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Greetings there, My monitor's refresh rate is set to 80 and i can not seem to change that. Is there a utility with which i can tweak that too? I could only see it in the GUI mode, but with no option to change it. Thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, I did remove and insert the graphics card, but still the refreshing is still not taking place as expected. It still givs that distorted screen. So at times i have to take a window with a white back ground and do a sweep of the screen with that and i kinda get an extended time to work :P Is there anything else that can try before going on and buying new hardware? Thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, I had them enabled in first couple of rounds of hit and trial. But i surely disabled them :-) Thanks, rohit

Greetings there, Yes, i will just do it and respond back :-) The details of the hardware are as follows: Monitor: IBM G72 17 inches. Graphics card: Radeon VE 64MB Also in XFdrake there were 3 options relating to Radeon 1.Radeon-fbdev 2.Radeon-vesa 3.Radeon fglrx (i might not be correctly remembering the exact second names associated with Radeon) I had the fglrx selected by default, i tried the other two option, but had to finally settle with the fglrx driver. The resolution that i had selected were 1024x768 16bpp. During the console XFdrake, i only got the 16bpp option but when logged in the GUI mode, i could see the 24 bpp option too. I firmly do believe that :-) Actually i had an argument with the hardware guy who said that its a resolution problem and not the monitor going bust. But when he connected the monitor to another system, i had to keep mum and nod to his statement :-( So could it be the graphics card ? i'll get back with the results of reseating the graphics card. Thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, The happiness lasted only a couple of hours... After an hour or so of work on the system, i get this What next can i do? Thanks, rohit

Greetings there, Well thanks for the awesome tip, as i did not knew the tool from command line to get to change the resolution :-) I did try to configure the resolution to the values that i think the monitor supports. i did this from the failsafe mode as in other two modes(normal and nonfb) i can not see the command line even. here are pics of what i could do and see... The XFdrake screen: here looks distorted too... The post startup messages login screen: here The login screen starts to look like this just after the mouse with a revolving curve comes and then this screen shows :-( kindly help what next should i do? <update> The good news is i tried a few combinations for the monitor and it seems to work Thanks agaiin :) </update> Thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, My desktop has mandriva installed on it.Some how its resolution has gone corrupt(the hardware guy said so).I got my monitor checked on another system, where it works perfectly fine. Could someone tell me a way to rework the resolution settings and get to see the normal working state. Although spring is out, i could upgrade, but i'm wanting to solve this trouble and then upgrade :-) Thanks, rohit. [moved from Software by spinynorman] <edit> big typo, i own my success to 2007.0 :-), wrote 2006.0 instead. it has been long time since i faced an issue on mandriva! ;-) </edit>

Greetings there, This is little off topic. I have had my Dlink wireless adsl router working fine with a notebook and a desktop. I had posted of a recent slowed boot up process on mandriva(desktop) here:[https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=40439] So now, mandriva recognises my lan card, for the reason that when i do ifup eth0 i get an error as follows: Determining IP information for eth0... failed; no link present. Check cable? So i did as directed, i got the cables checked(three of them) and still i am unable to get the connection. The NIC is DLink's DFE 530 TX+ RTL8139 based card and is seen in lspci output as well as mcc gui mode. My wireless lan is working fine. Also no lights are lit either on the nic's side or the router's side when i connect through the wire. Kindly help me solve the problem. thanks, rohit

Greetings there, here are the ouputs of the two named files: [root@localhost rohitsz]# tail -n20 /home/rohitsz/.xsession-errors Minor opcode: 6 Resource id: 0x4d X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10 Major opcode: 2 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x2a0000e WARNING: DCOPReply<>: cast to 'QStringList' error WARNING: DCOPReply<>: cast to 'QString' error X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8 Major opcode: 157 Minor opcode: 6 Resource id: 0x4d X Error: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) 4 Major opcode: 54 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x18024cd X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8 Major opcode: 157 Minor opcode: 6 Resource id: 0x4d [root@localhost rohitsz]# [root@localhost rohitsz]# tail -n20 /var/log/messages Apr 8 13:28:15 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Apr 8 13:28:28 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 Apr 8 13:28:34 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 Apr 8 13:28:44 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 Apr 8 13:28:46 localhost dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1 Apr 8 13:28:46 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Apr 8 13:28:46 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 Apr 8 13:28:46 localhost avahi-daemon[3202]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS. Apr 8 13:28:46 localhost avahi-daemon[3202]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.5. Apr 8 13:28:46 localhost avahi-daemon[3202]: Registering new address record for 192.168.1.5 on eth0. Apr 8 13:28:46 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.5 -- renewal in 1420 seconds. Apr 8 13:28:46 localhost ifplugd(eth0)[2566]: client: Determining IP information for eth0... done. Apr 8 13:28:46 localhost ifplugd(eth0)[2566]: Program executed successfully. Apr 8 13:52:26 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Apr 8 13:52:26 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 Apr 8 13:52:26 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.5 -- renewal in 1376 seconds. Apr 8 14:01:01 localhost crond[4403]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) Apr 8 14:15:22 localhost dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67 Apr 8 14:15:22 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 Apr 8 14:15:22 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.5 -- renewal in 1718 seconds. [root@localhost rohitsz]# i can make very little sense out of it! :mellow: thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, i am having this strange new problem on mandriva 2007 (Free). When i press enter after giving in the login credentials, the screen stalls for around 3-4 minutes. untill the KDE loading screen shows up. i tried to go to the text booting screen( ALT+CTRL+1), there too the last entry loaded [OK], after constant staring for 3-4 minutes on that screen i was able to see that the hal daemon tried to load up then in a matter of microseconds, the screen flushed to the text login(remember i came to this screen). So i did the ALT+CTRL+7 to go to the graphics mode, there i see the KDE loading screen. Can anyone help me as to what could cause this problem? It is not a post install problem, i have had this running for around 1 month or so.. kindly help. thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, Thanks to all for helping me in getting back all my previous usenames! :-) But there is jus one problem, my most used login is facing the following problem when i try to log into it.. I am left with no choice to do a CONTROL+D! :mellow: So what should i do further... <edit> So when i got that on a console, i did [username@localhost]$startkde & After that when i try to close the console, kde also closes and i am taken back to the login screen. </edit> thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, I had a hard disk snag that made mandriva 2007.0 crash! So i reinstalled 2007.0 and rewrote / and /usr the /home partition was left untouched. So post install, when i try to login using the old existing users on /home/<username>, i get a login fail screen. The /home directory is exixsting there, is there a way to map the old users and their sruff to the new install somehow? :unsure: thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, I wish to install blender3d on mandriva, i have successfully done this part. I am having trouble working with it. Here is the screen shot of the error: http://www.geocities.com/rohitsz/logs/blender.png my console reads as follows: [rohitsz@localhost blender-2.42a-linux-glibc232-py24-i386]$ ./blender -w guessing './blender' == '/home/rohitsz/software/blender-2.42a-linux-glibc232-py24-i386/./blender' Compiled with Python version 2.4. 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Checking for installed Python... No installed Python found. Only built-in modules are available. Some scripts may not run. Continuing happily. Error loading script: couldn't open file /home/rohitsz/software/blender-2.42a-linux-glibc232-py24-i386/./.blender/scripts/help_getting_started.py Blender quit [rohitsz@localhost blender-2.42a-linux-glibc232-py24-i386]$ I have python installed, [rohitsz@localhost blender-2.42a-linux-glibc232-py24-i386]$ python Python 2.4.1 (#2, Aug 25 2005, 18:20:57) [GCC 4.0.1 (4.0.1-2mdk for Mandriva Linux release 2006.0)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> [rohitsz@localhost blender-2.42a-linux-glibc232-py24-i386]$ here is my graphics card detail: [rohitsz@localhost blender-2.42a-linux-glibc232-py24-i386]$ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 display: :0 screen: 0 direct rendering: Yes server glx vendor string: SGI server glx version string: 1.2 server glx extensions: GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig client glx vendor string: SGI client glx version string: 1.4 client glx extensions: GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_allocate_memory, GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_OML_sync_control, GLX_SGI_make_current_read, GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group GLX extensions: GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_MESA_swap_frame_usage, GLX_OML_swap_method, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGIS_multisample, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_visual_select_group OpenGL vendor string: Tungsten Graphics, Inc. OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Radeon 20050528 AGP 1x x86/MMX/SSE2 NO-TCL OpenGL version string: 1.2 Mesa 6.3.1 OpenGL extensions: GL_ARB_imaging, GL_ARB_multisample, GL_ARB_multitexture, GL_ARB_texture_border_clamp, GL_ARB_texture_compression, GL_ARB_texture_env_add, GL_ARB_texture_env_combine, GL_ARB_texture_env_crossbar, GL_ARB_texture_env_dot3, GL_ARB_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_ARB_texture_rectangle, GL_ARB_transpose_matrix, GL_ARB_window_pos, GL_EXT_abgr, GL_EXT_bgra, GL_EXT_blend_color, GL_EXT_blend_logic_op, GL_EXT_blend_minmax, GL_EXT_blend_subtract, GL_EXT_clip_volume_hint, GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array, GL_EXT_convolution, GL_EXT_copy_texture, GL_EXT_draw_range_elements, GL_EXT_histogram, GL_EXT_packed_pixels, GL_EXT_polygon_offset, GL_EXT_rescale_normal, GL_EXT_secondary_color, GL_EXT_separate_specular_color, GL_EXT_stencil_wrap, GL_EXT_subtexture, GL_EXT_texture, GL_EXT_texture3D, GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_env_add, GL_EXT_texture_env_combine, GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3, GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic, GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias, GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp, GL_EXT_texture_object, GL_EXT_texture_rectangle, GL_EXT_vertex_array, GL_APPLE_packed_pixels, GL_ATI_texture_env_combine3, GL_ATI_texture_mirror_once, GL_IBM_rasterpos_clip, GL_IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat, GL_MESA_ycbcr_texture, GL_MESA_window_pos, GL_NV_blend_square, GL_NV_light_max_exponent, GL_NV_texture_rectangle, GL_NV_texgen_reflection, GL_OES_read_format, GL_SGI_color_matrix, GL_SGI_color_table, GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap, GL_SGIS_texture_border_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_edge_clamp, GL_SGIS_texture_lod glu version: 1.3 glu extensions: GLU_EXT_nurbs_tessellator, GLU_EXT_object_space_tess visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 0x23 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x24 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x25 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow 0x26 24 tc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow 0x27 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x28 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x29 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow 0x2a 24 tc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow 0x2b 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x2c 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x2d 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow 0x2e 24 dc 0 32 0 r . . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow 0x2f 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x30 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 None 0x31 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 0 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow 0x32 24 dc 0 32 0 r y . 8 8 8 8 0 24 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 Slow [rohitsz@localhost blender-2.42a-linux-glibc232-py24-i386]$ i had downloaded python-opengl drivers. i have an ATI graphics card with the following description: "Description: ?Radeon VE/7000 QY (AGP/PCI)" from mcc. Please help me configure blender on mandriva. thanks, rohit.

Helo there, That was the cause of the problem!,yes a trailing blank space at the end. Though thanks to ian too for a sure shot fix thru cli I guess i'll check twice now when i say the following: OT:significance of 'real' hostname!? thanks, rohit.

Hello there, A) Yeah, i'd love if my system took me straight to the login prompt after i press the power button to start the OS,like a television. B ) Also a file system that keeps things intact in case of power failure. i had to reinstall mandriva due to a bad shutdown and e2fsck errors! C) Wish there is more consistency among linux distro's... edit : B + ) == B) heh! rohit.

Hi there, here's the screen shot click thanks, rohit.

Hi there, I do't know why mozilla was up there... i was using the browser for just reading mails and MUB, for around an hour that's all.. Also what do these kde utilities do... i mean i could not find kmix in my system's tray... any one place where i could know in more detail what these are and remove them accordingly! edit: ok i know now kmix is the volume manager, but i need it always as the pcm2 setting of that tool is always set to low when i start the system..so i'll need to keep that to reset that vaule otherwise i do not get good sound on the speaker.. PS:am i going Off Track of the original problem!? ;-) thanks, rohit.

Hello there, Well trust me i am entering the correct 1.2.3.4 format value... the same thing happened at a friends's place... There also just removing the third dns entry allowed to move to the next screen! thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, Well i guess i am not running kat(the kde search tool!?),but how can i confirm that i am not running it.... Also here's the output of top and free -m: [root@localhost rohitsz]# top top - 17:56:24 up 6 min, 3 users, load average: 0.82, 0.51, 0.24 Tasks: 87 total, 2 running, 85 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 11.5% us, 3.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 84.9% id, 0.0% wa, 0.3% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 515236k total, 281720k used, 233516k free, 12724k buffers Swap: 538136k total, 0k used, 538136k free, 141628k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 2551 root 15 0 90400 8796 4416 S 5.6 1.7 0:16.72 X 3386 rohitsz 16 0 27176 14m 11m R 2.6 2.9 0:02.39 konsole 3602 rohitsz 15 0 98180 33m 18m S 2.6 6.6 0:24.90 mozilla-firefox 3363 rohitsz 15 0 12152 6316 4648 S 1.3 1.2 0:05.60 artsd 3374 rohitsz 15 0 27392 14m 11m S 1.0 3.0 0:02.34 kicker 3349 rohitsz 15 0 42264 13m 10m S 0.3 2.6 0:01.57 kded 3369 rohitsz 15 0 25248 13m 10m S 0.3 2.6 0:01.06 kwin 3379 rohitsz 15 0 25968 14m 11m S 0.3 2.8 0:01.10 kmix 3388 rohitsz 15 0 30340 14m 11m S 0.3 2.8 0:00.23 knotify 3631 root 16 0 2000 1040 804 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.07 top 1 root 16 0 1564 540 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.63 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 events/0 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 5 root 18 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread 7 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 80 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.08 kblockd/0 112 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 113 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 115 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 114 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 704 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kseriod 797 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kjournald 932 root 13 -4 1560 496 420 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.09 udevd 1176 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 1565 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald 1566 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kjournald 1592 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald 1991 root 16 0 1608 640 524 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.03 syslogd 1999 root 16 0 2336 1344 464 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.05 klogd 2049 root 16 0 1552 600 524 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 acpid 2113 root 15 0 20956 1432 1116 S 0.0 0.3 0:00.00 hpiod [root@localhost rohitsz]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 503 275 228 0 12 138 -/+ buffers/cache: 124 378 Swap: 525 0 525 [root@localhost rohitsz]# does everything seems ok in the ouputs?? thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, This problem is mandriva specefic(have't tried with other distros).. my hard disk generates continuous sounds, similar to the ones at the time of system boot up when the hard disks are detected by the system bios. The frequency is random, at times, it comes when the mandriva boots up or it may never come up in a session! This lasts atmost two minutes or until i run the following command: [root@localhost rohitsz]# hddtemp /dev/hda /dev/hda: ST340810A: 47°C [root@localhost rohitsz]# After that the sound stops immediately. Its strange because i have a dual boot system with win98 and such sound are *never* heard there... My drive details are as follows: I have two such drives. any help, as to what i need to do to get over this problem!? thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, i used drakconnect to config my broadband connection... in the page where it asks for localhost/dns 1/dns 2/dns 3/search domain and default gateway... when i press the next, it prompts me to enter the dns values in 1.2.3.4 format.. beleive me, i am writing the dns values in the same format.. only when i remove the dns 2 value, it allows me to proceed... what could be the problem there...? i have not tried that connection yet.. but could there be any adverse effects on my connection due to a missing dns entry? thanks, rohit.

Hi ian, i've been thru your post to realise that i have missed the following in some order or the other.. make make modules_install make install So i'll do the things in order as i could not find the new initrd.img that related to the newly compiled kernel. Also does mandriva really put so many patches such that it is hard to build a custom kernel on their distro? Why or how? I just want to see how the kernel compilation process takes place, add a module to it remove it and just get the feel of it.. using the kernel compiled by me for daily use is not my objective, but i'll see if anything can be got out of it.. :-) thanks, rohit.

Hi, Taking your feature request one by one w.r.t DLink ADSL G604T Wireless Router A:Printserver is i guess a more of a LAN issue,correct me if i am wrong :-) B:This is 802.11 b/g compatible C:It suppoorts SSID broadcast and WPA D:It supports MAC filtering too E:It has NAT & firewall embedded in it. F:Price INR 4000(3 months ago) I guess it will be priced well low in US/EUROPE.. just my guess. PS: the only problem i am having with it is configuring port forwarding... but i guess that's the lack of effort on my side than the router ;-) thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, Today i gave a try to compiling the kernel on mandriva.(though still not successful) So all things are going ok with a couple of questions and doubts... Q1: Why does't mandriva have its kernel source in /usr/src/linux ? Q2: Are "make zImage" or "make bzImage" fixed commands... i tried "make my_kernel" but it failed, i don know why? Q3: How to get an initrd.img file for the kernel that is compiled? Q4: Is there any other file i need except the bzImage,initrd.img,System.map? So my compilation is not a success yet, but looking forward to answers to the above questions. Still a n00b with the kernel! :unsure: thanks, rohit.

Greetings there, While i was installing mandriva le 2006 on couple of systems, i faced a strange problem on a system where after the first login, both KDE and GNOME reported a crash so it took me back to the login screen,where again i was greeted with the same error! So i logged in with IceWM and atleast i got thru to the desktop. From there i tried to uninstall KDE and GNOME, but due to some dependencies,it removed the iceWM too. So when i rebooted, i was taken to the console to login, so i tried "startx", it returned with an error again. i did urpmi icewm-light and urpmi kdebase, but i still could not get a GUI mode on mandriva... what could be the problem!? thanks, rohit.