Recent content by Balkazzaar

this is sad.....is there no temperature monitoring software for this?

i have used GPU-Z as well....any other suggestions?

Greetings my TE friends...its been a long while i have been away from TE. Lots of things have changed again....its good to be back. Anyways..coming to the point. I recently purchased a Alienware M15x laptop with ATI Radeon HD 3870 GPU as its customization. (Not a fan of ATI :S...but due to...

i mean i am not able to get the 3D full cube ...

ok...i have successfully enabled 3d desktop...but my god i never realised having so many features for cube desktop and making them work together without any conflicts would be easy...but overall it has been good............i have so far managed to flip windows side ways,minimise effects, expo...

one more question...i wanna set my default booting operating system as windows..i was able to do that in opensuse 11.1 but cant seem to do the same in mandriva.... and btw..just to let u know...Mandriva 2009.1 does come with VLC prepacked in the DVD....i installed it myself...;)

oh thank u...so much....i just wanna remove the entries....btw are there any plus points in the latest kernel version compared to the existing one?

thank u so much for ur help Dark Star...i will chek that once i reach home...just one more thing i wanna know...can i remove those 2 additional desktop kernel entries in my boot screen without affecting the existing mandriva environment? if yes..plz tell me how...

Ok Dark Star, as per ur instructions, i have updated all the packages and i rebooted the system...but i saw to additional entries like "desktop kernel 2.2.63.1." and "desktop kernel 2.2.63.7." in the boot screen along with windows and Mandriva's entries....these entries happened after the update...

ok...i will do as u say and will let u know ASAP...i have selected ALL of the listed mirrors and i m updating right as write this post....

yes i downloaded the free dvd edition...i586 version to be precise....but i have still not downloaded the Mandriva linux one cd....r the nvidia drivers for mandriva 2009.1 provided separately in Mandriva Linux one CD?

i m sorry...but i still did not get u....i also forgot to tell u that i still have not downloaded the Mandriva Linux one CD :ashamed:....is it in this CD that the Nvidia drivers are located?:ashamed:

i tried as u told but there is no option called "setup graphics card" . instead it shows "configure 3d desktop effects" and when i go there compiz fusion and the 3d options are greyed out and "No 3d effects" option is highlighted...one more thing i noticed is when i configured the GPU thru...

can somebody plz tell me the steps to enable cube desktop in mandriva? i have been trying and trying but no success ..plz help... and when i go to the control center and go to the "Configure Graphics Section" , it shows the "No 3d effects" highlighted and the rest of the options greyed...

looks like i asked a very stupid question..... :|