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Hey all, I've just upgraded to Mandriva 2005 (well, a clean install really) and installed the latest NVIDIA drivers without problem, however after restarting my computer all appears to go fine but instead of being auto logged into KDE I get sent to the terminal. At first I assumed i'd been left in runlevel 3 as a result of driver install, so I logged in at terminal and typed "init 5" to get back to where I wanted to be, but this did nothing, turns out I was in run level 5 but X refused to run. However typing "startx" brings it up with no problems. I had a look through the logs, not really knowing what I was looking for and found in syslog: Which seems to suggest a problem with my display? or atleast the configuration of it. Now I followed the same process for installing the drivers as i did in 10.1 so I cant see what I've done wrong. Also, if its a problem starting X then why does "startx" at the terminal work fine? Anyone with any ideas or a sollution to this problem? Cheers Owen Mc [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I had a similar problem with a USB cable modem, solved by loading the 'usbnet' module. However I cant remember how (since I'm now at uni and getting online via LAN), I think this is the right approach, but does anyone know how to load it?

I had the same thing from xrandr before i upgraded xorg, and after the upgrade it shows "normal, left, right and inverted" as being availble rotations

This is my first attempt at giving advice rather than asking for it (I'm very much very new to linux/mandrake), so appologies if its completely useless I've just got myself a new screen which can quite happily rotate, and since i like to be different i've decided i like it sideways (rotated left 90*). Good old windows did it no problem so its not a hardware thing, but mandrake refused (screen resize and rotate section greyed out). However, I have found the sollution, after browsing nvidia's readmes. it appears that screen resize and rotate utilises the xrandr command and this only supports rotation on xorg 6.8 and above, and despite running mandrake 10.1 which i assumed had the latests versions of everything i found it only comes with 6.7 :o A quick update to 6.8 as well as installing latest nvidia drivers, and firstly at the terminal xrandr -o left does exactly what i wanted (where as before the upgrade i got an error), and on further investigation the screen resize and rotate section is magically un-greyed out A word of warning regarding the xorg upgrade, my first attempt was from sources, which appeared to work but did give me annoying keyboard problems (having to restart KDE to get the keyboard working ) second attempt was from Thac's RPM's (courtesty of this thread http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=23130). simply put, as root run urpmi.addmedia thacs.rpms http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mirrors/thac/10.1/RPMS with hdlist.cz followed by urpmi -v xorg-x11 takes a while on my rather pathetic internet connection, but it worked fine. I hope this helps Owen Mc

I don't know if its quite what you're after, but i only discovered it today while trying to rotate my screen xrandr -s <size>/<width>x<height> should allow you to change the resolution manually from the terminal (or from within a script) xrandr -q shows supported resolutions and xrandr --help gives all the help you need hope this helps Owen Mc

after editting /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 and restarting the network i have the same problem, the network wont come back up (cant ping anything). I get the same problem when I set the IP from the mandrake control center. I tried setting it to load on boot and restarting my machine, I get an "OK" under "bringing up wlan0" but then when i get into KDE, no such luck, network dead. I opened /etc/resolv.conf and this contains the correct settings so I cant see this being the problem. after setting everything back to DHCP it all magically works again. I really cant see where the problem is here. This isn't a huge problem because the network works fine on DHCP, but i'd like to set it up as static because thats what the rest of my network uses (all windows based i'm affraid :unsure: ). Any ideas much appreciated, otherwise i'll just live with DHCP

Hey all, just a quick question that I'm sure will be easily solved. I have a wireless network set up using ndiswrapper and it all works fine (WEP and all). to bring the network up i use dhclient wlan0 which retrieves an IP from my router. is there any way to set a static IP and bring the network up? I tried using the manage connections and setting a static IP and then using either ifconfig wlan0 up or ifup wlan0 but neither of these bring up the connection. I'm new to linux so i'm probably doing something obvious wrong, so any help on the matter would be most welcome. Cheers Owen Mc

Many thanks, hotkeys working now. Also solved a few other problems today, a good day to be using Mandrake I think B)

I found my keyboard listed in the keyboard model menu but now when i use they hotkeys they load the desired program repeatedly, which i cant stop. and after about 1000 instances of Konquerer started i had to reset computer. the keyboard works fine as a keyboard, its just that the hotkeys that either dont work (using a default keyboard model) or wrok too well (using specific model). any suggestions?

Hey All, I've just bought a new keyboard, which comes with linux drivers. on the CD there is an rpm, as well as sources. read-me file recommends installing from rpm which i did, all appeared to work, until i tried using hotkeys on the keyboard, then my whole machine crashed. at the bottom of the read me file it says if there are problems with the rpm version then installing from sources should work. so this is what i tried. following the instructions i ran "./configure" which started fine, but then stopped giving the following messages: checking for KDE includes... no configure: error: "Couldn't find KDE development headers!" configure: error: "Configuration in systray failed!" can anyone suggest what this means, and how to fix it if possible. if not then i guess i'll have to live without hotkeys :o Cheers all Owen Mc

And just to top it all off, after installing mandrake i can switch USB2 support back on and it works fine. Thanks once again, I'm glad i've discovered these forums, i'm sure i'll need plenty more help with mandrake in the future and now i know whre to come :D Cheers Owen

Wow, I never thought it'd be that simple. Unplugged USB devices, no luck Unplugged PCI cards (dont have any that are essential), no luck Messed with bios, and it worked! narrowed it down to USB2.0, disabled that and it worked (so it was USB related) cheers for the info, turned out to be a pretty easy solution but i'd never have got there without prompting :lol: Now I can get back to using a proper OS, none of that windows rubbish B) Cheers all Owen

Have done, i'm using the same Cd's as i used to install previously (before upgrade) and there is nothing wrong with them. (other than the fact they dont work anymore :P )

Hey all, I'm pretty new to linux, but i've been through the installation of mandrake 10.1 before and it all went fine, used it for a few months (dual booting with windows) and then updated my computer. After updating my hardware (new mobo and cpu, nothing else changed) I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows. that was a week ago, today i shrank my windows partition by 40Gb and proceeded to attempt to reinstall mandrake (this is the exact same proceedure i'd followed previously). Reboot with CD1 inserted, the installer starts no problem, but apon pressing enter to start the installation the screen goes black and nothing happens, i've tried using F1 with various options, with the text only install it freezes on something to do with IRQ's, but i really dont know what i'm doing. My new hardware is an Asus A8V mobo with an AMD Athlon64 3500+, none of my other hardware has changed and all previously worked with my old set up (Asus P4B and P4 2.5GHz). Any suggestions/solutions would be much appreciated, as i said i am a newbie so please try not to confuse me straight away :P Cheers, Owen