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Ok, so following that...I get the error 'No .config found in , please set KBUILD to configured kernel.' So, I did. And the error still pops up. Running 'ls -a $KBUILD' even shows a .config. Tried running these commands as both user and root, and yes, I reset KBUILD each time. Oh, and I also reformatted and reinstalled Mandriva before doing this to ensure nothing I'd been messing with before could interfere.

heh, whatever, it happens.

yea, I did use that tool.

yea, I've tried through URPMI. Gives me the usual error of 'module not found' when I try to modprobe it.

Ok, so I'm trying to install Mandriva 2008.1 on a brand new Dell Vostro laptop with the Dell 1395 wifi card. I know, shoulda gone with an intel wireless card, but that would have been $200 more, because I would have had to buy an Inspiron. So, anyways, it wouldn't install through mcc, kept throwing the "cannot find ndiswrapper interface" error. So, according to Google, I should try compiling it from source. Well, I downloaded the latest version, completely removed my old ndiswrapper, installed the kernel sources, but when I run make I get: make -C driver make[1]: Entering directory '/home/urza9814/ndiswrapper-1.52/driver' make[1]: *** /.config: Is a directory. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/urza9814/ndiswrapper-1.52/driver' make: *** [all] Error 2 Now, I've googled that /.config is a directory error, along with 'ndiswrapper', and I got exactly one result. And it's in Italian. So...anyone have any solutions in English? heh

oh wow, now I feel stupid. I thought my motherboard was dead, but it turns out it just needed a fresh blood sacrifice to power it's witchcraft-based northbridge! Seriously though, I pulled it out, and gave it one last try...and it works. I put everything back exactly the way it was...and it works. Not even throwing the CPU sync error. It was either dust, magic, or the IDE cables. lol So the moral is, if you get one of those CPU errors...rip everything out of your case, pull it all apart, and put it all back in. I tried that a couple times with just the CPU and RAM with no luck...I guess you gotta pull the entire mobo out of the case as well. lol.

Who cares if it's old or new? I don't really, but it's the problem of having to go back to my old graphics card, which makes my system quite unstable. And there's no warranty, I got it off e-bay. Normally I never buy anything off e-bay, 'cause usually newegg is cheaper and comes with a nice warranty, but I was given $100 in gift cards for it, so that's what I got. But it's OK, 'cause it's both my birthday and graduation in two weeks, so I suppose I can limp along on my old mobo until then. lol. But then I'm giving this thing a serious upgrade. It needs it. And hopefully this new mobo will last more than a couple months (this will be my 5th over the past 2 years)

Ehh crap. I'm still running on 3.5GB 184-pin DDR RAM, 500GB of IDE hard drives, and socket 939. All of which, it appears, are obsolete. This is gonna be one heck up an upgrade. Until then, I guess I'll be having a rather unstable system, because to go back to my old mobo means going back to my old ATi graphics card, which didn't play too well with Linux.

Yup.

Ok, so here's where I'm at. Last night there was a power outage, my computer died. Tried to boot it back up, and I got an error saying "Kernel panic - not syncing: CPU context corrupt". But Windows would still boot. I googled it a bit, and they said to try booting with the nomce flag. No luck. Froze at the same place, just didn't give that message. Tried booting Mandriva One, same problem. So, I swapped everything over to my old motherboard (same CPU, same RAM, same drives), and it booted up fine. Swapped everything back, couldn't get it to POST even. But it's still booting fine on the other motherboard. So, is my motherboard possibly shot? And if so, why would it boot Windows but not Linux (Well, it would before I messed with it. As I said, now it won't do anything.) I hope not though...this was a $100 mobo and only a couple months old.

Yes, I have a dual head NVidia graphics card. GeForce 7200. And it appears that it's QT 4.3.4 So basically I need QT 4.4? Which doesn't really work yet? Ok. lol

Ok, so I'm playing with KDE4, installed on Mandriva 2008 spring via urpmi, and it's kinda nice, but I'm having some trouble with the panel/taskbar. I have two monitors, and on the old KDE I just went into the control center, found the panel settings, and set 'xinerama screens' to 'both'. But now, the only settings for it I can find are by right-clicking it, and there is no option to make it span both screens. I can't see this being that hard to fix, but I tried googling a bit and didn't manage to find anything.

[root@localhost qc-usb-0.6.6]# urpmi kernel-source-2. Packages kernel-source-2.6.24.4-1mnb-1-1mnb1.i586, kernel-source-2.6.24.4-1mnb-1-1mnb1.i586 are already installed

Ok, so I have a Logitech Quickcam USB webcam...specifically, the Legocam. qc-usb says it is supported, and I've had it working on Mandriva before (2006 or 2007, not sure). Anyways, it wasn't working recently on 2007.1, but I decided to wait until 2008.1 to upgrade and try then, since I didn't use it much. Still doesn't work. Works fine on windows though. First thing I tried was installing dkms-qc-usb-messenger and qc-usb-messenger-kernel-dekstop-latest through urpmi. No luck. So, I downloaded the qc-usb-0.6.6 driver, but when I run 'make all' I get the following error: [root@localhost qc-usb-0.6.6]# make all make -C "/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb/build" SUBDIRS="/home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6" modules V=1 USER_OPT="-DHAVE_UTSRELEASE_H=1" make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb' test -e include/linux/autoconf.h -a -e include/config/auto.conf || ( \ echo; \ echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \ echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing."; \ echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \ echo; \ /bin/false) mkdir -p /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/.tmp_versions; rm -f /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/.tmp_versions/* make -f scripts/Makefile.build obj=/home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6 gcc -m32 -Wp,-MD,/home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/.qc-driver.o.d -nostdinc -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i586-manbo-linux-gnu/4.2.3/include -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -include include/linux/autoconf.h -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -O2 -pipe -msoft-float -mregparm=3 -freg-struct-return -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -ffreestanding -maccumulate-outgoing-args -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -Iinclude/asm-x86/mach-default -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -fno-stack-protector -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -DNOKERNEL -DHAVE_UTSRELEASE_H=1 -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(qc_driver)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(quickcam)" -c -o /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.o /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c In file included from /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:47: /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/quickcam.h:129:1: warning: "BIT" redefined In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:15, from include/linux/cache.h:4, from include/linux/time.h:7, from include/linux/videodev2.h:59, from include/linux/videodev.h:15, from /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/quickcam.h:95, from /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:47: include/linux/bitops.h:6:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function ‘qc_i2c_init’: /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:824: error: ‘struct urb’ has no member named ‘lock’ /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:825: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: In function ‘qc_isoc_start’: /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:1867: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c: At top level: /home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.c:3009: error: unknown field ‘hardware’ specified in initializer make[2]: *** [/home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6/qc-driver.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/home/urza9814/Desktop/qc-usb-0.6.6] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.24.4-desktop-1mnb' make: *** [quickcam.ko] Error 2 I follow the advice and run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on my kernel source, everything goes fine...but it still doesn't work. The files include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are there too...

Is there any way to turn off the crash recovery feature of Epiphany or Firefox? I know Konqueror doesn't have one, but it doesn't render a lot of pages correctly and runs rather slow. I'm trying to write a script that involves launching a browser to test a site, but it keeps stopping on the crash recovery window.

Ah! There we go. It was in system > configuration > hardware for me though on KDE. But yes, everything is working now. Thanks :)

Oh hey, I just needed to install DKMS. Working pretty well now, but I still have one problem. My main monitor is a standard CRT...21" I think, something like that...my secondary is a flat panel wide screen. The secondary monitor however, probably because it's widescreen, isn't reaching the whole way down. Like, when I had it set up with my ATi card, the height (in pixels) of both monitors was the same...but now, my second monitor isn't displaying the last 50-100 pixels (they're there, it's just not showing them), so I can't see the panel on that side. Any ideas? I've tried playing around with the resolutions a bit, but that didn't seem to help.

See, I read that elsewhere too, but uname-r outputs 2.6.17-13mdv, and the only kernel source files I seem to have installed are 2.6.17-13mdv. [root@localhost urza9814]# uname -r 2.6.17-13mdv [root@localhost urza9814]# dir /usr/src linux linux-2.6.17-13mdv rpm [root@localhost urza9814]# dir /lib/modules 2.6.17-13mdv Am I missing something?

So I recently got a new motherboard, and as a result I had to get a PCI-e video card. Since I don't game much and have always heard NVidia drivers work better on Linux, I got a NVidia GeForce 7200. Now, I downloaded the drivers from the NVidia website, but I can't get them to work. They give the following error: ERROR: Unable to load the kernel module 'nvidia.ko'. This happens most frequently when this kernel module was built against the wrong or improperly configured kernel sources, with a version of gcc that differs from the one used to build the target kernel, or if a driver such as rivafb/nvidiafb is present and prevents the NVIDIA kernel module from obtaining ownership of the NVIDIA graphics device(s). Please see the log entries 'Kernel module load error' and 'Kernel messages' at the end of the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for more information. -> Kernel module load error: insmod: error inserting './usr/src/nv/nvidia.ko': -1 Invalid module format So for now, I'm using the GeForce FX - GeForce 7950 driver that comes with Mandriva. It seems to work though. I tried to follow this tutorial to get TwinView working, but my second monitor still displays junk. Kinda fuzzy blue and such. I did managed to get a very long desktop, but it didn't go on to my second monitor. Attached is a copy of my xorg.conf (it wouldn't let me upload a .conf file)xorg.conf.txt

So I have Cedega, and I have two monitors, extending the desktop between them using Xinerama I believe, on an ATI Radeon card. Anyways, when I launch a game, it runs cloned on both monitors. Any easy way I can either limit it to one screen or have it run windowed?

Ok, so I got my graphics working, but ndiswrapper wouldn't work...and I screwed it all up trying to get it to work, even going back to the old kernel version I can't get the damn thing running. But anyways, that's a different problem. Main problem is that even after all that, VirtualBox's installer still gives the same error message. Well, same except with -16 instead of -13.

Well, damn thing won't even boot up with the upgraded kernel. Screen goes blank, monitors go to no signal.

[urza9814@localhost ~]$ /bin/ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Nov 16 15:52 /lib/modules/2.6.17-13mdv/build -> /usr/src/linux-2.6.17-13mdv I'm a bit worried about updating my kernel in full....I did that once by accident and ended up having to do a complete reinstall. Screwed everything up.

So I'm trying to update VirtualBox, and I'm encountering the following error on setup: Makefile:76: *** Error: /usr/src/linux (version 2.6.17-13mdvcustom) does not mat ch the current kernel (version 2.6.17-13mdv). Stop. Now, the kernel source I installed didn't say mdvcustom, but apparently it is, and I've tried it from a few different places, and they all seem to be mdvcustom. So...what can I do? I tried forcing it by changing the makefile and config files to say only -13mdv, but that didn't seem to change anything.

Ok, so I have some files I want to make fairly long-term backups on a local drive. Lots of files, generally no larger than a few MB. They're all binaries though, so I need them to stay perfectly intact. So I'm wondering, aside from backing up on external media (which I'll get to most likely at a slightly later point), what's the best filesystem to use that will be easily recovered in the event of some kind of error formatting or with the partition table or something of that nature? Nothing too extremely important, mostly just a question of curiosity after having some problems with this in the past.