hawklord

thanks, i had a slight idea that it may be that,

could i use an older driver ?

hi,

i have upgraded my 2008.1 to 2009.0 via easyurpmi and a terminal, my system is up-to-date,

i have used the command 'urpmi --auto-update -v' and there are no more packages,

one problem is my compiz and mattise don't work - in fact my system is unusable with either enabled,

can anyone help with this problem,

i have kept kde3.5,

i have a p4 3.4 cpu, 1 gb pc3200 ddr400 ram and radeon 9550 256ddr graphics card - so memory is not a problem,

thanks

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hi all,

i am running mandriva one 2008

i have kopete configured to run my hotmail account, the problem is that i can't send or view video using the program,

instant messaging is ok and uploading/downloading photos is ok (but a little slow)

i can view my webcam on my own pc

i have xp (a separate computer) which i can test it on but it fails

can anybody help or have ideas,

any more info, just ask

(please be aware that i am by no means an expert with mandriva)

thanks

hi,

thanks, ctrl, alt + backspace worked and i have corrected the (hd1,0) to (hd0,0), as for the rest - as far as i know i havn't edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf or /etc/inittab (i didn't even know they were there)

.........and now you can correct xorg.conf either manually, or by running "mcc" and creating a new xserver configuration.

this is not something i know about, (i am learning all the time)

hi,

this login issue seems to have affected start up as well, when i power on my pc and choose mandriva, it goes through the motions of loading, when the loading bar has nearly completed my screen goes blank and my monitor goes into stand by, i have to use ctrl, alt and delete to re-boot,

my windows is ok (posting this from windows)

hi,

slight problem has popped up, when i use

kdesu "kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst"

the file opens but appears empty, but when i navigate to the file its there, so i can't edit it

Can you explain a bit more about your shutdown problem. For example, what do you click? Do you click Shutdown? Reboot? Log Out? What desktop environment are you using? KDE? Gnome? What login manager? GDM or KDM?

mandriva 2008 live cd install, grub, kdm and kde,

i click on log out and then end session, sometimes it comes back to login and i can use the options at the bottom to power off,

i read the link, but its way over my head, not been using linux long - slowly getting used to it for the big change over from windows

hi scarecrow,

you are a star, it worked, i can dual boot without swapping drives/bios editing,

i've been at this for a month searching and searching and you do it in a few posts (less if i would have followed properly :blush: )

if i ask nice and kindly - can you point me in the right direction for my shutdown problem

hi,

sorry, the output of the commands,

1)

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1

/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/hdb1 /media/hd ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,sync,ro 0 0

/dev/hdb2 /media/hd2 ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,sync,ro 0 0

2)

timeout 10

color black/cyan yellow/cyan

gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu

default 0

title linux

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hda1 resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent vga=788

initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda1 resume=/dev/hda5

initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe

kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=/dev/hda1 failsafe

initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img

hi,

thanks for your help,

i have managed to edit my menu.lst to show -

title windows

map (hd0,0)

map (hd1,0)

rootnoverify (hd1,0)

makeactive

chainloader +1

but upon re-boot (using ctrl,alt and delete (see below)) and choosing windows, i get this error -

map (hd0,0)

error 11 : unrecognized device string

press any key to continue

i have tried my windows hdd on cable select and slave, but get the error with both,

i also have one other niggly thing - when i log off i can't shut my pc down or log back in, i just have a blank screen untill my monitor switches off, i have to shut down with the button on my tower,

thanks again for your help

hi,

sorry, you may have miss-understood,

i have w2k installed on 'c', no grub at all

mandriva was installed on a sepparate hdd with no other hdd's attached to my system, using default options from a live cd (including grub)

my system is now set up as -

windows 2000 - master

mandriva - slave

at the moment dual booting is a pain, i would like to have a boot option from grub (but i would need to edit the menu.lst - mandriva won't let me) or boot from a boot loader via windows (eg bootpart or grub4dos) but i have come up against a few problems,

thanks

hi all,

don't know whether this is the right place but here goes,

i have windows 2000 on 1 hdd and mandriva 2008 on another hdd (installed from a live cd)

i want to have one of these options but i am a little stuck

1) to boot mandriva from w2k, i have used a program called bootpart, when run via a command window i get all the available options, but non will edit my boot.ini to show the linux entry,

i tried another program called grub4dos, i copied my menu.lst to a flash drive and put it at the root of 'c', then added this line to my boot.ini

C:\GRLDR="Mandriva", when i re-booted i got to options to boot from so i chose mandriva and got 'error 20' and 'selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by bios'

bootpart - http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

grub4dos - http://grub4dos.jot.com/WikiHome

2) to boot w2k from mandriva, i have searched and searched and it seems i need to add this to my menu.lst

title windows

map (hd0,0)

map (hd1,0)

rootnoverify (hd1,0)

makeactive

chainloader +1

the problem is i can't seem to edit the file, each time i try it says i don't have permission, i login as root but it still won't let me, i have even tried using an edited spare one (from the flashdrive),

i know i can dual boot with grub in the mbr of windows, i had an episode where i needed to 'ghost' my windows and got 'ntldr is missing', running fixboot and fixmbr from the recovery console didn't work, had to boot from floppy to retrieve important files, then re-install, so i don't want to be put in that position again,

so can anyone help - thanks