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  1. I´d like to know if it´s possible to get sound from all my speakers on my Creative Audigy 2, it has 6.1 sound but right now there´s no sound coming from my mid front and back speakers. I´m using the alsa driver from the 2006 (1.0.9b) installation, are there any better drivers available?

  2. 1. Do you have a serial ATA harddisk?

     

    Yes and an IDE

     

    2. Is the USB stick REALLY formatted as NTFS? If it is, you can only access it as root, unless you alter the udev rules. If interested, I can tell you how, but why not format the pen drive as FAT32 (vfat), so you'll have read/write access? (on NTFS filesystem you can only read under a normal Linux kernel).

    The stick is not mine, I borrowed it from a friend to get some files, he only uses windows ;)

     

    Could you please tell how to access the stick? B)

  3. I have no sound in Helix Player eg. in this stream when chosing the real stream*:

     

    http://portal.omroep.nl/mplayer?mpstream=r...www.rvu.nl/kvw/

     

     

     

    (*go to ¨ instellingen¨ and select real, then select ¨opslaan¨ and ¨af spelen in externe speler¨ to start the stream )

     

    (Mandriva 2006.0)

     

    (edit: my sound is working, I already checked, I also cheched the volume slider in Helix)

  4. After unplugging , this is what is says:

     

     # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
    /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
    /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
    /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
    /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
    /dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0
    /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
    /dev/sda2 /mnt/win_d2 ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0
    none /proc proc defaults 0 0

     

    You have a lot of options on there, I'm not even sure they are relevant for ntfs.

     

    I didn´t do anything, I´m a nOOb ;)

  5. Okay looking through the forum here´s my fstab file:

     

    # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
    /dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
    /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
    /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
    /dev/hda2 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
    /dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0
    /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=utf8 0 0
    /dev/sda2 /mnt/win_d2 ntfs umask=0,nls=utf8,ro 0 0
    none /proc proc defaults 0 0
    /dev/sdb1			   /mnt/DATA_XXX		   ntfs	pamconsole,exec,noauto,noatime,utf8,iocharset=iso8859-1,managed 0 0

  6. I get the following message when I try to enter my USB stick: Could not enter folder /mnt/DATA_XXX., is there anyway to get it working?

     

    (Mandriva 2006.0 / i686, 2.6.12-15mdk/ KDE 3.5.1/ Dell Dimension 4600)

  7. Open OOo and then tools/options/language settings/languages/user interface ( OpenOffice.org-l10-en should be installed before going there ). Program restart required.

    This also applies for OOo 2.0.1, which is ages ahead of 1.1.5.

     

    As I only understand catalan poorly I don´t know where to find these options of course ;)

     

    To install OO 2.01 can I just install the packages and will it automatically uninstall OO 1.1.5?

  8. For some reasom Open Office seems to be installed in catalan ( ???? I believe) anyway how can I set the language to english? (ie. the language used for all the menus etc.)

     

    I don´t understand catalan and am having a hard time going through the options.

     

    Mandriva 2006.0 /OO 1.1.5

  9. Can you boot into another WM? Type: startx icewm  If you get the blackscreen, it means the nvidia driver isn´t installed cirrectly. Edit /etc/xorg.conf and change the driver to nv and try again. That should be it.

     

    I do get the black screen, it tried looking in etc/ for the file xorg.conf but there wasn't any such file :s

     

     

    (or if it´s not installed first: urpmi icewm :) )

     

    I have a feeling my ethernet isn't up either in failsafe, it says it's unable to resolve the host

  10. Do you have an nvidia card and use the nvidia driver? Then you need to install the driver again. If you install KDE from mde a new vxorg version gets installed so you have to reinstall the nvidia driver.

     

     

    Yes, so I would just reinstall the driver as usual (ie. from failsafe sh nvidia-blabla.run)? and thing would work again?

     

    If it won´t work, is their anyway to go back to KDE 3.4.2

  11. Yesterday I tried installing 3.5.1 everything seemed fine, I logged out and then saw the nice looking new log in screen with the clock but it was impossible to login, I just got a black screen and then it reverted to the login screen, this happened for all users.

     

    Any ideas what happened? Anyway I reinstalled from scratch but I would like to try again and also know a way to go back to 3.4.2 from the failsafe mode because that still worked but I had no idea what to do...

     

    :help:

  12. Can you still install them from a terminal? rpm -i <packagename> (for all options, take a look at rpm --help).

     

    If you have this many problems, I wonder if your CDs were burned well... You should go to the easyurpmi site ( http://www.mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/index.php ) now and update your system. It might solve your problem.

     

    It strange, I tried another re-install and the rpm still does not have an association. Another weird thing is "man" from the console did not seem to work either. Might try burning another CD :s

  13. As it was just a nearly fresh installation I decided to re-install, the problem seem to be fixed :)

     

    Altough I know have a totally unrelated problem .rpm files don't install anymore, instead I get a dialogue box asking me which program I want to use to open. With the other install these installed without any problem :(

  14. Welcome aboard. :)

     

    Go to the Mandriva Control Center (MCC, aka "Configure your computer") and change the security settings on your computer from "high" to "normal". Otherwise, only root is allowed to shut down the machine due to the very restrictive security settings.

    We just had this topic discussed here: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=30638

     

     

    Thanks for the quick answer but my security setting is ¨Standard¨ (btw when logged in as root and trying to log out the other options are also missing)

     

    PS: Tips and tricks is for offering "tips and tricks", not for asking questions. ;)

    :oops:

  15. Hi I´m new to Linux and just installed Mandriva 2006.0 this week, previously I played a little bit with Knoppix. I have one question ( for now.... :) ) :

     

    When I log out I´m not offered any options except for ¨End current session¨, I went to K Menu->System->Configuration->KDE->Components->Session Manager

     

    I ticked the ¨Offer shut down options¨ but it doesn´t seem to work.

     

    Any help appriciated :)

     

    [moved from Tips & Tricks by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)]

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