Dustpuppy

This sounds like what my laptop does when it's running at million of colours rather than thousands - have you tried taking the number of colours down?

secondly, when its locked have you tried CTRL+ALT+F1-F6 ?? I doubt this will work in this situaiton but its wortyh a go.

I can do ctrl-alt-f1 and get a login promt, but neither startx nor init 5 work once I'm logged in - what should I do there?

NB, I'm still puzzled about what to change in the BIOS...

I had the a problem when it'd lock up right at starting at the beginning of the blue line. I figured that changing everything from AUTO to LBA in my bios fixed that. I dunno if its relevant but it couldn't hurt. :D

Erm, couldn't see any settings like this, what sort of thing is it?

Cheers!

To be clear, are booting OK sometimes and not others?

 

Do you have any onboard stuff, like video or audio? Is plug and gulp turned off in your bios? Are you auto establishing your irq's? Is it a full moon? OK, forget he last question. :P

1) Yes - it's booting OK about half the time, and as far as I can see there's nothing specific in the previous session that makes it hang.

2) No, no periferals apart from printer.

3) Yes, I turned it off in the bios before installing.

4) That sounds painful.

5) I don't know, but it was the transit of Venus yesterday...

Swiftdeath - I'll give it a go and report back.

Hi, I'm running 10OE and about half the time the computer is hanging at startup, in the blue screen just after the NVIDIA screen and before the KDE one (I automatically boot into my default login). There's nothing I can do then except a hard reset. I've re-installed the drivers but it hasn't helped. My vid. card is a gforce4 - it might not be a problem with this, but that's where it hangs on boot.

Please help, I'm having M$ flashbacks! :D

Thankyou!

I installed lame and am currently ripping with KAudioCreator. This may take some time!

I have finally given in to my inner geek (ahem) and bought a cheap and cheerful mp3 player. Mandrake 10 recognised it fine, so the task now is to begin ripping my cd collection to mp3 so that I can take it with me. Which program is best to do this? I'm running KDE.

Yes, X starts at boot. It's not really a bit problem getting it to shutdown (I've made a desktop icon that does the command 'halt' so I just click it to shutdown B) ) and I don't need any users but me, but I just wondered if there was something obvious I was doing wrong...

I'm having a problem with shutting down from KDE using mandrake 10OE on my dell inspiron 5000e. When I go to logout and press any of the options shutdown/restart/logout, the screen goes black immediately and the system hangs. Because there is no power-off button the only way to turn it off then is to take the battery out, and then on startup it complains it wasn't shut down properly. I've got ACPI enabled in the boot menu.

The wierdest thing is that the 'halt' command from a konsole will shut the system down properly, with the proper screen etc.

???

Got it working! Found all the info here:

touchpad install

Maybe it'll work for yours?

The thing is, it recognises the pad and I can use it to move the mouse around - it just won't accept a tap on the pad as a left mouse click.

I don't even know what it should be called in mousedrake - is it glidepoint?

I've just installed 10OE on my Dell Inspiron 5000e, and I've hit my first problem. I previously had 9.2 installed on it, and although the problem I had with the screen has been cleared up in 10, the mousepad now doesn't work fully. It works as a pointer when I drag my finger across it, but tapping on the pad doesn't now have the effect of pressing the left mouse button - I have to use the buttons at the bottom of the mousepad. It worked fine in 9.2 and I didn't have to do anything there to make it work, just chose the default mouse option, so I don't know why it isn't working now. It's currently set as the default, Universal, any PS/2 & USB mouse.

This is a big problem because I have RSI and the buttons are very stiff, which will become a serious problem very soon. Please help!

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Just maybe your college IT dept. is on to you 

Who, me?

Anyway, I'm getting the CD's posted, so they can breath again...

and as a side mod note,  please don't hijack someone else's thread. Just start your own. K?  :D

Sorry for that... I though it had finished and it would be tidier to use the open thread. Consider me to be hiding my diminished head in shame :D

http://www.uselinux.co.uk Mandrake 10 official on bootable DVD for a few squids if anyones interested.

Beauty!! It's taken me nearly two days to not-quite download the first iso, so I've ordered this instead. Thanks also from my husband who won't have me being bad tempered for the rest of the week when the network borks!

Thanks also bvc, feralertx and Ronin, it's good to know how to do this without booting up XP and using Nero.

I'm on mandy 9.2 and am trying (trying!) to download 10. College network is <expletive> and the sever cut out half way through ftp'ing the first iso. So I want to give bittorrent a go... which ports do I need to open and (more importantly!) how do I open them? I'm getting `problem connecting to tracker'. I've got shorewall running if that makes a difference...

How do I burn the iso's using Mandrake? I'm currently on 9.2 and have never needed to burn images before...

0.4kps download speed. That sucks, even for the network I'm currently on!

Ah, I see. No I was clicking on "custom partitioning"

So what partitions do you have? And what do you want to end up with

If you've got one NTFS partition at the start, give it a go allowing it to use the windows partition. This also gives windows what it needs to function, which I found was about double the space that the data took up!

Of course, the best & easiest way to do things is as cannonfodder said and get another hard drive...

The partitions are already set up apparently and also I can't size them down to where I need them to be.

Eh? If you've just had an XP box before now, you should just have a single NTFS partition. Are you checking the option 'use the free space on the windows partition' at this screen? Is it then giving an error message?

Well, here's what worked for me when that happened. When it returns the error (windows partition too fragmented), go into 'expert' mode (button down the bottom of the screen that tells you the error). Click on the windows partition (mine was called hda) and compress it as far as it will go. For me, this was not really any change at all, but when I then went back and told it to use free space on windows it worked. I have no idea why. I ended up with a 37GB windows partition and 23 linux.

Maybe it'll work again... :D

I'm obviously not a 'better viewer' as I clicked the title anyway, but here's my 2 eurocents...

I also had problems with the partitions setting up a dual boot with XP... how exactly did the problem show itself? Was it on installing Mandrake (btw, which flavour?), at the DrakX partitioning bit? If so, what exactly happened?

If it was there I might be able to help... I'll dig out my notes, I remember I had to do something inexplicable to get it to work.

Does anyone know when 10OE is going to be released to the public? I want to upgrade my laptop but have less than zero money at the moment B)

Thanks jonnyv! That was exactly what he wants.

emacs 

No no no - vi :P

If you are running Mandrake 9.2 (or any recent version of Mandrake) KDevelop is supplied on the install CD's. You should be able to simply go to the package manager and install it. It will tell you that it needs to install about a hundred different packages to support dependencies, but it should install.

I think 'should' is the operative word B) It came up with the incredibly helpful 'the following packages could not be installed', and when I tried to settle the dependencies it just couldn't install them full stop. LibXinerama.so.1 was the crunch on both installs.

How do you compile and then execute from the command line (I really do know nothing about this sort of thing, and the last time my husband tried programming was on a Spectrum :D )?

My husband's wanting to programme C++ on our linux box. I'm running 9.2, and I've tried installing both kdevelop and anjuta (I run KDE) and they both borked on the dependencies. I've got gcc etc installed, so is there either a) another UI for C++ or B) a way for him to compile from the command line?

Ah, maybe that's not the real problem...

config.log ends with the lines

configure:1062: checking for gcc

configure:1175: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works

configure:1191: gcc -o conftest conftest.c 1>&5

configure:1217: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler

configure:1222: checking whether we are using GNU C

configure:1231: gcc -E conftest.c

configure:1250: checking whether gcc accepts -g

configure:1283: checking how to run the C preprocessor

configure:1304: gcc -E conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out

configure:1396: checking for c++

configure:1396: checking for g++

configure:1396: checking for gcc

configure:1428: checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc ) works

configure:1449: rm -rf SunWS_cache; gcc -o conftest conftest.C 1>&5

gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory

I've google this, and it seems people have this problem when gcc isn't installed. But it is! cc1plus is in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/3.3.1 - is there a way of telling configure that it is?