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Thanks, pmpatrick....That is what I most likely did in MDK10.1, and I guess I had a "blond" or better yet "senior" moment. Thanks, daniewicz, for considering the lock session and logout buttons, which are very important. I already had those along with Run command... under Actions as well. I just neglected to include them in my list. Thank you both for your very quick replies! Richard

As club member I have the full commercial edition of Mandriva Limited Edition 2005. I also still have MDK10.1. In the "star" menu ->Actions in MDK10.1, the following are listed: Quick Browser, Preferences, and Terminal Sessions (along with Find and Recent Documents). In the "star" menu ->Actions in MDVLE05, listed are only Find and Recent Files. Why are the other three left out? How can I add them back in under "Actions"? (Note: I realize I could probably add these to the panel, but my panel is too crowded already. I wish solely to add them to the Menu and nowhere else.) All help is greatly appreciated. Richard

It worked! All solved! Hallelujah! Many many thanks to k6h and to my fellow Houstonian and Texan: bvc!!! I added Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT" to the xorg.conf file and it solved the problem! This forum is the greatest!! Richard

Thanks to everyone who has responded so far. bvc--it's great to see your participation once again occasionally in the forums. Welcome back! k6h Which file did you add the following? Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT" I looked at xorg.conf and it doesn't appear to be the correct file. If there are further suggestions, I am open to them. Richard

Thanks scarecrow for the advice. This is one option I considered, but am resistant to do for the following reasons: Previous Mandrake versions worked with framebuffer enabled and I've always been able to do the graphical login. All other distros that I've used don't have the framebuffer problem: Libranet, Xandros, SuSE, Fedora Core, and others. As stated above, I prefer that people I know that may be interested in Linux will see the graphical login with details rather than the ugly text login, which turns off most people accustomed to Windows and Mac. I'm trying to show that Mandriva is REALLY ready for primetime as strictly point and thus ready for the masses. Thus I'd like a solution which has framebuffer enabled and working right instead of disabled. Thanks again, Richard

UPDATE: I may be using the wrong word when I say "moire pattern". This happens not only at shutdown, but also when I try to go from GUI into text mode (CTRL +ALT + F2-F6). Some one told me that this all has to do the Frame Buffer (which I don't quite understand). When I boot into linux-nonfb, the problem doesn't exist. HOWEVER, I much prefer the GUI way of booting in (although I don't like the boot theme with the starry-eyed penguin...great for a 5 year old!). I've always liked how it looks so much nicer to see the details with the blue background and the nice font size, than with the ugly black background, especially when someone seeing Mandriva, or Linux for the first time is around. So....How can I get back to using the Lilo/Graphical way to boot up and get rid of the frame buffer problem? Thanks, Richard

I just reinstalled Mdv2005 and finally got nvidia and X to work. This time the installation recognized my monitor (Viewsonic A90f+) and installed the Nvidia generic XF driver (my card is XF 5200). Here is the new problem: When I try to restart or shutdown, the last screen that appears is an ugly moire pattern (not sure if this is the right term or not). It hangs on the moire pattern screen and I have to do the "dirty" shutdown by pressing the power button for 6 or 7 seconds to power off. I have set the screen size to 1024 x 768 and the refresh rate is 85 hz. All help with this i greatly appreciated. Richard

Thanks for all the help, Kristi and devries, I noticed that my Menu had practically no applications in it, so I did a complete reinstall. During installatin, it found the nvidia module and it configured correctly. I have a couple of other problems which I'll start in new threads. You've both been great to reply! Richard

Thanks, kristi, but typing kde only works each time after I go into XFdrake and choose the Vesa driver each time, so it really isn't the fix I need, since I want a graphical login with the Nvidia driver and 3d acceleration. I'm still stumped. Richard

I installed Mandriva last night on the 2nd hard drive of my desktop computer, but when I boot up into it, it cannot find any driver for Nvidia. My Nvidia card is a FX 5200 (from Conqueror). My monitor is a Viewsonic A90f+. After logging in (init 3) as root, I have typed in XFdrake to choose FX generic and have fiddled with several resolutions, but with no luck. It still won't boot into init 5. 1. Any and all step-by-step instructions would be greatly appreciated to get the generic drive to work. 2. Also, what command line steps do I use to go to the nvidia website and get the commercial driver? Richard L.

Thanks to all who have responded with good thoughts and suggestions. Thanks to adamw for clarifying the differrence between Mandriva-Linux-2005-Limited-Edition-DVD.i586.torrent and Mandriva-Linux-2005-Limited-Edition-Download-DVD.i586.torrent. By their names, it's not possible to tell which is the full, commercial edition and which is not. Thanks again, Richard L.

Well, adamw, it looks like I downloaded the 2.1 GB. I looked at the download list again and couldn't find the full club DVD download. I AM a Silver Club member and would like to get it. BTW, in getting it, would I burn it on two DVD's because of its size, or do I need a dual-layer DVD disc and burner? Thanks again, Richard L.

I just installed from the DVD version, downloaded as a Silver Member of the Mandriva Club. 1. I noticed that the DVD version doesn't include the proprietary drivers, which are in CD's 5 and 6. Am I correct on this (I couldn't find them)? 3. I noticed that on the rpm for Realplayer that it is Realplayer 8! Or have I misread the rpm and the 8 is for something else. Why isn't it Realplayer 10 by now, which has been in Linux for at least 6 months (or more) now??? Just curious. :unsure: Richard L.

Many thanks, Anon...last night, I had already tried "startx" with no success; however, your suggestion to type "XFdrake" did the trick. I chose the screen size at 1600 X1200 76 Mhz and the generic Nvidia 4 drive. Previously, I had a message that Xorg was "broken". My questions above about proprietary drives I will address under Software. Richard L.

1. When I downloaded and burned Mandriva LE 2005 (as a club member), I thought that it included the NVIDIA drivers, Realplayer, Flash, etc. 2. When installing, I chose Nvidia 4 Generic. I have an Nvidia GeForce 4 440 Go card on my laptop, a Toshiba 5005-S507. When booting into Mandriva after the installation, I couldn't get a GUI, just command line interface. I appreciate any advice. Since I'm non-technical, if you give me command lines to solve my problem, please make them very thorough with simple explanations. If there is a way to do this using the installation DVD, that would be great, too. 3. If the solution is to fix this with a generic, how do I get the following installed from the DVD: NVidia driver for 3d acceleration, Realplayer, Flash, etc. What would the URPMI commands be for each one? In advance, thanks! Richard L.

Many thanks adamw for how to submit the bug. I want to thank everyone for their suggestions and help throughout this thread. Wishing all a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Richard

Thanks for your quick response, fissy. Most of them seem to work (I don't have the laptop hooked up to a printer. However, when I launch the Mandrake menu>System> Configuration>harddrake...the computer freezes up the same way it does when I try to launch MCC.

Thanks adamw. Here is my dmesg. I don't know how to read it to see if there is an error message that would apply. Can you look at it to see what gives? Richard.... init init/main.c:718 checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like a n initrd ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found! Freeing initrd memory: 208k freed init init/main.c:724 do_basic_setup init/main.c:634 do_basic_setup init/main.c:636 NET: Registered protocol family 16 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd160, last bus=4 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326 ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger. ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 7 10) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 7 10) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 7 10) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 7 10) *6 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 7 10) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs *5) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 7 10) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT] ACPI: Power Resource [PFN0] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [PFN1] (off) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 © Adam Belay PnPBIOS: Disabled PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.4[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5 -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.6 -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0b.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0b.1 -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0c.0 -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0d.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xe0807000, size 1875k vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=2 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:e8c0 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device Simple Boot Flag at 0x7c set to 0x1 apm: BIOS not found. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1103196849.424:0): initialized VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 Initializing Cryptographic API isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture.... silentjpeg size 14 554 bytes, found (800x600, 14506 bytes, v3). Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 92x32 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enable d PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.6 (0000 -> 0001) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.6 -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebu s=xx ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 ICH2: chipset revision 5 ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xcff0-0xcff7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xcff8-0xcfff, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: TOSHIBA MK4018GAP, ATA DISK drive Using anticipatory io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2102, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB), CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 p7 p8 > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536) NET: Registered protocol family 1 ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found init init/main.c:726 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). ReiserFS: hda5: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: hda5: using ordered data mode ReiserFS: hda5: journal params: device hda5, size 8192, journal first b lock 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max tran s age 30 ReiserFS: hda5: checking transaction log (hda5) ReiserFS: hda5: Using r5 hash to sort names Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 11, io base 0000cf80 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.4 (0000 -> 0001) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.4[C] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 10, io base 00001000 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-1:1.0: 3 ports detected usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using address 3 usbcore: registered new driver hiddev input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [synaptics Inc. Synaptics Touchpad] on usb-0 000:00:1f.2-2 usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output Adding 1068312k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6111 Tue Jul 27 07:55:38 PDT 2004 Linux agpgart interface v0.100 © Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset. agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000 loop: loaded (max 8 devices) ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:07.0 (0000 -> 0002) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:07.0 to 64 ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Runaway loop while stopping context: ... ohci1394: fw-host0: Runaway loop while stopping context: ... ohci1394: fw-host0: Runaway loop while stopping context: ... ohci1394: fw-host0: Runaway loop while stopping context: ... ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 165.165 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[20000000-2 00007ff] Max Packet=[65536] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] ohci1394: fw-host0: Serial EEPROM has suspicious values, attempting to setting max_packet_size to 512 bytes hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/ eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochki n <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:00:39:91:00:E9, IRQ 10. Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b). ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100] bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture.... silentjpeg size 14 554 bytes, found (800x600, 14506 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line) ACPI: Battery Slot [bAT1] (battery present) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Fan [FAN0] (off) ACPI: Fan [FAN1] (off) ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2) ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (56 C) toshiba_acpi: Toshiba Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.18 toshiba_acpi: HCI method: \_SB_.VALD.GHCI Linux Kernel Card Services options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:0b.0 (0000 -> 0002) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0b.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:0b.0 [1179:0001] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0018, PCI irq 10 Socket status: 30000007 PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:0b.1 (0000 -> 0002) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0b.1 -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:0b.1 [1179:0001] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0018, PCI irq 10 Socket status: 30000011 cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x1e0-0x1e7 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. orinoco 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roski n <proski@gnu.org>, et al) orinoco_cs 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Ro skin <proski@gnu.org>, et al) eth0: Station identity 001f:0002:0001:0004 eth0: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.4.2 eth0: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth0: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth0: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth0: MAC address 00:06:25:16:1E:CF eth0: Station name "Prism I" eth0: ready eth0: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f NET: Registered protocol family 17 eth0: New link status: Connected (0001) usb 1-1.2: new low speed USB device using address 4 eth0: New link status: Connected (0001) input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:1f.2- 1.2 Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 1.01, 12:45:05 Oct 1 2004 PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.5 (0000 -> 0001) ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5 -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 i810: Intel ICH2 found at IO 0x1040 and 0x1400, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 10 i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels. i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode. i810_audio: Resetting connection 0 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: YMH3 (Unknown) i810_audio: only 48Khz playback available. i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2 Bluetooth: Core ver 2.6 NET: Registered protocol family 31 Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.3 Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.3 Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0322b60(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 10 377 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 10 377 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 1 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 10 377 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 2 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 10 377 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 3 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 10 377 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 4 changed to on bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 10 377 bytes, v3). bootsplash: status on console 5 changed to on eth0: no IPv6 routers present cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 [mdk101@toshiba5005 mdk101]$

Thanks, recover. I did try this, keeping the splashcreen up for 30 minutes and the laptop still stayed frozen. I appreciate your suggestions. Richard

Thanks, adamw, with drakconf --noauto I get the same results: computer freezes up. Perhaps another idea? Richard

Hi adamw, I've been away from my laptop for a couple of days; sorry I haven't responded sooner . I just now typed "drakconf" after su'ing to root. The splash screen for MCC came up "Loading...Please wait", and the computer froze up again (except the fans are blowing). When I pressed ENTER after typing "drakconf", the next line was a new command line prompt. There are no error messages, only a blank command line. I appreciate your help, adamw, ...and anyone else's help. Will this let you know enough for another solution? Thanks again. Richard

Whenever I try to open Mandrake Control Center, its splashscreen freezes the entire computer (it's a laptop...Toshiba 5005-S507). A friend helped me with a "workaround", which may be helpful to others here; however, I'd sure like to get back the "Point & Click" way of using MCC, so if anyone can help me do this, I'd appreciate it. Here's the workaround for now: 1. Open terminal, su to root. (Or in KDE open the Root Konsole.) 2. Type drak and hit TAB. This directs you to a list of all the "drak" tools, which are the ones used in Mandrake Control Center. 3. Copy and paste the one you need; press "Enter". For example, I copied and pasted "drakconnect" and was able to configure my network card (Linksys WPC 11 ver. 3). Now I can get on the internet!!! 4. I then copied and pasted the "drak" that was for updates. Since I was already on the 'net, I was able to do the updates for 10.1. 5. There was a "drak" ending in .rpm which brought up "Add/Remove" Packages. This is a nice, easy workaround if you can't open MCC, but I'd rather have the real GUI. So if anyone can help me, or direct me how to contact Mandrake (I'm a Silver Club member), then I'd greatly appreciate it. Richard

Thanks adamw! Since this is a new topic, I'll begin a new thread on it, okay? I'll call it something like "MCC freezes up computer" or something similar. I'll try your suggestions below first and include them in the new thread. Have a pleasant day! Richard

Thanks adamw. I did what you said and now I can boot all the way up into KDE (Gnome, Icewm, etc.). I have now encountered another problem: As I am booting up and showing details, it recognizes the name of my wireless card; however it can't configure it. When I click on the network connection icon on the panel, it tries to configure it, then sends a message to try and configure it with Mandrake Control Center. However, each time I try to open MCC, MCC's splashscreen freezes up the entire computer (laptop) completely, so I have to force the computer to shutdown by holding the power button for about 6 seconds. Do you perhaps know a solution? If not, I am a Club member, but don't know where to go to contact Mandrake that this bug happens on my machine. I sure love Mandrake and want to get it to work as I have in the past with 9.0, 9.2, 10.0 OE. In advance, thanks again. Richard

Adamw, I have a question about running 'chkconfig harddrake off' as root. I recently installed Mandrake 10.1 and it freezes on "checking new hardware" when booting. If I boot into text mode and use the command above, I presume I'll be able to boot into Mandrake; however, will this prevent Mandrake from detecting and configuration my Linksys WPC11 ver. 3 wireless card, and my Netgear FA411 Notebook Adaptor 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet card? If so, this would mean I would be able to boot into MDK10.1, but I wouldn't be able to get on the internet, nor would I be able to do updates. In the past I have used Mandrake 9.0, 9.2 and 10.0 on my laptop successfully, after having to do kernel things with help on this forum for them to work. Since Mandrake is my favorite distro, I'd very much like to use 10.1 (since acpi for sound and toshiba laptop utilities work perfectly with this kernel.) Right now, I'm using SuSE 9.2 Pro on another partition, and its working great out of the box with no problem. But again, I'd much rather use Mandake 10.1. Can you are another advice on what to do in paragraph 1 above? Thanks. Richard