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I just removed the --auto option. Had to hit "y" lots of times, but managed to get through it all. Thanks.

I'm getting the following errors when attempting to do: urpmi --auto --auto-select The process stops and there is no option to continue. Any ideas? Error message follows: The following packages have to be removed for others to be upgraded: gnome2-2.10.2-1mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied gnome-panel >= 2.8.3) libevolution-data-server4-1.2.3-7mdk.i586 (due to conflicts with libevolution-data-server6-1.4.1-1mdk.i586) The following packages have bad signatures: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/python-gnome-menus-2.12.0-2mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature ((none))

While on phone with DSL provider they suggested that a legitimate way to see if my ssh was set up right was to ssh username@my.ip.address. However that gave me the connection refused message. Later, when I went over to my friends place to help him set up urpmi sources and configure various kde things, I tried to access my machine from his and ssh worked fine. So, it seems I do have the port forwarding set up right. I thought that I could ssh into my own machine (from my own machine) using my ip address (instead of localhost) and that that would allow me to go out to the internet and back again, just to test my ssh. However, this doesn't seem to work the same way as localhost.

Having problems using ssh or vnc. Am using a DCHP modem and have tried to set it for port forwarding and also tried ip passthrough. In both cases I get a "connection refused" message when my machine is accessed via ssh. There are no entries in hosts.allow or hosts.deny. Could I be running a firewall and not be aware of it? This is a default installation of LE2005. (My buddy has a similar problem with his default installation of 2006.) Not sure what to try next. Any help appreciated. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

That must be it. I have an external dsl modem that must be causing the problem. (BellSouth FastAccess service.) Now to see if this is also causing my ssh and vnc problems. Thanks.

Does anyone have xinerama working on the 2006 release with a dual head video card? If so, were you able to use the supplied x.org or did you have to jump though hoops to downgrade or install some other flavor. If yours is working, what video card are you using? I had to revert to 2005 since I couldn't get xinerama mode working with my Matrox Millenium G400 Max (dual head) in 2006.

I thought that ifconfig would return one's ip address in the eth0 section. I have a static ip address for my DSL internet connection. However, ipconfig returns 192.168.1.96 which is not my static ip address. I had to call my internet service provider to determine what my address was. Is there some other way to determine one's ip address? I am setup using DHCP if that matters.

Couldn't get dual monitors (xinerama mode) working with my Matrox Millenium G400 Max (dual head) video card. Also had some shutdown problems from within KDE. I didn't stay on it long enough to have any other experiences. Not being able to get dual monitors working was a showstopper for me. Went back to 2005LE.

Well, the bad memory was replaced and now he is happily dual booting between XP and Mandriva 2006. memtest86 seems to be a good tool. Other tools had been used and found no errors. Thanks for everyone's help!

[Two things I can suggest. First, have you tried "Generic" for the monitors. I found this to work where as if I tried to use the acutal TFT's model names it did not. Secondly I notice that you have the same "BusID" for both monitors, where as I have different ID's for all my monitors. I basically did what you did with regards to the drivers, started in "failsafe" mode then ran "XFdrake" then after setting up all the monitors saved & rebooted. Have you tried it with "Xinerama" disabled to see if you can get both monitors to initialise. Well, I should mention again, that this worked fine under both 10.1 and LE2005. In both of these other releases I had tried various monitor settings when trying to solve a different problem. Even with the various settings the xinerama aspect worked fine. For this card one does use the same BusID. I understand from another newsgroup that someone with an ATI card is having the same problem. I'm going to post another thread to see if anyone has xinerama working on 2006, and if so, what they are using for video boards, drivers, etc. Thanks.

Exactly the same as yours. xorg.conf is as listed below: # File generated by XFdrake. # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer # Load "dri" # direct rendering EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Plug'n Play" ModelName "760/V/780 TFT" HorizSync 30-81 VertRefresh 56-76 # Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 64.0 kHz hsync, ratio 5/4) ModeLine "1280x1024" 108 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor2" VendorName "Plug'n Play" ModelName "760/V/780 TFT" HorizSync 31.5-64.3 VertRefresh 56-76 # Monitor preferred modeline (60.0 Hz vsync, 64.0 kHz hsync, ratio 5/4) ModeLine "1280x1024" 108 1280 1328 1440 1688 1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "Matrox Graphics, Inc." BoardName "Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead" Driver "mga" VideoRam 32768 # Option "DPMS" Option "UseXFreeVga" "on" Screen 0 BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device2" VendorName "Matrox Graphics, Inc." BoardName "Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead" Driver "mga" VideoRam 32768 # Option "DPMS" Option "UseXFreeVga" "on" Screen 1 BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen2" Device "device2" Monitor "monitor2" DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Matrox Xinerama" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" Screen "screen1" Screen "screen2" RightOf "screen1" Option "Clone" "off" Option "Xinerama" "True" EndSection

Thanks for the response. I'm using the exact same xorg.conf that I used with LE2005 which worked fine. I had saved it in my home directory and copied it back over The log file shows that only one monitor is being seen. The log is too big to post here. I did copy both of the drivers over from the Matrox install routine, when it wouldn't do it itself. Trying to see now if I can get the Mondo/Mindi backup routine going. At least if I have to restore back to LE2005 I would then have a backup of 2006 and could restore back to this newer version if I can get any info regarding how to get my monitors working. I haven't seen any posts yet from anyone using 2006 and a g400 using xinerama. By the way, this was a clean install except for my home directory -- not an upgrade.

Just installed Mandriva 2006 and like it, but I may have a show stopper here. I have a Matrox Milleanium G400 Max (dual head) video card and I don't seem to be able to use it in a dual screen (xinerama) mode. An attempted installation of mga_drv.0 and mga_hal_drv.0 from Matrox just put up a message that "the drivers included in this installation package do not support the current version of your X-server" Seems the latest release they support is 6.8.2 is it possible to go back to X.org version 6.8.2, or do I have to pull the plug on this release and restore from my LE2005? If it is possible, how do I go about it? (Pretty much of a newbie.) I would hate to do this, but I need the dual monitor capability.

I wasn't referring to any specific article, rather just to a general impression I had formed from reading snippets here and there on various newsgroups. (These items may have been referring to amd64 not x86_64.) In fact, I have seen downloads that come in a version for Mandriva 10.1.amd64 and 10.1.x86_64. Is there really a difference between amd64 and x86_64 architectures? Getting confused.

I'm about to download Mandriva 2006, but am not sure for which architecture I should download. I have an AMD64 3000+ processor. Have I read correctly that if one installs the 64 bit version of Mandriva that there might be only limited applications that will run on it? Any suggestions on which way to go?

Got zillions of memory errors. Will try new memory and report back.

We're getting some intermittent halts of the system. The problem is kind of moving around. Starting to think that it might be a memory issue. Does anyone know of a good linux memory diagnostic tool?

Well, he's back and his /etc/fstab is listed below: /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 It seems that the problem is actually intermittent. about one time in three when atttempting to enter Windows after having exited Linux the system will hang. The drive light is on solid but nothing seems to be happening. He has to hit system reset a couple of times and then he can boot and take the Windows option. It also turns out he is using grub. I guess it was the default after all. Personally, I am using lilo, but that is because, for some reason, I don't get a graphical display with grub, but I do with lilo. I haven't taken the time to investigate, so I just continue using lilo. We can try removing the automount of windows to see if that removes the problem. If so, we can then try manually mounting it and accessing it both in read and write mode to see if the problem returns. Thanks for the responses.

Well, this was solved by reading a rather obscure post in the Matrox user group on an unrelated issue. It seems I had to add Option "UseXFreeVga" "on" to both Device sections of xorg.conf for my dual head g400. No more crashes. The world looks nice again.

Sorry for the delayed response. Due to an emergency my buddy had to go out of town for a few days, so I won't be able to get his /etc/fstab for a few more days. I do know that he is operating older gear and is using FAT32. He installed lilo in the default location for 10.1. Is the default the MBR? If so, could that make a difference if it was changed to the / directory?

Trying to help out a friend who has installed Mandriva 10.1 with XP and uses lilo to dual boot. His problem is as follows: "After exiting Linux and going into XP I get msg that system.log and software.log file sizes are incorrect. Run chkdsk and everything is OK. I don't get the msgs when exiting XP and restarting XP; only when I have been into Linux." I realize this is probably an XP issue, but didn't know if anyone here might have an idea of whether something in Linux could be causing this, or any workaround. Thanks.

Newbie running LE2005 with a problem logging off a session and returning to the graphical logon (KDE) screen. On some occasions I will get "Video mode not supported" and it crashes the XServer. I always get that message when rebooting or shutting down, however the reboot or shutdown continues to successful completion. I was running dual screens using Xinerama, but disabled it and removed everything related to the second screen. I used monitor-edid to make sure I had the right monitor settings for the one screen. and edited the xorg.conf file accordingly. The same problem happens when running just the one monitor. Graphics card is a Matrox Millenium G400 Max (dual head.) This also happens quite often when exiting a second session (from Start New Session) and returning to the original session. By the way, I also crash the XServer if I attempt to select gnome or KDE from the logon menu when logging on. I am only able to use "previous" which is in fact KDE. Any ideas???

I gather that you don't have a Start New Session" menu entry on your system. (I understand that on some systems, it requires a right mouse click on the desktop.) I don't know that it started up a new instance of X, or just a new instance of KDE/KDM running in X. My understanding is the the session from which this new instance was started was itself suspended. Unfortunately my first release of Mandrak(e)/(iva) was 10.1. I think the last version that had this feature was 10.0. I've seen numerous poses on the net about this issue, and it seems that all most had to do was just to adjust their Xservers file for the menu entry to mysteriously appear. Unfortunately that isn't working for me.

I'm on a "clean" install of 2005LE. I mean I did a clean install, but kept my home directory (and, of course, all of its hidden files.) Is there a way to get the Start New Session menu entry back, that used to exist in previous releases. I realize there is some similar functionality using startx -- :1 but I am interested in getting the actual previously-existing functionality from the menu (due to other family members.) I've read about the issue in other forum threads, but I've never seen any explanation of how to restore it. I could always just create a menu entry if I knew with what command to associate it. My Xservers file has the following entries which I believe are correct: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -deferglyphs 16 :1 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :1 vt8 -deferglyphs 16 :2 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :2 vt9 -deferglyphs 16 :3 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :3 vt10 -deferglyphs 16 :4 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :4 vt11 -deferglyphs 16 :5 local reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X :5 vt12 -deferglyphs 16 Any help would be appreciated. Rich

It worked!!! Download and installed mondo-2.04_cvs_20050503-1mdk101.i586.rpm and mindi-1.04_cvs_20050503-1mdk101.i586.rpm I didn't apply any patches. The command I used to backup to my DVD was: mondoarchive -Or -d /dev/hdc -9 -gF -s 4200m -k /boot/vmlinuz Still one bizarre issue, however. When I attempt to boot from the DVD I get the following message: "Segmentation Fault /dev/ht0 failed to act as an extended data disk for booting. Please specify an alternate tape device or hit Enter to boot from CD/Floppies" That is odd. I don't have any tape drive and didn't indicate one in the mondoarchive command. Anyway, I hit the Enter key and it then booted from my DVD and all was normal after that. I selected "interactive" and restored a test file and it was fine. I can certainly live with it the way it is, but am curious about the error.