liquidzoo

Are you using the latest drivers from nvidia? edit: here's the link to the newest drivers: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display...0-4363.html

How about the other specs on your machine? What about your Mobo? How many/What kind of cards do you have installed? (Video, sound, Nic, etc.) If you have a lot of cards installed, do you have any free PCI slots?

Almost a week and no response. I don't know if this is a good sign or not. Does anyone else have one of these cards that they cannot get working?

Are you putting XP and Mandrake on a new HD? If not, are you keeping any of the data that is already on the HD? If you are completely wiping the drive, why not use the XP partitioner to create the Windows partition(s) and leave the rest of the space unallocated? After that, you can use the Mandrake utility to create the Windows partitions. I have done it this way once (with Win2k and Mandrake 8.0) and it worked great. Since then, I have added a new drive and have 1 drive solely for Linux, so I've never had to worry about XP fscking up my partitions.

Getting back to the original part of this thread, sorry tyme: I would be interested, if I knew more about Linux programming. But the only way to learn is to do it, right?

I can answer a couple of those questions. I have upgraded to 3.1.2 on both my laptop and my desktop. I like it. I don't notice any major improvements over 3.1, but it is very nice. There are MDK rpms available from texstar. All I had to do (after re-adding texstar as a urpmi source) to upgrade to 3.1.2 was type one command urpmi kdebase-3.1.2 and it downloaded and upgraded everything for me. Very easy. AFAIK the upgrade keeps all of your desktop settings. I, too, tweaked my desktop to my liking before upgrading and I didn't have to change anything after the upgrade. Hope this helps you out.

Ok, I emailed you the files. Sorry it took me so long to do so. I had an unexpected business trip and just got back. Follow the instructions in the email and let me know what you come up with.

Good point tyme (little 't') I hadn't thought of that.

I could be wrong, but I think the hdlist doesn't change from one cd to the next. I'm glad you got the first one in, though. If we don't get an answer as to what the hdlist really is from cd 2 and 3, I will check and post when I get home to my computer.

That is weird. Did you restart X after you did the update? Maybe that would help. I don't remember anything being missing when I updated KDE, but I really didn't look that closely. Everything I use on a regular basis is still there. What did you install before you had the Xine problem? Do you remember?

What is it that you installed? Another place it might go is /usr/local/bin

Ok. As soon as I get home to my laptop, I have changed a couple of things in your config file. I will send it back to you. Give it a try and see if it works. Not sure if it will, but it's worth a try for sure.

That is not good for sure. How new is this install? What have you added recently?

That is a little strange. Ok, maybe we can fix this. Go into your Software Sources Manager (Configuration -> Packaging menu). Write down the paths for your CD's (this is important!!!) and any other sources you have added, you can add them back later. Then delete all of the sources that are listed. Save your changes and exit the sources manager. After that, you can add your sources back in. Try that, then try to update KDE and see what happens.

Give this a try: rpm rebuilddb as root. See if that helps. You can also use rpmdrake (Install Software from the packaging menu) and see if that works, just select kdebase-3.1.2 and it will automatically select the dependencies.

First thing you need to do, if you don't want to mount the iso images, is copy the /RPMS folder off of each cd to a place on your hd (either all in the same folder, or all in different folders, doesn't really matter) Then you need to type genhdlist /RPM This is assuming that you put them in /RPM, if not, replace that with the correct folder name. Repeat if necessary for each folder. This will give you the hdlist.cz and systhesis.hdlist.cz Then switch to root and remove the cd's from your software sources manager. Forgot how to do this from the command line, but you can open the Software Sources Manager by going K Menu (or Gnome, don't think it matters) -> Configuration -> Packaging -> Software Sources Manager After you remove the cd's (all of them) then open a console and type (still as root) urpmi.addmedia namegoeshere file://path/to/your/RPMS with hdlist.cz After that, you are all set. urpmi will now look for the files on the hd instead of looking for the cd. This works great, I use it on my laptop.

Well, from that message it looks like /dev/hda7 is your root partition. I don't know of a way to get around that check, but I know that it was caused by something running on that partition when you hit the reset button. Does anyone else out here know how we can get around this problem? I don't want to give you the standard windows solution to a problem like this, there has to be a way to get it fixed.

Can you skip the file system check? It almost sounds to me like there might be a problem with one of your partitions. How are your partitions layed out? (windows, /, /home...etc) The drive numbers might help too if you know them. For example, what partition is hda7?

That doesn't matter. Most of the dependencies that are listed there are for KDE, so even if you don't use it, I would still upgrade it.

Well, I can help you out with some of the dependencies. If you have texstar as a source for urpmi you can type urpmi kdebase-3.1.2 and upgrade KDE to the more current version. That will download and upgrade all of the kde packages, which are included as most of those dependencies. Give it a try and see what happens there.

What was the error message that appeared?

Give this a try: rpm -e libogg-1.0-3 or urpme libogg-1.0-3 Then: rpm -ivh libogg-1.0-5.i386.rpm or urpmi libogg-1.0-5 See if that helps your problem. I realize that the -Uvh should fix the problem, but someimes you have to try the long way to get the job done.

Care to share with the group so someone else might be able to benefit from this knowledge?

Sounds like something is up with X. Are you running this from a command prompt or from within X?

Ok, one question for you. I have reviewed your /etc/pcmcia/config file line by line with mine, and I have some options in there that you don't. Strange, but I don't think that is the root of your problem. Another question I have is: What are you using for internet access for this card? What kind/brand/model of router or access point do you have? I am still working through your files to see if I can get something that will work for you, but this question I have is important for when we do get this working.