[tictoc5150]

kyle, on Nov 7 2004, 02:22 PM, said:

Perhaps you aren't accelerating your video card? Run:

$ glxinfo | grep direct

Post the output here.

direct rendering: Yes

That's what it should be, right?

[kyle]

Yeah. That's odd (that the screensavers don't work).

[hitest]

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With multiple installs of 10.0 Community, I never had a problem with getting updates...10.1 was very hard to get to connect on both machines...I don't think it's a version problem (community vs official)...I just kept pluggin away at it, trying every server and finally got it to connect....betting yours would too.
a few days ago there weren't any updates, then the day before yesterday there was about 80 (security)..all buffer overflow vulnerabilities....no bugfixes yet.

Hi tictoc5150,
Hmmmmm........I've been trying to connect for over two hours now. I guess everyone and his dog is trying to download updates. AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
I'll keep trying. Good to hear you were able to connect. How long did it take you to connect?

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I hardly let my mouse rest often enough for the screensaver to kick in so it's not a huge issue but I just like things to work the way they're suppose to....glad to see I'm not alone on this one...betting a bugfix comes out down the road that'll clear it up.
same here with the polygons...hehe...a little irritating that it reminds me of the M$ one though.

Yeah I quite like the polygon M$ rip-off, heh-heh Maybe the screensavers will work in 10.2.
Oh well, got to go try and connect again...........grrrrrrrrr.

[tictoc5150]

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Yeah. That's odd (that the screensavers don't work).

hmmmm, the same code on my laptop produced no results...just sat there like a $***
I think the screensaver problem is just a MDK bug but another thing I found was that I can't play "armagetron" on the laptop and I can on the desktop...this kinda hints at a graphics config problem but I set it to what I think it should be (not like there were any options, it wouldn't work otherwise).

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Hi tictoc5150,
Hmmmmm........I've been trying to connect for over two hours now. I guess everyone and his dog is trying to download updates. AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
I'll keep trying. Good to hear you were able to connect. How long did it take you to connect?

lol....didn't take me long enough to make me go AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
after finding a server that let me in I still wasn't really happy with the speed and tried switching, that's when I started getting the errors about "this update_source is either misconfigured or unreachable ...blah blah blah....took a while to get it to work after that , even the server that I had previously connected to would give me that error.
I think I've had the best luck with the USC server, speed is better than average too.
this one--->rsync://mirrors.usc.edu::mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates
good luck

Update
Re: screensaver issue
while exploring everything in the kmenu, I found k>system>configuration>other>screensaver....which produced this:

clicked ok, and all screensavers (including GL) are present and work with previewing yet still don't show up in the list via r-click desktop>configure desktop.
not exactly sure what this means or how to fix it
any ideas?

Update 2 (and yes, I have been obsessing and working on this since my last edit...not gonna say how long that was...lol)
I've only come up with a workaround for this but it does just that.
by unchecking "start screensaver automatically" and creating a xscreensaver.desktop file in /home/blahblahblah/.kde/Autostart
the lines for that file are:
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=xscreensaver -no-splash
Name=XScreensaver
Type=Application
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false

I assume the line "X-KDE-StartupNotify=false" is suppose to kill the splash screen...but I had to add the "-no-splash" to get it to stop

easier to type the code to get to xscreensaver preferences

xscreensaver-command -prefs

since there doesn't seem to be a way to set the time in which the screensaver comes on in the config, you can do so by editing /etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreensaver

and to anybody that cares, the problem with my laptop was, I needed to select "use xinerama extensions" in the hardware config for my graphics card....all is well

[hitest]

Hi tictoc5150,

Were you able to connect to the Mandrake servers for free or did you sign up for a subscription? If you did sign up what service did you get?

[tictoc5150]

hitest, on Nov 11 2004, 11:19 AM, said:

Hi tictoc5150,

Were you able to connect to the Mandrake servers for free or did you sign up for a subscription?  If you did sign up what service did you get?

hey hitest,
I didn't sign up for anything other than becoming a mandrake club member, and that was to get 10.1 official as soon as it went official and to get KDE3.3 (which I can't install!...lol)...Unless mandrakesoft turned into an M$ clone and can identify an install by some secret product activation...lol......I didn't have to sign up for updates in 10.0CE or 10.0 official, I asume that hasn't changed.
I take it you still haven't been able to connect.....If I might make a suggestion, open "software media manager" and try adding as an ftp server -->"ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.mandrake.com/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates" -->relative path to synthesis/hdlist "media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz" >>>name it "update_source".
I didn't seem to have a problem connecting just now to -->rsync://mirrors.usc.edu::mandrakelinux/official/updates/10.1/main_updates...might try that one from the list if nothing turns up from the ftp site I gave you.
hope this helps,
T.

[hitest]

Thanks for the suggestions. Nope, I can't connect to any of the servers as of yet. My mandrake update software may be mis-configured or I could be just trying to connect when they're busy. Not too big a deal if I can't connect at all.
I may re-install or wait until 10.1 official is released or the next point upgrade and install that.