Hi,
I am very new to linux so i thought of trying Mandriva Live USB. It works really great and I am real happy with it. The only things where I encountered problem is:


3D Desktop:
When I follow the steps, it end up going into console mode.

When I click on the first icon it syays that it needs something to be installed. I click 'OK' and it start installing but it couldn't install that. Then I click on the '3D desktop icon', then it ask to 'end session', I say OK then it goes into console mode and it NEVER returns to KDE.(if I type KDE in console then it gives me many error messages).


C++ compiler: How can I install it on the Live USB? I can share my WinXP harddrive for C++ installation.
Also, how to mount NTFS partition in read-write mode?

Please help.

Thanks for ur wonderful wonderful effort.

Welcome pipa,

* 3D desktop: which video card do you use, model? You can find out by opening a konsole and type:


Please post the output here.

* NTFS RW: please open a browser on the Live USB and click on Howto. The steps are explained.

* Installing software, look here: http://www.mandrivaclub.nl/site/index.php?showtopic=7916
The MCC (Mandriva Control center) = icon in the systray
Follow the steps described above, and then you can install packages via MCC --> Softwaremanagement
You can search for packages. Or browse categories.

Hi thanks a lot for ur quick reply.

Regarding 3D Desktop:

I opened the konsole and typed in the command

lspcidrake -v |grep VGA

konsole didn't execute it and said its a bad command.

However I know my video card, it is:
Intel® 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics controller
Intel corporation
Chip Type: Intel® 82852/55 graphic controller
DAC Type: Internal
Approx. Total memory : 64MB

Driver:ialmrnt5.dll

Is that info enough? I can extract more if you want.

Also, 3D desktop works just fine when I boot from Mandriva One Gnome CD (not the MCN Live).

I tried once more with MCN Live USB and I found out that, after enabling "transulancy", if I go to the 3D Desktop icon and follow the steps....it asks for "End session". If I click on end session....it opens up it konsole mode and doesn;t come back to KDE (and gives me some error messages.

Also, if I do not enable "transulancy" then it runs just fine without 3D desktop. But I really want to use 3D desktop.

Thanks.

* The command: lspcidrake -v does work, I am sure :-) If not, you would not have MCNLive.

* If your video card does fine with the gnome MDV One, MCNLive should work also. They are not different in this regard. Please try to follow exactly the steps that you can read on the desktop wallpaper.

If this does not work out, then I don't know.

Thanks for the quick reply.

It worked finally.
I just made one change in video configrtion (i.e. MCN was saying use seprate something, I said NO use one, I dont remember what was it, but its in graphic card option)

Also, I was succesful in remastering my version. and mounting NFFS. Thanks for ur DETAILED description. Its a real nice and neat work.

Now, as I m new to linux so it may sound like a stupid and irritating question:

When I remaster, it saves a live.iso file in C drive of windows. Now do I have to burn it on CD and again follow the steps? Do i need to do that everytime I make some change? is this the way it works? i.e. burn CD everytime for every change?

Is there an option where if I make changes it stores in it and stay there for subsequent boots?

Also, 3D destop features are working( and they are COOL) but I dont see a button for 3D rotation in KDE. Where is it located so that I can move my desktop and see it moving 3D.

Thanks a lot again to answering my stupid questions.

pipa,

nice to hear that you, even as someone new to linux, could make it work. Isn't it nice?

Re: remastering. You make one remaster, with all your system wide changes (software etc) and all your personal settings (wallpaper, look and feel, keyboard layout etc). This is your new own MCNLive.
And yes, it is the new iso, which you can burn and use on a CD or on USB. It still has a dynamic hardware detection. It is still a live version.
You don't need to build a third remaster if you are content with the result.
The next 'changes', when they are only affecting your personal settings, bookmarks, emails etc., you can save and restore with the samll wizards, look in the menu: MCNLive.

3D rotation: the desktop effects have special keyboard combinations, keyboard/mouse combis.
http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main...eleratedDesktop

Cube: Ctrl & ALT & -->

There are no stupid questions

--chris

Thanks for ur reply. It was really helpful.

Keep up the good work.

pipa, can you do me a favour? Can you remember which setting it was exactly and how it was called?

Was it something with dual monitor?

We have someone with the same problem and an Intel 855 video card (the thread is in Dutch, you won't be able to understand it) ... he can't get 3D and hardware acceleration working, on a default Mandriva 2007 system.

thx, chris

Hi Kris,

I am replying using ur version of MCNLive. I configured it all again and here are the steps I followed.

1. Installed my wireless card (from conrol center) and got my internet working. (it may not have affected anything , but I am just mentioning).

2. I clicked on video config. It asked me that if I want to change some "915 streched" setting and I said yes. I ended the session to let the changes take effect.

3. Sytem logged back in and I again clicked on video config and then I clicked on top button (it says intel 85x on my machine). I clicked ok at the default selection and then it asked me thay my machine supports "multiple heads". I selected "configue all heads independently" and clicked okay.

4. It asked for ending the session. I did and logged back in.

5. Then I clicked on 3D desktop and followed all the steps written on the virtual city wallpaper.


I hope it may be of little help to you. I wrote each and every step I followed to get it working. Let me know if I can provide more details.

Thank you very much, pipa!

It is the multi-head configuring which was the culprit. That's what broke the 3D desktop to work.


--chris

Hi Kris,

I have another question.

If I have a .ISO file (which i created by remastering), can I load this file as an image on USB *without* burning it to a CD first?
Like...now I have to burn a CD and then create bootable USB. Is there a way to directly convert the .ISO file to image in USB?

Thanks.

Sure. (when you already have an installed usb stick)

Running linux, you would do, in a terminal:



edit: sorry, I forgot that you are new with linux. The mount line should be:
mount -o loop /path/toyour/live.iso /mnt/myiso
example: it is on /mnt/hda1, then you would type:
mount -o loop /mnt/hda1/live.iso /mnt/myiso


And now just look in the directory: /mnt/myiso
And copy/replace the files (livecd.sqfs and the files in the sub dir) over, but keep the original syslinux.cfg, and the ldlinux on the stick

Now umount:



Running a MS windows system, there are different tools to do this. I am not familiar with it.\
Maybe this one: http://www.7-zip.org/ or this: http://www.isobuster.com/

Thanks kris.
It works great.
Only thing is, it doesn't install wireless card on its own.I had to do it again, though it had the driver already there.

Thanks a lot.

Yes, pipa. Thats the center of a live system. You can't stop the dynamic hardware detection, because that's the meaning: to work on as many different hardware (network devices, network settings for example) as possible. It is a portable system.

A regular, permanent installation on an internal hard disk would have this what you are missing now.

Now that I have tried ur USB version I am more than interested in going in for permanent installation.

Thanks for ur constant and quick replies.

Now that I have tried ur USB version I am more than interested in going in for permanent installation.

Thanks for ur constant help and quick replies.