Valikhan

I just fresh installed 2008.1 Spring ONE and so far it works for me better than 2008. I mean no hangs or crashes, all hard drives are mounted automatically and even in NTFS-3g mode so I am able to do everything with my ntfs drives. Only one trick I did from previous experience: botted from liveCD and installed to HD using pci=noacpi.

Keep the test and see what happens further.

Hi,

I had same trouble with digital camera until switched it from "Disk drive" mode to PTP mode.

So it is useless without CD. Well, I thought if Quake is in Linux repos it is free or under GPL or something like that.

Ok, thank you for advice

Hi there,

I have downloaded all files of Quake II I could find using Control Centre. When I click on buttons in "Application" section it seems to get starting, I can see on the bottom line "Starting Quake" message, but in a few seconds it just disappears with no errors or anything else.

Any help, guys?

Ok.

After all I did (see above) I went to MCC>Browse and configure hardware just to check again. Ohh, I got bluetooth device in there! Mandriva immediately asked me to install kdebluetooth (kde? I use gnome). I installed that and now I can send files from PC to the dongle via OBEX.

But I cannot send files from the phone to PC. I have installed all kde and gnome packages related to bluetooth. I put PC in visible and discoverable mode. It discoverable in the phone - I got PC under two names: localhost-0 or Computer. Then nothing. Either no active devices found or sending failed. So I can send from PC to the phone but cannot from the phone to PC.

If you have Windows XP, you can boot up in there, then plug in those usb and safely remove in Windows XP. Go back to Mandriva and see what happen. It did trick to me.

If you do not have WinXP, then I do not know. Sorry, buddy.

P.S. Win XP on the same machine I meant.

Ok. Once i deleted all bluetooth devices in the phone, I scanned for new devices. Found PC bluetooth and typed 1234 which is default password. No luck, connection failed. Scanned for new devices again and ran command passkey-agent --default /bin/bluepin, Typed 1234 and PC seems awoke offering me to type password, I put 1234 and I have PC paired with phone. Then nothing again, I cannot send files from the phone to PC, "No devices found". And no options to send files from PC to the phone as before. However, PC got my phone...

[root@localhost indi]# hciconfig

hci0: Type: USB

BD Address: 00:11:67:2C:D0:4F ACL MTU: 678:8 SCO MTU: 48:10

UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN

RX bytes:1893 acl:0 sco:0 events:120 errors:0

TX bytes:728 acl:0 sco:0 commands:62 errors:0

[root@localhost indi]# hcitool scan

Scanning ...

00:E0:03:46:4F:D9 Vali

I think it is not solved but closed.

I added yesterday mud_free repo fron easy-urpmi and got the icon for bittorent. I would say developers have missed icons in this release somehow. I found out that electric eye, as well as invictus, awake from terminal typing commands.

Regarding to aria2, seems it also works from terminal only. Am I right?

Have anyone done this trick with Windows?

I mean to logon as root in Mandriva and copy fonts from there?

You are wrong, Zac Medley. These people don't pretend to be super-tech experts, just try to help.

You should respect those who offer you HELP without charging $500. If you do not like to ask for help do not ask.

I remember first day I met up PC (Windows!). I was just staring at the screen having no clue how the hell it works.

Change your rpm repositories. What the name of failed repo? If, for instance, plf-free go to MCC>Configure media>highlight plf-free>edit. Then type any other url you like to.

The same thing occured twice with me with plf-free and plf-nonfree. I solved it choosing other rpm sources.

I've installed a few programs which did not show up.

I cannot run aria2, electric eye, bittorent and some others because no icons for them in menu.

I do not want to screw up 2008 doing what seems worked for older versions. I tried to create shortcuts or catch them up in terminal with no luck.

Any ideas, guys?

I use GNOME

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That ACPI obviously has affect to shutdown process, I know it from my experience. I had reinstalled 2007.1 4-5 times playing acpi on and off.

With acpi on I had booting problem, with acpi off I pressed the button. 2008 I installed once with acpi=off, then reinstall with option pci=noacpi and now it turns off automatically.

It is not lockup or freeze, if you press Esc you can see the last line telling "System halted" what means that System is unloaded and wait for your decision.

I had the same troubles with KDE you are having now, plus some other small glitches and not working bluetooth, remote controls and webcam.

Then I just switched to GNOME and I have no any bugs so far except not working bluetooth, remote controls and webcam.

Sorry,

I use GNOME now, as I had lots of troubles with KDE. GNOME is more stable but problem with remote control (and bluetooth) still presents.

I've noted I am not alone person having trouble with remote in 2008.

What is lirc-gpio? Is it necessary thing?

Since acpi=off, your PC won't switch off itself. You should press case shutoff button.

You can reinstall OS and type pci=noacpi instead of acpi=off. It'll help you avoid that booting problem and your PC will turn off automatically.

Maybe there is way easier to fix it.

Well, I meant what you said actually: not only device, even Remote Controls section in Peripherals or other places

I use GNOME.

I have mentioned before right click brings only "About program" and "Quit". No configuration, no any other options.

I am just wondering to some things in 2008. Everything works fine except such small things as remote control and bluetooth.

I cannot run bluetooth from PC.

[root@localhost indi]# hid2hci

No devices in HCI mode found

[root@localhost indi]# hciconfig

hci0: Type: USB

BD Address: 00:11:67:2C:D0:4F ACL MTU: 678:8 SCO MTU: 48:10

UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN

RX bytes:698 acl:0 sco:0 events:23 errors:0

TX bytes:343 acl:0 sco:0 commands:23 errors:0

My phone does not see computer. And that icon in right upper corner just blue highlighted. Clicking on it do nothing, right click brings about program and quit.

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I did install everything you told me, guys.

Unfortunately, no remote controls appeared in MCC.

Go to MCC>Boot (lowest section)>Set up boot system. I t gives you 1. What loader grub or lilo 2, Booting partition. In my case just /dev/sda because I have dual boot. Then tick off ACPI. You can leave APIC and local APIC as is and see what happens.

If I chose any other like say /dev/sda3 I'd get what you had: problem with loading.

Valikhan, I believe you are mistaken. On my mdv2008 the ide hard drive is still dealt wiht as /dev/hde which is the normal designation for that drive. Take a look at this output for fdisk -l /dev/hde:

 

Disk /dev/hde: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x44914491

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hde1   *		   1		1766	14185363+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde2			1767		8286	52371900	f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hde5			1767		3006	 9960268+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hde6			3007		5675	21438711	b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hde7			5676		8286	20972826   83  Linux

 

 

That is my fstab:

/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1

/dev/sda1 /media/hd ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,sync,ro 0 0

/dev/sda5 /media/hd2 ntfs-3g umask=0,nls=utf8 0 0

/dev/sda7 /media/hd3 vfat umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,sync,noauto,exec 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

 

They ARE sdax as devices

Follow scarescrow advice. Reinstall grub to /dev/sda. I know that exactly because my grub is installed at /dev/sda.

Mount points are /media/hdx but devices are sdx in MCC

Seems to me you have configured ethernet. All you need is PPP over Ethernet.

Just go to MCC>Network>Configure network>DSL> tick Broadcom or what name is for your router but not Ethernet card> tick PPPoE>choose your provider if in a list. If not choose "add manually" on the top of this list then your login and password which you are got from IS provider. In additional put some values. I do not know what are yours, mine are higher=0, lower=40. Ok and wait for a couple of minutes. Watch the icon in the right corner, it should switch to green and says Network up ppp0.

I use Russian localisation so terms might be slightly different but not much.

I confirmed it. Two updates at one time bring you this message.

Watch out that annoying icon, it is orange when update is running.