I'm not an expert just a enthusiastic novice .

I have altered the guide with some further info .

Looks like you will not need a swap space , but have a read here ,

http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/swap-mini-howto.txt

It is a pretty easy to understand detailed explanation of swap spaces .

Mandy should fly on your pc .

Penguins are cooooooooooooooooooooooool !!

Ok cheers matey,

I thought my new psu would arrive this morning but obviously not, so no play time for me.

Thanks again.

I have a Sapphire X1950 Pro graphics card and wanted the latest drivers for it . It took a little bit of research to find out how to get it to work on the 64 Bit OS . This will be in two parts , downloading and setting up , then part two will be about the Ati Catalyst Control Center .





Hopefully you will already have set up the PLF Non-Free repository on your system which you can do from "Configure your Computer" in the main menu , or from Easy URPMI.
Note that you are looking for "dkms-fglrx" not "dkms-ati" as you needed to previously .




Download and install from the Software Management application .




Now you need to set up the X Server .





Click on the "Graphic Card" button to make sure that you have the correct card .




There is a wide choice of manufacturers . Mine is the "Radeon X1300 or later" .




Back at the set up page click the "Monitor" button and make a choice . Once again there are plenty of choices .





Back again and hit the "Resolution" button then make your choice .





Back at the set up screen you can do a "Test" and there are some further "Options" . You will end up here though. Click "Yes" .




For some reason when I tried to do a TEST or Log out and Log in again I hit a black screen and the pc would hang . So I had to shut down and re-start . Once I had done this everything seemed to work just fine .

Thats Part one done with .




Crumpets and coffee today so it will be a while before part two .

So here we go for part two , the ATI Catalyst Control Center . I have not used this a lot before on any operating system but this version looks pretty much the same as the one on my Windows XP set up . It looks to have plenty of similar options to the settings under Mandriva so I am not sure if it of any extra value , still it does put all the options neatly in one place . Feel free to offer any extra info .





Here is where you will find it . Now when I first tried to use this nothing happened . So it was back on the net hunting information and I found that you needed to ..........




Open a konsole and run "aticonfig" as a normal user , no need to go root .
I did so and got a whole heap of information, I seemed to be scrolling through the screen for hours, which was so comprehensive that it overwhelmed me and I had to go out and get emergency supplies of cream cakes . As I did not know what to do with all the information I shut down the konsole and switched on the kettle .




I tried again to start ATI Catalyst Control Center and this time it opened up . Phew that was lucky as I was down to my last cream bun .




You get a decent set of information .




The controls work , when you move the sliders the colours do indeed alter .




All of the options in this section worked as well . I only gave a screenshot of one option as it is fairly self explanatory .

So that is the end of this guide . Hope it was useful .

If anyone can supply extra information on what to do when you run the "aticonfig" from the konsole send me a pm through the site e-mail and I will include it in the guide .

I do a little voluntary driving for the ambulance service and they send me details of my pick-up schedule by e-mail. They used to telephone details through, imagine the time spent doing that , especially if there were 4 runs with multiple passengers . It was a weekly nightmare . So in 2004 I suggested that they could send details by e-mail , I was told that this was not possible for security reasons etc . Well finally they have got up-to date and are sending e-mails, but they are rather strange.




Above is an example. the main body of the e-mail is the same every time and I get an three options down at the bottom of the page . Now if I try any of the options in linux or in Windows XP the Google document option will not open properly unless I sign my life away to google which is not an option. Viewing as a HTLM or downloading and opening with Open Office or Abi Word gives me .......



A long string of information that takes up three pages, that's not an option, think of the poor old trees. So I went looking for another solution.




The downloaded file comes through on linux as a ".rtf" rich text file, I can not remember what it comes as in windows .




Wanting to stick with linux software I found " antiword" which is easily downloaded and installed. trouble is it is a command line utillity and I found it a bit baffling. I did not want to take a university degree to learn how to use it and I don't have the time or the energy nevermind the cost of supplying the vast quantities of tea and toast I'd need to fuel me while I worked it out. So the hunt for information was on again.




A quick phone call to ambulance headquarters gave me an answer. They sent me a link,

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&displaylang=en

for this very useful download, it works with Windows XP also, so I'm told as I have not tried it yet. I also downloaded this extra add-on which brings the viewer right up to date for all the latest products. I did not need the add-on as it turned out but I thought it might come in handy for some of you.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...&displaylang=en

I installed with "WINE", fairly standard install so no screenshots and here you can see it showing up in the menu. Click on it to open.




Technonumpties like me might find the program a little confusing so I have included a few helpful screenshots. All you clever folk can go and have a well deserved coffee and cake re-fuelling break.

It took me a while to figure out that the "D" drive when opened up .........



As shown here.

Related to my Mandriva desktop and not my dual booting Windows XP . Opening up the "Documents" folder gave me access to my downloaded file .




Opening up the "Z" drive gave me access to the linux "ROOT" folders. So if you have documents spread out in your system you should be able to find them.




Here is "Z" opened.

It can be a bit tricky if you are new to linux finding the right partition to gain access to your folders. As the drive numbers change a lot depending on which application you are using.



Another way to find documents that you have already opened is shown above. Still confusing as you can see the same document is shown to exist in two locations even though I only have one copy of the file on my system.

Still the program works and very quickly too. I can now easily read the information I need and print it of on one sheet of paper. Did you hear all them trees give a big sigh of relief ?

I can not show a screenshot of the successful outcome as the document contains confidential information.

The program does work and I would like to thank Microsoft for supplying free of charge this very useful download which gives us linux users easy access to files produced on their products.

The NHS IT folk baffle me though. Surely there must be a better way of sending these e-mails. Can they not encrypt the e-mails and send them as the main body of an e-mail ? Why on earth do I have to faff around with downloads etc etc ? Surely it would save bandwidth, not to mention valuable workers time if they could do so. I'm no expert but I know encryption software can be had for free and is not hard to set up and utilise. So how come those university educated dummies in the NHS can not work out a more elegant solution to this ?

Rant over with !!

It has to be time for a re-fuel of cranberry juice and dead fly biscuits .

Enjoy.

If anyone can offer advice on using "antiword" pm me here on the site and I will include the information.

Want to have flash clips playing from a site when surfing ? Well you have to do a little work to get them running on the 64 Bit Free Mandriva . Thank goodness I visited me mum this weekend and she sent me packing with home made creamy gateaus , so no worries on the re-fuelling front .



Firstly you need to find this web page. Make sure that you have "i586" chosen under the Architecture tab. Then simply click on the "Add PLF medias" tab, let the pc do its stuff and you should be ok to carry on .




Find this module and download and install it.



Next open up a Konsole and follow the instructions here. The guy is talking about the paid for version of Mandriva here, just ignore the bit at the start and follow steps 1) 2) 3). You do not need to be root to do this, just type away as an ordinary user. Remember to press "ENTER" after step 1) and 2) of the instructions.

I copied this from a post over at the Mandriva Forums, where they have a section dedicated to 64 Bit stuff.

Here is a link to the forums,

http://forum.mandriva.com/



I could not resist. This is taken from Novell's official site . Gave me a laugh and I am using it as my wallpaper .



If you are having sound problems go to the Control Center and open up the Sound section.



Make sure that the "Enable Pulse Audio" box is unchecked and click "OK".




This last shot is just by way of passing interest. you can access this by clicking on "Advanced" and "Let me pick any driver", see the previous screenshot. If you are really clever? You can choose from loads and loads of different sound drivers. I was intrigued by some of the names.

Well that is how I got flash to work on my pc . It also sorted out some problems I had with clips I had downloaded from the net as well.

Enjoy.

Me I'm of to find them cream cakes.

Here is a totaly usless waste of time and space. This little gadget can be found in the Main Menu>Games>Toys well that is after you have downloaded it with " Install and Remove Software ".



Here it is on the desktop. Bet you thought it was a speed and distance counter for the falling man.





You can disregard the info given in " Metric Display " as it was obviously written by some foreign jonny. I mean everyone knows that things will only work when they are measured in feet and inches.





So there you have it, KODO, a total waste of time and space.

Enjoy.

To wit:

This is an excellent Manual if you are new to Mandriva. Helps with instillation and all the new applications you will come across.

Link to the page,

http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/...g_documentation

Link to the manual,

http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/docu...g-Manual-EN.pdf


Penguins will rule the world.