jdion81

I have heard of problems with the "soundwrapper xmms" thing, I believe you can remove the soundwrapper part and leave xmms and it should work fine.

I may be mistaken but I beleive gstreamer .8 is on cooker

Thanks! I will have to try that. Up till now I have been rebooting to the 2.4 kernel and then back to 2.6. This seems to clear the problem for me. It makes for *alot* of reboots though.

OK but where did the extra 5 gig come from?

I dont have any probs with Firefox, I use it on my laptop in windows, Linspire and Mandrake and it seems to respond the same in all of them (Fast) Firefox takes about 2 seconds to open on all os's. I am not using the version that you can get via urpmi I downloaded it and installed it manually and configured java and flash manually too.

I dont know, you might wanna check "man umask" I think that when you go to Mandrake Controll Center and manage your partitions there should be an option to allow normal users to mount. I also think that if you mount them as root you should be able to access them as a regular user afterwards. I also thought that Dynamic Disks were not usable in Linux.

Check this out: http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/Building

Look at Linspire, they have given away the OS many times in hopes of people trying it and liking it then subscribing to CNR. I like this idea of marketing. It lets me get the OS try it in a real world situation, see if it works with my hardware, see if my wife can use it then allow me to support the company that provides my OS with payment for its services. The part that I really like is that no-one is denied the opportunity to try it and thus forced to get the software by other shady means.

The thing is at the first post I had a fresh install of mdk 10 ce from a ftp ISO and just now I had a 9.2 install (pcmcia worked but wireless didnt) then I updated 9.2 to 10 OE. When I updated to 10 pcmcia everything including wireless worked for about 3 days. Then I posted the contents of the files that you asked, and then tried the 2.4 kernel and it worked. So I think it is not pcmcia not working (it may still have a bug). It may be a config file or a file lock thats in place that shouldnt be.

OK this is wierd. The current Install that I have is a MDK 9.2 fivestar (installed from CDs) then upgraded to 10.0 OE using a network boot floppy and installing from a mirror. So I still have the 2.4 kernel installed now. I have been booting with the 2.6 Kernel and cannot get the pc card to work after it just stopped working. Just now for the heck of it I booted from the 2.4 kernel and it gets to the finding new hardware part of the boot sequence and "beep... beep" the card is found. I dont know if maybe booting from the old kernel cleared a bad file out or what but I seem to be up for now. Thanks ALOT Kjel

/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia: PCIC=yenta_socket PCMCIA=yes /var/lib/pcmcia/sheme is empty (I have deleted and rebooted and there is no change) /var/lib/pcmcia/stab doesnt exist any ideas? I ran pcic_probe and it says: PCI bridge probe: O2 Micro 6912 foudn, 2 sockets.

What are the different applets you have running (weather calendar etc) in the screenshot?

I want to create / use "profiles" for my wireless connection as I move between 3 or 4 different wireless networks. (similar to windows xp wireless network interface) is there a way to do this with mdk 10?

I did go through the file system check on the next boot and nothing unusual was reported. This was the first time that the computer was halted due to an overheat. (I had the machine on my lap ontop of a pillow -- blocking the exhaust on the bottom) I appreciate your help with this.

Welcome to the boards! I am sorta new too but in reading your post I am a little confused by the statement: Whyd you reinstall? Did you create your user account during setup? what happens when you try to log in as root?

well just for the heck of it (and to get windows to run again and resize my partitions) I reinstalled xp and mdk 10. When I did everything worked wonderfully. This includes winxp, pcmcia, wireless, acpi. Then while compiling dri to get dri enabled for my video card the computer halted. I checked the system logs and it said that the computer had hit critical temp and was being halted (92'C) After bringing the computer back up and checking the logs the wireless was once again not working and kde > information > PCMCIA said that the card was inserted (this did not change when the card was removed and the computer rebooted. I am running kernel 2.6.3-7mdk (came with official) no change if booting when booting with linux acpi=off This is really getting to me as I rely heavily on the wireless connection. I checked harddrake and it says that the PCMCIA card controller is loaded and working (OZ6912) and I checked the syslogs for pcmcia and wireless card messages (orinoco_cs) and found: pcmcia Starting PCMCIA services pcmcia cardmgr[736]: no sockets found! cardmgr[736] no sockets found! pcmcia Starting pcmcia: succeeded I may be reverting to mdk 9.2 if this keeps up. (seems I cannot get pcmcia / wireless to work again unless I reinstall)

Wow this is weird, I just went to System > Configuration > KDE > Information > PCMCIA It says: Card 0: D-Link DWL-650 Card 1: Which is correct I do have the DWL 650 in the card slot. I am assuming that KDE is reading this information from a file somewhere that is not current or is not being updated.

I just went into services and told it to stop then start pcmcia. When I started pcmcia I got a message that said " Starting PCMCIA services: cardmgr[2820]: no sockets found! done." I know the card works and I know that the pcmcia slot works as I have booted off a knoppix cd and I am able to use the card there. The only thing that has changed on mandrake since the card has worked last is I installed a few updates using uprmi at the cli. The updates installed were: libqt3-3.2.3-17.1.100mdk.i586.rpm qt3-common-3.2.3-17.1.100mdk.i586.rpm kernel-source-2.6.3-8mdk.i586

Ive updated ( or installed a new kernel before) my real problem though is that I can't get pcmcia or acpi to work anymore. They are being loaded but seem to not be working.

on cooker using urpmi?

I updated my system (running 10.0 CE or is it now OE?) with a mirror listed on the urpmi config site. I assume I am now running official after the update. I could not get the last few updates for a day or two. When I finally got the updates I shut down the computer and the next time I started it the pcmcia card was not found, I have tried 2 other pc cards and they are not found either. I also do not have power management. (Klaptop is not starting, I dont know how else to check power management, but the laptop is getting *really* hot and the fan runs for about 30 seconds every 30 seconds.) I updated using urpmi, is there a way to tell what packages were installed or updated as I feel this is what has cause this issue. I do know that one of the packages was a kernel source package (dont remember the kernel version number though) I already had the kernel source installed for my system. Mod note: Moved from software by phunni

what do you think about this site? http://www.loadux.com/seldistros.html They list MDK 10 OE for 9.99 and garauntee the speed that your line is rated to handle. so for me thats 380 k/sec

Like "Callhomeandreporttothemothershipwhattheusersisdoing" technology? :deal:

Do you think tarring the /home dir(partition) to a different drive is as good as tarring the whole system (/ and /home) to a different drive? Right now I could do the /home to a cd or dvd but not if doing the whole system. I guess my real question is "how hard is it to do a recovery in the advent of a data failure using a backup of the whole system versus a /home backup. (how easy is it to set the permissions on a newly created user to a restore of a folder).

Guess no-one likes GW?