bought an access point and I configured it with a WPA-PSK-TKIP.
I know that my wireless card works because in US I used it with an open wireless-netwok.

A) install the wpa manager:

A.1) urpmi wpa_supplicant

B) Open Wireless Configuration:
B.1) select your network
B.2) select WPA
B.3) insert your key

enjoy your freedom

From Mandriva 2005 LE to 2006 Free

Hi Guys, yesterday I have decided to upgrade my 2005 LE to 2006 Free.
I had some problem but now all the system seems to be stable.

Get urpmi's repositories of Mandriva 2006 Free Edition, as usual, from http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/.

Before you do anything reads this note Mandriva 2006.0 release notes.

update your urpmi database, and then type:

urpmi --auto-select

I suggest you to use the option "--test" before the main upgrade to check if there are dependencies' problems.

1. Upgrade your kernel
2. Upgrade the system
3. If you use gnome, reinstall gnome-panel.

At this point you Xorg will not have 3D, you can enable it following this process:

1. Install the kernel-source package
2. Get the ATI Driver Installer
3. Run ATI Driver Installer as root, choosing:
• Generate Distribution Specific Driver Package
• Agree to the license
• Mandriva Packages->Mandriva/2006 ( Note: mayby you need some develop package, chk the log file: /usr/share/fglrx/fglrx-install.log. You can Uninstall the driver with :/usr/share/fglrx/fglrx-uninstall.sh )
4. Install from root all the rpm created using urpmi: ati-8.20.8-1mdk.i586.rpm, ati-devel-8.20.8-1mdk.i586.rpm, dkms-ati-8.20.8-1mdk.i586.rpm
   
5. Open the hardware configuration manager and select your video card. Take a look to the image for the settings
   















6. Restart X

OpenOffice:

Urpmi --auto-select has installed OpenOffice 1.1.5 but Mandriva has the version 2.0, the package name is: openoffice.org-go-ooo

Note: Some days ago I installed the SUN's JRE, yesterday after the upgrade I had problem running OO with JRE installed, OO sucked all my cpu. I have removed JRE and now all is ok


That's all for now.

RJP