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that worked... thanks a lot.

Hello, I've been using mandriva spring 2008 for a while now and have had no trouble with drivers until now. I have no sound whatsoever and when i attempt to open an mp3 or wav with kaffeine i get the message: "Loading of player part 'XinePart' failed. All Audio Drivers failed to initialize." [robert@Bob-PC ~]$ lspci |grep -i audio 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) [robert@Bob-PC ~]$ lspcidrake -v |fgrep -i AUDIO snd_hda_intel : Intel Corporation|82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (vendor:8086 device:284b subv:17aa subd:20ac) [robert@Bob-PC ~]$ grep sound-slot /etc/modprobe.conf alias sound-slot-0 snd_hda_intel Thanks for the help!

that did it, thanks.

Hello, lately i've been adding new software with rpmdrake but somehow yesterday when i booted up i was unable to find the "add new software" tab in the menu. When i went to "configure your computer" there was no tab for software management. I couldn't execute rpmdrake from a terminal either. I ran a search in / for rpmdrake and got no results. I still have urpmi on my system but would prefer not to have to use a terminal to install software. I wish I could put my finger on something I may have done which would have caused this but i can't. Does anyone have any idea how I can recover rpmdrake and, if not, is there a way I can get a new copy of it on my system? I'm running mandriva spring 2008 with kde.

it worked! your help has been very appreciated, all. now i guess my next adventure with linux will be figuring out how to install and execute software. i've been looking for solutions online, but nothing has seemed to work correctly. would anyone like to point me in the right direction?

timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba resume=/dev/sda6 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba failsafe initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title desktop586 2.6.24.4-1mnb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb BOOT_IMAGE=desktop586_2.6.24.4-1mnb root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb.img title desktop586 2.6.24.5-2mnb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.5-desktop586-2mnb BOOT_IMAGE=desktop586_2.6.24.5-2mnb root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.24.5-desktop586-2mnb.img title Windows Vista rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 that is my current menu.lst . the problem still persists.

[root@localhost robert]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x7b449442 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 867 6958080 27 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 * 867 13621 102449216 7 HPFS/NTFS Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 13621 19457 46879560 5 Extended Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda5 13621 14640 8187448+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 14641 15150 4089928+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 15150 19457 34602088+ 83 Linuxh John, i did add that line to menu.lst a while ago. it allowed me to choose vista at startup but, again, it then goes to rescue and recovery screen.

ok, thanks for being so helpful guys... its often hard to find a community that gives help without sarcasm and resentment. do you think there is a method to bypass the rescue and recovery screen i keep getting at bootup? edit: oh, and yes, i did add the vista section to menu.lst and it worked, but when i go to boot windows is when i get the rescue/recovery screen

thanks for all the help.... unfortunately my vista install appears to be corrupted and unusable. i contacted lenovo (the laptop manufacturer) as well as microsoft and they said the only real hope to get vista working is to order a rescue disk from lenovo. as frustrating as it is, at least i have all my music and personal files still intact... i guess that's what i get for hastily installing a second os without really knowing what im doing.

actually, it will not allow me to edit menu.lst ... this is the full error message when i try to save the file... The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to file:///boot/grub/menu.lst. Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk space is available. i definitely have enough disk space. thanks again for the quick responses.

ok, so i tried adding the code but it says i do not have write access.

strange... there is no grub.conf in my /boot/grub directory. could it be named something else? im fairly confident that im not missing it, i searched my entire hd.

i ran a few searches and can't seem to find grub.conf. where would it be located?

here is the content of menu.lst :: timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba resume=/dev/sda6 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba failsafe initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img title desktop586 2.6.24.4-1mnb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb BOOT_IMAGE=desktop586_2.6.24.4-1mnb root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb.img title desktop586 2.6.24.5-2mnb kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24.5-desktop586-2mnb BOOT_IMAGE=desktop586_2.6.24.5-2mnb root=UUID=147bba9b-0970-4c13-a106-caabc44dfbba resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.6.24.5-desktop586-2mnb.img thanks again for the help.

hello, i recently installed mandriva spring 2008 from an iso and then used mandriva live install to resize my windows vista partition. after following the instructions, i restarted my computer but found that the bootloader did not recognize my vista intall. i was worried that i overwrote vista but i checked and found that all the data was still intact. being a noob, im sure that i either screwed something up irrevicably during install or am missing something rather simple. any ideas? by the way, i've been very impressed so far with mandriva and look forward to a time when i don't have to bother with vista at all. thanks.