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2.0.1 is only available in cooker afaik. The normal repos have 2.0pre.

You may get the Cooker ones and rebuild them. That's what I've recently done.

There seem to be two options:

 

Option 1

 

Keep 2.6.12 from Mandriva and

 

Download alsa-driver

Download also-lib

Download alsa-oss

Download alsa-util

 

Option 2

 

Use the official Linux Kernel sources from kernel.org in a version that includes ALSA 1.0.11rc2 or greater.

 

 

Is this an option?

 

Will a Vanilla kernel run a Mandriva box without breaking features (USB hotplugging / NVIDIA ...)?

 

Where can I get information on the patches Mandriva applies to the Vanilla sources?

 

Any help on this is greatly appreciated. If you happen to know a more convenient way to get my crappy card running in 2006.0 other than to install ALSA manually then PLEASE let me know, will you? :huh:

 

regards,

Tobias

The second options is much less preferable than first - Mandriva's kernel is heavily patched, and you risk breaking a lot of things using vanilla kernel.

There are several additional options :

- Compile new alsa drivers by hand; copy them exactly over the old ones; re-start "alsa" and "sound" services or reboot

- Compile new alsa drivers by hand; copy them into some dedicated place within /lib/modules/<your_kernel_version>; remove the old drivers manually; restart "alsa" and "sound" services or reboot

- Get yourself a source RPM for "multimedia" kernel from cooker, recompile and install it; it should contain newer version of ALSA;

- Tweak the config spec of Mandriva kernel source RPM ( not kernel-source-..., but rather kernel-2.6...src.rpm ), so that it fetch newer ALSA; rebuild it and reinstall it.

Run "alsamixer" in console. Unmute every channel that seems relevant to you, such as "Master", "PCM" etc.

For system-wide aliases, you need to modify /etc/bashrc or /etc/profile as root.

If you modify .bashrc or .bash_profile, there is no need to be root ( unless you want to modify root's .bashrc etc), but the alias would be defined only for the user whose .bashrc is modified.

I had a similar problem, although with an Nvidia card. Occasional hangup here and there, most of the times with a possibility to ssh in. It was actually a memory problem - one of the DIMMs was faulty. Replaced it - and no hangups since. There, of course, are problems here and there ( I'm pretty heavy tweaker with strong inclination to break things sometimes), but hangups - none.

So, running memtest86 for some day or two should be actually one of the items in the troubleshooting list.

I heard about CUPS (Common Unix Printer System), but I don't know how that works.

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CUPS actually is what Mandriva uses by default. Windows sort of supports connecting to CUPS servers using Windows IPP support.

I do not know if a reboot is required. It certainly won't hurt so that is what I would do. :D

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Actually, no reboot is required. To reboot would be just the easiest way for a newbie.

For an experienced one, "exit and stop X" - "modprobe -r nvidia" - "depmod -a" - "modprobe nvidia" - "restart X" would fully suffice.

A pure audioCD does not have any filesystem (it just have RAW datastreams inside, in  the form of audio tracks), and as such it just can NOT be mounted in a normal way.

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XMMS has some "digital CD audio extraction plugin" and employs it when you instruct it to open (configurable) CD mount point - in spite of that no CD is actually mounted. Look at its configuration options.

When console is closed the following error is shown "KDEInit could not launch 'kdesu'."

 

Is this expected operation?

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It doesn't seem to be expected.

My rather wild assumption is that the error message you mentioned is shown all the time, and that you observe it only after the console is closed. As far as I may guess, this error message ( being a modal window ), and not the console is what causes the panel to be "locked".

Try minimizing the console instead of closing it. Do you observe the error message? Press OK in it. The panel should be "unlocked" then.

Read this thread :

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=28962&st=15

MDE site includes instructions about adding it as a repository and installing the RPMS.

There may be yet another reason for what you see, namely, that MCC lists all the hardware it recognizes, regardless of particular modules being loaded.

How does urpmi connects to the internet? I use a proxy on a local PC to share the connection.

Maybe the problem is that it can't connect to the internet?

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Your using a proxy may definitely be the problem.

Urpmi should be specifically configured to use proxy.

"man proxy.cfg" in a terminal ( or "man:proxy.cfg" in Konqueror) will show you some information about configuring urpmi for that matter.

It doesn't work on Debian either (neither did 1.9.800 or so). I think some of the newest releases don't always work perfectly. For now I'm sticking with 2.0.

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This release is not marked "newest", that's what really irritates. It is clearly marked "bugfix". Old bugs out, new bugs in.

I've recently downloaded and installed OpenOffice.org 2.0.1, from the OpenOffice.org site. The first weird thing I've observed is that there is no "kde-integration" RPM. Several KDE-related files are there within openoffice.org-core* packages, but KDE integration seems to be missing. At least, it doesn't seem to work.

Is that just me and some problems with my /dev/brain? Is there someone else having experienced similar problem?

Whenever you burn an iso image, K3B will calculate the md5sum for you.

You may click an ellipsis button near the MD5 sum field, and then you're prompted to enter an MD5 sum to compare with. Otherwise, the big green "V" at the left of this very field is a bit misleading as it means just that the calculation itself is successful ( and not that the image is all right ).

not a trivial thing to do since GIMP is GTK/GNOME, and it wasn't until KDE 3.something (IIRC) that this actually worked properly

It wasn't until KDE 3.smth that KDE started supporting XDND properly :) As long as both toolkits support XDND, there should be no problem with "drag & drop".

I don't have a two button laptop like some people do, so I have no need to remap the right button to take over the action of the middle button.

Has "Emulate3buttons" option of X been cancelled recently? :) No need to remap, just press both buttons simultaneously, and voila - middle button is emulated.

Something that is not solved: kmix. Why do I need all this?

Try kamix for a change - it allows configuring which channels are displayed.

And do believe me that I'm equally eager to see some normal mixer for SB Live! / Audigy cards. Just like one Creative provides for, sad as it is, Windows.

payed

Shouldn't it be rather "paid"?

I hope that my explanation of the reasons why this should work, was not very confusing, and that you did understand what the problem really was, and not just used the solution :-)

I have set up a shortcut using Menu Editor to run this script as root, it doesn't work: ifconfig: command not found

 

I'm sure my newbness is showing, how come?? 

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"su" does several things, the following being among them :

- change real/effective user ID

- source bashrc / bash_profile / etc for the new user

I suspect that "run as root" mechanism of the menu does only the first thing and not the second, and the script runs with ID of root but with a regular user's environment, including the PATH variable. Now, "ifconfig" is located in "/sbin", which is never included by default into a regular user PATH.

So, here are two "quick and dirty" solutions :

- put the following line at the beginning of the script :

export PATH=/sbin:$PATH

- replace "ifconfig" with "/sbin/ifconfig"

the browser will say error and the page can't be found.

 

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:F1:8A:A0:CD

          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:f1ff:fe8a:a0cd/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

          RX bytes:560 (560.0 B)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)

No ppp0 - weird.

then ip route show:

 

67.95.10.31 dev ppp0  proto kernel  scope link  src 216.203.221.94  metric 50

default via 67.95.10.31 dev ppp0  metric 50

This one seems all right.

the operating system isn't reading the connection from kppp, how do i recitfy that, i think that is the problem ? or i could be wrong ?

thnks for the help though either way.

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Most chances are that you're right. Unfortunately.

What seems to me most probable is that pppd drops the connection after some time, but it doesn't somehow get felt by kppp, so the route table is not modified upon disconnection. Unfortunately, I finished all my dealings with pppd about two years ago and have forgotten most of its quirks since, so I don't remember them all by heart :(

Try "grep"-ping "pppd" out of /var/log/messages and post the output.

Additionally, try to define the connection via "drakconnect" instead of "kppp".

i have an external us robotics v.92 modem, kppp reads the modem well enough and the connection is made, but I STILL CAN"T LOG ONTO THE INTERNET !!!!! the browers don't work ???????????

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May you give more details and be more specific? What are the exact messages given by the browser?

Open a terminal, and issue "ifconfig" as root. What is its output?

Issue "ip route show" as root. What is its output? Copy all the outputs and post them here.

At any rate, you can be pretty sure that if the modem is of the external sort

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Just to make your words more exact - "external sort connecting to COM-port". It seems to me that there are external USB Winmodems.

Open the KDE control center. Find "File associations" there. You need "inode/directory" associations. Find "Amarok" in "Applications Preference Order" list (it must have been the very first entry), and either move it down or remove it altogether. Find "Konqueror" in the same list and move it so that it be upmost.

I downloaded easy urpmi but that didn't give me the gcc. Anyway I'm still confused and frustrated.

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You shouldn't download EasyUrpmi - it's not a program but rather a tutorial.

I don't think you should use it either - gcc should be there on your installation CD.

Go to "Start menu" - "System" - "Configure your computer" or run "mcc" as root.

Once in the Control Center, go to "Software Management" and choose "Install software". This will launch "Rpmdrake".

The rpmdrake window contains, at its left, the list of all the programs available for installation. Find "gcc" there. Mark it, confirm the installation of the dependencies. Press "Install" button, insert your installation CD as required.

Alternatively, if you're not afraid of CLI, run "urpmi gcc" as root.

I downloaded g77 (urpmi g77) and I think it should be ok!

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Don't think - check :-) And share the results with us here :-)

i'll have to look it up but isn't it :

gcc proto.for  -o  proto.exe

I compile C++ programs for windows using

 

g++  code.cxx -o program.exe

 

 

code.cxx being my code file

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It doesn't matter. Both "gcc -o outfile infile" and "gcc infile -o outfile" are good.

Hi. I am trying to complie a program I wrote in fortran for a project on my university. I was told that gcc can do this, but I get this error message:

[antonis@localhost Fortran]$ gcc -o proto.exe proto.for

gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `f771': No such file or directory

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Install gcc-g77 package. It contains the Fortran compiler for gcc.