scoonma

If you're still able to boot Linux, I'd do that and install Lilo or GRUB into the MBR. Using MCC or drakconf, Mandriva normally detects your Windows boot partition and adds an appropriate entry.

Cheers,

scoonma

You can type "startx", which should start the X server. You can go to MCC, then choose X server properties. In the options you can adjust to start the server on boot automatically.

Cheers,

scoonma

You could do another check with a Live-CD (not MDV2007 based). If the system clock then goes that fast, too, you'd know it's a hardware problem...

Hi tschwenke,

your concept looks good to me. But anyhow, if it works, it is "correct". :-)

Can't speak for others, but using Mandrake systems (last as main working OS) since version 8.0. So I've tried it on different types of hardware mixtures, an for me it's getting better most times with very few backsteps. Otherwise I'd have switched over to Ubuntu or Gentoo. ;-)

If such a devoted user abandons Mandriva, it's quite discouraging :huh:

I don't think Ian abandons Mandriva completely, just for one of his machines. Right?

Hi bonebags,

you can do an update to your edition. I don't know what this is doing to the Sims (if running linux native, everything will probably be okay). You can download a free edition of Mandriva (.ISOs) and go through the update process by booting the first one.

HTH,

scoonma

Hi SnowX,

you can find out your kernel version by typing "uname -a" in a shell window.

There are some alternative kernels ready to install once you added sources for software repositories (check Easy-Urpmi Link at the top of these pages). If you want to install a different kernel, you have to do this manually, i.e.

1) Open shell window and "su" to get root access

2) When entering "urpmi kern+<TAB>+<ENTER>", you'll be presented a list of available kernels. Keep in mind that not every one of them will fit your system well. When installing on a 64-Bit system, you should use these versions, same goes to multicore CPUs (SMP-versions) etc...

HTH,

scoonma

Hm. This is really strange. Did you try another kernel yet? Maybe the resume option kicks in wrongly after shutdown? I'd try to disable it temporarily just to check.

HTH,

scoonma

Hi tubasoldier,

don't exactly know what you mean with "bouncing icons", but you can adjust keyboard repeat and doubleclick speed using GNOME or KDE settings. For keyboard repeat speed, there may also be high BIOS settings?!?

HTH,

scoonma

Hi Michael,

with Gnome you can simply change (shell) windows transparency by editing the windows profile (using the menu for the window). Maybe it can be done similar in KDE?

Hi jgw,

which environment are you using ATM? Did you change it to GNOME? When stuck with anjuta, it would be good to give some more detailed feedback/error messages etc. in order to help you. Are you using the (stable) version 1.2.4 (would recommend that)? Is it properly installed?

I feared there could occur problems with dd, but didn't want to go into a bad argument. From a technical point of view, it may be fun to move partitions manually, but for just having partitions moved/resized, a gparted iso really is one of the best choices out there. You'd just invest only downloading about 30MB, one CD and about one hour when moving/resizing (and go after a coffee while working...). All point'n click stuff. What could be easier?

Hi Urza,

the easieast/most convenient way to move partitions I've found is using the GPartED Live CD. You can download the latest version here:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...ckage_id=173828

Did you update initscripts? /etc/inittab belongs to it...

Hi Emret,

it's easier than you may think. You don't have to download/install the packages manually. Just use the Easy-Urpmi Link at the top of these pages to install a standard software repository. All needed packages will be downloaded automatically, if you tell urpmi. Use the "show specifc options" and add at least "main", "contrib", "plf-free" and "plf-nonfree". Thus you get a system bound to download all necessary packages when needed. :-)

When you "urpmi ati" afterwards, all will go fine.

Oh, just saw Easy-Urpmi has not been updated for 2007 yet. But here's a workaround:

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=35538

Cheers,

scoonma

Hm. Maybe there's something unusual in /etc/inittab? Does the shutdown problem occur with other kernels?

Hi Emret,

you should check first if the fglrx module is actually loaded. This can be done by starting X, then opening a console and "su" to root. "lsmod | grep fglrx" should give positive result. Remember that you have to recompile the source module when changing/updating the kernel. If you want to keep it easy, use the fglrx version from a plf repository.

HTH,

scoonma

K3B is a really smart app, and it's the only one from the KDE package in use on this machine (rest is GNOME). With some version K3B began to rely on kdesu, but after installing kdebase-progs package, everything went fine. No big deal... :-)

Cheers,

scoonma

Hi jza,

with sed you could to the following to search&replace:

sed -e 's/oldpattern/newpattern/g' file > newfile

This would replace all strings matching oldpattern with the string in newpattern in "file", writing the output to "newfile". Patterns follow the rules of perl regular expressions. You can find an introduction to regex here:

http://www.anaesthetist.com/mnm/perl/regex.htm

For cron, check "man cron", "man crontab" and study the cron related files in /etc. A good explanation of the structure of a crontab file is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab

If you'd like to have some job done regularly, you can edit one of those files in /etc accordingly.

HTH,

scoonma

Obviously MCC has no valid entry for update server. You can use the link at the top of this forum (Easy-Urpmi) to add more/working servers. Just enter your options and follow the small set of instructions presented there.

Hm. Are you sure the hardware is ok? You could check by booting some Live CD.

Hm. Your fstab entry looks quite okay. If your hda device is not in /dev, you could insert it manually by the following (assumed your CD-ROM is the same physical device as your DVD reader, right?), after opening a shell window.

su [;then enter root password]
makedev /dev hda
cd /dev
ln -s /dev/hda /dev/dvd
ln -s /dev/hda /dev/dvd0
exit

Please check if this works and if not, which error messages are generated?

HTH,

scoonma

Hi Velichko,

an easy way would be using harddrake from MCC (Mandrake Control Center) to try getting /dev/hda built automatically. If that does not work, you could use the "makedev" command (see "man makedev").

Good luck!

scoonma

KDE and GNOME can coexist on a Mandriva system. If you want to install a basic GNOME environment, you can simply install the package "task-gnome-minimal". This should take care of all stuff which is definitely needed. For developing purpose, you'll have to add some "*-devel" type packegs, C-Compiler (gcc), gmake and some additional stuff, if you like. This is taken from the gnome-minimal description:

Name		: task-gnome-minimal
Version	 : 2007
Description :
This package is a meta-package, meaning that its purpose is to contain
minimal dependencies for running a minimal GNOME desktop environment.

If in doubt when presented some option which further package to use, choose default or simply ask here. :-)

Good luck,

scoonma