dude67

I used to be able to play mania drive on this machine (PC #1) and I still have it installed from earlier. But for some reason it will not play anymore. It starts and gives the start up screen. But when I click on the "Story" gamemode it returns to my desktop... When trying to find the internet tracks, it says that I don't have any connection (I obviously do) and suggests that I may want to see the proxy configuration. But how and where...? I have also done a reinstallation (uninstalled and re-installed through MCC), but the problem remains. Anyone had the same problem? Here's how it looks when I started maniadrive from konsole. [dude67@localhost ~]$ maniadrive Raydium: Raydium 3D Game Engine Raydium: version 0.705 Raydium: command line args: OK Raydium: chdir to './': OK Raydium: using '/home/dude67/.mania_drive' as home dir Raydium: Requesting 1024x768:32 mode Raydium: Xinerama detected with 1 screens: Raydium: *** screen 0 : 1280x1024 at (0,0) Raydium: using Xinerama screen 0 Raydium: Found 1280x1024 with 24 bpp color and 24 bits zbuffer (stencil is 1) Raydium: using GeForce 7600 GT/PCI/SSE2, from NVIDIA Corporation (version 2.1.2 NVIDIA 169.09) Raydium: Signal Handlers: OK Raydium: OpenGL extensions: OK Raydium: Platform "4xfloat" vector size is: 16 byte(s) long Raydium: OpenGL implementation maximum texture size: 4096x4096 Raydium: OpenGL hardware providing 4 texture unit(s) Raydium: vertex arrays memory: OK Raydium: path: OK Raydium: keyboard: OK Raydium: mouse: OK Raydium: joy: FAILED (cannot open /dev/js0 and /dev/input/js0) Raydium: sound: Buffer creation successfull Raydium: sound: OK, using 'default device' Raydium: PHP support: OK Raydium: atexit functions: OK Raydium: lights: OK Raydium: fog: OK Raydium: objects: OK Raydium: network: OK Raydium: timer: detection: 2 iterations: diff: 1 steps (1000000/sec) Raydium: timecall: method accuracy = 0.001 ms (999999.94 Hz) Raydium: timecall: Using basic gettimeofday() method Raydium: timecall: OK (999999 Hz) Raydium: timecall: softcall 0: 1 Hz (1000000 clocks interval) Raydium: particle: OK Raydium: gui: OK Raydium: video (live): OK Raydium: shadow: OK Raydium: HDR: OK Raydium: shaders: OK Raydium: webserver: OK Raydium: Raydium engine reseted to original state Raydium: timecall: callback 1: 400 Hz (2500 clocks interval) Raydium: physics: ODE Net: 10 element(s)/packet Raydium: physics: OK Raydium: RegAPI: OK Raydium: Engine is now ready. ----------------------------------------------------------- Raydium: sound: Tried to set negative or 0 Pitch , clipped to 0.1 Raydium: Texture num 1 (BOXfront.tga) loaded: 512x512, 3 Bpp (b0 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: Texture num 2 (BOXback.tga) loaded: 512x512, 3 Bpp (b0 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: Texture num 3 (BOXleft.tga) loaded: 512x512, 3 Bpp (b0 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: Texture num 4 (BOXright.tga) loaded: 512x512, 3 Bpp (b0 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: Texture num 5 (BOXbottom.tga) loaded: 512x512, 3 Bpp (b0 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: Texture num 6 (BOXtop.tga) loaded: 512x512, 3 Bpp (b0 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: Texture num 7 (theme-maniadrive.tga) loaded: 256x256, 4 Bpp (b1 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: Texture num 8 (font3.tga) loaded: 512x512, 1 Bpp (b1 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: timecall: softcall 2: 1 Hz (1000000 clocks interval) Raydium: Changing game state to 1 Raydium: timecall: WARNING ! 0 Hz callback (num 1) Raydium: Texture num 9 (video) FAKED: 256x256, 3 Bpp (b0 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: live: texture 'video' created Raydium: video: mania_menu_v1.jpgs (0) as live texture video (0), 256x256 20.00 fps (703 frames) Raydium: Texture num 10 (BOXmania_cursor.tga) loaded: 32x32, 4 Bpp (b1 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: ODE: Error: Cannot delete object: invalid name or index Raydium: Texture num 11 (mania_logo2.tga) loaded: 512x512, 3 Bpp (b0 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: Texture num 12 (BOXmania_music_popup.tga) loaded: 512x128, 4 Bpp (b1 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: Texture num 13 (font2.tga) loaded: 512x512, 1 Bpp (b1 lm0 hdr0) Raydium: Using repositories to get 'mania_drive.story.beg' file Raydium: ERROR downloading file: No URL set! Raydium: Warning: Unknown list entry type in request shutdown (0) in /usr/share/games/maniadrive/rayphp/libfile.php on line 12 Raydium: FAILED: Cannot get date on mania_drive.story.beg (http://repository.raydium.org/) Raydium: No valid repository found for this file, aborting. Raydium: ERROR: cannot find story file ! abording ... Raydium: Internal buffers: Raydium: ----------------- Raydium: Total of 0 vertex(s) loaded: Raydium: Texture num 0: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "dummy.null" Raydium: Texture num 1: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "BOXfront.tga" Raydium: Texture num 2: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "BOXback.tga" Raydium: Texture num 3: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "BOXleft.tga" Raydium: Texture num 4: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "BOXright.tga" Raydium: Texture num 5: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "BOXbottom.tga" Raydium: Texture num 6: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "BOXtop.tga" Raydium: Texture num 7: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "theme-maniadrive.tga" Raydium: Texture num 8: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "font3.tga" Raydium: Texture num 9: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "video" Raydium: Texture num 10: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "BOXmania_cursor.tga" Raydium: Texture num 11: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "mania_logo2.tga" Raydium: Texture num 12: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "BOXmania_music_popup.tga" Raydium: Texture num 13: 0 vertex(s) - loaded as "font2.tga" Raydium: Estimated total: 10.92 MB used for textures. Raydium: Using 0 object(s): Raydium: sound: Deleting sources Raydium: sound: Deleting buffers Raydium: sound: Releasing OpenAL Raydium: path: read: "/home/dude67/.mania_drive/data" Raydium: path: write: "/home/dude67/.mania_drive/data" [dude67@localhost ~]$

Glad it worked for you as well! :D

I think that's the location I meant. Thanks neddie! (A little bit embarrased as this would have been easy to find through search...)

There is a .png file somewhere (cannot remember and I'm not at my Mandy system currently) for that side image. By gimping a new image to replace that old file, you can get new image that is better suited for your taste. If memory serves me right, the text was in the image and not separately configurable. If anyone remembers where that file is, post back. I know I bumbed into it some time ago when configuring a new kicker image, but cannot remember where that was. I may also want to change that image.

Thank you all: scarecrow, pmpatrick and jkerr82508! I had my user ID added to the group vboxuser. So it wasn't that. What I did was this: 1) I uninstalled the lot (again, I might add...): anything to have virtualbox or vbox in their name. 2) I installed kernel-desktop-devel-latest module (just in case and as Jim suggested). 3) Installed the .rpm (PUEL) package found on the virtualbox site. 3) Rebooted (or rather started X again - [Ctrl - Alt - backsp]) And finally I was able to start Vbox guests! Thank you all!

Did you run XFdrade (as root)?

Thanks guys, I'll post back when I have had time to test this.

I'm sorry, my posts seem a little confusing. I'll try to clarify. I did DL and install the .rpm PUEL package from the VBox site (the very link scarecrow posted). I had uninstalled the previous installation (done earlier with the .run package found on their site) before running the .rpm (PUEL) package. I could not get it to work with that - it gave me the same error message as jgj posted in the first post. I have the latest kernel-sources also installed. I tried, but I could not get it to work according to the advice scarecrow gave (see my earlier posts above). When trying to make it work, I installed the dkms-virtualbox modules (for OSE as I couldn't find any dkms-virtualbox packages for PUEL). No dice. @pmpatrick: Sorry, if this is a newbie question, but what exactly does that mean? I get the part where I should uninstall the dkms-virtualbox -package, but how to compile the module? Do you mean according to scarecrow's first post in this thread? I believe that is what I first tried - also tried to make it work by booting the system. I think the system is giving some errors when booting and saying something about not finding the kernel-modules for vbox... something. It goes by pretty fast - I could find that bit from the logs. I'm not at home currently - could check that tonight, though.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I already have it installed. [root@localhost home]# urpmi kernel-source-2.6.22.18-1mdv Package kernel-source-2.6.22.18-1mdv-1-1mdv2008.0.i586 is already installed

I'm also experiencing the same problem. I got the exact same error message as jgj. I have the non-open-source version (with PUEL) installed. I uninstalled it totally and installed the full version (again not the OSE, but the full version) from virtualbox site (the mandriva .rpm). Still the same problem as jgj. After reading this thread I installed the dkms-virtualbox-1.5.0-6mdv2008.0 as suggested by pmpatrick. The only thing is that the dkms-virtualbox is meant for OSE version of VBox - I don't know if it's needed for the full version. Anyway, I rebooted and got through the first part of scarecrow's advice. But the "vbox_build_module" was not recognized: [root@localhost home]# vbox_build_module bash: vbox_build_module: command not found I still tried the third line in scarecrow's post: [root@localhost home]# modprobe vboxdrv FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.22.18-desktop-1mdv/kernel/3rdparty/vbox/vboxdrv.ko.gz': No such file or directory OK, I then did what was suggested in the VirtualBox error message and that was to re-setup the kernel-module by executing /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup. [root@localhost home]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup Stopping VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ] Recompiling VirtualBox kernel module [FAILED] (Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong) [root@localhost home]# And I couldn't make head or tail of that message. I could post some of it if that would help.

Here's my desktop for February. I'm back with KDE (at least for awhile) as you can see.

Sure you can. As dexter11 said, you can use the Mandriva Free DVD (or set of CDs). If you don't have it, you can DL it from Mandriva.com. At their download page choose Mandriva Free (the Mandriva One is the default choise in that page). Mandriva Free is the full version as Mandriva One is the "live version".

I'm with AussieJohn here - he's suggestion pretty much covers what I would have said. Except for the fact that my disk is a bit simpler: with only /, swap and /home partitions without the /pictures and /music partitions (any such files I either keep under /home partition or on an external HDD). The size of my /home partition is somewhere around 190 - 200 GB. If you need further advice, perhaps this aRTee's article will give some insights (there is a link to another page for custom formatting in the article): http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/installmdv2008.0.html You can also gain read/write access to an NTFS partitions from Mandriva with the correct tools installed. Here's the wiki note on the subject: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandr...S_write_support You can also do a search in this forum for NTFS.

The gui is not packed for Mandriva, but the programme works in command line: pdftk Here's a link to the man pages: http://linux.die.net/man/1/pdftk. It works like charm - at least when I combine e.g. scanned .pdf pages together. B) At least when you have .pdf files done you can manipulate your files with this. This is the description of pdftk from that man-page: :P

Thanks scarecrow and Jim, appreciate your advice. Should there be any problems I will reinstall VB by first uninstalling it and making a clean .rpm installation of it. Currently it seems to work OK.

OK, duly noted. But I didn't want to uninstall the current one, as I was afraid I'd lose the installation and that god-awful activation stuff... (It is a leagal copy of WinXP, but I've installed and activated this particular copy already a few times).

OK. Sorry, I didn't get that... (I thought OS = Operating System) :D Well, that is actually not the case. As I said, I did not uninstall anything, just ran the "all-distros" .run version of the installer and it did upgrade the product! It was very fast and simple procedure (as you can see above).

Yup, that did the trick: [root@localhost Download]# sh VirtualBox_1.5.4_Linux_x86.run Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation........ VirtualBox Version 1.5.4 (Sat Dec 29 08:50:14 CET 2007) installation If you are upgrading from a previous version of VirtualBox and if some of your virtual machines have saved states, then the saved state information will be lost after the upgrade and will have to be discarded. If you do not want this then you can cancel the upgrade now. Do you wish to continue? [yes or no] y Installing VirtualBox to /opt/VirtualBox-1.5.4 VirtualBox has been installed successfully. You will find useful information about using VirtualBox in the user manual /opt/VirtualBox-1.5.4/UserManual.pdf and in the user FAQ http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_FAQ We hope that you enjoy using VirtualBox. [root@localhost Download]# Then I've enabled USB and added the items I need. Now I'm trying to see if I can get all the items to operate. I did this operation mainly, because I have this coordless Topcom phone I'm using with Skype. I've never been able to get it to work under Linux, so I'm trying to get it to work under WinXP in VirtualBox. It's just taking "ages" to install the new items... I'll let you know.

Thank you for the tips. A question: What do you Jim, mean by non-OS version? I can see a bunch of different OSs in this page, but no "non-OS" version. Unless you mean the "All distributions" version? I tried running the the Mandriva .rpm version, but this is what I get (obviously because of the current installation): Installation failed: file /usr/bin/VBoxManage from install of VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_mdv2008.0-1.i586 conflicts with file from package virtualbox-1.5.4-3mdv2008.0.i586 file /usr/bin/VBoxSDL from install of VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_mdv2008.0-1.i586 conflicts with file from package virtualbox-1.5.4-3mdv2008.0.i586 file /usr/bin/VirtualBox from install of VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_mdv2008.0-1.i586 conflicts with file from package virtualbox-1.5.4-3mdv2008.0.i586 file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDD2GC.gc from install of VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_mdv2008.0-1.i586 conflicts with file from package virtualbox-1.5.4-3mdv2008.0.i586 file /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxDD2R0.r0 from install of VirtualBox-1.5.4_27034_mdv2008.0-1.i586 conflicts with file from package virtualbox-1.5.4-3mdv2008.0.i586 ...snip. I'm currently trying to run the generic "all distros" version. I'll post back.

OK, I've done a little more research and it seems that I need the PUEL version not the OSE... I have installed the OSE from Mandriva sources and it appears the USB is not supported. I've already installed WinXP on my VB (OSE) and installed some software there also. Will that snapshot or installation be valid and functional if I install the PUEL version? :huh:

Quite simply put, I'm trying to enable USB support for my WinXP Home guest installation in Virtualbox (host Mandi 2008.0). I've tried this solution mentioned in VB manual: So according to that, I've added this into /etc/fstab # 43 is the USB group # devmode=664 default; =666 for all none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=43,devmode=666 0 0 But no help. Does anyone know if USB even works with WinXP guest on Virtualbox on Mandriva host?

I don't think Mandriva.com had published that piece of news at that time. I'm guessing that is CET 16:14 (a.k.a. 4:14 pm)

OK - I didn't get that part - sorry. :D

I guess shouting is not concidered polite... Or perhaps no one has yet to come up with a suggestion to your problem. I'm out of my depth here, but if you wait patiently (and do not shout) someone might have a solution to you. And welcome to the board. :)

Did you even try the forum search? With the words "autostart script" I managed to find a list where the below topic was fourth from the top... https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=43340