Read it, guess its true about the community. It's really quiet/inactive for something of Pardus' calibre...

But I'm just repeating what everyone here knew 

Phix: I meant that I thought CB/DVD would work without needing to tweak/change anything, Out of the box.

Williem: I don't understand... you mean the how it is connected inside the computer case? This is a laptop...

Anyways, thanks for the help.

What media players does everyone use to play CDs and DVDs? For some reason none of the players seem to work :S. I thought media works OOTB w/ Pardus, so strange..

CD's (audio): KsCD plays but there is no sound. Kaffeine works ok though.

DVD's (movies): None of the "mplayer"'s seem to be working. Kmplayer returns a "Mplayer is not running" status message. Gnome-mplayer does not respond. SMplayer can not find my CD-drive (first run asks me to configure/choose the drive, but there are no options to choose from).

Kaffeine again ok, but  there is a loud static sound whenever there are Menu sections of the DVD...

VLC works ok with DVDs, does not play my CD's...

Anyone else have issues?

hello frisil

Easiest way is to change your kdm login theme to one that support changing desktop environments. The default Pardus login theme are some reason hides this.

You need to download "kdmtheme" first. It is in the repo. Now go to TASMA - Appearance & Themes - "KDM Tema Yoneticisi". Don't worry, the program is in English. Follow the instructions there.

Many KDM themes can be found at kde-look,org . Many of those have the change session option that allows you to choose whether to login as KDE 3/4 or even Gnome or Xfce is you got that..

Hope this helps.

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20081201#news

This week of DW has mentioned the Pardus case study.

Good job Pardus.

I might of just looked over it, but where can I set what happens when the laptop lid is closed?

Edit: Marked as solved. Silly of me really.

Planet Pardus (Pardus developers' english blog) recently had a few updates. Refreshing, since the last one before that was in August...

Go see it here: http://planet.pardus.org.tr/

Main highlights are Pardus' participation in Google Summer of Code and some general ideas about Pardus 2009. Good to see Pardus making an effort for student development.

And especially interesting:

"Türker Sezer, worked on an easy to use wizard base Pardus CD/DVD/USB distribution media creator GUI application"

We might be able to make remasters and usb installs soon? =)

Firefox. Though it get jerky on some (but not all) sites. Agreeing with others that I couldn't get fonts to look good in Opera.

Suspend as in sleep (suspend to ram) or hiberate (suspend to disk)

Right click kpowersave. Do you have "suspend to ram" and "suspend to disk" avaliable? If so can you try them, and see if it works?

When using Pardus, I sometimes find that FF is really sluggish with certain sites. Clicking is unresponsive, scrolling is jerky etc. This is particular the case when using facebook for example.

When I do it with konqueror the pahes appear to be fine (smooth), though it take longer to load.

Anyone else experience this? It doesn't seem to be the case with other distros...

http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=8343

Related? I only know it is about aspire one, and acpi. I don't speak Turkish.

tuxedup: Thanks for the reply.  I think you meant to meant to just this in the "E-mag" thread. "Creating our own content", depends on what, a lot of the content/news that is made about Pardus comes from Turkey. But I suppose it is possible in some wats. 
 

I am saying, that many of us don't know Turkish and can't translate. But online translators can translate Turkish into broken English. Users might be able to get the gist of the articles and turn it into normal English.

Arza. I wasn't on my Pardus comp when I wrote that. Forgot Pardus isn't set up that way compared to Ubuntu/Debian. Sorry about that.

A bit random perhaps, but try the original entry again but remove "splash" and "quiet" in the grub.conf. Tell us what it says as it tries to shutdown.

Removing splash removes the orange picture etc when you startup/shutdown, Removing quiet means it will show all the system messages that occurs during bootup/shutdown

This is only to see if the system would give us any message that might explain the cause of the problem.

Btw: I'm wondering if you tested whether the USB/SDD slots, webcam, mic, suspend etc works? Just curious.. if hardware detection is that good. =)

Emesene: MSN Messenger

http://emesene.org

Version in repo is 1.0 iirc.

Current version is 1.01. From release announcement "All users should update as soon as possible, since this change is going to be applied to all servers, resulting in either error messages when trying to manipulate contacts, or empty contact list after logging in." 

Would it be worthwhile to copy-paste it on a *shudder* online translator and get the community here to try to piece it in English?

Online translation is.....interesting at best, but one might be able to get the gist of a passage, and from there we might be able to rewrite it..

Not a perfect solution.