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I love/hate weird problems: love when I fix them and hate...well you get it. On an otherwise fairly stable 2006 install I am using a Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse with a tilt wheel. I did my google (actually dogpile - I hate google) duty and setup my xorg.conf like this: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "evdev" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" Option "Dev Name" "Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse 1.0A" Option "Dev Phys" "usb-0000:00:1d.7-1.3/input0" Option "Buttons" "7" EndSection The 'Dev Name' and 'Dev Phys' came right off my system output. This results in my mouse working but button three (pushing on the wheel) and button two (right click) are reversed. No problem, I just put "xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 3 2 4 5 6 7'" in /etc/X11/Xmodmap along with my multimedia key defs and this fixes it. BUT: When I log out of kde and back in (as any user) the mouse buttons 2/3 are reversed again and the tilt and scroll functions are also reversed. I have discovered through trial and error that simply opening a konsole puts the mouse buttons back in order. Let me make that totally clear: Simply opening a konsole makes the mouse buttons function as I want. No other entries are needed. Totally weird. The output of "xmodmap -pp" will show the buttons as correct (1 3 2 4 5 6 7) but button 32 will show various numbers (I don't know why or if this is even relevant), but of course to enter the xmodmap -pp command I open a konsole, thus fixing the buttons. I think that this may be solvable with a better xorg.conf entry for the mouse buttons, but I'm hoping for someone with knowledge will help before I have to try 500 different combos in xorg. Any tips?

I just went through doing this (for different reasons) If you're not using more than one computer to access your modem, can it be set to a fixed IP range? I use routers (I have three computers and three Tivo's on my network) so I need multiple IP's but if you have only one computer - you may be able to set your router to a single IP "range". If not - read on... In WindowsXP: Select "Control Panel" - in classic view double-click on "Network Properties" [in Category View, click "Network and Internet connections" then "Network Connections... ...then on your network adapter, then on "Properties" button, then select "Internet Protocal [TCP/IP]", and "Properties". Then select "Use the following IP address" - enter your IP,Subnet and Gateway and lower down in the window enter your DNS server(s). You'll have to determine these numbers on your own (your provider should be able to help). Subnet is usually 255.255.255.0, Gateway is your router or networked modem IP (can sometimes be left blank). DNS servers are via your provider. If your modem has http:// addressable software you might be able to copy these from there. I use a Linksys router and it had all the data I needed on it. Close everything out and reboot. This should do it for WinXP In Mandriva 2006: I've almost never had the drake tool for networking work right. Try it, and if it doesn't work for you try editing these files... /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 The filename may be different for your setup, try "ifconfig" from a console as root and your should be able to figure out which device you're using to access your network. In this file change these lines; BOOTPROTO="dhcp" to BOOTPROTO="static" IPADDR="No IP" to IPADDR=YOUR.IP.HERE. NETMASK="No Mask" to NETMASK=255.255.255.0 or your needed info Add this line; GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 or your needed info Comment out this line; DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient Check the file /etc/resolv.conf. It should contain your name servers like this: nameserver 68.238.64.12 nameserver 68.238.96.12 search localhost If not - put them there. Another wise idea is when doing any of the above edits, don't delete any line, comment them out instead (in this case a leading # is the ticket). This way if you typo or screw something up, it's easier to revert to your old setup. There are lots of other entries that can/should be in these files but I'll leave that to the experts. This should get you going.

Hey AussieJohn, I don't know if you saw my other posts on this topic but my rig is: DFI Lanparty 875p-t with Intel Corp. ?82801EB ICH5 IDE (SATA) controller onboard. I am NOT using the raid features of this board. I have 2 identical 250gb sata drives and one ata ide drive. My problem briefly was with 2007 Powerpack the install would fail everytime right after formatting (or not) the install partition. Included with the error message was a list of files that were "missing" that included the kernel files. I tried every boot option in almost every combo (from the errata) but always the same result. I also tried installing to the ide instead of the sata drives - no difference. I would have blamed the dvd media but, (and here's the odd part) I discovered that if I DISCONNECTED the ide drive the powerpack would install to the sata drive. I didn't try to unplug the sata and install to the ide only. This was fine until I trashed the 2007 install AFTER having put the computer back together and re-inserting it into my desk. I eventually burned a "One" iso and was able to install from that and add packages from the powerpack files manually via urpmi. Odd though, don't you think?

Been awhile since I've done Mdk2005le but I had full glx and hw accel. My vidcard is BFG 6600agp GT OC. Looks like your drivers didn't install right (I agree with your rant). If I remember right with 2005le I did use the nvidia supplied drivers but now with 2006 and 2007 I use dkms-nvidia drivers from plf. Do the nvidia install but you'll need to make sure you have the correct kernel source installed. If you're fresh install out-of-the-box you should be OK. 2005le would let you update the kernel without correcting all the pointers (like /usr/src/linux) correctly so you have to poke around to get the nvidia installer to find the correct kernel source if you've upgraded. If dkms is available for 2005le you might try it. It's a lot easier than a full kernel rebuild.

Ok, turns out xinit.rc doesn't load at normal startup, only when you use "startx" rather than KDM. So I added xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap to /etc/profile.d/kde.sh and this loads Xmodmap everytime anyone logs into kde. Mark another one solved...

Yeah, I used menudrake from the command line. The full story is; wanted to edit my Amarok button, opened konsole, logged in as root, ran "menudrake", selected "system menu", did the edit, saved edit and exited menudrake. When I went to my menu - No Amarok button at all! I thought 'wierd', reopen menudrake as above and Amarok was there. Closed it again and restarted X. Amarok returned but most of my menu folder icons (regular program icons are intact) turned to the blue KDE default folder. No other users on the system including (at the risk of having this thread hijacked :P ) the root GUI are affected. More Icon detail: 'Home' icon intact, 'Internet/Web Browsers' icon intact, 'System/Configuration/KDE' and 'System/Configuration/KDE/Network' icons intact. All other nested (folder) icons changed to blue folder. Digging a little further; I reopened menudrake and in it the icons still show the folder specific (not the blue default) icons. I discovered that if I did a menu edit and 'changed' the 'Multimedia" folder icon to it's orginal it changed in my menu and stayed that way. I found a hidden folder in my home directory titled '.menu' that had three files in it: 'added_by_menudrake', 'kdebase-basedir', and 'menu'. The file 'added_by_menudrake' contained the 'Multimedia' folder item that I edited above as a test. Complete file contents: ?package(menu): charset="utf8" order="Sound,Video,Graphics,Other,_mergemenu_,_mergefile_" title="Multimedia" icon="/usr/share/icons/video_section.png" section="/" needs="x11" This directory was not present in any other of my users home directories so as another test, I moved the '.menu' folder to another location to see what effect this would have. Nada - my blue folders remain AND more important the 'Multimedia' icon stayed. So my current theory is that somewhere other than my home directory is a file telling kde what icons to use for my user. All I need to do is find it and restore it to it's orginal state. Of course - I still seek the knowledge of those wiser in these matters...like where to start???

I was editing a menu entry and all the default cool icons in kdemenu changed to plain blue folders. This really ticks me off because I enjoy my eye candy. It only did it for my user, all my other users' menus are intact. Is there an easy way to return the icons to the default?

Sorry to be a 'tard -> so my shared directory is /share and my users are all in the group share. So how do I add the 2 to the permissions? If I am using konqueror is it the "Set GID" tag under advanced permissions? Is there a chown or chmod command? I'd prefer the command line entry because frankly, konqueror is not all that good at recursing. I haven't tried drakperm yet but I will. [EDIT] Kongueror seems to work by selecting "Set GID" under advanced permissions and applying changes to all files. So with drakperm I added a "rule" setting the group and owner as "share" (it made me select both or none) and set permissions to 2774. I used that instead of 2770 because I have a guest user that can read but not edit or execute those files. So it seems this accomplishes what I wanted. Thanks everyone for your input.

THANKS - that fixed it! I had libtumepimp3 installed but not those two...

Are you sure it's the cpu overheating and not just a kernel conflict with your temp sensors? Some modern bios's have live temp readings available from the bios menu (mine does). Were you having this problem with any other operating system? Try looking at your bios first and if there isn't a temp readout try booting to a knoppix or other (different than mandriva) live cd and see if you get them same messages. Also note your kernel version for each system you boot to and try and test different kernel versions. If one of these options shows no temp issue you know it's an installation or kernel issue (and therefore fixable). If they ALL show the same problem, well then you know it's a hardware problem. p.s. If it IS a hardware problem, and you're under warranty - restore your windows system and verify the temp problem there. I have yet to find a vendor willing to admit ANY problem with their hardware when it's running linux. [rant]HP told me the fact that my volume down button froze in the closed position on my laptop was a linux issue and I'd have to re-install windows to fix it. Yeah right! There is little more irritating than so-called "tech support" when they obviously have no clue what they're talking about [/rant]

A fairly safe way to mount partitions if your not sure what entries to use is to use diskdrake. In a konsole as superuser just type "diskdrake". It's a simple matter of selecting the drive and partition you want to mount, entering the mount location, clicking the "mount" button and then quit: making sure you answer "yes" to the "save modifications to fstab?" question as you quit. Older versions of mandrake sometimes had the wrong options selected by default, but since 10.1 I've had no problems. Diskdrake will also let you "browse" your hard drives and see all your partition sizes and types. If you're looking to enhance your knowledge a bit - do the above and then take a look at /etc/fstab and see what entries diskdrake made. One modification I sometimes do is to set the "dump" and "fsck" fields (These are the last two entries in each line of fstab) to 0 for partitions I rarely access or don't necessarily want "repaired" prior to a crash/reboot. If you do this - make sure you leave the number 1 in last place for your operating system boot partition or you risk making your system unbootable and 2 in last place for other operating or commonly used partitions. In the event of a crash - I get my system back quicker and I then do a manual "fsck" of any additional partitions I feel might have been compromised by the crash. I currently have 12 partions on three drives so waiting for all of them to be checked can last a long time. here's some sample lines from my /etc/fstab file; /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sdb5 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda7 /home xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /backup xfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/xfer vfat umask=0 0 0

So I had to re-install 2006 (clean -total). After doing so my printer access has a long pause (more than a minute) before it starts anything - scanning or printing. It's an HP6110 All-in-One. My previous install of 2006 from the same disks it started normally and my new 2007 install starts it normally. I just don't know where to begin. I hate to start removing and reinstalling packages without some idea where to start.

Using "twinview" eliminates the need for separate "screen" sections but only works if you have identical screens.

Thanks - I hate it when I'm dumb. About five minutes after my post I opened resolv.conf and found it blank! Duh...I added my dns servers but haven't had time to reboot (now I'm at work) but I'm 99% sure it'll work. I'll disable ipv6 next thing. BTW, the way you suggest is new to me and I've seen 3 or four other ways to do it. Is one methed better than another?

Yeah sounds like a similar setup to mine;sda: SATAII 250gb Mandriva 2007 (8 partitions) sdb: SATAII 250gb Mandriva 2006 (7 partitions) hda: Toshiba dvdrw hdb: Slide out drive bay (empty for now) hdd: IDE/ATA133 250gb WinXP Pro (3 partitions) I would totally believe it was the dvd disc that is bad EXCEPT when I pull the hdd:drive it will install. Very weird. Maybe there is a bad file on the dvd causing the problem only when the IDE drive is installed. Of course, the IDE drive works fine after the install. I noticed some errata regarding kernel 2.6.17.1 and reiserfs and xfs (both of which I was using along with FAT32, NTFS and ext3). But my kernel that installs is 2.6.17.5mdv and the crash occurs before package selection so I don't get a chance to try another kernel version anyway. I have since wiped the reiserfs partions and reformated them as xfs.

My new 2007 One install won't connect to the internet. The previous 2007 install did and 2006 does no problem. So far I've only edited the ifcg-eth0 script to look like the previous install and like the 2006 install but still no internet. BTW I am able to access my home network no problem. Where do I look next? My ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.1.100 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 ONBOOT=yes METRIC=10 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes USERCTL=yes IPV6INIT=no IPV6TO4INIT=no PEERDNS=yes PEERYP=no PEERNTPD=no

Here's my current 2007 install saga... Install from powerpack DVD fails UNLESS I disconnect my ide drive. I have two sata's (not raid) and one ide hd and one ide dvdrw. The install fails immediately after the partition format (whether or not I actually choose to format the partition). The error message looks like; An error occurred INTENAL ERROR: no kernel available... ...then a list of about twenty file or package names. I was able to get it to install if I disconnected (pulled the cable) from my ide drive. I tried various states of access for the drive none of which seemed to matter - unformatted and formatted in various fashions. So after going though all that I later decided I wanted to reorg my partitons and in doing so I removed the boot sector for the 2007 install. FYI: I usually install a new boot sector for the latest install on a different drive from my currect stable OS so that if/when I switch over to the new install I need only point the bios default to that boot drive. During the testing and setup phase for the new OS I boot to the stable OS and point lilo to the new install and the new install lilo has a pointer to the stable install. This also provides a sort of backup boot if ever needed. So I wanted to clean install 2007 to one of my sata drives - but as I noted above I have to pull the ide drive to make it work. Not wanting to disassmble my computer again, I tried every boot option I could find to make the install work - as you might guess - nada. Maybe my powerpack dvd isn't any good, so I burned a 2007 One disk and tried that. It worked! I figured I could just urpim.addmedia to the powerpack packages and update and install as required, no big deal. Well, that works EXCEPT the new install won't connect to the internet. The previous 2007 install did and 2006 does no problem. So far I've only edited the ifcg-eth0 script to look like the previous install and like the 2006 install but still no internet. BTW I am able to access my home network no problem. I will post a new thread in the correct place for the network issue, but I wondered if anyone had solved the sata issues. I've seen lots of posts of problems with sata users.

Amen brother. For me:Being able to fix things when they "break", I enjoy the learning curve (I used OS/2 Warp prior to discovering Mandrake 7.0), I've never lost all the data on a system since switching to linux only, all the free and useful software, the amazing speed and power increase (my laptop battery life doubled when I installed linux on it). RANTS: I got sick of so-called support consisting of "Have you rebooted windows? OK, reinstall everything." being the response to every problem. The only complaint I have about linux is the hardware companies continue to ignore the linux community. I actually had HP support tell me that they didn't support linux and if I wanted my laptop repaired (A malfunctioning volume button - hardware not software) I'd have to reinstall windows first. Needless to say I won't be buying anymore HP hardware. Too bad, cause I really like my laptop.

my two cents - I've done many moves/resizes with both mandriva using diskdrake and from the command line and I've done many resizes with PM 8.0 pro. I'd choose diskdrake hands down over PM. This is one good reason to use ext3 as your format for your operating system. PM has screwed my data only once or twice whereas I've yet to wipeout using diskdrake (or linux command line tools).

I had this problem also with kdm and compiz packages (among many other problems) on a 2006 installation and never figured out why I couldn't get the logoff option back. I eventually gave up and uninstalled all the 3d stuff and the option came back. Are you sure you uninstalled ALL the packages you installed? I don't know which one caused the problem. 3ddesk, compiz (all of them), task-3ddesktop are all that come to mind but I think there were six or seven packages in all.

Did you reboot or at least restart X? I think some packages (like dkms-nvidia) that the kernel or X depends on need a restart to be completly removed. Are you trying to upgrade your dkms-nvidia drivers or upgrading your kernel? I have found in the past that rpmdrake occasionally is a bit "borked" and sometimes it just doesn't update the package lists until you exit and re-launch it. I prefer using kpackage to uninstall packages and search for installed packages mostly because of the better output from it (and it has a "reload" button). Using rpm from the command line is also not difficult and is more responsive.

Thats the locale -a output, but like I said, the keycode settings and keys work fine but only if I enter them manually or launch the scripts manually. I even put the xmod command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local to no avail. I was hoping I had some syntax or speling error. Plus all the docs I've read say the Xmapmods are loaded after xorg.conf, meaning the definitions there are somewhat not at issue. Just incase they are -

This is driving me batty. I have an unsupported keyboard with a few multimedia keys I want to activate for all my users. I got the keycode info via "xev" and edited /etc/X11/Xmodmap to this; and I added this to /etc/X11/init/initrc "xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap". All of this does nothing. I have put the xmodmap statement above and below the "exec /etc/X11/Xsession $" line with and without a space. I have put a script file in my own home directory under Autostart in kde with "xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap" - still nothing. If I enter the keycodes manually via konsole (i.e. xmodmap -e 'keycodeXXX=XF86Command') the keys work fine. If I manually execute the initrc script after logging in to X - the keys all work. If I manually launch the script in my Autostart directory, they all work. There is not a .initrc or .Xmodmap file in my home directory. Any answers????

I am currently not having any readily visable issues with X that I am aware of, but these lines are in my kdm.log file and I hate not knowing what they mean. I have googled my butt off, but no new knowledge has come my way. I have seen that "X: client 1" errors lead to not being able to start X, but nothing about "25". Also the repeated "SetClientVersion" and "SetGrabKeysState" line are making me curious as well. Any ideas or info out there?

I no longeruse windo$e so I don't really need the fat partition but I did think of that earlier today. I believe I am correct in thinking that vfat/fat32 doesn't support file ownership thereby removing the need for some of the above. Of course, I feel this method may introduce somewhat less reliable file storage and speed. I guess you can't have it all!