johnh123

wvdial is much better at giving you error messages.

I would try wvdial rather than kppp in this instance

Have you been able to install wvdial? I tried to install it with Mandriva 2007, but it says it is unable to install one of the dependencies.

Ok. I used kppp. It worked! Once...then when I tried a second and subsequent times, it won't work. Then I had to do a reinstall for other reasons, and sure enough, it worked- once. Now, when I try to dial in, it says this in the terminal window:

kppp: ERROR: write() in modem::writeline failed

Is there any fix for this?

I've got a samsung a900 with Sprint that I use as a modem to connect my xp laptop to the internet. Now i've installed mandriva 2007, and can't figure out how to do the same. The phone is recognized as a cdma modem, but I can't see anywhere to create a 'dial-up' connection. Any ideas?

Does the mm kernel suspend work with ati cards, anyone know?

I thought the noapic/nolapic options make it is so suspend won't work at all?

OK, so it appears that if you want 3d acceleration with your ati card, you can't have suspend to ram/suspend to disk. For me, on a laptop, the suspend(s) are more important than the 3d. Will the suspend(s) work with an ati card without 3d? Which driver should I use to make this happen?

So far, using 2006, without 3d accel, when I try to suspend I get a kernel panic. My solution so far has been to reinstall. Maybe it just isn't possible with 2006+ati. If anybody has succeeded getting the suspend(s) to work with an ati card I would appreciate some help.

There appear to be new drivers on the ATI website. Has anyone given them a try yet?

are you using KDE, if so.. maybe you should try to configure it via kcontrol or open system--configuration--configure desktop--peripherals--printer, then click administration mode and enter root password

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Of course, he may not have set up a root password (I didn't)- so he should then leave it blank?

aRTee, check out my post here:

 

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...22&hl=konqueror

 

That kded thing was a widely reported bug in mdk10.1 as well. My post in the above thread deals with a workaround:

 

I tried to open konqueror from the command line and it just would hang w/o any error message. I then opened up another console to check the running processes with:

 

$ ps aux

 

and a process called "kded" was taking up 95% of my cpu!!! A little googling around and I came across this solution which seems to work:

 

The problem is with mountwatcher.desktop which is part of kded. It needs to be disabled but it's not easy to do that. First go to /usr/share/services/kded and you will see mountwatcher.desktop. It doesn't look like a text config file but it is; open it with your favorite text editor as root. Go to the last line which will read something like this:

 

X-KDE-Kded-load-on-demand=true

 

Change "true" to "false", save the changes. Go to kde control center>LookNFeel>Behavior>Device Icons and untick the "Show device icons" box. Log out and log back in.

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Does this workaround still leave kded running? It is needed for Kat.

gnome-phone-manager will work inside of KDE but when you install it, it will require you to install a lot of gnome libs.

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Even if you already have gnome installed as an alternate gui?

If I want to try out a different distribution, do I have to start all over with my partition? Currently I have /home on its own partition- can I leave it alone, or will it screw up the new distribution somehow?

OK, last night I updated my 2006 rc2 install to cooker. So far, so good. But i'm not sure that it is a good idea to keep updating that way. When the public 2006 is released, will I be able to go 'back' to 2006, or am I stuck because I am already 'past' it?

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Would you define "crashes out"? Does the system freeze? Command line? No command line? When you do a "verbose" boot, at what point does it stop?

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I would, but it seemed quicker just to reinstall. I'm ok for now- thanks much.

I had installed 2006 rc2 without problems on my laptop. After fooling around with power management for a bit (I enabled hibernation and cpu throttling), I crashed out and now I can't boot up. I think it may have tried to hibernate; and now when it boots it tries to come out from hibernation (maybe). In any case, it starts to go through the bootup routine, and then kicks me out. Is there a possible solution to this problem short of reinstallation?

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