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Yes, the file definitely is in the correct directory and I'm trying to get this floppy set up so that I can play around with booting correctly into hda1 on my Thinkpad (the Ultrabay), which currently fails. Oh, and I fully agree about the smoking section. B)

I'm trying to create a GRUB boot floppy-disk, using the instructions contained in: http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15...oppy_howto_make Things go reasonably well up to the line "grub> find /boot/grub/stage1", where Grub cannot find the 'stage1' file on the floppy. This file definitely is there and Grub also addresses the floppy during the 'find' process, but somehow can't see the file. Or, if it can see it, Grub apparently does not recognise it as a correct file. The FDD is a USB device, I've changed BIOS to allow boot from it (and, in fact, BIOS can boot from it; I've tried that with a Win95 mini-system), and now I'm stumped :unsure: . Can anyone help me further down the line? Thanks.

I remember reading somewhere that it's possible with later linux-kernels to fix the names of detachable-devices (e.g. USB). Unfortunately I've forgotten where that was; could someone give me a pointer? I need this for a USB-FDD, which (on my 2007 system) is sometimes called /dev/sda, sometimes /dev/sda_1 and other times /media/floppy. Slightly confusing (for me, anyway) :huh: . Thanks.

Yup, that seems to have been it, the boot-line in /boot/grub/menu.lst contained "acpi=ht". I reinstated acpi with MCC and now it switches off, as before. Many thanks. :thumbs:

Sorry, the misunderstanding was my lack of accuracy :wacko: . The machine starts the shut-down procedure correctly and displays (in verbose-mode) the two final statements "Halting System...." and "System halted"; previously, at this point it then actually also switched off. Now, however, it just sits there and I have to press the power-button myself. As I said, it's no great sweat to do this, I'd just like to know why the switch-off fails. BTW, "shutdown -h now" has the same effect - procedure correct up to but excluding the actual switch-off. The OS doesn't understand "power off", however.

Suddenly, my Thinkpad T42 refuses - under 2007 - to switch off following selection of "Log Off/Turn Off Computer". No great sweat, but it works correctly under XP-Pro and I can't think of anything that I've changed/downloaded which may have caused the problem. Does the system keep a log of the shut-down procedure, that I could examine to investigate this a bit further? Thanks. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Thanks, neddie, not a bad search-string B) . I was actually looking for something to print the existing shortcuts on my machine, so that I could easily get an update if I changed anything, but your suggestion provided a list that I can use as a basis (and save all that two-finger typing, of course). Probably better. Again, many thanks. :thumbs:

Yes, that's where I found the useful things that I referred to. What I'm looking for is some mechanism or another to provide me with an electronic list (in a file, perhaps) which I can then print out. Basically, I'm too idle to type them in myself B) .

Those Global Keyboard Shortcuts look really useful, and I thought that a list of those currently available would be helpful. Is there a little script anywhere which will do this (would save a lot of two-finger typing ;) )? Thanks.

Thanks for the info, scarecrow, I've suspected for some time that this network operates differently to my British one; just have to live with fallouts, I suppose. Many thanks, Ian, for the correction (should have seen it myself :unsure: ); have now booted/restarted the system 5 times and, joy oh joy, the network now comes up correctly each time. Great !! Just hope that it stays that way. :thumbs:

A bit of crossover there :mellow: . I'm using kde and a search revealed that networkman is NOT installed.

I've had to use 'static' for the IP address, because no IP can be detected when DHCP is set. I'm currently in central Italy, where our broadband is provided by a somewhat unreliable and slow radio-link (ADSL, I think), which may account for the DCHP problem but shouldn't have anything to do with the DNS-server loss (or perhaps that's wrong :unsure: ). Anyway, I've tried your 'chattr -i /etc/resolv.conf' suggestion, but it didn't work; the file was overwritten at the next boot. The filesystem is ext3, BTW. PS: man chattr states A file with the ‘i' attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be deleted or renamed, no link can be created to this file and no data can be written to the file. Only the superuser or a process possessing the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or clear this attribute. ; perhaps that's the cause of the overwrite??

My wife's Acer, running 2007, keeps losing the DNS-server details on boot (maybe at other times also, but I haven't noticed this yet). This means that, although the network-icon says that the network is UP, the latter is actually DOWN - or, at least, no internet connection is possible. I can't understand this; my Thinkpad, using the same OS, works perfectly in this respect, and I'm pretty sure that I set up the LAN in the same way on both machines. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem? It occurred to me that it might be possible to put some commands in /etc/rc.local, but I'd need further help there, if it were. Thanks. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

My wife has an Acer Extensa 5620Z, running 2007, which does not switch from loudspeaker to headphones when the latter are inserted in the approp. jacks. When I do the same using XP-Pro, this action is detected (a little message-window pops up) and the headphones are activated/loudspeakers deactivated, presumeably by software :unsure: . I'm therefore assuming that a similar thing is missing in 2007. The soundsystem is 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller, using ‎the snd_hda_intel driver and Threaded-OSS. If anyone else has experienced this problem, could you help me out/point me in the right direction? Thanks. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Thanks, Greg, it worked. I retried, using the link provided by Easy-Urpmi, which locked-up again. So it definitely wasn't my box; strange :huh: . Once again, many thanks.

I'm trying to get urpmi to operate with mva2006. When I start Easy-Urpmi It says "If you are using 2008.0 or older version, switch to the old interface" and, when I do just that, the entire page locks up. Could anyone say whether or not there's a known problem here, or is it likely to be my box? Thanks

I can't claim to have completely understood everything that you've pointed out, but I am a bit further down the road. My confusion was mainly based on the fact that setting up a connection using (e.g.) MCC requires specifying the connection-type involved; this implied to me that different drivers were necessary according to that type. Hence my last question. Anyway, I'll try a Linksys wireless-router, that I have spare, and hope that the Italian system supports it. Many thanks to you all. :thumbs:

Greg, just to clarify things, are you saying that a cable-router (i.e. non-ADSL) will operate correctly with the output of an ADSL-modem?

Well John, I think your may have hit the nail etc., because (today) everything works. Is this magic? ;) And thanks, Ian, another bit of knowledge for some future problem. Thanks again to you both.

I'm completely new to playing DVD's on my linux-box, so please excuse me if this is a daft question. When I tried to play a perfectly legally-bought DVD, using Kaffeine in 2007, I got the following error-message: The source seems encrypted, and can't be read. Your DVD is probably crypted. According to your country laws, you can or can't use libdvdcss to be able to read this disc. (Media stream scrambled/encrypted) I couldn't find 'libdvdcss' but did find 'libdvdcss2', which I installed. Now, on playing the DVD, the error- message is: The source can't be read. Maybe you don't have enough rights for this, or source doesn't contain data (e.g: no disc in drive). (Error reading from DVD.) Is there a simple way around this problem, or is the operation impossible? Thanks [moved from Networking by Greg2]

My main problem is that I don't fully understand the differences between the various protocols, for example ADSL and cable. Since MCC -> Network & Internet requires you to select the type of connection to be configured (e.g.DVB, IDSN, DSL, cable), I assume that there are significant differences between the various options. If the modem-output is DSL, surely any router that I attach to it needs to 'understand' that protocol in order to operate correctly?

I have the following configuration (in Italy): ADSL-broadband via a radio-receiver, feeding a modem with an RJ-45 output, plugging directly into the LAN-socket of my laptop. This works very well. My wife now also want wifi for her laptop, so I'd like to simply plug the modem's output into a wifi-router and (with a little re-configuration) continue as before, i.e using a wired connection. As I understand the situation, this implies using a router with an RJ-45 input and employing the ADSL-protocol, and this is where I start to get unstuck :unsure: . Could someone say whether or not my assumptions are correct and, if they are, which piece of kit is likely to do the job? Thanks.

It's called 'aoss' and it wasn't installed. So, I did just that, changed audacity's playback/record-devices to 'OSS:/dev/dsp' and... it works :D . Many, many thanks for the spot-on analysis. :thumbs:

I accidentally clicked on a web-site which played some music or another, and now, when I start audacity, I get the message: Error while opening sound device. Please check the output device settings and the project sample rate. I tried 'service alsa restart' as root, with the following result: Doing alsactl to store mixer settings... [ OK ] Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 1.0.13): [ OK ] Starting ALSA version 1.0.13: intel8x0. [ OK ] Doing alsactl to restore mixer settings: [ OK ] but audacity still responds with the same error. A reboot also has zero effect. I'm using 2007 on a Thinkpad-T42. MCC says that the sound-system is an 'Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller' and the driver is '‎i810_audio'. BTW, 'Test Sound' works correctly. A similar problem occurred regularly on my Tosh Sat Pro 4600, perhaps this is a common problem with ALSA and/or audacity? Could someone help me out? Thanks.

I did as suggested (copied the bookmarks.html into ~.mozilla/firefox/u01zfwnn.default) and all is now honky-dory. Interestingly, my exported bookmarks.html (the one I wanted to re-import) is 1.1MB large, whereas the one that I overwrote is a massive 5.6MB; but it seems to work, so WTH. :unsure: Thanks for your tip, John, I'll try it when I install a new OS. Once again, many thanks to you all. :thumbs: