Mandriva

Curious. I'm not very familiar with Mandriva but I'll have a bash. Either Mandriva thinks you're using a generic monitor that can only display 1024x768 at the most, or it has the monitor right but incorrectly thinks its highest resolution is 1024.768.

Try Control Centre -> Hardware -> Graphics. If I recall correctly, there should be an option there to tell it which monitor you're using. Hopefully the current selection is some generic screen, and you're able to select either your monitor or something close to it that is capable of the resolution you want.

If this fails, we might have to delve into xorg.conf.

By the way, I'm not even remotely an expert in Linux; I'm just a desktop user who prefers Linux to any other OS. Maybe someone much more knowledgable than me will happen upon this thread with better advice. :)
 
paradisiac said:
anyone got any ideas how to use/setup the 3d desktop stuff?
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I'd be very surprised if it isn't already installed, you probably just need to enable it. Have a good old look through the control panel.

If you don't see it or you can't enable it, and you're not using the proprietary nVidia driver (assuming you're using an nVidia card), that would probably explain it. I don't think Free graphics drivers allow for 3D stuff.
 
I'm afraid I can't really help you then mate, I just don't know Mandriva well enough. In Debian (on KDE) I just click System Settings -> Desktop and from there I can configure them to buggery. There must be an equivalent in Mandriva but I wouldn't know what. Sorry.
 
Huw said:
I'm afraid I can't really help you then mate, I just don't know Mandriva well enough. In Debian (on KDE) I just click System Settings -> Desktop and from there I can configure them to buggery. There must be an equivalent in Mandriva but I wouldn't know what. Sorry.
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ok my bad, its in the same place. just need to work out what they all do :)
 
well after some playing i now have flashgot and jdownloader installed and integrated into firefox. i managed to change my preffered media player (the file that it saves to was lock so managed to change attribute so i could write to it), installed unrar so i can open my rar files, and i also managed to mount my windows hard drive so i can now open my files.
overall nothing too major, but was a lot of konsole work and searching for rpm files.
 
also managed to resolve the issue with youtube not playing full screen aswell :)

quick question though, what is the point of the 4 desktops thing, as the taskbar shows the windows open on each desktop, you might aswell just have them all on the one desktop and alt/windows+tab through them, or am i missing something?
 
Dunno mate, I never use multiple desktops. I don't see the point of them.

Mandriva uses the RPM system? Eurgh! You'll come to regret that! ;)
 
Huw said:
Dunno mate, I never use multiple desktops. I don't see the point of them.

Mandriva uses the RPM system? Eurgh! You'll come to regret that! ;)
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whats wrong with the rpm system? seems pretty easy to use and found almost everything pretty quickly in rpm format.
 
paradisiac said:
also managed to resolve the issue with youtube not playing full screen aswell :)

quick question though, what is the point of the 4 desktops thing, as the taskbar shows the windows open on each desktop, you might aswell just have them all on the one desktop and alt/windows+tab through them, or am i missing something?
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Well, you can have more than one window open on a desktop. Alt-tabbing only allows you to select one window, switching desktop means you can have as many windows as you want open up on the screen at once.
Desktop paging is always something I've missed in Windows!
 
paradisiac said:
whats wrong with the rpm system? seems pretty easy to use and found almost everything pretty quickly in rpm format.
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In my experience (and many others') RPM is poor at resolving dependencies, and it's also much slower than APT.
 
Oxy said:
Dude, just get used to Mandriva first. Understand the terminal commands more, the file structure of linux etc etc...

You have found a distro you like and seem to have gotten your stuff working.
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but if its going to end up hindering my learning experience because of unnessecary complications with the structure, then am i not better of learning on a system that is less flawed?
i understand your point, but i also dont want to spend ages trying to fix something, that would have just worked if i had been using something that worked in the first place.
 
rpm isnt flawed. Loads of good distros use it.

So your going to jump ship after getting everything working and your happy with just because someone told you rpm is bad?

hhhmmm... go read up on Red Hat, Fedora, Cent OS, Opensuse etc etc I think they all use rpm and have a very large following, as does Mandriva.

I'm not saying don't switch later on, just not so soon. Use Madriva to learn then look at others in a few months time.
 
when the newer versions come out, is it like windows where you have to do a complete reinstall and get all the apps again, or do they do upgrade options?

also, due to there being no registry, can you just unplug the linux hard drive and stick it in any other computer and your up and running?
 
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