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Wow they just unseated Mandrake as the #1

if you open a terminal and type: acpi -a What does it say? (acpi package needs to be installed)

Yea Im on an older version (1.1.4) but its pretty soild. Kubuntu (Horay)

Well Ive never been much of a Gnome lover (personal choice no flame intended) I tried Ubuntu and liked it very much by KDE didnt work so well. NOW enter KUBUNTU https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Kubuntu KDE 3.4 and it rocks So far so good Ill be askingsome questions no doubt

Try it in konqueror: fish://login@host such as: fish://root@192.168.0.1 See if that works for you. If you have lisa running try: lan:///

May seem odd but did you install the acpi / acpid packages? With it being in the runlevels that may seem the case. Does it give you anything when you type: #acpi -a What you may want to do is check out your acpi info via the /proc directory. Let me direct you toward my thread "Demystifying the /proc" what you would want is to "cat" the /proc/acpi directory. Have fun: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=17747

Here is another question. Is it just MDL 10.1 or every Distro? Have you tried some live-cd's to see if does the same? I suggest Knoppix, PcLinuxOS, or Mepis.

tnine- have you seen this: http://www.worldofjon.com/artze4560us.html imdeemvp- Look for a similar Laptop series- http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/compaq.html

2 things: First try: acpi=ht then what about trying a different kernel? Maybe just try to compile a Vanilla kernel? The nitro patch works good on my lappy too. :D

Did you check the sticky? http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=19008

So since Im a die hard Gentoo user am I a "paul" in training? Now if only I could also be a "aru" in the art of bash.

By the way did you prelink? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml

Behold the power of Portage!!!! root@arora acdispatcher # emerge --help Usage: emerge [ options ] [ action ] [ ebuildfile | tbz2file | dependency ] [ ... ] emerge [ options ] [ action ] < system | world > emerge < --sync | --metadata | --info > emerge --resume [ --pretend | --ask | --skipfirst ] emerge --help [ system | config | sync ] Options: -[abcCdDefhikKlnoOpPsSuUvV] [--oneshot] [--newuse] [--noconfmem] [--columns] [--nospinner] Actions: [ --clean | --depclean | --inject | --prune | --regen | --search | --unmerge ] Help (this screen): --help (-h short option) Displays this help; an additional argument (see above) will tell emerge to display detailed help. Actions: --clean (-c short option) Cleans the system by removing outdated packages which will not remove functionalities or prevent your system from working. The arguments can be in several different formats : * world * system or * 'dependency specification' (in single quotes is best.) Here are a few examples of the dependency specification format: binutils matches binutils-2.11.90.0.7 and binutils-2.11.92.0.12.3-r1 >binutils-2.11.90.0.7 matches binutils-2.11.92.0.12.3-r1 sys-devel/binutils matches binutils-2.11.90.0.7 and binutils-2.11.92.0.12.3-r1 sys-devel/binutils-2.11.90.0.7 matches binutils-2.11.90.0.7 >sys-devel/binutils-2.11.90.0.7 matches binutils-2.11.92.0.12.3-r1 >=sys-devel/binutils-2.11.90.0.7 matches binutils-2.11.90.0.7 and binutils-2.11.92.0.12.3-r1 <sys-devel/binutils-2.11.92.0.12.3-r1 matches binutils-2.11.90.0.7 <=sys-devel/binutils-2.11.92.0.12.3-r1 matches binutils-2.11.90.0.7 and binutils-2.11.92.0.12.3-r1 --depclean Cleans the system by removing packages that are not associated with explicitly merged packages. Depclean works by creating the full dependency tree from the system list and the world file, then comparing it to installed packages. Packages installed, but not associated with an explicit merge are listed as candidates for unmerging. WARNING: This can seriously affect your system by removing packages that may have been linked against, but due to changes in USE flags may no longer be part of the dep tree. Use caution when employing this feature. --info Displays important portage variables that will be exported to ebuild.sh when performing merges. This information is useful for bug reports and verification of settings. All settings in make.{conf,globals,defaults} and the environment show up if run with the '--verbose' flag. --inject (-i short option) Add a stub entry for a package so that Portage thinks that it's installed when it really isn't. Handy if you roll your own packages. Example: emerge --inject sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.19 --metadata Causes portage to process all the metacache files as is normally done on the tail end of an rsync update using emerge --sync. The processing creates the cache database that portage uses for pre-parsed lookups of package data. --prune (-P short option) WARNING: This action can remove important packages! Removes all older versions of a package from your system. This action doesn't always verify the possible binary incompatibility between versions and can thus remove essential dependencies from your system. The argument format is the same as for the --clean action. --regen Causes portage to check and update the dependency cache of all ebuilds in the portage tree. This is not recommended for rsync users as rsync updates the cache using server-side caches. Rsync users should simply 'emerge --sync' to regenerate. --search (-s short option) searches for matches of the supplied string in the current local portage tree. The search string is a regular expression. A few examples: emerge search '^kde' list all packages starting with kde emerge search 'gcc$' list all packages ending with gcc emerge search '' or emerge search '.*' list all available packages --unmerge (-C short option) WARNING: This action can remove important packages! Removes all matching packages without checking for outdated versions, effectively removing a package completely from your system. Specify arguments using the dependency specification format described in the --clean action above. Options: --ask (-a short option) before performing the merge, display what ebuilds and tbz2s will be installed, in the same format as when using --pretend; then ask whether to continue with the merge or abort. Using --ask is more efficient than using --pretend and then executing the same command without --pretend, as dependencies will only need to be calculated once. --buildpkg (-b short option) tell emerge to build binary packages for all ebuilds processed (in addition to actually merging the packages. Useful for maintainers or if you administrate multiple Gentoo Linux systems (build once, emerge tbz2s everywhere). --buildpkgonly (-B short option) Creates a binary package, but does not merge it to the system. This has the restriction that unsatisfied dependencies must not exist for the desired package as they cannot be used if they do not exist on the system. --changelog (-l short option) When pretending, also display the ChangeLog entries for packages that will be upgraded. --columns Display the pretend output in a tabular form. Versions are aligned vertically. --debug (-d short option) Tell emerge to run the ebuild command in --debug mode. In this mode, the bash build environment will run with the -x option, causing it to output verbose debug information print to stdout. --debug is great for finding bash syntax errors as providing very verbose information about the dependency and build process. --deep (-D short option) When used in conjunction with --update, this flag forces emerge to consider the entire dependency tree of packages, instead of checking only the immediate dependencies of the packages. As an example, this catches updates in libraries that are not directly listed in the dependencies of a package. --emptytree (-e short option) Virtually tweaks the tree of installed packages to only contain libc, this is great to use together with --pretend. This makes it possible for developers to get a complete overview of the complete dependency tree of a certain package. --fetchonly (-f short option) Instead of doing any package building, just perform fetches for all packages (main package as well as all dependencies.) When used in combination with --pretend all the SRC_URIs will be displayed multiple mirrors per line, one line per file. --fetch-all-uri Instead of doing any package building, just perform fetches for all packages (main package as well as all dependencies.), grabbing all possible files. When used in combination with --pretend all the SRC_URIs will be displayed multiple mirrors per line, one line per file. --getbinpkg (-g short option) Using the server and location defined in PORTAGE_BINHOST, portage will download the information from each binary file there and it will use that information to help build the dependency list. This option implies '-k'. (Use -gK for binary-only merging.) --getbinpkgonly (-G short option) This option is identical to -g, as above, except it will not use ANY information from the local machine. All binaries will be downloaded from the remote server without consulting packages existing in the packages directory. --newuse Tells emerge to include installed packages where USE flags have changed since installation. --noconfmem Portage keeps track of files that have been placed into CONFIG_PROTECT directories, and normally it will not merge the same file more than once, as that would become annoying. This can lead to problems when the user wants the file in the case of accidental deletion. With this option, files will always be merged to the live fs instead of silently dropped. --nodeps (-O short option) Merge specified packages, but don't merge any dependencies. Note that the build may fail if deps aren't satisfied. --noreplace (-n short option) Skip the packages specified on the command-line that have already been installed. Without this option, any packages, ebuilds, or deps you specify on the command-line *will* cause Portage to remerge the package, even if it is already installed. Note that Portage won't remerge dependencies by default. --nospinner Disables the spinner regardless of terminal type. --oneshot Emerge as normal, but don't add packages to the world profile. This package will only be updated if it is depended upon by another package. --onlydeps (-o short option) Only merge (or pretend to merge) the dependencies of the specified packages, not the packages themselves. --pretend (-p short option) instead of actually performing the merge, simply display what ebuilds and tbz2s *would* have been installed if --pretend weren't used. Using --pretend is strongly recommended before installing an unfamiliar package. In the printout, N = new, U = updating, R = replacing, F = fetch restricted, B = blocked by an already installed package, D = possible downgrading. --verbose causes affecting use flags to be printed out accompanied by a '+' for enabled and a '-' for disabled flags. --quiet (-q short option) Effects vary, but the general outcome is a reduced or condensed output from portage's displays. --resume Resumes the last merge operation. Can be treated just like a regular merge as --pretend and other options work along side. 'emerge --resume' only returns an error on failure. Nothing to do exits with a message and a success condition. --searchdesc (-S short option) Matches the search string against the description field as well the package's name. Take caution as the descriptions are also matched as regular expressions. emerge -S html emerge -S applet emerge -S 'perl.*module' --skipfirst This option is only valid in a resume situation. It removes the first package in the resume list so that a merge may continue in the presence of an uncorrectable or inconsequential error. This should only be used in cases where skipping the package will not result in failed dependencies. --tree (-t short option) Shows the dependency tree using indentation for dependencies. Only really useful in combination with --emptytree, --update or --deep. --update (-u short option) Updates packages to the best version available, which may not always be the highest version number due to masking for testing and development. This will also update direct dependencies which may not what you want. In general use this option only in combi- nation with the world or system target. --upgradeonly (-U short option) Updates packages, but excludes updates that would result in a lower version of the package being installed. SLOTs are considered at a basic level. WARNING: This option is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. Please use the /etc/portage/package.* files from now on. --usepkg (-k short option) Tell emerge to use binary packages (from $PKGDIR) if they are available, thus possibly avoiding some time-consuming compiles. This option is useful for CD installs; you can export PKGDIR=/mnt/cdrom/packages and then use this option to have emerge "pull" binary packages from the CD in order to satisfy dependencies. --usepkgonly (-K short option) Like --usepkg above, except this only allows the use of binary packages, and it will abort the emerge if the package is not available at the time of dependency calculation. --verbose (-v short option) Effects vary, but the general outcome is an increased or expanded display of content in portage's displays. --version (-V short option) Displays the currently installed version of portage along with other information useful for quick reference on a system. See emerge info for more advanced information. Porthole is good but makes all those options unavailable. Oh compaired to apt: bash: apt: command not found root@arora:/ # apt-get --help apt 0.6.29 for linux i386 compiled on Dec 29 2004 02:07:09 Usage: apt-get [options] command apt-get [options] install|remove pkg1 [pkg2 ...] apt-get [options] source pkg1 [pkg2 ...] apt-get is a simple command line interface for downloading and installing packages. The most frequently used commands are update and install. Commands: update - Retrieve new lists of packages upgrade - Perform an upgrade install - Install new packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb) remove - Remove packages source - Download source archives build-dep - Configure build-dependencies for source packages dist-upgrade - Distribution upgrade, see apt-get(8) dselect-upgrade - Follow dselect selections clean - Erase downloaded archive files autoclean - Erase old downloaded archive files check - Verify that there are no broken dependencies Options: -h This help text. -q Loggable output - no progress indicator -qq No output except for errors -d Download only - do NOT install or unpack archives -s No-act. Perform ordering simulation -y Assume Yes to all queries and do not prompt -f Attempt to continue if the integrity check fails -m Attempt to continue if archives are unlocatable -u Show a list of upgraded packages as well -b Build the source package after fetching it -V Show verbose version numbers -c=? Read this configuration file -o=? Set an arbitary configuration option, eg -o dir::cache=/tmp See the apt-get(8), sources.list(5) and apt.conf(5) manual pages for more information and options. This APT has Super Cow Powers. Apt is cool but Im a tweak freak.

I've been rockin with Gentoo for some time. I personally think its real more customizable. That may be the case because of the overwhelming group of tech savy that are on the Gentoo board. Plus some of you old timers may have remembered my thread from ages ago about not wanted to upgrade every 6 months. With the exception of bvc :) most people have a hard time with upgrading to the next version on .rpm formats. With the case of Gentoo - 1 install and your done. You can upgrade to the next release when it comes out without starting from scratch. See My HowTo As for long compile times Ill admit its no where as fast as apt or urpmi but after a first install of the system it is not that long at all (on a fast system). Gentoo has binaries for the very large programs (OpenOffice.org, Mozilla). Porthole is very good but limited in its customization. For me I find the program I want on Porthole then emerge via command line. Another good for Portage - you can not have apt-get or urpmi running more than once at the same time. Ill have 3 or 4 packages emerging at the same time. emerge may take longer but Im doing 4 at a time. No file lock to deal with. No hack on any Distro or .rpm stuff. Just wanted to point out some Gentoo goodness

First Its important to note that gentoo users can upgrade all packages to current level by the "emerge -u world" command. But their system may not be equal to the current Gentoo release, so here we go. My system runs ~x86 (unstable), and is pretty clutterd. Some things are broke, some are hacked to work. But all in all a good running system. <cut from the Gentoo page> OK Im ready - Lets go: First make sure you have the gentoolkit installed: #emerge -u gentoolkit Then make sure you have a current portage: #emerge sync <<Now may be a good time for a backup (/etc)>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. Now time for the fun: First we need to update your profile to the current one. Come to find out I was useing the 2004.1 profile. Remove old profile: # rm /etc/make.profile Now link to the current profile: # ln -s ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/200X.X /etc/make.profile Note: Replace the above X.X with the current release. Once that is done its time to upgrade your Gentoo: First check for dependency problems: # emerge --pretend --update --deep --newuse world From here you may need to adjust your settings in /etc/portage. I found out I had a package masked in /etc/portage/package.mask that I forgot about. Once all that was worked out: # emerge --update --deep --newuse world For me I had 99 Packages to upgrade. I normally dont do a --deep option when upgrading. Also running ~x86 makes this even more dangerous. But here are the next steps Ill take: <<cut from Gentoo docs>> So now its time to remove the orphaned dependencies. First again check for dependency issues: # emerge �p depclean Some people have reported that this step has tried to unmerge sys-apps/slocate and net-misc/dhcpcd so a edit of your world file may be in order! Once all checks out: I found depclean wanted to unemerge two packages I needed: net-misc/dhcpcd and dev-java/blackdown-jre # emerge depclean Now you should have a clean(er) system. But to make sure you didnt break any dependency: Recheck all dependency issues and reinstall if needed: # revdep-rebuild Have fun - Hope it works as good for you as it did for me :P Some Sites I got my idea / info from: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2...asc&start=0 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/hand...rt=2&chap=1 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml Gentoo Rocks

Are you listed in the /etc/sudoers file? http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/linux-hn/addusers.htm

First make sure its running OK. as root: #/etc/init.d/acpi restart see if there is any errors. Also what command did you place into your boot loader? maybe post it here. What is your system setup? Laptop type? may also check your dmesg for errrors #dmesg Welcome to the MUB

Nottin to special - Just re-ermeged my Gentoo Distro now running stable I call it Klight - Its a cross between KDE and XFce4.

Wow it is an old one huh? Also sometimes if you add: psmouse.proto=imps to your lilo.conf or grub it may help to get the touchpad to work.

2 starter bars? gdesklets? I thought I had only one? Yea thats a XFce4.2 -RC1 http://www.os-cillation.com/article.php?sid=42 Its installed into a complete userspace (/home) so when its no longer beta Ill install it. As of what you see thats my own mish mash. Its hard to see but there is a gnome-panel at the top also. thats a gdesklets starter bar and the XFce4 panel below it. You see its of my own creation. I Love XFce4 but I didnt like its taskerbar -n- stuff so in comes gnome-panel. Plus I like GNOME's panel goodies. That being said XFc4 does not allow you to place objects on the desktop (icons -n stuff) so in comes kdesktop. basically in my Autostart directory I placed a script: #!/bin/sh acme& killall xftaskbar4& gnome-panel& gdesklets start& /usr/kde/3.3/bin/kdesktop& here is another pic with the panel: http://www.geocities.com/ac_data@ameritech.net/December3.jpg So I have a mix of just about everything. XFce4 wm, Gnome-panel, and kdesktop. Runs real nice. I kinda got the idea for a post in the gentoo forums for a minimalistic KDE desktop.

Nominated Screenshot Ok here is my newest Desktop: http://www.geocities.com/ac_data@ameritech.net/December2.jpg Its a modified cybrjackle script <thanks>

Nominated Screenshot First try back at KDE KDE-3.3.1 Gentoo / Vanilla Kernel mix of superkaramba and gdesklets

OK the dd didnt work. Over file size limit. What about formatting hda5 so it all looks nice then try a data recovery?

OK I messed up big time. Here is the skinny if anyone has something else I can try please help. fstab /dev/hda1 - /mnt/windows <fat32> /dev/hda2 - / <reiserfs> /dev/hda3 - swap /dev/hda5 -/mnt/data (22GB) <ext3> /dev/hda6 - /mnt/linux (DistroHo partition) <ext3> OK here is what I tried to do. Boot to windows and started up Partition Magic. Tried to: delete /dev/hda4 expand the logical drive (hda4) to incompass the freespace (hda4) enlarge hda5 to addon the 500mg of hda4 create hda7 for swap Set it all up and hit "OK" AN ERROR HAPPENED When I first booted hda4 was gone and their was free space in the front of hda5. hda5 said unknown file format. I was able via a MDK disk1 to reset hda4 as it was (primary partion). But /dev/hda5 still lists itself as unknown file format. When I boot to a MDK disk it lists it as ext2 (its ext3). When I try to mount it: arora acdispatcher # mount -t ext3 /dev/hda5 /mnt/data mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, or too many mounted file systems OK next we try: arora acdispatcher # e2fsck /dev/hda5 e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Couldn't find ext2 superblock, trying backup blocks... e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda5 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> OK now Im real worried Did I say that my backup is corrupt too? go go google: http://edseek.com/archives/2004/02/25/ext3...block-recovery/ http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.ph...topic=503&st=50 They gave me good ideas. Here is what I tried: arora acdispatcher # mke2fs -n /dev/hda5 mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) 2709120 inodes, 5407872 blocks 270393 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 166 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 16320 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000 Ok got some backup superblocks (I think) so we try: arora acdispatcher # e2fsck -b 32768 /dev/hda5 e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda5 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> I did that for all the above block numbers. Im stuck. Ive tried Partgui, QTparted, Partition Magic wont even come up anymore. Then in terminal I found this: arora acdispatcher # partgui Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed Warning: Unable to align partition properly. This probably means that another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table, because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry. It is safe to ignore,but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders. Lovely wish I knew that prior to mucking around with the partitions. The data is there. I just need to get to it. At last resort I did this: dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/path/to/network/drive With my network this will take a while. Even then this is reaching for straws. Does anyone have any other ideas?

Use / Modify cybrjackle's script: Found Here http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtop...ndpost&p=151074 His Script: #!/bin/bash clear echo -----------=[Current System Stats v0.1]=--------- echo echo ____________________ System _____________________ cat /etc/debian_version cat /proc/version #/lib/libc.so.6 | grep NPTL echo Uptime: `uptime` echo ____________________ Kernel _____________________ echo Operating System: `uname -o` echo Kernel Version: `uname -sr` #echo Arch type: `uname -pi` echo _____________________ CPU _______________________ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" cat /proc/cpuinfo| grep "cpu MHz" #cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "bogomips" #cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "cache size" echo _____________________ RAM _______________________ free -m cat /proc/meminfo | grep "MemTotal" cat /proc/meminfo | grep "MemFree" cat /proc/meminfo | grep "SwapTotal" cat /proc/meminfo | grep "SwapFree" echo _________________ Hard Disks ____________________ df -h -l echo _________________ Devices ____________________ lspci -v |grep -i audio lspci -v |grep -i nvidia lspci -v |grep -i ethernet exit 0