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  1. It's alright, I just reinstalled Drake. Thanks anyway. ^_^ -CC
  2. I tried booting into failsafe, but even then the console text graphics were messed up. Eh. I'm thinking of just re-installing MDK... Any help/bits of wisdom before I do? Oh well. At least Damn Small still works. =) -CC
  3. After booting into Mandrake, the screen turned all inverted and messed up... distorted images and stuff. I'm using Mandrake right now, but I can barely get around because everything messes up when I move. I did not do ANYTHING last time I shut down that would have possibly done this, I don't think... (checked e-mail, chatted on GAIM for a little bit, shut down.) At boot, it gave me a couple errors, I'm not sure what they were though. Please help! I have no idea what to do. -CC *edit* Wow, I'm smart. Didn't even tell you anything about my config... I'm using a Thinkpad 770z laptop. Mandrake 9.1, using KDE, but all this stuff happens at the login, so I don't think it's KDE. Video is CyberDVD, 4mb... Any other info you need, just ask. *edit #2* Geez. I even posted this into the wrong place. I meant software. Sorry. >_< Could a mod please move this?...
  4. The subject says it all... How do I change my root password? I didn't set one at install, and now I'm worried about security. Sorry if there's lots of posts on this, I couldn't find one here. *sheepish grin.* Thanks in advance! -CC
  5. Eh. Being the uber-noobie I am, I neglected to reboot after loading the CS drivers. After a reboot, I tried to play a stream with XMMS, and it would only play the first second over and over again. Same with a MP3 I tried. I tried reloading the driver again, same settings as my last post, and it would work, although playing scratchy... until another reboot. Then it would do the same thing again. So, I decided to just try out all the drivers, see which passed the sound test, see which worked after a reboot... After about an hour, many drivers/reboots, and 2 asprin, I found out: 1. As long as the I/O port is 0x220, IRQ is 5, and the DMA is 1, it should work fine. 2. Linux is not for the impatient. =P I found the one that works the best (for me) is the generic, old Sound Blaster driver, with the above settings. It gives some kind of error at boot, but it still works. The other sound blasters worked, along with a couple other drivers... Anyway, just thought I'd put another post up for all 2 people with the 770z laptop. Hope they find it useful. =) -CC
  6. AllRIGHT, I got it. ^_^ *Happy Days theme plays in the background.* Also, thank you bvc for that command, it fixed the floppy error, and also fixed the unmounting problems during shutdown. Sorry that I didn't post this in the laptop section. Anyway, for future reference, here's a complete, newbie friendly guide for people with this problem: I guess it only does this on Thinkpad laptops. (it does on the 770z models and 700, anyway.) At boot, go into the BIOS by pressing F1. Turn off Quick Boot in the settings. Load up Mandrake, and go to Install Software in the Menu. Install sndconfig. Open up a terminal, and go into root. (I had no idea how to do this, quit laughing, damnit. For newbies like me, you can use the command su to go into root.) cd into the usr/sbin directory. Run sndconfig --noprobe (this makes it so it doesn't try to detect a sound card, because it will detect the wrong one) After it loads, it appears to hang/freeze. It is NOT frozen, just give it a couple minutes. *below taken from a post at LinixQuestions.org, from the user stompinround* I selected CS4232 driver with the following settings io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x300 mpuirq=5 After that it should work. Just use Kmix to adjust the volume settings. =) Now to figure out this tar.gzip thing... =P Thanks again bvc and tyme. -CC
  7. Okay. I ran Harddrake, and the config tool for my sound card (which was listed). I tried using different CS drivers, but that didn't do anything... I ran the troubleshooting thing, and tried some of the things it said. Using "/sbin/chkconfig --list alsa" said that all the initlevels for it were 0. Trying to run "aumix -q" gave me: "aumix: error opening mixer" And using "/sbin/fuser - /dev/dsp" gave me "/dev/dsp: No such file or directory." Also, when booting up or shutting down, it gives the same "aumix : error opening mixer" error. Also, my laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, and whenever I try to go into my /mnt directory, it freezes up, trying to find the floppy (which doesn't exist), and if I run Xkill on the window, it still keeps looking for the floppy, making my laptop run at a crawl. It also seems having trouble un-mounting my directories at shutdown/restart. Again, thank you in advance. Any help would be welcome. -CC *edit* P.S- After running /sbin/lsmod, it lists my sound driver (cs461x) as (unused).
  8. Hello. I'm almost a complete newbie to Linux (having used Damn Small Linux and Morphix before), and therefore know almost nothing about it. That being said, I have a problem. =) I'm running Mandrake 9.1 on a Thinkpad 770z laptop. Everything works fine except for my Crystal SoundFusion sound card. (Which, in the installation, says is detected and working.) I know I'm supposted to enable sound and turn up the volume in Kmix, but there isn't anything listed in it! If I try to play something with XMMS, it just gives me a message saying: "Couldn't open audio. Please check that: 1. You have your correct output plugin selected. 2. No other programs are blocking the sound card. 3. Your sound card is configured properly." Same thing with anything else that uses audio. It did this in DSL and Morphix, too. Please help! Or at least point me to the right thread, or webpage, or whatever. Thank you in advance! =) -CC
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