ianw1974

If not the fn, try the num lock too. If not, post back with update.

Are you using a laptop? The fn key might be locked down, as this matches up on my laptop. or similar.

Another thing is make sure this is added to /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection something this helps solve screen scrambles.

Does your ISP provide two DNS Servers? If so, set them both so that they are the ISP ones rather than your router. It seems that DNS proxy isn't enabled for your router, or the DNS entries are a little strange. Did you check the config on the router? Are you using DHCP assigned IP or static? This would explain why it changed back to 192.168.0.1 again. Configure your network card so that it has a static IP, with two DNS servers from your ISP, and the gateway as 192.168.0.1 and you should be fine. Alternatively, if you want to stick with DHCP, you'll need to change the way your router works. Make sure the DNS Servers provided by your ISP are configured on the router, and if the option is there, enable DNS Proxy (although not all routers have this, just adding DNS solves it). What this does is utilise the router as the DNS Server, which then passes the request to your ISP's DNS Servers. But it all needs to be configured correctly on the router. Normally, the router should pick up two DNS servers along with it's IP when it connects to the internet. Unless it's all static provided, but some ISP's have DHCP with static IP's (recognising your MAC address). The simpler, is use static on the network card, than DHCP.

The first DNS is: 192.168.0.1 This is your local ADSL router I presume? You may want to just place a # in front of this and see if the prob still occurs. Check the config on the ADSL router to see if it has the DNS Servers detected correctly, as it could be failing at this point.

I only had problems because of my video card. Required OpenGL to be working before it'd be fine. Check /etc/X11/xorg.conf for the lines: Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection if not there, you can add them. Also, ensure Mesa is installed too.

If you have a yahoo id/email, all you need to is supply the username without @yahoo.com

I think we all need to take a nice slow deep breath and count to ten and be calm again :P Remember, we're all friends here!

What does it say in your /etc/resolv.conf? Does it just list your DNS servers? If you have a search line before the DNS Servers, this could be why. Place a "#" in front of it, so that you only have the DNS Servers listed. See how that performs? Also, check your /etc/nsswitch.conf. There is a line in here that says something along the lines of: hosts: files nisplus nis dns wins It's normally best in that order, so if different, match as above. For Kopete, I have the same prob. I use GAIM instead.

It does help with Graphics/OpenGL though. My laptop only has 32MB (maybe 64MB, not sure) Video RAM, and manages about 580fps for OpenGL stuff such as screensavers (I don't play games on it much). The laptop has 1GB of normal RAM. The desktop has an ATI Radeon with 128MB Video RAM, and OpenGL is running over 1000fps, and only 256MB normal RAM. I normally find my computer is only as fast as it's slowest component :P

I got it all installed and working! Many thanks!!!

Sorry, yes, samba is OK too!

Check for a line in xorg.conf that equals the following: Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection It could be that the number isn't set correctly, only allowing root. This could be the problem. If this section doesn't exists, create it, normally I do it at the end of the file.

What's in your /etc/resolv.conf ?

SMB is normally there for Windows based sharing. What's probably the best, is to install openssh-server, and then from konqueror, you just type: sftp://machinename This will drop you in a /home/username directory, and then you can navigate from there dropping files, based on the security access each user has. If you're using the same username on all machines, then that's OK. Otherwise, you'll need to create additional ones as required.

Link here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4602325.stm In a nutshell, about Linux on systems in Brazil! [moved from Talk-Talk by spinynorman]

OK, will give that a go. Having probs with plf at the minute, can't seem to find one that works. I did have one, but then it seems theres probs with all the mirrors at the minute.

Yeah, I noticed I sometimes get google! I also noticed that when I was trying to sort out the Windows Media problem, that it also kept going to the MSDN website, so is a bit weird. Mostly google though. I'll use the other mouse buttons to cancel, although if you use the middle button with the cursor over the autoscroll marker, it cancels it OK! Weird.....

I have the DG814, which I think is obsolete now, as I don't expect you can buy it through the normal channels. I may go for wireless eventually, but I'll get the access point, and then connect to the DG814 so that I don't have to buy another ADSL router, and I have a hardware firewall anyway, so the other additional benefits of the DG834 are irrelevant to me..... Good luck, as you've mentioned you've used before, it should be a doddle configuring. Remember they default to 192.168.0.1 for the IP address of the Netgear router out of the box. Just in case you're operating an alternative IP range (you can always change it later of course). :P

The easiest way to check they're working is through: https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2 which will test if you're secure for various things, etc. Some of which won't be relevant as it's mainly aimed at Windows stuff.

Is there any other info with the error message other than it fails to unload? What version of MDK/MDV are you running? Is it up-to-date using the urpmi repositories?

If you know your ISP settings, you can just enter them manually. I would recommend you get an ethernet router ADSL, since these are better, and means you can have multiple machines accessing the internet at the same time should you expand later. It just means you also need ethernet cards in your machine, but this is quite common these days and usually built onto motherboards and into laptops.

For some reason, I enable auto-scroll in Firefox, but when I press the middle wheel to cancel it, it visits a website for some reason. It also does this in konqueror, and from looking briefly, it always seems to be a site that I've been on recently, a link I've clicked, or text that I've typed. I noticed, that if I press the button whilst the cursor is in the middle of the auto-scroll icon on-screen, it doesn't click the link. I have checked, and made sure I'm clicking in an area where a link doesn't exist too, in case it was that. How can I stop it from doing this?

I wanted to listen to a Radio program in Firefox, and it says no plugin is found. The station in question uses Windows Media, and I wondered if I can get this working? I installed the xine-win32 codecs thinking this may solve the problem, but this seems to only do it for local playback of Windows media based files, of which works perfectly fine for me. RealMedia playback works fine, since I installed Realmedia 10.2.

It's probably because your listening to Radio 4 :P Seriously though, I just downloaded RealPlayer 10.2 Gold for Linux (rpm), and installed to see if I could replicate the problem. Unfortunately, I've not managed to. What version are you running?