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Hi, I have a flat panel tv (Toshiba 32'') with a PC in (VGA plug) on it. I have used it before with mdv but it does not work anymore! I think it is since I have a ASUS gfx card, although I have the latest nvidia driver. It was working with the onboard VGA. At first I get the biostar logo as the pc boots, then nothing then my grub boot. If I point it to mdv2006 or failsafe or cooker, the screen keeps black with some sort of VGA sign bleeping. If I point at windows it all goes well, surely I can t have that! Any ideas??? :unsure:

As far as i know, they are the same official version, but mdv one is a live cd which can be used to install mdv on ur hard drive if you decide you like it. 2006 is still the official release, if you want a newer version you will have to move to cooker. Stef

ls -l /home/stephane/Firefox1.5.1/firefox | grep plugins drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Apr 20 09:54 plugins/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 432 Jan 25 00:32 searchplugins/ Looks like my simlink didn t work isn t it?

Thanks Ian, I ve done both and I m afraid still no joy. At least I can now listen to the radio with kmplayer but firefox still doesn't want to know! I will kill a few aliens (X3) and come back to it in a while... Stef :D

Sorry, I think this was a previous topic but can t find nor remember it. A quick Google and I m still not happy bunny! I installed recently Firefox 1.5 because the scrapbook extension was not working on the original version shipped with mdv 2006. Since all is real good except that I can t read Windows media player streams amy more. (europe1 is the website I use to listen to the French radia as I live in the UK). Can you remind me quickly how to make this work again please??? :unsure: Ta! Stef [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

Has anyone used kleansweep then? Is it safe? :o

Well there is an application called kleansweep which will get rid of unused files, but like any of these apps make sure you pack the deleted files safely and test your system b4 removing them. ;)

I suppose that all I have to do is go in drakconf/bootloader et point to Grub, will he translate my current lilo into Grub? Well let's try! :o :o :o :o :o Fine it worked very easily, have to try and improve the looks though, It s quite poor so far!

So really I am the only one to use Lilo, I only chose it because it was the defauls option, is Grug really better then? Stef

Oh sorry , there is a grub option as well for the mighty ones... ;) Stef

Hi ! I am a bit dumb when it comes to Lilo and Grub so I thought I'd start a little thread whee one can show there Lilo or there Grub and decribe the advantages or problems. I hope to learn as I play ... Well here's mine the : Quite classic I think, it boots very well but if I boot cooker for example and I choose "reboot as" option, it shows the options of the lilo on sda7 , not the original lilo I booted with. # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file default="MdvClean-2612-18" boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map keytable=/boot/uk.klt menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/sda6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="noapic failsafe resume=/dev/sda5" other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-18mdk label="MdvClean-2612-18" root=/dev/sda6 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-18mdk.img append="noapic resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent" vga=788 image=/mnt/sda7/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-2mdk label="Cooker" root=/dev/sda7 initrd=/mnt/sda7/boot/initrd-2.6.14-2mdk.img append="noapic resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent" vga=788 There we are, now i will wait to see yours! Stef :D

Yes That's how I do ti, sometime the program crashes but it is rare. When it happens, launch Avidemux2 from command line and read what's wrong. Another on I use is Tovid. Otherwise to burn your mpg to dvd afterwards I thought i'd advice varsha, really good tool! Stef

Ok Moriarty's post is in a way was off topic, BUT it has been very useful to me as i did not have a clue what DKMS was and was recently a bit too lazy to google that. I will now print his post (on recycled paper!) and read it... STef

Yep I agree with Arctic and Ian for the Boot splah, the "Free" bit, and a more professional look (Like Suse), although Mandriva is my next best Look-wise. As a Newbie, I think Mandriva needs to take more care on what people look at first in a Os (I mean non-yet-linux-users-but-might-be-tempted). That is : -Some easy to use Bluetooth connection to mobiles/PDA's. I know it works but you still need to play about to make it work. -A list (on the Desktop would be fine) on applications that people will first look at : How to copy a cd/copy a DVD/transfer their films from a camcorder to DVD or HD, how to configure browsers to play videos... (like linux tips for free website!), download their photos from their camera etc I am convinced one of the major things which make Ubuntu that succesful at the momment is their user's HOWTOS, really simple to follow. For mandriva, thanks god there is MUB to help beginners like me! Stef

I nvclock from the command line and thought I d give a go to the gtk gui. The 0.7 version of nvclock_gtk (2006 official) gave me a segmentation error (whatever this is) and the nvclock 0.7 cmd line does not support my old-ish fx9800. So I gave it a go with the cooker version of the rpm (0.8) on one of my mdv2006 and : IT WORKS great! I tried all the functions (Overclock, fanspeed, use hidden pipelines...) and it all works! So? Why is it not on the official contrib of 2006 version?

Ummmm... I think I ll stick with 8178 for now and wait for the official release, Thanks anyway,

I found that : http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechS...35&mode=4&idx=0 while browsing on Phoronix. There is an rpm, I drakconfed it and nothing happens (still the 7174 on my distro). Any ideas?

Hi, I re-installed Cooker this time on sda6 (my Sata drive) and there it runs perfectly. I wanted now to upgrade the kernel (as I heard the 2.6.12-14 is the latest), where do I find the rpm for it and for the kernel-source of the :unsure: same millesime? I want to be able to install me nvdias.... I've used easyurpmi to set-up my source + plfs etc, but urpmi -p kernel does not give me a choice for an updated kernel Stef

Hummm, Funny though because I remember that I first installed that version of cooker on sda and it was working fine then. I m gonna remove suse10 from my sda and install cooker on sda to see if it makes a difference Stef

This is the bit in the lib file "$dir/block/device/../../../.."; my $get_usb = sub { chomp_(cat_("$usb_dir/$_[0]")) }; # handle both old and new kernels: my $node = -e "$dir/block" ? "$dir/block" : top(glob_("$dir/block*")); my ($device) = readlink($node) =~ m!/block/(.*)!; die "cannot get info for device ($host, $channel, $id, $lun)" if !$device; #this is line 295 my $media_type = ${{ st => 'tape', sr => 'cdrom', sd => 'hd' }}{substr($device, 0, And here is fstab: [root@localhost stephane]# cat /etc/fstab # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/hda5 / reiserfs notail 1 1 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0022,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs umask=0022,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 That does not talk to me much, sorry :o Stef

Hi, New to cooker, so I ask my question and then I put the bullet proff jacket and u start shooting : System = Biostar ideq 210v with hda 150Gb and sda 160Gb. Cooker on sda (already hava a couple of distros on sda) I just installed and then urpme kat then update all sources (easy urpmi) then urpmi --auto-select. Now, I can t satrt drak conf : [root@localhost stephane]# lsmod|grep sata sata_via 5700 0 libata 41508 1 sata_via [root@localhost stephane]# drakco drakconf drakconf.real drakconnect drakconsole [root@localhost stephane]# drakconf [root@localhost stephane]# cannot get info for device (0, 0, 0, 0) at /usr/lib/l ibDrakX/detect_devices.pm line 295. [root@localhost stephane]# Any thoughts?? Stef (u can shoot now) ;)

I have used suse 10 oss, quite good, I am giving a try to Opensuse SLICK now and will keep u posted... Stef

Waow! I have a new symtom doctor, what a plague I am! Here we go : I can t start my diskdrake anymore! [root@linux-box stephane]# diskdrake mkdir: error creating directory /media/cdrom: No such file or directory [root@linux-box stephane]# mkdir /media/cdrom mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/cdrom': No such file or directory [root@linux-box stephane]# And Guess what? I don't have aclue what I 've done to deserve that! I know it's probably not a pb of Kernel, but it is since I have gone to 2615 that I got that. Any Idea? Stef :D

Yep that s exactly what I was looking for, although it seems a bit hairy at first! Thanks for that ! Stephane :D

Thanks Ian, I ve removed shorewall and will give a go to firestarter to see... Stef