83mercedes

Another really cool app is called Lopster. 8)

Hey all, time again to ask you all for advice!

No matter what I try to do, I cannot get my floppy to work right.

I have tried the following, not in any order:

 

1. Disabling supermount

2. Disabling the icon in 'configure desktop' 'behavior' then creating a new icon.

3. Changing the 'dev' name in the icon properties

4. Enabling 'user' in options

5. Enabling supermount.

 

And probably more, I'm dizzy from messing with it.

Now, with my 'self-created' icon, which labels it as /dev/fd0, and mounted at /mnt/floppy, when I boot up, the error message comes up saying that "/dev/fd0 is not a valid block device.

 

Any ideas are greatly appreciated, as usual.

Thanks.

Yeah james, that is how I did it -- in failsafe mode.

I guess that somewhat explains it, huh?

Now I know to disable autologin in lilo before I reboot to a console to install drivers.

 

And I'm glad you were there, many thanks.

:blush:

james!!!

Thanks, that did it!

What a hassle! Can you explain why the modules.conf would not have been properly setup with the new driver? I just don't get it, it has never been a problem with the older Nvidia installers?

And why just me? (sniffle...) I'm not a bad person...

:)

Thanks again for everyone's input.

OK, this is getting weird!

Now, I installed 4496, and the ONLY way I can get into X is by booting in 'failsafe' mode, then choosing 'text mode & network', then logging in as a normal user (me), then doing 'startx'.

I re-ran lilo, still, it will not auto-login to kde on boot. (Using kde 3.1.3)

 

Any ideas at this point??

Thanks guys, for all your input. :)

Actually, I have had no real problems (before) with the installer either.

bvc, sorry, I guess I misled you... the command you gave me, I did that with 4363 installed, not with the other, which would explain the simlink.

And yes I used:

nvidia-installer --uninstall

to remove 4363. Then I did

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run

to install.

My config-4 file is good, OK.

I'll keep fooling with it, not cuz I really need it, but just out of sheer bull-headedness!

Thanks again.

Thanks.

First I uninstalled the 4363. Then installed 4496.

The output of your command:

 

mike@localhost mike]$ file /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so

/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so: symbolic link to libglx.so.1.0.4363

[mike@localhost mike]$

 

The installer always says, it needs to compile a kernel during the install, I say OK.

Then it installs, seemingly OK, but I cannot get into X.

It says no usable screens, couldn't load Nvidia kernel.

 

I have tried this numerous times with the same result. And always, reinstalling 4363 works.

So I can't figure out what I might be doing wrong.

Obviously I CAN do it properly, since 4363 always works.:wink:

Maybe it's the 2.4.21-0.25mdk kernel?

:lol: I don't know.

here is as you asked:

 

Section "Files"

# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)

# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of

# the X server to render fonts.

FontPath "unix/:-1"

EndSection

 

Section "ServerFlags"

#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)

AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work

#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)

EndSection

 

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension

Load "v4l" # Video for Linux

Load "extmod"

Load "type1"

Load "freetype"

Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so"

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"

Driver "Keyboard"

Option "XkbModel" "pc105"

Option "XkbLayout" "us"

Option "XkbCompat" ""

Option "XkbOptions" ""

EndSection

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "monitor1"

VendorName "NEC"

ModelName "NEC AccuSync 75F"

HorizSync 31.0-70.0

VertRefresh 55.0-120.0

 

# Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)?

# 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync

ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync

 

# TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output.

# 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630

 

# 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync

ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616

EndSection

 

Section "Device"

Identifier "device1"

VendorName "NVidia"

BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce4 (generic)"

Driver "nvidia"

Option "DPMS"

EndSection

 

Section "Screen"

Identifier "screen1"

Device "device1"

Monitor "monitor1"

DefaultColorDepth 16

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 8

Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 15

Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 16

Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubsection

 

Subsection "Display"

Depth 24

Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubsection

EndSection

 

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "layout1"

InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

Screen "screen1"

EndSection

No good.

Got an error about tainting the kernel, then it continued, when it was done I still couldn't get into x.,

I don't know jack about this, so unless somebody's got a foolproof (read: MEproof) way, I'm just gonna stay with 4363.

Thanks again!

Thanks, I will try that.

I dunno, it's the exact same error you'd get if you installed the Nvidia driver and didn't change the xf86 config-4 file.

So I'm still using 4363 which works OK, but I would like to use the latest if possible.

Thanks...

no error message, during the driver install.

"no usable screens" when trying to startx.

Geforce 4 Ti4400.

Thanks.

Mandrake 9.1 with kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk, was happily using Nvidia driver version 4363, tried to install latest driver 4496, couldn't get into X,

had to go back to 4363.

Anyone else have this?

Thanks.

OK, well I hope it will work.

I think I know what you mean... wineinstall will make a fake "c" drive in your /home directory, and that's where it will install a sorta "fake windows".

Where do you see that? Cuz I don't have a windows partition...

In the config file, I had to change only a few things, here is mine for you to look at and try. You can re-mount your windows anytime when wine is done installing.

The main things I changed were the paths for the cdrom and floppy, and also "DesktopDoubleBuffered" from "N" to "Y" (its about half way down the page here).

That should get you going, I think.

 

WINE REGISTRY Version 2

;; All keys relative to MachineSoftwareWineWineConfig

 

;; If you think it is necessary to show others your complete config for a

;; bug report, filter out empty lines and comments with

;; grep -v "^;" ~/.wine/config | grep '.'

;;

;; MS-DOS drives configuration

;;

;; Each section has the following format:

;; [Drive X]

;; "Path"="xxx" (Unix path for drive root)

;; "Type"="xxx" (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and 'network')

;; "Label"="xxx" (drive label, at most 11 characters)

;; "Serial"="xxx" (serial number, 8 characters hexadecimal number)

;; "Filesystem"="xxx" (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat', 'win95'/'vfat', 'unix')

;; This is the FS Wine is supposed to emulate on a certain

;; directory structure.

;; Recommended:

;; - "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32

;; - "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly, upgrading to VFAT driver strongly recommended)

;; DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port programs using Winelib !

;; "Device"="/dev/xx" (only if you want to allow raw device access)

;;

[Drive A]

"Path" = "/mnt/floppy"

"Type" = "floppy"

"Label" = "Floppy"

"Filesystem" = "win95"

"Serial" = "87654321"

"Device" = "/dev/fd0"

 

[Drive C]

"Path" = "/home/mike/c"

"Type" = "hd"

"Label" = "MS-DOS"

"Filesystem" = "win95"

 

[Drive D]

"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"

"Type" = "cdrom"

"Label" = "CD-Rom"

"Filesystem" = "win95"

; make sure that device is correct and has proper permissions !

"Device" = "/dev/cdrom"

 

[Drive E]

"Path" = "/tmp"

"Type" = "hd"

"Label" = "Tmp Drive"

"Filesystem" = "win95"

 

[Drive F]

"Path" = "${HOME}"

"Type" = "network"

"Label" = "Home"

"Filesystem" = "win95"

 

[wine]

"Windows" = "c:windows"

"System" = "c:windowssystem"

"Temp" = "e:"

"Path" = "c:windows;c:windowssystem;e:;e:test;f:"

"Profile" = "c:windowsProfilesAdministrator"

"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"

;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"

;"ShowDotFiles" = "1"

"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"

 

# [wineconf]

 

[Version]

; Windows version to imitate (win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win20,win30,win31)

;"Windows" = "win98"

; DOS version to imitate

;"DOS" = "6.22"

 

; Be careful here, wrong DllOverrides settings have the potential

; to pretty much kill your setup.

[DllOverrides]

; some dlls you may want to change

"oleaut32" = "builtin, native"

"ole32" = "builtin, native"

"commdlg" = "builtin, native"

"comdlg32" = "builtin, native"

"shell" = "builtin, native"

"shell32" = "builtin, native"

"shfolder" = "builtin, native"

"shlwapi" = "builtin, native"

"shdocvw" = "builtin, native"

"advapi32" = "builtin, native"

"msvcrt" = "native, builtin"

"mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin"

"mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin"

; you can specify applications too

; this one will apply for all notepad.exe

;"*notepad.exe" = "native, builtin"

; this one will apply only for a particular file

;"C:windowsregedit.exe" = "native, builtin"

; default for all other dlls

"*" = "builtin, native"

 

[x11drv]

; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette

"AllocSystemColors" = "100"

; Use a private color map

"PrivateColorMap" = "N"

; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations

"PerfectGraphics" = "N"

; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens

;;"ScreenDepth" = "16"

; Name of X11 display to use

;;"Display" = ":0.0"

; Allow the window manager to manage created windows

"Managed" = "Y"

; Use a desktop window of 640x480 for Wine

;"Desktop" = "640x480"

; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present

; (make sure /dev/mem is accessible by you !)

"UseDGA" = "Y"

; Use XShm extension if present

"UseXShm" = "Y"

; Use XVidMode extension if present

"UseXVidMode" = "Y"

; Use the take focus protocol

"UseTakeFocus" = "Y"

; Enable DirectX mouse grab

"DXGrab" = "N"

; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual

; (useful to play OpenGL games)

"DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "Y"

; Code page used for captions in managed mode

; 0 means default ANSI code page (CP_ACP == 0)

"TextCP" = "0"

; Use this if you have more than one port for video on your setup

; (Wine uses for now the first 'input image' it finds).

;; "XVideoPort" = "43"

; Run in synchronous mode (useful for debugging X11 problems)

;;"Synchronous" = "Y"

;

; Use the Render extension to render client side fonts (default "Y")

;;"ClientSideWithRender" = "Y"

; Fallback on X core requests to render client side fonts (default "Y")

;;"ClientSideWithCore" = "Y"

; Set both of the previous two to "N" in order to force X11 server side fonts

;

; Anti-alias fonts if using the Render extension (default "Y")

;;"ClientSideAntiAliasWithRender" = "Y"

; Anti-alias fonts if using core requests fallback (default "Y")

;;"ClientSideAntiAliasWithCore" = "Y"

;

 

[fonts]

;Read the Fonts topic in the Wine User Guide before adding aliases

;See a couple of examples for russian users below

"Resolution" = "96"

"Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-"

"DefaultFixed" = "fixed"

"DefaultSerif" = "-adobe-times-"

"DefaultSansSerif" = "-adobe-helvetica-"

 

;; default TrueType fonts with russian koi8-r encoding

;"Default" = "-monotype-arial-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"

;"DefaultFixed" = "-monotype-courier new-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"

;"DefaultSerif" = "-monotype-times new roman-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"

;"DefaultSansSerif" = "-monotype-arial-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"

;; default cyrillic bitmap X fonts

;"Default" = "-cronyx-helvetica-"

;"DefaultFixed" = "fixed"

;"DefaultSerif" = "-cronyx-times-"

;"DefaultSansSerif" = "-cronyx-helvetica-"

 

; the TrueType font dirs you want to make accessible to wine

[FontDirs]

;"dir1" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"

;"dir2" = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"

;"dir3" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TT"

;"dir4" = "/usr/share/fonts/TT"

 

[serialports]

"Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0"

"Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1"

"Com3" = "/dev/ttyS2"

"Com4" = "/dev/modem"

 

[parallelports]

"Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0"

 

[ppdev]

;; key: io-base of the emulated port

;; value : parport-device{,timeout}

;; timeout for auto closing an open device ( not yet implemented)

;"378" = "/dev/parport0"

;"278" = "/dev/parport1"

;"3bc" = "/dev/parport2"

 

[spooler]

"FILE:" = "tmp.ps"

"LPT1:" = "|lpr"

"LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -"

"LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"

 

[ports]

;"read" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"

;"write" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"

 

[Debug]

;"RelayExclude" = "RtlEnterCriticalSection;RtlLeaveCriticalSection"

;"RelayInclude" = "user32.CreateWindowA"

;"SnoopExclude" = "RtlEnterCriticalSection;RtlLeaveCriticalSection"

;"SpyExclude" = "WM_SIZE;WM_TIMER;"

 

[registry]

;These are all booleans. Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false.

;Defaults are read all, write to Home

; Where to find the global registries

;"GlobalRegistryDir" = "/etc";

; Global registries (stored in /etc)

"LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "Y"

; Home registries (stored in ~user/.wine/)

"LoadHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"

; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory

"LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "Y"

; TRY to write all changes to home registries

"WritetoHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"

; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds

; "PeriodicSave" = "600"

; Save only modified keys

"SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y"

 

[Tweak.Layout]

;; supported styles are 'Win31'(default), 'Win95', 'Win98'

;; this has *nothing* to do with the windows version Wine returns:

;; set the "Windows" value in the [Version] section if you want that.

"WineLook" = "Win95"

 

[Clipboard]

"ClearAllSelections" = "0"

"PersistentSelection" = "1"

 

; List of all directories directly contain .AFM files

[afmdirs]

"1" = "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts"

"2" = "/usr/share/a2ps/afm"

"3" = "/usr/share/enscript"

"4" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"

 

[WinMM]

; Uncomment the "Drivers" line matching your sound setting.

 

"Drivers" = "wineoss.drv" ; default for most common configurations

;"Drivers" = "winearts.drv" ; for KDE

;"Drivers" = "winealsa.drv" ; for ALSA users

;"Drivers" = "winejack.drv" ; for Jack sound server

;"Drivers" = "winenas.drv" ; for NAS sound system

;"Drivers" = "wineaudioio.drv" ; for Solaris machines

;"Drivers" = "" ; to disable sound

"WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"

"MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"

 

[dsound]

;; HEL only: Number of waveOut fragments ahead to mix in new buffers.

;"HELmargin" = "5"

;; HEL only: Number of waveOut fragments ahead to queue to driver.

;"HELqueue" = "5"

;; Max number of fragments to prebuffer

;"SndQueueMax" = "28"

;; Min number of fragments to prebuffer

;"SndQueueMin" = "12"

;; Forces emulation mode (using wave api)

;"HardwareAcceleration" = "Emulation"

;; Sets default playback device (0 - number of devices - 1)

;"DefaultPlayback" = "0" ; use first device (/dev/dsp)

;"DefaultPlayback" = "1" ; use second device (/dev/dsp1)

;"DefaultPlayback" = "2" ; use third device (/dev/dsp2)

;; Sets default capture device (0 - number of devices - 1)

;"DefaultCapture" = "0" ; use first device (/dev/dsp)

;"DefaultCapture" = "1" ; use second device (/dev/dsp1)

;"DefaultCapture" = "2" ; use third device (/dev/dsp2)

 

[Network]

;; Use the DNS (Unix) host name always as NetBIOS "ComputerName" (boolean, default "Y").

;; Set to N if you need a persistent NetBIOS ComputerName that possibly differs

;; from the Unix host name. You'll need to set ComputerName in

;; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlComputerNameComputerName, too.

;"UseDnsComputerName" = "N"

 

;; sample AppDefaults entries

 

; 3 InstallShield versions who like to put their full screen window in front,

; without any chance to switch to another X11 application.

; So just catch them in a desktop window.

 

[AppDefaults_INS5576._MPx11drv]

"Desktop" = "640x480"

 

[AppDefaults_INS5176._MPx11drv]

"Desktop" = "640x480"

 

[AppDefaults_INS0466._MPx11drv]

"Desktop" = "640x480"

 

;[AppDefaultsiexplore.exeDllOverrides]

;"shlwapi" = "native"

;"rpcrt4" = "native"

;"ole32" = "native"

;"shdocvw" = "native"

;"wininet" = "native"

;"shfolder" = "native"

;"shell32" = "native"

;"shell" = "native"

;"comctl32" = "native"

;

;[AppDefaultssetup.exex11drv]

;"Desktop" = "800x600"

;

;[AppDefaultssol.exeVersion]

;"Windows" = "nt40"

;

;; Some games (Quake 2, UT) refuse to accept emulated dsound devices.

;; You can add an AppDefault entry like this for such cases.

;[AppDefaultspickygame.exedsound]

;"EmulDriver" = "N"

 

# [/wineconf]

OK

Mandrake control center / Mount points/ disk drake.

Just click on your windows partition, then click unmount

Then I suggest trying the cvs wine, doing ./tools/wineinstall

is it urpme?

If you used an rpm, you can remove it with package manager

or Mandrake Control center / remove software

right. just go into the /home/wine directory. su to root, do

make uninstall

that's it.

Hey Grimey, I had an idea:

First, uninstall wine, then unmount your windows partition, then re-install wine.

When you get to the part where it asks if you want a no-windows install, say yes.

Try that, I bet it'll work.

Are you running XP on the same hard drive as Linux? And are you able to see your XP files and folders while running Linux?

These errors I have never seen.

I honestly don't know what to tell you, maybe someone else here can walk you through this.

You do like this:

wine notepad (or whatever the executable is.)

 

In fact, notepad is a good test to see if wine actually works.

Try it.

OK, why don't you try to just install wine from the Mandrake CDs.

You can do it from control center, and it should be very easy to do.

If you can get that far, let me know.

By the way, what games are you trying to run with wine?