Bari

Ok, gave up on this after trying all sort of combinations and installled the smartlink rpm which didn't work either. Still I will be moving soon and getting broadband which i am told is easier to sort out than winmodems. Thanks to those who tried to help.

Yup changed to gdm and all worked ok so there perhaps a bug in kdmwhen using nvidia drivers? sounds strange but then thats computers.

Ok, making a little bit of progress. I didn't have the kernel source installed , however after installing it got exactly the same error messages. So got rid of gcc4 and substituted gcc3 and the make worked fine...However the make install had a bit of a problem The sinstall instructions are to exit the makefile to point at the kernel source. The default is /lib/modules/ (kernel version/build. I then changed this to /usr/src/linux kernel version/build. on running make install got the error message that it couldn't find the build directory. (rats) so therefore it exited the make install. I have checked the source package and there is no seperate build directory. The install of the kernel source placed a link to build in /lib/modules/kernel but it just points to the /usr/src/kernel source. I have found these build directories in the kernel source should i point the makefile to one of these pse. /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/3rdparty/mkbuild.pl /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/Documentation/kbuild /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/Documentation/kbuild/00-INDEX /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/arch/i386/boot/tools/build.c /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/arch/x86_64/boot/tools/build.c /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/fs/jffs2/build.c /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/scripts/Makefile.build /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/scripts/package/builddeb

Thanks for that I'll have a look I have also been told that it could be gcc 4, for this package I should be using gcc 3 I always thought these compilers were backwards compatable? Anyway off to have a look in usr.

Funny I amd also using kde and nvidia driver as as the log shows its kdm that is refusing to shut down, I'll try changing to gdm and see if it goes away.

I don't know as I am still fairly new to this, how do I check. I have pointed the makefile to /lib/modules/ and to the kernel version 2.6 I am assuming this is the kernel source?

Thanks but I only have dial up. I checked acpi ticked and unticked it and it makes no difference nor does running xfdrake. I have checked the log see below and to me it seems that there is a problem with the display manager, what do you think. May 11 21:45:27 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 May 11 21:46:02 localhost kde3(pam_unix)[3463]: session closed for user barry May 11 21:46:16 localhost shutdown[4278]: shutting down for system halt May 11 21:46:17 localhost init: Switching to runlevel: 0 May 11 21:46:18 localhost kernel: bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 34430 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 34382 bytes, v3). May 11 21:46:18 localhost kernel: bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on May 11 21:46:18 localhost lisa: Stopping lisa: succeeded May 11 21:46:19 localhost dm: Display manager shutdown failed May 11 21:46:19 localhost dm: May 11 21:46:19 localhost rc: Stopping dm: failed May 11 21:46:19 localhost xfs[3143]: terminating May 11 21:46:19 localhost xfs: xfs shutdown succeeded

Trying to install slmodem-2.9.10 fom source after make command get the following error messages:- make -C modem all make[1]: Entering directory `/home/barry/Download/slmodem-2.9.10/modem' gcc -Wall -g -O -I. -DCONFIG_DEBUG_MODEM -o modem.o -c modem.c modem.c: In function 'modem_reset': modem.c:1701: error: invalid storage class for function 'sregs_init' modem.c:1713: warning: implicit declaration of function 'sregs_init' modem.c: At top level: modem.c:1727: error: static declaration of 'sregs_init' follows non-static declaration modem.c:1713: error: previous implicit declaration of 'sregs_init' was here make[1]: *** [modem.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/barry/Download/slmodem-2.9.10/modem' make: *** [modem] Error 2 I assume that there are errors in the actual code of the programme and its nothing to do with the distro (Mandriva 2006) can anyone confirm pse or tell me what is saying? [moved from Hardware by spinynorman]

Thanks for the very prompt reply, I'll see what happens with those suggestions. In the meantime just off to post a query re slmodem compiling.

Just installed Mandriva 2006 after playing about with fedora core 5, Mepis and ubuntu, but I always seem to come back to Mandrake. On selecting reboot from the logout choices the screen blanks out (black) with a little icon or something up in the top left corner of the screen, its very small and I can't quite make out what it is. The screen then goes blue with the x cursor in the middle of the screen. Nothing then happens no matter what key I press or mouse button I click. If I press the power button and let go imediatly the process starts starts shutting down as normal but instead of rebooting it just turns off. On the verbose shutdown list it would seem that the 'xserver'? fails to stop. What should I do is their a config file I can alter to sort this out. Any advice would be appreciated. ;)