DragonMage

Hmm.. it seems everything is loaded properly. Now, it is possible that it is detected, just nothing is being done about it. Maybe you need to turn off APIC and Local APIC. Have you tried booting with linux noapic nolapic At the Lilo Prompt?

If /dev/sdb appears, then it's half way there. All you need to do is to edit your /etc/fstab files so that it's mountable. Add a line like this. /dev/sdb /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 BTW, maybe it's already mountable. Is there a new directory in your /mnt directory? Maybe it's recognized as a flash drive or hard drive or something? Also, if you are using KDE, you need to configure your desktop so that the desktop shows not just mounted CD-ROMs but also unmounted ones. Right click on the desktop, then select Configure Desktop. Select Behavior on the left side, then select the Device Icons folder. Put a checkmark on all the boxes, then select OK.

I am running FC4 x86_64... but I really really think that I am going to reformat and reinstall Mandriva 2005 LE again in a couple of days. Everything is so gnome centric that KDE becomes unstable. Kicker crashing during loggging out, making the logout sequence hanging until I have to press ctrl-alt-delete to relogin, no 64 bit mplayer, xine hanging after splash screen, etc. I just don't have the time and the bandwidth to fix them all. Maybe FC4 32 bit edition is better, but as of now FC4 x86_64 is not ready for prime time.

It is possible that it's KDE/artsd that mutes your mixer settings. In your kmix, go into your menu Settings -> Configure Kmix. See if the Restore Volumes on Login is turned on or off.

It is possible that USB modules are not loaded in your system. Can you show the result when you type lsmod in the console? Also, check show us your /etc/modprobe.conf and /etc/modprobe.preload files

It should be alsactl store no -

Ouchie.. good thing you can check.. Anyway, since the only reasonable Athlon 64 motherboard (in price and availability) in Indonesia when I bought it is Gigabyte K8NS, I hope the motherboard last longer than 2 years this time.

Yup, not only that.. it is very linux friendly too. You see the last couple of reviews? They are benchmarking Dual Core CPUs on Linux.

There is no downloadable DVD ISO for Mandriva 2005 LE 64 bit unless you are a Mandriva Club member. However, you can create a DVD iso by downloading the main repository and make it yourself (I think it was shown somewhere in this board, you can search for it). Another way is if you live in the USA, you can buy the DVD for about 10 dollars plus shipping and handling from Cheapbytes.

The first part of the advice I agree with. I have never understood, however, why use (sometimes slow or unreliable) bandwidth to get packages that are right at your machine? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well in my case, the people who are my clients always misplace the CDs I have given them :lol: Many times I came to their site asking, where are the CDs, and it took them half an hour sometimes to scrounge cabinets, drawers, etc to find the CDs, most of them scratched beyond believe. In that time, I could just fire up the Internet (dialup even) and just download the things I need. Of course, your experience may be different. This is just a side benefit of using the internet to download the required packages. If the Internet access is metered, then it may not be a good idea.

In theory, SATA-2 is supposed to be faster. However, in reality, we are mostly constrained with the speed of the mechanical parts of the hard drive itself. Most of the IDE based hard drive have mechanical speed of 7200 RPM (only WD Raptor has speed of 10,000 RPM I believe). SCSI hard drives can go up to 15,000 RPM. So ,as an analogy, it is no use making the speed limit 100 mph if your car can only go the maximum speed of 50 mph. Anyway, the web site is http://www.anandtech.com It is one of the best computer tech review and preview sites I have seen (alongside ars-technica). It is I that gave it to you :)

If you use the download edition of Mandrake 10.1 Official, there may be some software that are included into the 3 disks. The best way to alleviate this is to add the main repository also to your URPMI repository. Use easy-urpmi link above to add it. This has an added advantage since you don't need the CDs anymore to install software. Everything will be pulled from the net.

It is not exactly out of date, just older :) Anyway, I am not sure why Mandrake 10.1 is more expensive. You should read what is included carefully and compare it to 2005. Maybe it includes DVD version while 2005 doesn't? Paid version usually gives you more software, some downloadable for free, some doesn't. I know that powerpack editions usually includes non-free drivers and software, such as NVidia & ATI drivers and Sun JRE & JDK. While you can always download them yourself, they usually took a bit of an effort to install. Putting the software in Mandrake RPM format really ease up installation. Also, I think buying the retail edition gives you a couple of month's membership into Mandriva Club. There you can get access to more software and updates for the non-free drivers/software in RPM format.

Kingston should have a lifetime warranty isn't it? Anyway, it's not just Gigabyte that is having caps problems. Pretty much K7 motherboard under $150 have this problem (especially NForce2 ones). The cap problem also affected Asus, Epox, Abit, not to mention lower end ones like ECS or Shuttle. It is because they went for Chinese caps in order to cut cost. They have learned from their mistakes however and newer Mobo (especially the K8 ones) do not have these problems anymore.

You should just plug it in to a USB slot. Mandrake should detect it as a scsi device so there should be a /dev/sda (or /dev/sdb or whatever) automatically. If you are lucky, then there will be a new icon coming up in your desktop. Put a data CD inside it and check whether it reads the CD. Good luck.

Could it be the media itself? Some blank CDs are made better than others.

I also think that Evolution 2 is not a step forward like I wanted. In the office, I have two computers of similar specs. There is a P2-400 with Mandrake 10.1 (Evolution 2) and another is P2-350 with Mandrake 10 (Evolution 1.4). The P2-350 with Evolution 1.4 is snappier in receiving mail than the P2-400 with Evolution 2.0

Good for you And welcome to the forum :)

Maybe it is not one of those thing that is not installed automatically. Like NVidia Driver. Anyway, I just did a search for mwavem modem driver. I think it is one of the non-free drivers, since only Suse and Debian non-free provides it. Therefore it couldn't be included into download edition of 10.1. The mwave driver may be included (since the driver is copyrighted by IBM) but the control program may not, perhaps. So the only way to do is to download the control program from IBM and then compile it yourself. However, I find something interesting http://rpmseek.com/rpm/mwavem-2.0-1.i386.h...0:0:0:0:1942788 Try installing that rpm. If it works.. good :)

You know, it's weird that my xorg.conf is the same as your non-working one, but the screen works out fine. Is XFS service running? Try typing service xfs status in a console as root.

Devries, you are thinking of ACPI. APIC is another thing entirely. From wikipedia Otherwise, what Devries said is correct, We need to find out the exact model of the winmodem and usb fax/printer/modem first. For winmodem, you may be able to find out the model by typing lspci -v in a console as root.

Iphitus, shut up... I am already kicking myself in the head for going back to Indonesia since I cannot get good components for good prices anymore. AMD releases are usually half a year late in Indonesia already (no Venice and San Diego core for example), and now you are tantalizing me with AMD X2?! :) Jet2k5 Well.. it's a lot faster installing from DVD than Internet you know :) Besides, you cannot get Mandriva 2005 LE x86_64 edition from typical regular ftp sites. You need to be a Mandriva club member to get it. The one that is freely downloadable is a 1 disk CD iso. That's why I said that the downloadable edition is lacking since it doesn't have the things that I need. I think Cheapbytes mirror the RPM repository and then burn that to the DVD. I think I will ask a friend to buy one of those DVD and then send it to Indonesia.. the shipping will be murder, but at least it's available.

I just checked and FC4 definitely has 64 bit version of Firefox. Anyway, the x86_64 version of Mandriva, Ubuntu, and FC are free. Suse's downloadable DVD is out just a couple of days ago, it supposed to include the x86_64 version in the same DVD. If you want a noob version, I suggest you use either Ubuntu or Mandriva. To tell you the truth, I haven't tried Ubuntu ever since the free givaway days, since I found it very lacking (no kernel source for compiling NVidia kernel, for example). And I also find that the one disk iso for Mandriva x86_64 is lacking too. If you have broadband, you can install one from those one disk and pull the rest via the internet. I don't have broadband and neither distro provides wvdial so I cannot connect to the Internet. So those two are out for me. However, since you live in the USA, you can order the DVD x86_64 version of Mandriva for about 10 dollars plus shipping and handling from a place like cheapbytes. I think you will find the experience a lot better than I did. BTW, I tried toughening out on FC4 x86_64. It's definitely not a noobie distro. What I took for granted in Mandriva (built in mp3 support, ntfs support, centralized management console, etc) are not found in FC4. Good thing that the modem dialer in FC4 is wvdial based so that I can pull what I need from the Internet. Right now I am relearning /etc/fstab file since it seems that FC4 doesn't allow write access to vfat partition for regular users.

Are you using the Mandrake RPM or are you compiling from source? IIRC, if you are using the Mandrake RPM, there is a service called slmodemd that you need to enable in order to access the modem. If you are using the smartlink source code, you need to put this line into your /etc/modprobe.preload file slamr Then add these lines into your /etc/rc.local file /usr/sbin/slmodemd --country=USA /dev/slamr0 & rm /dev/modem ln -s /dev/ttySL0 /dev/modem Then you can use /dev/modem as your modem device. Good luck

Bloat is well, depends on what you install really. I found that most of the times, you only need 1 cd for installation by forgoing manual, multiple language, development packages, and so on.