jkerr82508

Got the firefox problem again even though the hard drive wasn't maxed out.

Try reducing the size of the Firefox cache - Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Network

Although your real problem is probably that your /home partition is not large enough.

Jim

Thanks Jim but where exactly is this Pulse Audio control.

I can't see it anywhere in the Menu or in MCC Hardware Audio apart from enable PulseAudio.

This is one of the really stupid examples of introducing new programs but no info immediately upfront to indicate how to get to it if it is not in the Menu or MCC.

 

Cheers. John

I have an entry in the kmenu under "Sound and Video" for PulseAudio Volume Control. If you have the kmenu configured to show Descriptions rather than Names, then it may appear as just "Volume Control". The command to run PulseAudio Volume Control is pavucontrol. If for some reason PulseAudio was not installed in your system, then it can be installed by installing task-pulseaudio.

Other than the man pages and brief references in the Release Notes and Errata, the only place, that I know of, to find any information about PA is on their web-site:

http://pulseaudio.org/

Jim

I think I have it, I made changes to the file /etc/modprobe.d/sound, so it read

 

alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1

alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1

 

seems fine for now, but I guess only time will tell.

I have two sound devices - onboard and usb - and have edited /etc/modprobe.conf to delete all references to sound devices and add the following:

#The following entries may be useful to keep on-board audio as the default

alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx

alias sound-slot-1 snd-usb-audio

options snd-via82xx index=0 id=default

options snd-usb-audio index=1 id=phone

#End of jim's additions

This worked on 2007.1, 2008.0 and on 2008.1 (with or without PulseAudio). My edits are retained after a re-boot. I don't have an /etc/modprobe.d/sound. I confess I've really no idea what actually goes on "under the hood". I just stick with what seems to work :)

Jim

I just had a thought - perhaps /etc/modprobe.d/sound is created because you have two non-usb audio devices. I do have an /etc/modprobe.d/snd-usb-audio.

You help make my point stated in another thread that having to do cli edits in files to select the sound source of your choice as default is simply not good enough in this day and age. You should be able to go into MCC ..... Hardware (or somewhere) and make your choice there, do a click and it be done.

 

It is even worse when yo have a Video capture card as a sound source as well, plus a plug-in sound card, you then have three sources (mainboard included).

 

Cheers. John.

In 2008.1, if you use PulseAudio (which is activated by default), then in the PulseAudio Volume Control/Output Devices you can set the default device, by right-clicking on it. (Not the most obvious place to look for this option, but a (small) step in the right direction.)

Jim

I have seen reports of this. IIRC when someone has a USB drive attached on boot (but not on installation), it somehow is identified as sda. Personally, I only power up my USB drive when I want to use it and have not experienced this. For me, using UUIDs solves a problem that does not exist and so I've removed the "alphabet soup" from fstab and menu.lst. Perhaps this should be added as an option in the installer.

Jim

I don't think thats the problem..

Why not?

Jim

That option is still there on my system. I'm using i586 - powerpack.

Jim

You've done it again, Jim; many thanks for the decisive tip which solves the final problem. After looking briefly into your initial suggestions I decided to go for the final one - selecting a different editor. Now gedit is the default; it prints correctly and has the advantage of providing more facilities than kwrite. Great advice. Once again, many thanks. :D

One of the reasons that I enjoy using linux is that there is almost always a way to "get the job done". It just requires perseverance - sometimes rather a lot of perseverance. :)

Jim

It's a long time since I used mdv2006, and so can't remember if I had any problem getting kwrite to print. A few places that you might look for "oddities" or fiddle with settings (in no particular order):

- /var/log/cups/error_log

- Printer font settings in kwrite's config

- Options in kwrite's Print dialogue

- kcontrol's printer config module

- The properties of the file that you are trying to print

- http://bugs.kde.org/

You may also try with another "pure text" editor such as kedit or kate. (If one of those works, then It should be possible to set that as the default text editor, if you can't get printing to work from kwrite.)

Jim

Probably this:

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=40005

Jim

this time I tried to install the package manually, with the following result:

[root@192 EpsonDX7400]# rpm -i pipslite-cups-1.0.*-*.i386.rpm
	file /usr/bin/ekpstm from install of pipslite-cups-1.0.3-1 conflicts with file from package pips-gtk2-3.0-1
	file /usr/lib/cups/backend/ekplp from install of pipslite-cups-1.0.3-1 conflicts with file from package pips-cups-3.0-1

Try installing the rpm with

rpm -ivh --replacefiles pipslite-cups-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm

Jim

P.S. My reading of the installation guide suggests that there should be a basic driver available after installing the rpm. You only need to run pipslite-install if the basic driver does not give the full functionality that you want. (I could be misinterpreting what it says. I always find the Avasys "help" files to be difficult to understand.)

It may be called something else. I'm not using the Epson drivers at the moment (Mandriva has a driver for my present printer), but I seem to recall something like "Epson printing system" being used and the driver was to be found at the very end of either the Epson list or the entire printer list in Printerdrake's Driver Selection tool. There should have been an installation guide of some kind available on the page where you got the rpms which will tell you what the driver is called.

Jim

Use the rpms:

http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/spc/DL2.do

If that link doesn't work then go here:

http://avasys.jp/hp/menu000000900/hpg000000859.htm

and follow the directions to get the drivers that you need.

Jim

I installed Mandriva 2008 Spring, booted it a few times. Then I copied the menu.lst stanza for "linux" from the new installation /dev/sdb11 to my existing menu.lst on /dev/sda6. At boot I went to the grub prompt and ran >setup (hd0) (hd0,5) like I've done for a year. But Mandriva will not boot. I get a grub error of Error 2 which from the web I see:

2 : "Selected disk doesn't exist"

You are probably experiencing this bug:

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=38054

Jim

AdamW wrote in the Mandriva forum:

Details here:

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2008.1_Errata#...em::uniq_called

Jim

when will the urpmi repositores change from cooker to 2008.1? No reall hurry, I was just wondering.

2008.1 repos are present on the primary mirrors. When your mirror will have them depends on its syncing policy.

Jim

To use an existing .vdi file in a new installation, create a new VM and point the set-up wizard to the existing hard disk (the .vdi file).

Jim

If you store the VM's in the default location, ~/.VirtualBox, then either keep your Home partition, or back up ~/.VirtualBox. If you store the VM's in some other location, then I think the files that you need to back up are the *.vdi files (one for each VM). If this VM is mission-critical, then I'm surprised that you do not back it up regularly.

Jim

hi, i downloaded these scanner drivers for my epson dx4400 and mandriva 2008:

http://www.avasys.jp/lx-bin2/linux_e/spc/DL1.do

 

there are rpms, but conflict with libsane, so i dunno what to do, my system is up to date and i'm really wondering how to fix it

 

could you help? thanks

I have a different model Epson scanner, but what works for me is to install the rpms with the following command in a root terminal:

rpm -ivh --replacefiles filename.rpm

(Substitute "filename" with the name of the rpm to be installed.)

Jim

There are other KDE apps that use "click on column header to sort on this column". Konqueror in list view mode is one.

Jim

Clicking on the Date/Order of Arrival column header seems to still work for me. Although I'm only testing 2008 Spring at this stage and so don't have a lot of emails to display.

Jim

Edit - Just to confirm I copied over my mail store from 2008 and clicking on the column headers does work. Clicking again on the Date column header changes the order from Ascending to Descending. There are also two additional options for Date of Arrival. Repeatedly clicking on the Date column header cycles through the four options.

I'm no hardware expert, but it sounds as though your hard drive may have a terminal illness.

Jim

If you selected the option to copy the DVD to your hard drive during installation then that would account for the filling up of your / partition.

First set up on-line media sources, if you have not already done so, and then either just delete the contents of the DVD from /var/ftp/pub or move them to your /home partition. Doing the latter, you could use them to set up local media sources.

Jim

There should be a way of disabling these effects from a console login, perhaps an extension of XFdrake. Perhaps there is but I just don't know about it?

I think drak3d may be what you're looking for.

Jim

My DVD drive is mounted as /dev/cdrom1, not as /dev/cdrom2. How can I change the device name in Add and remove software tool in Mandriva 2008.

As root, edit /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg and replace each instance of cdrom2 with cdrom1.

Jim