AussieJohn

How come there are no photos of the products showing printed Logos etc,.???? All I could see was static photos of the type straight from a manufacturers sales portfolio. Or did I miss something somewhere. I would be interested in buying something from even this far away (Australia) but I NEVER buy anything blind, no matter how worthy the cause and it certainly is a worthy cause.

Cheers

LiquidZoo. Thanks for a great tip. I have entered it into my special "to do" files notebook. Cheers.

Go on BVC, don't be bashful now.

I too urge evryone who has not joined yet to do so.

In its own way it helps to reinforce the idea to the world outside that Linux is truly universal and counter the constant FUD from Microsoft that Linux isn't used much by anyone other than a few fanatics.

"Things are getting curiouser and curiouser" aren't they.

With the exception of the very latest version, Partition Magic cannot recognise the ext.3 file form as used in Mandrake 10.

I still use version 6 when I need to and it does a pretty good job. I just don't worry when I see the error message, when Mandrake is running OK. If I need to repartition the particular drive with Mandrake on it, I just throw in the Windows CDROM ( I use W2000) and do a dummy install up to the Install stage and abort after is has reformatted the Mandrake Partitions. Then I use Partition Magic as per normal.

Some times the Windows steamroller can be useful. I can't think of any other times though

Thanks Kjel. This is becoming interesting, isn't it??

Now we have more people looking at this one.

I guess there is more to come. Cheers

Thanks BVC.

Yes I have all Plug-n Play disabled in the BIOS. Learnt that one the hard way 2 yrs ago.

Here is the printout that you requested :-

[root@localhost john]# cat /proc/partitions

major minor #blocks name

1 0 32000 ram0

1 1 32000 ram1

1 2 32000 ram2

1 3 32000 ram3

1 4 32000 ram4

1 5 32000 ram5

1 6 32000 ram6

1 7 32000 ram7

1 8 32000 ram8

1 9 32000 ram9

1 10 32000 ram10

1 11 32000 ram11

1 12 32000 ram12

1 13 32000 ram13

1 14 32000 ram14

1 15 32000 ram15

33 0 78150744 hde

33 1 3590496 hde1

33 3 1 hde3

33 5 24587451 hde5

33 6 8329671 hde6

33 7 248976 hde7

33 8 48163 hde8

33 9 4088479 hde9

33 10 1807281 hde10

33 11 3646723 hde11

33 12 17486721 hde12

33 13 11269566 hde13

33 14 3044286 hde14

34 0 78150744 hdg

34 1 112423 hdg1

34 3 1 hdg3

34 5 3325423 hdg5

34 6 24820393 hdg6

34 7 31840798 hdg7

34 8 1148616 hdg8

34 9 13374081 hdg9

34 10 554211 hdg10

34 11 2971993 hdg11

[root@localhost john]#

(thanks for telling me where to get it, it made it very easy as a result)

There is one oddity that I didn't mention earlier because it did not seem to be relative but now I am not so sure. I have MAN10 installed on both WD 80 Gb hard drives. The first HDD has W2000 Pro and Mandrake10, the second HDD has Man10 alone . When I did these two installs, I had a Promise Ultra66 card running a WD 8.4Gb HDD. It was not detected. It ran ok with Man9.1 and 9.2 and with Windows. Because it was no longer important to my use, I removed it. I suspect that it not being detected was symptomatic of the problem rather than being a problem in itself.

I plan to do a fresh reinstall, without the Ultra66 card, on the the first hard drive (hda) and see if this makes any difference. This is not so hard since I saved the packages selections onto Floppy and I do not have any particular preferences set up on this one.

I will let you know as soon as I've done it.

Thanks mate. Cheers

When you get all 9's covering your screen it usually means your MBR has been corrupted by LILO and the only way to fix it its to clear the MBR.

After that has been done using a windows boot up floppy and typing in at the A:> prompt the following :- fdisk /mbr click on enter. (Important to note the space between k and the /) you can then reinstall LILO.

Cheers

Thanks but I am referring to Mandrake 10 and there are no upgrades for that as far as I know. I think most people who are having this trouble with sound wrapper are also using Man10.

What you suggest as a procedure is exactly as what I have already outlined. You just used a different route to get there. cheers

Thanks scoopy for your suggestion. But NO, M10 first detects the drives then looks at the partitions.

Hello BVC. After my earlier post I decided to carefully watch the booting up data as it scrolled through and noticed for the first time that it said somthing like 'starting raid" and then it listed the four drives. Now I knew positively that I had DISABLED the onboard RAID in the BIOS so I went to the ASUS website to see if there were any updates for the A7V600-X board and found there were none but out of curiousity I decided to look at the frequently asked questions and found one about disabling RAID on this particular mainboard. What it said was that due too limitations of the chipset, RAID COULD NOT BE DISABLED. Those Lying, cheating bas...ds at ASUS have pulled a con. Making the setting in the BIOS does nothing, The RAID is running all the time. There is no mention of any of this in the Manual or in the promotional material. Obviously crappy Windoze can't tell the difference because it didn't effect it. M10 on the other hand can now be seen to be detecting correctly as it sees the situation. It sees the four devices on the two IDE cables as part of a RAID setup. ASUS is at fault here just like LG was with the CDROM drive fiasco.

If you know someone in MandrakeSoft you can feel free to copy this post to them, they may just come up with a work-around somehow. Maybe an install patch to ignore the RAID detection or something like that.

Because of this condition, I found that even though I had selected reformatting of /boot and / and also /home during the install and it appeared to have done so before proceeding further with the install, I was surpried to find that when I went into my account all my preferences were already there. Suspecting something fishy, I opened up Kdiskfree and discovered / was 100% full although the total install size would only take up half of its partition.

Into MCC and to package manager uninstalls. Sure enough all the original Mand9.2 RPMs were in there. I deleted all older versions and MCC stopped me when it had to to prevent me breaking anything . I removed nearly 600Mbs and immediately did a dummy upgrade to ensure all would be OK and so it was. Earlier when I was doing the post install setting up, I tried to put the bootloader on the hda mbr but got a message no such drive so I gambled and put it on the mbr of hde and it worked and has done ever since.

Please let me know if this info is of use for MandrakeSoft or other users of this particular board.

I am just about fed up with ASUS. I think they have just lost a customer . I cannot tolerate cheats. Good to hear from you BVC. Cheers

Following on from some of the posts on this subject and thanks to the poster who mentioned that soundwrwpper was the problem. I followed the suggested fix but found that after rebooting that the problem returned.

I dug further and went root (you cannot do this procedure from an account) into /usr/share/applnk-mdk/Multimedia/Sound. In there you will find Xmms.desktop and also Xmms.desktop~

Right click on the icon Xmms.desktop and select PROPERTIES, delete the word soundwrapper only and close out. Next right click on Xmms.desktop~ and open it with Kwrite then delete the word soundwrapper in Exec= then save and close out.

I have reinstalled Mandrake 10 again but find I still have this strange situation that my 4 IDE drives which are normally detected as hda hdb hdc hdd are being detected by M10 as hde hdf hdg hdh.

I have only the 4 drives and have also made certain that the BIOS has SATA and RAID as well as Onboard Sound and LAN are DISABLED.

I have also used my burner drive for the install ( I have found I get next to no problems and instability this way.......found this to be the case mostly on friends machines who have fast but cheap 52X cdrom drives) instead of the cdrom reader drive and did the 21234 install procedure instead of the expected 1234 routine.

In the BIOS I have also selected LBA instead of Auto.

I believe I am doing everything as advised but still can't resolve the matter .

A further wierd problem I encountered is when I used Kdiskfree to look at the info there I found that / was full and I knew that shouldn't be the case so I opened MCC to see all the RPMS that were installed and found not just the M10 files as one would expect but ALSO ALL THE MAN9.2 FILES AS WELL. This was despite the fact that during the M10 install, I definately and deliberately selected formatting the esisting / and /home partitions and it seemed to go through the routine OK . I had to labourisly go through and delete all the older version packages ( MCC stopped me from deleting anything that was needed or in use) I was able to delete nearly 600mbs of stuff. I immediately did a dummy upgrade to make sure nothing was broken and it has been running great ever since.

I also get error messages if I try to install the boot loader onto the MBR which is usually hda that it does not exist but I installed it on to hde ?? OK. I also cannot install the bootloader on to the floppy drive as fd0, yet the floppy drive works normally in M10.

The two CD drives are shown on the desktop as hdf and hdh respectively.

I notice that the shortcut for the USB Scanner no longer appears on the Desktop. Is that a Mandrake change??? The Scanner works perfectly alone with XSANE or through the GIMP.

I am using a new MainBoard, the ASUS A7V600-X ( my A7N8X-Deluxe has an intermittent fault.............won't boot the BIOS).

Hello BVC. Do I think Mandrake 10 is a Lemon ??? I certainly do not. Congratulations, by the way, on still doing a good job at helping people with their problems. I certainly admire you for that.

Here's hoping someone has some possible answers for me. Cheers.

Your CDROM could be the problem. If you have a CD-R/RW try using that instead.

I have found that this often fixes the problem with flakey installs on friends machines who are using usually cheap 52X or more cdrom drives. The burner CD drives appear to be better engineered and I suppose that is essential for high speed burning. The fact that your CDROM was OK in the past is no guarantee that it is still OK.

A simple test:- Put in a music CD in one drive and use GRIP to rip it, observe the ripping action, then do the same with the other drive. You will almost certainly see that the burner drive produces almost no errors if any.

Since an install is so critical to a stable operating system then you cannot afford read errors as it is installed.

When I burn on my 48X CD-R/RW I prefer to burn at 24 or 36X especially for compressed files e.g. rpms and tarballs etc. to ensure accurate burning for accurate reading later for this very reason.

Hope this helps.

It would not do any harm to do a pretend "UPGRADE" by putting in your CDROM-2 to start then changing to CDROM-1 when it asks. this is so easy to do and gives you a chance to again carefully recheck things in the last part of settings. Give it a try. I use this method a lot when I screw up things and it sorts out troubles most of the time.

OK. So it takes about 20 minutes to do but that is a lot quicker than spending hours and days trying to resolve especially if it works in the particular instance.

Cheers.

I too am using the 'any ps2/usb mouse' and my Logitech USB Dual Optical Mouse with scroll wheel is working perfectly in Mandrake10.

During the install, did you do the test in the last stages of install setup ??? If you did and it worked there then there is no need or reason to try setting for your particular mouse brand. If it works there then it will work after it boots up for the first time.

Cheers

When I had that problem of USB mouse not working during Install, I went into theBOIS and found that the <legacy support for USB> was set to "disabled" as default. I set it to "enabled" and had no further problems.

It really does pay to look at your BIOS settings carefully sometimes.

CHEERS

I have just installed Mandrake 10.

During the Install setting up, my 2 of 80Gbs Hard Drives namely hda and hdc are identified as hde and hdg respectively. My DVD is hdb and my burner is hdd usually.

These are my only 4 IDE drives so where is the hde and hdg coming from???

Because of this I was not game to install the bootloader on hda for fear of screwing up my Win2000 so I installed it onto a floppy disc.

I have some minor look and feel taste problems to resolve yet but apart form XMMS not playing (startup and close sounds etc are working AOK) everything else seems to be running OK

Does anyone know what the go is here with these two aspects i.e. Xmms and the HDD numbers ???. Again thanks in in advance. John

Hello all.

I got my 4CD set of Mandrake10 on Saturday morning (from LINUX SYSTEMS LABS Australia www.lsl.com.au). My own machine was down, awaiting a replacement Mainboard. Saturday evening I tried to do the usual Clean install on a friends computer, but it just would not bootup so I just dropped the idea until I received my own new mainboard yesterday. The install went without a hitch for Disk1 but when I put in Disk2 it was in for less than a minute and it called for Disk3 and kept asking for Disk3 even though I put it 5 or 6 times so I gave up and cancelled Disk3 then it called for Disk4 even though I also put it in some 5 or 6 times also so finally cancelled it as well.

The install continued to completion without any hitches, rebooted and soon I was in Mandrake 10 in my own old account.

I did a search for all my selected software and found quite a number were missing. I downloaded all 4 CDroms to a large spare partition and used MCC to set the huge file as a repository and had no trouble installing ALL the packages that I had wanted in my install.

It seems that I will have to do the Disk2 then Disk1 trick advised here on my friends computer, but I still cannot fathom the second problem of the #3 and #4 disks not being detected during the install, yet everything worked when I put all the 4 disks onto the HardDrive.

Anyone got some ideas on this aspect??? Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone.

I installed Mandrake 10 earlier today and had the same problem you all had. The Microphone setting being up and not muted was the cause of the problem. So I can support the remedy spoken of here.

I find that after positioning the Icons where I want them to be and then right clicking on the desktop, selecting <Icons> then <align to grid>, that they generally stay where they a supposed to be. One or two may move e.g. Scanner, but the rest hardly move.

Cheers.

I use Galeon ALL OF THE TIME and have practically never ever had trouble downloading RPMS from anywhere, including Kernels, so there is no need as I see it to change from Galeon. You just neeed to find out what you were doing incorrectly.

Cheers. John

Hello Growler.

They should also replace the = sign they have between the ide=scsi in the part of <hdb=ide-scsi>. Seems I've got sharp eyes also (sometimes) ;)

John

Thank you TYME for replying. I have been trying to work out how to set up for the site from which I downloaded the kernel.

The file which is :- kernel-2.6.3.2mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm downloaded from http://rpm.pbone.net. I downloaded module-init tools-3.0-0.pre9.2mdk.i586.rpm from the same site at the same time. When I then tried to install the kernel (RPM) it said that I needed sysfsutils so I got it from the same site just a little later. When I tried to install the sysfsutils, it says it needs libsysfs.so and I can't find that one from anywhere on this site so it must be in another package of a different name.

I have tried using MCCs Software Management ---> Software Media Manager which I use successfully for everything other than websites but can't seem to put in the right details that it wants.

But I just have to go and get some dammed sleep.

Again cheers for now. John

Wow. I really am flabbergasted that no one has made a comment on this one for such a long time. So I guess no one had any ?? troubles installing the 2.6 kernel at all. Hu...um. That seems odd.

In the meantime, I purchased the newly released monthly edition of AUSTRALIAs biggest selling Computer magazine, APC or Australian Personal Computer, and it contained Kernel 2.6.1 Source and Module-Init-Tools 3.0-pre5 on the enclosed CD_ROMs and had an excellent 2 page article on the installing procedure and written in a clear, concise, and east to understand language and style. (There were heaps of other Linux stuff and up to date packages as well e.g latest XMMS 1.2.8) ( So Linux isn't Desktop mainstream HUH ????)

I tried the procedure the author outlined for modules-init-tools on the version I downloaded but got the same error result as before.

I will now try to install APCs version and see how I go.

Cheers. John

Hi BVC. I like your comment about compiling. Do I presume correctly that you include KERNELS in your comment??? I quietly believed this to be true, in relation to Kernels, but never dared say it out loud since I don't have the experience. When someone like yourself with so much more experience says it that way, it puts my mind at ease at last for not venturing into this KERNEL activity. Of course a lot of small software packages have to be compiled because RPMs for them never become available for months and months.

Good one BVC.

N S B Go into MCC (Mandrake Control Centre) and select Software Management then select Install Software Packages then select All Packages, Alphabetical.

It will show a list of ALL packages from ALL 3 CD-Roms that have NOT already been installed. Select what you want and click install. It will tell you which of the 3 CD-ROMs to insert as it requires them. It really is that simple.

Have fun. Cheers. John (69yrs young) :)