AussieJohn

The confusion seems to be between PRINTED CDs of the Official Edition which are Printed by Mandrake and made available for retail sale by ALL Linux retailers as well as Mandrakes online store (I have such a set) and the BURNED Community set which was available earlier and which retailers sold at a basic cost to cover the burning of those sets. Note"- Mandrake got NOTHING from those sales other than the ones it sold itself. But please remember these burned sets were Community Edition and definitely NOT Official Edition. The Availability of the OFFICIAL EDITION online, is currently ONLY available to Mandrake Club Members. In a few weeks time it will be available online to EVERYone whether member or not member. I suspect the poster got the Community version online and this is what he has downloaded. Cheers. John. Dooley has obviously got one of the Mandrake Printed sets so he is perfectly OK to do what he wants with it . I.e copy it or whatever.. JB

Check earlier threads on the Sound Wrapper problem. There is a very simple remedy but I am not in a position to locate the remedy details at the moment. The best answer though is to install the updated version of XMMS which corrected the problem. Cheers. John.

I also say Welcome to The wonderful world of Linux and Mandrake in particular. I second Both ANNAs and Liquids Zoos comments. I would add just one more thing about the booting from CD issue. I have the Printed CDset of Mandrake!0 Official Edition and the CD booting problem seems to have been fixed so I expect that the download version will have it fixed as well. However if you do have a problem then just follow Liquid Zoos advice and away you go. The problem was no big deal because it did not effect anything else, it just created 30secs of inconvenience.. By the way, ANNA is one very smart lady so if she suggests anything you can be sure she is spot on so follow her advice. Maybe she doesn't think so but if she were to say kneel, I think most of us would. Cheers. John.

I have used the same Mainboard and don't remember having to install anyother drivers for it . Remember you are using Mandrake and not Windows this time. The only time you have to be concerned with additional drivers is for Video cards mostly and some modems. If everything is working OK then you don't need extra drivers. Welcome to the Wonderful world of Mandrake-Linux. Cheers. John.

Whenever you get a screen of all 999999999999999s it means the MBR has been screwed up . Usually you only have to clear the MBR and you can cleanly boot straight into your windows OS. For linux you then do a dummy upgrade which is quicker and fixes most little problems as well, rather than all the other often quoted methods that do not really fix anything along the way. Remember:-- A screen full of 999999999999999 means a screwed up MBR and NOT a screwed up OS or OSs. Cheers. John.

Igutty. Apparently you cannot read. If you did then you would have read that the incorrect amounts WERE NOT CREDITED to Mandrakesofts Account . The wrong amounts were debited by the bank against the customers account. Cheers. John

I see you have libdvdcss installed, but did you also install libdvdcss-devel ??? It is also needed. Most important is to open a console such as Konsole and type in the following line:- ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd exactly as shown including spaces. Click ENTER and I suggest a reboot even though it may not be entirely necessary. This is the part most often omitted. Hope it works for you. Cheers. John.

Hi sgroy. I suspect that you did NOT need to reinstall Windows again. You presumed you needed to because you did not understand that often it is the MBR (Master Boot Record) that has been corrupted by not doing the install procedure correctly. This site and most other Linux sites have repeatedly had posts on how to rectify the situation so please do some research. Frankly I have got a little fed up about how this problem keeps coming up because former Windows users ASSUME that it is Linux which has caused the problem and not the user installing incorrectly. I know some fellow MUBers will think this is being a little unfair but I cannot help it after seeing MUBers regularly devoting their valuable time to cases where there is obviously no attempt been made to seek out the answers first to what is a commonly known problem. There is nothing basically wrong with Mandrake 10 CE or OE and how you think you have solved your problem by going back to 9.2 is way beyond me. If you do not understand the importance of or how the MBR works, then I sincerely suggest you read up on the subject and you will save yourself a lot of grief in the future. Until I started with Linux, I didn't know there was such a thing as the MBR. However I had NO Difficulty finding out information about it on the various Linux sites long before I ever had the need to ask for help. Any way don't take this as a personal attack on you because it is not. I am speaking in general terms here and as such applies to many people, now, and in the future. Cheers. John.

You poor man. That CD boot problem has been known about for ages and widely covered my MUB. The Mandrake 10 Community Edition required first Cd2 and then switch to CD1.. It is such a shame that you did not come into MUB to look around BEFORE you tried to install Mandy. I can assure you that the problem does NOT exist in the Official Edition. I have the Official Edition Printed 4CDROM set and it installs no trouble at all. Cheers. John.

So you downloaded the latest tarball version....10. You still have to do the rest that I outlined to you and which you seem to have ignored. It doesn't matter how you installed XMMS, you still need to do those things. Apart from that, your original problem would more than likely have been fixed by uninstalling the original xmms RPM and then reinstalling it using MCC on both ocassions. Why are you going to do your back and forth install routine??? What do you expect to gain from that??? Now you have the lastest tar of xmms installed, leave it alone and get on with the suggestions. Your routine is not going to resolve anything. John.

When you did the install, did you select "any usb/ps2 mouse" or did you try to set the exact believed correct selection for your Mouse???? I have a Logitech Usb Dual Laser mouse and selected the afore mentioned selection and the mouse works Flawlessly. There is no need to really need any other setting. I have also used the same mouse with the ps2 adaptor and also never had any trouble there either. I venture to say that in a year or two there won't be a need for any selection of mouse installs. The OS will just go ahead and install automatically regardless of the brand or type. It is pretty close to that now with this above setting. Use Mandrake Control centre to change your selection to "use any usb/ps2 mouse" if you are not currently doing so and see how you go. It should be AOK. Cheers. John

Firstly if you do not have an audio cable installed, then please tell us what version of Xmms you have installed. Was it from Mandrake 10?? If it was then that version is able to be set up to read the cd digitally. You need to right click on Xmms itself then open Preferences and look at Input Plugins, look at the topmost plugin (forget what it is called at the moment since am not in Mandrake10 OE at the moment) click on it to highlight it and then make sure that tiny radio button is clicked in then open setup and you should see a choice to set for digital input. Click on it and save . To play the cd in Xmms then right click in the middle of the Playlist window and select install directory which will bring a window from which you select /mnt/cdrom. Double click on cdrom and you will see all the tracks then loaded into the playlist. Press play and you should be laughing ..... er.......playing.....er.....Hearing. My directions may not be absolutely explicit but they should still get you there if you think a little about what you are doing as you go.

I have regularly used Partition Magic over the years and often had the same messages and I ALWAYS let Partition Magic make the corrections and NEVER had any problems as a consequence. PM is ultra conservative in everything it does so as to ensure it never damages anything, yet in that error message it says it can fix the discrepency safely. I think you can go ahead and let PM do its thing. Cheers. John.

Thanks Havin it. Well I installed the Mandrake 10 OE and tried everything everyone has suggested but still no luck. However this time I noticed that I was also having trouble with my USB Scanner. Investigating this by means sane-find-scanner in Konsole came up with the following readout and I am starting to wonder whether this is totally a USB problem because I get NO ERROR messages at anytime just a timing out then a message that no connection exists. As you can see from the readout, the system thinks it is an Alcatel scanner and not a modem. [john@localhost john]$ lsusb bash: lsusb: command not found [john@localhost john]$ sane-find-scanner # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0112 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:005:002 found USB scanner (vendor=0x06b9 [ALCATEL], product=0x4061 [speedTouch 500 Series]) at libusb:002:002 # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary ports can't be # detected by this program. # You may want to run this program as root to find all devices. Once you # found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access permissions as # necessary. [john@localhost john]$ I wonder if anyone has ideas on this and to how I might get round it. Cheers. John.

I don't think making the buffer setting higher will solve the problem. What version of K3B are you using??? I am using the very latest tar version and it works no trouble at all. I suspect that your K3B is faulty and would strongly recommend un-installing and then reinstalling the latest version or at least getting the most recent RPM of it and installing it. John.

Thank you Chri z, your answer is a help to me also so I will use it too. I often wanted to do this but came up against the wall so did not bother any further. Will now. Your detailed answer is the kind that I think there is too little of. This is not mean't to belittle or demean the help given by others in anyway, it is just that some of us need a little more hand holding than others and that especially includes me. Good one mate. Cheers. John.

hello all. godflesh mentioned Filelight. If you haven't used it then you don't know what you are missing. It is GUI but it gives you a more amazing view than any of your command line methods ever will . I know I will be flamed for this by the purists but so what. Most likely they will never have tried it. Filelight gives you a view of the sizes and their relationships that you CANNOT get any other way. At a glance you can see the various sizes relative to oneanother. I would go so far as to say IT SHOULD BE A STANDARD PART OF ALL LINUX OSs. Give it a try because I know you will not regret it. Cheers. John.

Grip is an excellent bit of work so I use it a lot and can certainly recommend it. Cheers. John

Hello sitor. I am in w2k at the moment and am going on memory here, so please bear (bear, not bare) with me here. You can change the buffer settings in K3B and I reset it to about 64mbs. I don't know why they set the default to about 4mbs nowdays. The other problem is the cache setup. K3B generally sets up a cache itself but I find that it is not reliable because it sets it up in a partition spare space that is often not quite large enough for a full 650mbs disk (worse if it is a 700mb). I have 3 different partitions that have at least 5Gbs spare space so I create a folder on one of them that I title Cache-K3B-Xcdroast and I point K3B to this folder in its setup and save it as user default. The same applies to Xcdroast (also another excellent apps though not as user friendly as K3K, but getting there fast) No more problem there. I realise this may not be a lot of help to you but I hope some of it is anyway. Cheers. John.

Hello Havin_it. Welcome to MUB and thanks for making a contribution of something else I can try. I like your sense of humour. Spot on. I am sure Arthur will appreciate it also. He he He. Heart. Bottom. He He He :D :D :D I got my CDROM set of Mandrake 10 OE yesterday afternoon and will install this to replace the Community Edition before I try setting up ADSL again. I will keep everyone posted as to how things eventuate. I have made myself a promise that when this problem is fixed then I am going to write a DETAILED STEP BY STEP HOWTO on the subject and send a copy to Telstra Bigpond and to this and other Linux sites. Cheers everyone. John.

Hi iphitus. Don't be so touchy about the alleged conspiracy thing. Nobody else took the comment seriously because it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. It was a "piss take" I am not and never have been anti Telstra. If I had been then I would not have had my phone account ONLY with Telstra for these past 49yrs and all my Internet years except for 2months of prepaid dialup with Optus at the very beginning. (Optus was a total disaster with constant drop outs) I only started with computers in Nov.1998. I look forward to following up with you on your success or otherwise with your friends computer and ADSL. I wish you good luck with it. There must be more than just a couple of us Linux users that are using Telstras ADSL and the fact that it only seems to be just a few of us having trouble is odd to say the least. Maybe all the other Linux users have got it to work OK and it is just that none of them come to MUB or JustLinux. Actually Telstra is still slowly moving along with their internal adoption of Linux, they are just not talking about it much. When I spoke to a woman at Telstra about the usage meter not working on my account, She asked was everything else Ok and I said yes but I am trying to set up the ADSL in Mandrake 10 and the problems I was having. She knew about Mandrake and understood exactly what I was talking about by the questions she asked about Mandrake in particular. So Telstra staff obviously know a lot more about Linux than was my experience with them a year and half ago. So I reckon we will eventually get support for Linux some time in the not too distant future. That Outlook Express bit was sorted out a day or two after my post, that is why it was never referred to again. I Look forward to hearing from you ref your friends computer connection. Cheers. John.

Hi Arthur. Hereby results of next step :- [root@localhost root]# lsmod Module Size Used by floppy 61172 0 ide-floppy 19840 0 ide-tape 37296 0 ide-cd 42660 0 cdrom 39520 1 ide-cd autofs4 15264 2 mga 115904 22 lp 12552 0 ppdev 9792 0 usblp 12704 0 md5 3904 1 ipv6 245664 6 snd-seq-midi 8544 0 snd-emu10k1-synth 7616 0 snd-emux-synth 38496 1 snd-emu10k1-synth snd-seq-virmidi 7232 1 snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi-emul 8192 1 snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss 34112 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7584 3 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-seq-oss snd-seq 54000 8 snd-seq-midi,snd-emux-synth,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-seq-midi-emul,s nd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss 54244 0 snd-mixer-oss 19520 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1 97732 1 snd-emu10k1-synth snd-rawmidi 24288 3 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm 99300 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-emu10k1 snd-timer 25604 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-seq-device 8232 7 snd-seq-midi,snd-emu10k1-synth,snd-emux-synth,snd-seq-oss,snd-s eq,snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi snd-ac97-codec 63332 1 snd-emu10k1 snd-page-alloc 12484 2 snd-emu10k1,snd-pcm snd-util-mem 4512 2 snd-emux-synth,snd-emu10k1 snd-hwdep 9312 2 snd-emux-synth,snd-emu10k1 snd 54756 16 snd-seq-midi,snd-emux-synth,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-seq-oss,snd-se q-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-se q-device,snd-ac97-codec,snd-util-mem,snd-hwdep soundcore 9664 1 snd tsdev 7360 0 usbmouse 5536 0 nls_iso8859-1 3904 1 nls_cp437 5568 1 vfat 14752 1 fat 46816 1 vfat supermount 39732 1 via-agp 7616 1 agpgart 32520 2 via-agp ppa 12328 0 parport_pc 34528 1 imm 12680 0 parport 41704 5 lp,ppdev,ppa,parport_pc,imm ehci-hcd 25444 0 joydev 10528 0 evdev 9888 0 usbkbd 7264 0 hid 55648 0 uhci-hcd 30736 0 usbcore 104604 8 usblp,usbmouse,ehci-hcd,usbkbd,hid,uhci-hcd rtc 12056 0 ext3 118952 6 jbd 58104 1 ext3 sd_mod 17440 0 sata_via 4612 0 libata 41312 1 sata_via,[permanent] scsi_mod 118520 4 ppa,imm,sd_mod,libata [root@localhost root]# Still no connection. I will keep on trying your advice so please keep it coming.

Hi Gowater. Yes I have also got Mandrake 10 Ce working and it has run perfectly from the beginning. As you said about 9.2, I was really unhappy with it but after I downloaded all the errata and fixes two weeks later, it ran like a clock with never any problems. My main anger about 9.2 as initially released as the Official edition was that it had so many holes in it that it was like a sieve. It was as though NO checking and testing had been properly done. Mandrake 10CE on the other hand worked almost flawlessly apart from the stuffup of the CDROM boot up routine to do the Install. And now my purchased set of OFFICIAL Edition (4cd pressed set) is winging its way to me from Sydney and I should have it in about 7hrs time. Express Posted yesterday afternoon and costing the gigantic (sarcasm here) sum of A$25.50 including the Express Post delivery. Why would one want to do it any other way??? ezroller, slow down and step back. With all the problems you are having I am fairly certain it is not Mandrake10 (CE or OE) it is possibly your install procedure you setup or the Cdroms are ones you burned from downloads and you did not do the mdsum check (I think that is the title) that BVC, Gowater and others have REPEATEDLY advised. On a different note and not necessarily referring to ezroller:- One makes a lousy CDROM or CDROMS and one blames Mandrake for that? I don't think so. Do you purchase your cdrom set?? I always do, and I therefore avoid that kind of a problem. Dammit , the Official Editions cdroms sets are dirt cheap, reliable and are printed by Mandrake itself so it returns a little money back to Mandrake, (not a lot but at least a little) The CE cdroms sets are usually burned by Linux retailers for their Mandrake customers. and none of this income goes to Mandrake but even these sets are relatively dirt cheap. Actually I have been developing increasingly little sympathy for the web downloaders of Mandrake. If they put in even one tenth of the effort they put into downloading, into locating a Linux supplier and buying a set of disks they would find it cheaper and more reliable in the short and long term. One cannot afford even the low price for a set of discs???. If your'e a Smoker, you blow more than that amount away in smoke within a week or at most 2weeks. Do you like your drink? same applies here too. Even cash strapped students have never been able to convince me of their need to download. All are excuses but not reasons. Back to ezroller. If it is the cdroms at fault and you don't have a convenient local Linux retailer source then I am sure you would have absolutely NO difficulty buying from anyone of a number of Australian sources. They already ship all over the world , even to France which is the nominal home of Mandrake but which is apparently extremely poorly serviced by Linux retailers. I believe the great USA is only marginally better so many in the USA also buy from Australia. If you require help in this regard then PM me and we will see what we can specifically do for you. As I have said to others on many occassions in the past, if you cannot get Mandrake to work then you are highly unlikely to get any other Flavour of Linux running OK either. Cheers. John.

What is this bit about Mandrake 10 screwing up Windows XP?? Is this nonsense still being repeated ad nauseum? The problem referred to, is as I understand it, is that if the bootloader is not installed correctly then it screws up the MBR and this MBR has to be cleared to enable rebooting into windows. There have been dozens of posts on how to do this so I am not going to bother going through it all over again. The procedure is pretty simple. Just do a LITTLE search. The main problem is with the person doing the installation and not Mandrake10 as far as I know. When Windows 2000 is available there is NO WAY I would ever contemplate having XP on any computer of mine. Sure sometimes I have had to clear the MBR after doing a Mandrake Install (any version) but I have ALWAYS found the cause to be something I did or didn't do correctly and definitely not Mandrake. SoulSE. Where are you hearing "all these horror stories" and what exactly are they. Please list what they are so we can dispose of the stories one by one. Let us not have fud sneaking in here as if it were fact. John

Hello Arthur. I did as you said and got the result shown [root@localhost root]# cat /etc/ppp/connect-errors [root@localhost root]# lsmod Module Size Used by floppy 61172 0 ide-floppy 19840 0 ide-tape 37296 0 ide-cd 42660 0 cdrom 39520 1 ide-cd autofs4 15264 2 mga 115904 22 lp 12552 0 ppdev 9792 0 usblp 12704 0 md5 3904 1 ipv6 245664 6 snd-seq-midi 8544 0 snd-emu10k1-synth 7616 0 snd-emux-synth 38496 1 snd-emu10k1-synth snd-seq-virmidi 7232 1 snd-emux-synth snd-seq-midi-emul 8192 1 snd-emux-synth snd-seq-oss 34112 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7584 3 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-seq-oss snd-seq 54000 8 snd-seq-midi,snd-emux-synth,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-seq-midi-emul,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss 54244 0 snd-mixer-oss 19520 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-emu10k1 97732 1 snd-emu10k1-synth snd-rawmidi 24288 3 snd-seq-midi,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-emu10k1 snd-pcm 99300 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-emu10k1 snd-timer 25604 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-seq-device 8232 7 snd-seq-midi,snd-emu10k1-synth,snd-emux-synth,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi snd-ac97-codec 63332 1 snd-emu10k1 snd-page-alloc 12484 2 snd-emu10k1,snd-pcm snd-util-mem 4512 2 snd-emux-synth,snd-emu10k1 snd-hwdep 9312 2 snd-emux-synth,snd-emu10k1 snd 54756 16 snd-seq-midi,snd-emux-synth,snd-seq-virmidi,snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-emu10k1,snd-rawmidi,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-seq-device,snd-ac97-codec,snd-util-mem,snd-hwdep soundcore 9664 1 snd tsdev 7360 0 usbmouse 5536 0 speedtch 14512 0 atm 41968 1 speedtch nls_iso8859-1 3904 1 nls_cp437 5568 1 vfat 14752 1 fat 46816 1 vfat supermount 39732 1 via-agp 7616 1 agpgart 32520 2 via-agp ppa 12328 0 parport_pc 34528 1 imm 12680 0 parport 41704 5 lp,ppdev,ppa,parport_pc,imm ehci-hcd 25444 0 joydev 10528 0 evdev 9888 0 usbkbd 7264 0 hid 55648 0 uhci-hcd 30736 0 usbcore 104604 9 usblp,usbmouse,speedtch,ehci-hcd,usbkbd,hid,uhci-hcd rtc 12056 0 ext3 118952 6 jbd 58104 1 ext3 sd_mod 17440 0 sata_via 4612 0 libata 41312 1 sata_via,[permanent] scsi_mod 118520 4 ppa,imm,sd_mod,libata [root@localhost root]# I do notice that under usbcore, that speedtouch is shown as "speedtch", and as I understand it, this is an error in Mandrake 10 but where I found "speedtch" and changed it to "speedtouch" it didn't make any difference so there must be some key places where the incorrect spelling is used and has to be rooted out. I see that "speedtch"appears in a number of times in this printout As you can see there was no connect errors. No. The leds did not cycle through their routine. They stayed a steady green fom Windows right through into Mandrake with only the USB led going off for a few seconds during the rebooting process. I hope this info is helpful. You are certainly working hard on this one and it is greatly appreciated. Cheers good mate. John