Could be a videodriver problem. When you buy mandriva you get the ati driver. Try booting into failsafe mode, type init 3, login as root, type: XFDrake to configure X and use the vesa driver. Log out as root, login as normal user and type: startx startkde
http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/A...ia_Cardbus_E500
It looks like the saa7134 that came with the Mandriva kernel doesnt work. Try first upgrading/changing (try a -mm) your kernel with urpmi. If that doesnt work rebuild with the instructions from the link above.
These errors mean the driver for your soundcard isnt installed (loaded). Read the posts in my link above. :)
Hint: Open the Mandrake Control Center, hardware, hardware, soundcard and configure the card.
Alsa comes with Mandriva. There is no need to build it yourself. Just follow the instructions in my link.
Tip: read about software installation in Mandriva and urpmi in particular (in the FAQs forum)
Installed kdeutils and kdegraphics. No problems now. Guess there was a problem with the hdlist because after I removed and added the repo everything installed fine (tried to do the same last week but didn't work).
Using KDE: reaching perfection. Two problems:
- selecting the main-channel in kmix doesn't work. That means I cant use the volume keys on my keyboard.
- Superkaramba cant find PyQT. Installing the kdebindings-python package (can now be installed without dependency problems) doesn't help.
Edit: Ok forget what I said. I ofcourse need the qt bindings. :). These still confilct with sip and hplip. Installing it meant I could configure the themes again.
Open a console, type: alsamixer and unmute all of the input channels. One of these is the one you need. KsCD is probably using arts to play sound. (You could try opening totem from a console by typing: artsdsp totem)
In kcontrol, look and feel, splash screen and select another one.
Rightclick kicker, configure, the second tab, disable side picture (translated from Dutch so actual wording can be different)
Looks like a problem with the disk image. For what´s worth i´m using an image created with dd and fat32 file system (so I can easily exchange data between linux and windows without running samba). Try installing again.
Performance problems. The native speed only goes for CPU tasks. Tasks that involve the hardware are slower. Further your computer isn´t the fastest to begin with ;)
Installed latest builds:
Problems I had installing: kdeutils and kdegraphics still do not install. I removed old kdeutils completely but still no luck. (error: kdeutils <= 1:3.3.2 conflicts with libkdeutils1-3.5.0-4.mdk2006.0.mde.i586)
Selecting kdegraphics makes rpmdrake hang.
Using KDE 3.5 I found no problems. :)
That probably means the ndiswrapper module wasnt build with the correct kernel-source. Make sure the kerne-source and kernel match exactly, (with uname -r you get your kernel version)