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That sorted it :) Thanks for all your pointers :)

I tried all that myself, I had to run a rescue using the install disc. Sorted now, odd though.

Ok, I reinstalled KDE, god knows how I managed it, but anyway. I got it back on but it still asks me to log in when I boot - what is still wrong?

I did as you said, all I can select is "Default", "IceWM" and "Failsafe" - no KDE. Also, when I run "startx startkde" IceWM still starts. What is going on?

Ok, I got back into IceWM - how do I change the default window manager (?) back to KDE? Thanks :)

I rebooted my laptop earlier, and when it booted, KDE was not loaded. I assume it's IceWM that boots (very plain, grey thing). I tried a few things to get KDE to load, nothing. I told it to boot with the desktop as failsafe and now I just get a blue screen with a command prompt in the bottom right corner. What do I do?!

I just tried your suggestion, but it still remains muted on boot. Any thing else I can try?

I did what you said, but it gave this error. Any ideas? [root@localhost edd]# alsactl -store alsactl: invalid option -- s alsactl: invalid option -- t alsactl: invalid option -- o alsactl: invalid option -- r alsactl: invalid option -- e Usage: alsactl <options> command Available options: -h,--help this help -f,--file # configuration file (default /etc/asound.state) -F,--force try to restore the matching controls as much as possible -d,--debug debug mode -v,--version print version of this program Available commands: store <card #> save current driver setup for one or each soundcards to configuration file restore<card #> load current driver setup for one or each soundcards from configuration file power [card #] [state] get/set power state for one or each soundcards

I had a quick look for a review of 2006, it looks good, I think I'm going to hold out for 2006 Official and see if I still want it. Thanks for all the pointers :)

Ahhh right so it's mainly just software and driver updates and all this sort of thing? Well I may buy 2005 some time, Thanks for the tips :)

Couple of things, how come 10.1 powerpack cost more if they're actually out of date? Also, could you tell me if there are any significant improvments by using the 2005 version or any of the paid versions?

I am considering purchasing Mandriva Linux PowerPack 10.1 - is it worth buying the paid version or should I stick to the free versions? I mean, what are the advantages of the paid versions? And how easy is it to upgrade my existing 10.1 Official installation? Thanks :) [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

Everytime I reboot, KMix mutes and reduces all my volume levels to zero. Anyway I can make it remember my volume settings on reboot? Thanks :)

I had a look on google as you said (god knows why I never before). I found some information, it wasn't quite right, I combined it with what you said and i have the solution! So, to set the subordinate_bus default, do the following: Add these lines of code to the top of /etc/init.d/pcmcia/ setpci -s 0:a.0 SUBORDINATE_BUS=0A cardctl eject 0 cardctl insert 0 If the setpci line isn't as you want, just change the settings, I had to change mine to "setpci -s 0:14.4 SUBORDINATE_BUS=03" Thanks for your help Ian :) Maybe this would be worth documenting somewhere?

Well I tried putting it in the other file you mentioned. but still nothing :( Here is the contents of rc.local: #!/bin/sh # # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff. [ -f /etc/sysconfig/system ] && source /etc/sysconfig/system [ -f /etc/sysconfig/msec ] && source /etc/sysconfig/msec [ -z "$SECURE_LEVEL" ] && SECURE_LEVEL=3 [ -f /etc/sysconfig/init ] && source /etc/sysconfig/init if [ $SECURE_LEVEL -lt 4 ]; then [ -z "$REWRITEISSUE" ] && REWRITEISSUE=rewrite if [ $SECURE_LEVEL -lt 3 ]; then [ -z "$REWRITEISSUENET" ] && REWRITEISSUENET=rewrite fi fi SYSTEM=${SYSTEM=Mandrakelinux} # Source functions . /etc/init.d/functions if [ "$REWRITEISSUE" = "rewrite" -a -f /etc/mandrake-release ]; then R=$(cat /etc/mandrake-release) arch=$(uname -m) a="a" case "_$arch" in _a*) a="an";; _i*) a="an";; esac NUMPROC=`egrep -c "^cpu[0-9]+" /proc/stat` if [ "$NUMPROC" -gt "1" ]; then SMP="$NUMPROC-processor " [ "$NUMPROC" = "2" ] && \ SMP="Dual-processor " if [ "$NUMPROC" = "8" -o "$NUMPROC" = "11" ]; then a="an" else a="a" fi fi # This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot. So, make any changes you # want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you reboot. if [ -x /usr/bin/linux_logo ]; then /usr/bin/linux_logo -n -f | sed -e 's|\\|\\\\|g' > /etc/issue echo "" >> /etc/issue else > /etc/issue fi echo "$R" >> /etc/issue echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $SMP$(uname -m) / \l" >> /etc/issue if [ "$REWRITEISSUENET" = "rewrite" ]; then echo "Welcome to ${HOST}" > /etc/issue.net echo "$R" >> /etc/issue.net echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $SMP$(uname -m)" >> /etc/issue.net else NAME="$SYSTEM" gprintf "Welcome to %s\n" "$NAME" > /etc/issue.net echo "-------------------------" >> /etc/issue.net fi else if [ -f /etc/security/msec/issue.$SECURE_LEVEL ]; then cat /etc/security/msec/issue.$SECURE_LEVEL > /etc/issue elif [ -f /etc/security/msec/issue ]; then cat /etc/security/msec/issue > /etc/issue else rm -f /etc/issue fi if [ -f /etc/security/msec/issue.net.$SECURE_LEVEL ]; then cat /etc/security/msec/issue.net.$SECURE_LEVEL > /etc/issue.net elif [ -f /etc/security/msec/issue.net ]; then cat /etc/security/msec/issue.net > /etc/issue.net else rm -f /etc/issue.net fi fi I've tried it here ---->setpci -s 0:14.4 subordinate_bus=03 touch /var/lock/subsys/local and here ---->setpci -s 0:14.4 subordinate_bus=03 Notice where I have tried it at the bottom. I can't see anywhere else to put it, I'm worried if I get too click happy I'll stop it working, so do you know where abouts would be a good place to put the line? Thanks for all your help so far :)

The file says the following: #!/bin/sh # rc.pcmcia 1.46 2004/05/07 06:24:58 (David Hinds) # # This is designed to work in BSD as well as SysV init setups. See # the HOWTO for customization instructions. # Tags for Red Hat init configuration tools # # chkconfig: 2345 04 96 # processname: cardmgr # pidfile: /var/run/cardmgr.pid # config: /etc/pcmcia/config # config: /etc/pcmcia/config.opts # description: PCMCIA support is usually to support things like ethernet \ # and modems in laptops. It won't get started unless \ # configured so it is safe to have it installed on machines \ # that don't need it. # Exit if pcmcia-cs is not installed test -x /sbin/cardmgr || exit 0 # Save option values passed in through the environment for N in PCMCIA PCIC PCIC_OPTS CORE_OPTS CARDMGR_OPTS SCHEME; do V=`eval echo '$'$N`; if [ "$V" ]; then eval ENV_$N=\"$V\"; fi done # Source PCMCIA configuration, if available if [ -f /etc/pcmcia.conf ]; then # Debian startup option file . /etc/pcmcia.conf elif [ -f /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia ]; then # Red Hat startup option file . /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia else # Slackware startup options go right here: # Should be either i82365 or tcic PCIC=i82365 # Put socket driver timing parameters here PCIC_OPTS= # Put pcmcia_core options here CORE_OPTS= # Put cardmgr options here CARDMGR_OPTS= # To set the PCMCIA scheme at startup... SCHEME= fi for N in PCMCIA PCIC PCIC_OPTS CORE_OPTS CARDMGR_OPTS SCHEME; do V=`eval echo '$'ENV_$N`; if [ "$V" ]; then eval $N=\"$V\"; fi done if [ "$PCMCIA" -a "$PCMCIA" != "yes" ]; then exit 0; fi usage() { echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload}" } cleanup() { while read SN CLASS MOD INST DEV EXTRA; do if [ "$SN" != "Socket" ]; then /etc/pcmcia/$CLASS stop $DEV 2> /dev/null fi done } EXITCODE=1 for x in "1"; do if [ "$PCIC" = "" ]; then echo "PCIC module not defined in startup options!" break fi if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then usage; break; fi action=$1 case "$action" in start) echo -n "Starting PCMCIA services: " if [ -d /var/lib/pcmcia ]; then SC=/var/lib/pcmcia/scheme RUN=/var/lib/pcmcia else SC=/var/run/pcmcia-scheme RUN=/var/run fi if [ -L $SC -o ! -O $SC ]; then rm -f $SC; fi if [ ! -f $SC ]; then umask 022; touch $SC; fi if [ "$SCHEME" ]; then umask 022; echo $SCHEME > $SC; fi if ! grep -q pcmcia /proc/devices; then if [ -d /lib/modules/preferred ]; then PC=/lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia else PC=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/pcmcia fi KD=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/pcmcia if [ -x /sbin/modprobe ]; then /sbin/modprobe pcmcia_core $CORE_OPTS || break /sbin/modprobe $PCIC $PCIC_OPTS >/dev/null 2>&1 || (/sbin/modprobe yenta_socket >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "using yenta_socket instead of $PCIC") || /sbin/modprobe $PCIC $PCIC_OPTS || break /sbin/modprobe ds || break elif [ -d $PC ]; then /sbin/insmod $PC/pcmcia_core.o $CORE_OPTS /sbin/insmod $PC/$PCIC.o $PCIC_OPTS /sbin/insmod $PC/ds.o else echo "module directory $PC not found." break fi fi if [ -s /var/run/cardmgr.pid ] && \ kill -0 `cat /var/run/cardmgr.pid` 2>/dev/null; then echo "cardmgr is already running." else if [ -r $RUN/stab ]; then cat $RUN/stab | cleanup fi /sbin/cardmgr $CARDMGR_OPTS fi echo "done." touch /var/lock/subsys/pcmcia 2>/dev/null EXITCODE=0 ;; stop) echo -n "Shutting down PCMCIA services: " if [ -s /var/run/cardmgr.pid ]; then PID=`cat /var/run/cardmgr.pid` kill $PID # Give cardmgr a few seconds to handle the signal for N in 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5; do kill -0 $PID 2>/dev/null || break sleep 2 done fi killall -q "CardBus Watcher" if grep -q "^ds " /proc/modules; then /sbin/rmmod ds /sbin/rmmod $PCIC 2>/dev/null || \ /sbin/rmmod yenta_socket 2>/dev/null /sbin/rmmod pcmcia_core fi echo "done." rm -f /var/lock/subsys/pcmcia EXITCODE=0 ;; status) pid=`/sbin/pidof cardmgr` if [ "$pid" != "" ]; then echo "cardmgr (pid $pid) is running..." EXITCODE=0 else echo "cardmgr is stopped" EXITCODE=3 fi ;; restart|reload) $0 stop $0 start EXITCODE=$? ;; *) usage ;; esac done # Only exit if we're in our own subshell case $0 in *rc.pcmcia) exit $EXITCODE;; esac I tried pasting the code right at the very bottom but nothing. I tried near the bottom but in difference places but still nothing. Can you see an "obvious" place to put it? Thanks :)

It was because of the configure line! Thanks for all your help, I am getting the hang of linux. Slowly ;)

I read the stuff about urpmi as you said and I added some more things etc. Buuuut I am still having problems installing Beep. On an upside, the X11 problem is solved, my new problem (and this problem seems to crop up during other installations) is a lack of gtk+2 - Let me paste in the error I get when I "./configure" beep media player: checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking for glib-2.0 >= 2.4.0 gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4.0 gthread-2.0 pango... Package gtk+-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gtk+-2.0.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gtk+-2.0' found configure: error: Cannot find glib2/gtk2/pango I've looked and looked for something that fulfills what it requires but nothing seems to work. Can anyone help me sort this problem? Thanks so much :)

My wireless connection is now running great, but everytime I boot up linux I have to run the following command: setpci -s 0:14.4 subordinate_bus=03 I have to do this because it keeps defaulting to 02 which stops mandrake recognising my wireless card. Where can I change the default value of the subordinate_bus so that it doesn't change on reboot? Thanks a lot for all your help so far :)

I just downloaded this file: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idp...k.i586.rpm.html It claims everything is already installed. What's wrong? Thanks :)

When I run ./configure for beep media player, I get the following error: configure: error: Cannot find X11 headers/libraries I do understand that it is missing the X11 bit but I can't find/am unsure what it is I need to get hold of to satisfy the installer. Does anyone know what file I need? Thanks :) [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Sorted, thanks a lot. Just had to copy them in - I was expecting something a bit more involved? Thanks!

I have tried to install a few things where you have to "make file", but everytime I do it I get this error: make: *** No rule to make target `file'. Stop. Before this, I do "tar xzvf filenamehere.tar.gz" then go "cd filenamehere" Then finally logging in as root before doing "make", then "make file". I get the following error when typing "make" in the first place: make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. Hope someone can help! Thanks :) [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Is it possible to automatically install windows system fonts on Linux so that most web site's fonts display correctly? Or is there somewhere I can download the main fonts for the web for Linux? Thanks :) [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Done it! If anyone else is having a similar problem, the link below will show you how to fix it. The fix works with anything that gives the error I outlined above, I had to use it for Thunderbird too. http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/faq/gtk_gnome/why_firefox_mozilla_acrobat_reader_7_other_gtk_2_based_apps_can_not_be_installed _started