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Thanks arctic, Unfortunately, after editing Grub just how you gave it to me, I'm still not able to get into Mandriva 2006. I get Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue... I then booted from a Knoppix disk. Partition hda5 was on the desktop. When I clicked on it, it came up with all the Mandriva 2006 directories. I clicked on "home" and there was my user folder. So this tells me that Mandriva 2006 is installed on hda5. Any further help is greatly appreciated. R. Lawson

Thanks Arctic! At our weekly Linux Workshop in Houston, TX, I have used the above way before and it has worked. Also, it is working for Kubuntu. I appreciate your help in doing it the more detailed way. I'm not sure how to list the Man2006 Kernel. I know it's 2.6.12..... but not sure if it's 2.6.12-12mdk (I know this is close if not correct.) NOTE: I'm not at all "technical", so I need clear directions to make any edits, please. Here is my Grub: Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Nov 14 13:49:24 CST 2005 color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message title SUSE LINUX 9.3 kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x317 selinux=0 splash=silent resume=/dev/hda2 showopts initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd title Mandriva2006 root (hd0,4) chainloader +1 title Kubuntu root (hd0,6) chainloader +1 title Mandriva 2005 (/dev/hda8) kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 resume=/dev/hda2 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 9.3 kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresum selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd) NOTE: there may be a typographical error in the SuSE 9.3 or Mandriva 2005 since I wasn't able to copy and paste it. My laptop's SuSe 9.3 will not connect to the internet with my wireless card (although all the other distros do fine). So I had to type this. I'm on my desktop and am copying from my laptop. Your help is greatly appreciated. :D Richard L.

I'm using SUSE9.3's Grub as my MBR. After installing Mandriva '06 PowerPak, I edited Grub the simple way. Mandrava is on hda5 on my laptop., and I have several other distros on the laptop as well: SuSe9.3, Kubuntu, Mandriva LE '05. Here is how I edited Grub. I did this for Kubuntu and it worked fine: title Mandriva2006 root (hd0,4) chainloader +1 For Kubuntu, which is on hda7, earlier in the week I had done: title Kubuntu root (hd0,6) chainloader +1 I can boot into Kubuntu, but not into Mandriva. ***I'm getting in Mandriva Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format.*** How can I edit SuSe's Grub so that I boot into Mandriva. NOTE: Please do not get into a suggestion/discussion/debate about Lilo at this point. I just want to solve the problem as stated above. Thanks! Richard L.

Win4Lin Pro is a lot cheaper (about 120.00 US), does not need a special kernel any more, and can run Windows 2000 and XP. Sometimes it's on special for below 100.00 US. Richard L.

Thanks devries, I'm leaving Houston for Montreal, CA to get away from our heat and to enjoy the cooler weather there for a week. When I get back on July 11th, I'll try this. Always appreciative of your help, Richard

I cannot get knotes to work in Mandriva2005LE on both my laptop and my desktop computer. When I do the run command: knotes, I get an error message which states: "KDEInit could not launch 'kontact_knotes.sh' ". As a result, Kontakt has already opened up, which I don't want it to do. I just want "simple ole" knotes to open, like other sticky notes program (Post-It Notes in WindowsXP, and the notes in Gnome, for example). How do I correct the error message and get knotes to work independently of Kontakt, so that it sits in the system tray, and I can single-click on it to start a new note, as well as right-click on it for more options. :unsure: All help is greatly appreciated! :D Richard B)

For SuSE9.3, it turned out not to be a driver problem. A young 18 year old "Genius" was able to solve this problem by opening AlsaMixer and muting IEC 958 and IEC 958 1, then turning up 3dControl and PCM (along of course with the Master Volume). Afterwards I opened KMixer, looked through the three tabs to see how to do it the GUI/mouse way. I hope this will help others who may use this card and have this loud static/hissing sound. Thanks to all who helped with suggestions. Richard

Thanks ianw1974. I appreciate your suggestion. I guess I forgot to mention that I've run alsaconf several times, and to no avail. Both alsaconf and Yast, when used for configuration, have the same loud "hiss" coming from the speakers. So when I'm not using an application with sound, the loud hissing sound is very annoying. (Please read more details in the posts I posted above).

I tried this, but I might have done it wrong. The sound file in /etc/modprobe.d looks like this: alias snd-card-0 snd ens1371 alias sound-slot-0 snd-ens1371 I edited the file to look like this: alias snd-card-0 ens1371 alias sound-slot-0 ens1371 Unfortunately, this did not completely solve the problem...I still have the loud hissing sound in the speakers. Do I need to do further editing, such as changing snd-card-0 to card-0? Once again, thanks Lowe. Richard

The problem I'm about to describe I was able to fix in Mandriva Control Center by simply switching the driver from the alternative driver snd-es1371 to the default drivier es1371 (Creative Soundblaster 16 PCI sound card): In both distros MDV2005LE (solved) and SuSE9.3, I am getting a loud hissing sound in my speakers, and the audio is soft and overwhelmed by it. I solved the problem very easily in Mandriva by choosing the default driver. I"ve spent all afternoon trying to do this in SuSE9.3 by running as root alsaconf and by using the GUI way with Yast, with no luck. Neither allows me to change the driver form snd-es1371 to the default es1371. Does anyone know a way that I can do this? If you give command lines, please be thorough with step-by-step instructions, as I'm bad in "filling in the blanks". Thanks in advance to any and all helpful replies....and my appreciation. Richard

Thanks Rolf, I hope to work on this during the weekend. Richard

I remember in SuSE9.0 I had the opposite reaction. The default large icons made the submenus spread out over almost all the desktiop, so I wanted smaller. So the instructions someone gave me was to use the kickerrc file and change MenuEntryHeight from 32 to 16, for example, and it worked perfectly like a charm for the entire menu. Now that was in KDE3.2, I think. At least it was an earlier version of KDE then. So I'm surprised it isn't working 100% in KDE3.4, so that you can set the MenuEntryHeight to 32 and have it work for the entire menu. I know that this isn't helping your situation, and I wish I could help, but I'm responding with my experience with kickerrc. Maybe this will spur another member to share a better solution, or by adding something additionally to kickerrc that I have forgotten. Best of Luck, Richard

I'm using MandrivaLE2005-Club which came out with KDE3.4 this month. Mandriva's KDE3.4 is doing something that other 3.4's in various distros do not do. That is, the tooltips for each icon have a black background and the letters of the words are also partially black. This may look "chic/cool" to younger people, but it is hard to read at my age. How can I change this to the KDE3.4 default, which is a soft white background for these tooltips. I appreciate all helpful responses. Thanks, Richard [moved from Software by spinynorman]

My ethernet card is the very common RealTek card, which configures just fine using MCC>Network>Configure New.... As I go through this, the default is to keep the configuration for booting up, which I keep checked (ticked). However, when I boot back into Mandriva, the setting is lost, I can't get onto the internet, I have to go back into MCC and configure anew again. (Although this takes maybe a minute to do, it is becoming annoying.) Any and all help is greatly appreciated. :D Richard

I find that the Prism 2 cards are the easiest to use in Mandrake 10.x and Mandriva. They are older cards, but do not require the headaches of ndiswrapper. The card I use is about 21/2 years old and is no longer in stores, but perhaps you could locate one for sale via Google. It is a Linksys WPC11 ver. 3. It is important to get version 3, because version 4 and newer are not prism 2. I'm sure that others with more current cards that are still in stores may be of better help if you don't find the one I mention. Wishing you best of luck! Richard

Many thanks, arctic, for the link. On my panel I have Terminal Sessions, which lists several shells/consoles. I opened Root Shell > password> alsaconf. The alsaconf configured my soundcard correctly, and I think it chose the alternate driver sndl-es1371. Before my post, I had chosen this alternate driver the "GUI" way in KControl ("Configure Your Desktop"), but it didn't work. I'm going to write this command down in my Linux notebook for future reference. Again, thanks to all who gave suggestions, I appreciate your time and sharing. Sincerely, Richard

Thanks devries, The first thing I did was to open kmix and added the volume icon to the panel. I clicked to check all settings on kmix and they are fine. I've been using KControl to test sound and tried several settings for the sound in the Hardware Tab. None have worked. Since I've been doing this the 'GUI' way, I have not seen any error messages. Please give me a step-by-step way to see error messages and I will post them. Richard

I just installed Mandriva2005LE-Club-i586i, which includes KDE3.4 and came out this month. I cannot get sound to work. My sound card is a Creative Sound Blaster 16PCI. (The Intel sound card on the motherboard is disabled in the BIOS, so as not to cause confusion.) When Mandriva boots up, it shows the sound module as es1371, which should be correct. When I go into MCC and check hardware, the soundcard is listed as CT5880 and shows the driver module as es1371. I think these are probably correct, too, but not sure. Any suggestion on how to get sound working? When I installed Libranet 3.0, sound worked automatically. I don't know if this would help or not, but is there maybe a file (or files) in Libranet that I can copy over into Mandriva to make sound work? (Libranet is Debian-based, and I don't know if that affects anything concerning files or not). Just a thought. All help is greatly appreciated. In advance, thanks. Richard

Thanks, devries....Unforthunately, I already tried this as you can see below. However, on my desktop with the last two versions of Mandrake, hitting F1 freezes up the keyboard. I then have to reboot and press Enter, take about 10 minutes to do an Upgrade before I can boot up. It's a pain. Still I wish that Mandrake would let you burn a boot CD like some of the other distros are doing now. It would help out everyone that has "quirks". It was great when several versions ago we could create a boot floppy. Now it's time for a boot CD. Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again, devries. I appreciate your input. You have helped me in the past. I know your response here will help others who happen to see this thread! RIchard

(Note: I read the thread in the FAQ'S and HOW TO'S, but it is very complicated and involved with command lines; I've done a search but with no luck.) Is there a simple way to make a Boot CD for MDV2005LE? In a few other distros, this is in their control center and is quite easy to do point and click (such as Libranet 3.0's Adminmenu). The kernel has been too big for a floppy since MDK 9.2, so I haven't figured out why I can't find it or why Mandriva may have not provided this feature. All help is greatly appreciated! Thanks. Richard

Since F1 didn't work, I used "Upgrade" and choose lilo as the bootloader, now all is okay. I still want to use grub. Below is my lilo.conf, followed by my menu.lst for grub: Lilo.conf: default="linux" boot=/dev/hdb2 map=/boot/map keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hdb2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb1 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hdb2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="splash=silent acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb1" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda other=/dev/hda1 label="alt_windows" image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hdb2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe splash=silent acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb1 devfs=nomount" read-only Here his menu.lst for grub: timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan default 0 title linux kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb1 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 splash=silent acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb1 initrd (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img title windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title alt_windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title failsafe kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 failsafe splash=silent acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb1 devfs=nomount initrd (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img Hope this helps! Richard

Thanks arctic, In the last couple of versions of MDK/MDV, pressing F1 on the first disc has not worked. It seems to freeze everything up, which is odd, since after pressing F1, I can't then press Enter to do an upgrade. Rather I have to turn off the computer and then I can press Enter. I have a Kanotix live cd. I'll post my results of menu.lst and lilo.conf here in the next couple of days. Thanks again! Richard

I used mcc to change the bootloader from lilo graphical login to grub. When I restarted the computer, grub just hangs and won't boot. 1. Why did graphical lilo boot, but Grub doesn't? 2. How can I get Grub to boot? 3. If there is no solution to getting Grub to boot, how do I get lilo back as the bootloader? Thanks! Richard

Thanks Adriano, I found it just as you were posting your reply. Richard PS. All problems solved! I just found the application switcher...called "Window Selector". It is no longer on the top panel by default, by it is in the list of items that can be added to the top panel.

It's been quite a while that I have used Gnome, and now that it has matured I want to give it a try again. I liked the fact that Gnome had some features similar to Mac OSes prior to MacOSX. However, I find that two features I used to enjoy seem to be missing. First, the application switcher (Windows list manager?) on the top panel in the far right corner is no longer there. I really liked that because if my cursor was near the top of the screen, it was easier to open a minimized window from there rather than going to the taskbar on the bottom panel. Also, I find that I can no longer "roll-up" a window, sometimes called window shade. Is my memory a little fuzzy on these two features, are they "hidden" somewhere, or have they been discontinued? Richard [moved from Software by spinynorman]