scoonma

Hm, not quite sure what you mean by "old", but I recently installed a system with ASRock AM2NF3-VSTA Mainboard. Thus I could use AGP graphics cards (up to 8x), but still plug in AMD CPUs up to Athlon64X2 BE series. Works fine; I also had less trouble with nvida graphics cards than others.

Hi folks, I'm trying to build a recent kernel, but "make" fails shortly with the following message: make[1]: *** Keine Regel vorhanden, um das Target »init/main.o«, benötigt von »init/built-in.o«, zu erstellen. Schluss. (No rule to build target init/main.o..) Looking inside the .config file I found the following variable: CONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST="/lib/modules/$UNAME_RELEASE/.config" However, in the given directory there's no .config file. I assume this may be related to recent use of kernel tmb series. The actual kernel is a "normal" 2.6.x. Would it be sufficient to change the path to direct to another .config file working with this release?

Which Mandriva version are you using? Did you check for updates to dosbox (use easyurpmi links on top on this page)? Which version of dosbox do you have installed?

Hi Magikx, Dosbox full screen works fine here: Recent cooker with dosbox-0.72-1mdv2008.0, Gnome and compiz (command: compiz ccp) windows manager. So maybe it's not cookers fault. What's about your config?

Hi there, I stumbled over a problem with Kino, some files can be handled normally, but for others I only get an evil scratching sound both while playing and also in output files. I wondered wether that could be traced back to some faulty or missing codec, but no luck until yet. However, the files which raise that annoying behaviour can be played normally with mplayer. I've appended the mplayer output for one of these: MPlayer 1.0-1.rc1.19plf2008.0-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (Family: 15, Model: 75, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. 98 audio & 216 video codecs mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing test.avi. AVI file format detected. VIDEO: [DX50] 720x576 24bpp 25.000 fps 1101.7 kbps (134.5 kbyte/s) Clip info: Source: 705515_203731 Name: test ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4) ========================================================================== ========================================================================== Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad... Opening audio decoder: [libmad] libmad mpeg audio decoder AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000) Selected audio codec: [mad] afm: libmad (libMAD MPEG layer 1-2-3) ========================================================================== AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.25:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [xv] 720x576 => 720x576 Planar YV12 [zoom] A: 8.9 V: 8.9 A-V: -0.000 ct: 0.000 224/224 6% 0% 1.3% 1 0 The soundcard installed is an Audigy4; driver SB0610 (alsa) and SigmaTel STAC9750.51 (oss). Any ideas please?

Okay, no problem. :-)

Sorocco, your config does not look wrong but well, a bit strange. Is there any good reason why you chose three totally different IP home network ranges? I'd have configured as follows: eth0 192.168.2.2 eth1 192.168.2.3 eth2 192.168.2.4 Generally, I'd put all network devices within your local domain into the 192.168.*.* range.

Hi niemda, your first log extract reflects that tomcat would not start but raise java errors. Which jre did you install? I can recommend the java-1.6.0-sun package(s) from non-free repository.

Not every host answers ping nowadays. This is what I get with cnn: PING www.cnn.com (64.236.91.22) 56(84) bytes of data. --- www.cnn.com ping statistics --- 16 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 14999ms The website however is working. For testing with ping I stick to sites known to answer (www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, ...)

Despite of the more or less constant effect of some mirrors somtimes stalling with ftp... - what about using rsync mirrors? I prefer rsync now anyway. One positive effect is that already downloaded data must not be reloaded again if it is correct and up to date.

I just noticed that I cannot deinstall some lexmark drivers (2070, maybe 1100 too) without breaking dependancies. Is this some kind of historical disorder or has it more functional reasons? (Always try to keep my system clean... ;-)

Just noticed that recent libalsa and sound-scripts cooker updates fixed my sound probs (i.e. no hack inside rc.local necessary anymore). Thx! Rest of beta2 is already working well here (GNOME +3D). :D

No, the hdlist.cz files contain a full description of repository sites, so they are quite big. In 2007.0 (and 2007.1?) I noticed that there was no more messages displayed by curl about downloading progress when installing a repo for the first time (fixed again in 2008). This could be one reason: Your progress would simply not be displayed, but yet active. Download time depends on your internet connection speed. If you wait more than 20min on a DSL connection, something is definitely wrong. In that case, try another mirror or CTRL-C to break and retry again. Some mirrors tend to stall downloads more or less permanently (but sometimes more or less work shortly after). :-(

Don't know about the color printers, but my B/W Kyocera laser (FS-920) worked fast and fine from the beginning. No probs until now. Plugged it in, installed .ppd file and ready to run (with CUPS). That's the way it has to be. ;-)

Hi Bobby, did you already try one of those drivers you mentioned with your card?

From here you can simply login with your normal user and type "startx" to get to your favourite X desktop. Within MCC (Mandriva Control Center) graphical startup can be enabled.

Hi there, I found in MDV 2008 cooker alsa causes to loose it's volume levels permanently after rebooting. I could unsubtly fix that by adding "alsactl restore" to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. EDIT: Error is resolved in recent cooker.

Oh, I would try the same IP address as gateway. Alternatively, you could change the address of the second NIC to something different ... as long as you absolutely don't have to have two different networks.

Both devices may have the same gateway address, say your first one be eth0 with IP 192.168.2.2 and your second eth1 with IP 192.168.2.3 cold have the same gateway 192.168.2.1. The string 255.255.255.0 will probably reflect your netmask. HTH, scoonma

Gateway normally refers to an IP that network interface is bound to; in many home networks that would be the IP eth0, eth1, ... is gated through. Check for that in "drakconnect", ethernet / config manual / gateway.

A great tool to fix up and clean code produced by those bigger apps is named "tidy". I'm using it for man years now. :-)

Don't know about the IPv6 stuff, but the entry above would indicate in most cases that you have a router (or similar device) running on IP 192.168.1.1, which is working as DHCP server, getting your providers DNS server name/IP number automatically and working as a nameserver for your client machine. If you can affirm, everything is okay in this field. (Most routers can be configured/checked by using a web interface; just try http://192.168.1.1 in your browser.) HTH, scoonma

Hm. I took this seriously: I've never stumbled over any IPV6 related browsing problem, neither on my own machines or when someone asked me. OTOH, about 50% of that kind of problems have been related to missing/badly configured DNS entries. I also cannot see why IPv6 should cause that much trouble. Can you give me an explanation?

1. Are you able to send/receive data (phyically)? Please login as root in a terminal window (open it, then type "su" and your root password after being asked) and enter "net_monitor". What is the output? 2. Do you have a valid DNS (domain name server) entry? Please check and post the output of the file /etc/resolv.conf.

Hi John & all, sorry I didn't notice your posting before (right in this moment I tried to answer it went away). So I can give but only few advice on this: I had the same issue (utf8 error plus character input accepted, but invisible) after switching to the cooker. I also chose the new kernel (2.6.22-3 at that time). However, the error was hard to replicate, and even simply disappeared sometimes after simply logging out and logging in again. Now cooker seems more stable after all, and that problem has gone. I've also upgraded an recompiled to kernel version 2.6.22-5 with my personal adjustments. Greetings, scoonma