chalex20

The autologin feature is apparently turned on somehow.

Look in /etc/sysconfig/autologin, and also in KDM options via KDE control center - is autologin turned on? If so, just switch it off.

..rebuilding rpm's didn't work for me.

that is anyway _a_ way to get it work.

can't you just be happy and thankful when someone

bothers to post something useful, always someone  

is whining why that way why not this way blablablabla.

It just seemed to me much more natural for RPM-based system as MDK 9.0, to download SRPMS, rebuild them and upgrade them. At least, that's what I've done with at least 3 recent versions of their driver. That worked. OK, almost 5 years of day-to-day work in HP-UX, Solaris and Linux may influence :-)

It seems really weird to me that rebuilding rpms didn't work for you. May you please provide me with the details?

2.  

wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-...1.0-3123.tar.gz  

wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-...1.0-3123.tar.gz  

 

...  

locate line  

driver "nv"  

 

and replace it with  

driver "nvidia"  

 

also you should have line  

load "glx" after line load "freetype", if it isn't,  

add it too.  

 

now, ctrl-x-s to save your file, ctrl-x-c to quit emacs.  

Now you can start X, or restart it with ctrl-alt-backspace.  

 

everything should be set now - test it with  

tuxracer for example!

And why not just rebuild and upgrade the source RPMs? Why .tar.gz?

rpm --rebuild _here goes the path to the ftp server _NVIDIA_kernel*.src.rpm

rpm --rebuild _here goes the path to the ftp server_ NVIDIA_GLX*.src.rpm

rpm -Uvh _here rebuilt rpms are placed_ NVIDIA*.i586.rpm

or something like that

I've had this problem too, until recently. Both with text and images. Try running printerdrake in expert mode, and choose ghostscript+gimp-print as your driver, and not gimp-print for CUPS.

...

/lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/pcigame.o.gz: init_module: No such device

Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.

     You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg

modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-16mdk/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/pcigame.o.gz failed

modprobe: insmod pcigame failed

...

is there any way to find out for what a module looks before it says "no such device"?

Do exactly as it says :

You may  find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg

Look in syslog or in the output of the "dmesg" command.

Hah! Good luck in petitioting Creative to do anything with linux. You stand a much better chance asking some other programmers (the ALSA project for example) to create that gui instead of Creative.  

I didn't imply Creative make it. Exactly the other way around. Isn't there anyone interested in such mixer in the whole community? GAMIX is excellent mixer, for example, but it shows rather PURE REGISTERS and lets you experiment with them. Why not make a normal GUI like the GUI of Creative? TASKS instead of REGISTERS? "Output to headphones", "Output to front speakers", "Output to front and rear speakers", "Output to 5.1 if the card supports it"? AFAIU, all the registers are known, there should not be a big problem to make some normal GUI.

BTW, there used to be some GUI like that - for ALSA 0.5. It doesn't compile with ALSA 0.9.

OK, ALSA or not - is there ever going to be some NORMAL GUI mixer/configurator app for SB Live! ? You know, like a Creative one for Windows? Choose headphones/2 speakers/4 speakers with two clicks, choose the EAX effects with 2 clicks, place this source here and this source there? And not just letting me experiment with the pure EMU10K1 registers?