SpiralSlash

I solved that problem by updating the kernel.

Installing Mandriva's latest kernel RPM did nothing... It's still way faster than real time. =P What else can I do?

If it's left you at a terminal prompt when you boot up, run

/usr/X11R6/bin/aticonfig --initial

again. This exact thing happened to me... It didn't configure right the first time, dropped me into a terminal prompt on restart, but running aticonfig again made it work.

Have you tried it with no OS, just boot intot he BIOS screen, leave it a while and test? Then reboot and see if the time has changed?

I did this, and it kept time perfectly. It went the speed it should go, and nothing changed on reboot.

 

I also booted into my WinXP partition, and it keeps time like it should as well.

Doing a Fresh install won't change owership if you preserve your home directory.

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I formatted the drive and wiped everything when I reinstalled.

I tried renaming .xmms and re-running - no dice. Also, I did a fresh install for i586, so file ownership isn't the problem either.

 

I'm beginning to think that for some reason, i586 just won't work right on this PC. It hates my mouse, keyboard, and clock... And stuff like Flash and animated GIFs runt at about twice the speed they're supposed to.

Hi there!

If your time is changed on a reboot only then I would suspect the mainboard battery. Although you do say the board is not that old it doesn't mean the battery is not that old. As tyme says check the time in bios and if that is wrong then I would say change the battery. If the time changes whilst the 'puter is on then it must be another problem.

Unfortunately, it changes while the PC is on. I've timed it to a clock that syncs with the atomic clock, and it goes almost twice as fast as normal time...

Are you going thru a router? Is the router time keeping function disabled?

How old is the motherboard?

The motherboard's a MSI RS482M-IL, so it's not really old. It was bought about 6 months ago. I am going through a router, but as far as I can tell there's nothing interfering with time keeping functions. I had Mandriva 2006 x86_64 on this exact machine not 4 days ago and it didn't have any problems like this at all.

Alright, I set up NTP when I installed the OS (2006 i586) but I'm not sure it's actually ever synced the time correctly automatically. NTP is set up properly (right time zone, working server...) but it will never display the right time unless I make it manually sync.

 

Here's where it gets weird. I've turned off the NTP service, and turned it off on the "Adjust Date/Time" page. It'll still change itself to random times on reboot. Like, and hour and 20 minutes off. Or 2 hours and 10 minutes. Or maybe just 50 minutes. It changes every time! The x86_64 version of 2006 didn't do this to me with NTP enabled, and neither does WinXP. Something's up here, and I have no idea how to fix it.

Hey- I recently switched from the x86_64 distro to the i586 one. And oddly enough, nothing's worked very well since. I did a fresh install, but immediately after install, the keyboard acted as as if a single keystroke was three or so. I fixed that by tweaking the keyboard repeat settings.

 

The next problem was that even though the mouse was set to select on single click/open on double click, it wouldn't do anything on double click - I'd have to click once to select whatever I wanted, then press enter to actually open it. I couldn't highlight text by double clicking it. That was "solved" by going into mouse preferences, swapping to sigle click opening, then swapping back to single click select/double click open.

 

Now, I can't get XMMS to open any files. It'll open up to the home folder, but clicking on any folders on the sidebar results in nothing happening. What can I do? I don't like any of the other media players that come with the distro, and dragging and dropping the files I want to play is irritating, since I should be able to do it through XMMS itself.

 

None of these problems were present in the x86_64 distro, and if I wasn't sick of hunting down 64bit versions of the apps I wanted to use, I'd go back to it. But in the mean time, I'd like to get this working. Help!

Okay, so I'm writing this from a fresh install of Mandriva 2006 Free x86-64... And finally, I've managed to get to the final step of the ATI Proprietary Display Driver installation, the one where you open a terminal and enter /usr/X11R6/bin/aticonfig -initial, but upon running that, I get this error: "Warning: Could not find configuration file

Please copy configuration file template to /etc/X11". Now, seeing as xorg.conf is already in that directory, what exactly is it asking me to do?

Looks like you were right, adamw. Updating KDE base in Mandrakelinux Update solved it. Thanks for the tip.

 

I wonder why I didn't have this problem when I upgraded from Mandrake 10 to 10.1 on my last hard drive? KDE and Konqueror worked fine then, no problems like this at all.

KDE is still doing the same thing... Confusing. GNOME works fine, but I don't think I care for the way it comes preconfigured. I'll try and configure to my liking it later.

 

Does anybody know why it would do the same thing twice on a new install?

I'll probably just reformat and do a clean install with KDE, GNOME, and IceWM. Hopefully that will solve everything! I'll try and post if works or not.

 

Thanks for all your help!

Konqueror loads pretty quickly under IceWM. I guess KDE is the problem.

 

I've never done anything like reinstalling KDE before. What should I do now? And how can I get GNOME installed, while I'm at it? Thanks!

Yeah, I'm running KDE. I'm using a rather old PC (AMD K6-2+ 450, 256mb RAM) and I wasn't sure how well GNOME would work, so I didn't install it. But, I did install some IceWM and a few others, so I'll try to run it from under them.

Okay, I just installed Mandrake 10.1 download, and right off the bat Konqueror won't work. This is on a fresh install, nothing went wrong that I could see during setup either. It'll load Konqueror up, it'll pop up on the program panel at the bottom of the screen with the little hourglass when it's supposed to be loading, and then it'll disappear off of it and never load up Konqueror. It'll still be in the process table and everything, but even after several minutes, it still won't load the main program.

 

I've only installed various multimedia and networking apps off of the Mandrake CDs (like Mozilla so I could actually get online) and downloaded and installed Firefox 1.0.3. So I don't think that anything I installed is the problem... On my previous install of 10.1 they didn't cause any problems like this.

 

However, opening up a terminal and doing "su"->"exec konqueror" does open up a Konqueror window for me. For now, that'll work, but I'd really like the program to actually work the way it's supposed to without having to invoke root access.

 

So it there anything I can do about this? Or am I stuck having to launch Konqueror from a terminal? Thanks!