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  1. /etc/modprobe.conf is still there as is /etc/modprobe.devfs modprobe.preload modules modules.conf & modules.conf.mdkgiorig Looking in the syslog file, the first sign of any problem is when modprobe is used to try and load the module snd-intel8x0 the error is "not found" then there are more errors for the network, shorewall and so on, mostly module not found errors. The /lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdk/kernel .... directories seem fully populated with .ko.gz files and the file snd-intel8x0.ko.gz does exist. Is there some sort of path variable or reference to these modules I should check? Or, any more ideas to try? Thanks.
  2. Help! I have installed 2005LE and everything was running perfectly for a few days. Now after attempting to get a tv card working I have somehow managed to make it so no modules at all are loaded during boot. lsmod shows nothing! I can't get anything to work, drakconf can't help, all I can do is login. Just before I messed things up I was trying to get the ivtv driver working using modprobe, insmod etc and also installed from contrib some things to do with ivtv. Then I rebooted and these problems appeared. Is there some simple thing that can edit to restore the module loading capability or do I have to re-install?
  3. I had the same problem. For me the fix was to lauch xmms, open the preferences window, then in the 'Audio I/O plugins' tab under the section 'Output plugins' select Alsa instead of OSS. Maybe this will work for you? Mk.
  4. It seems then you need kernel 2.6.6 or later. I don't know how to go about compiling it yourself, and in any case you need a working Mandrake system before you can do that, in which case you wouldn't need a new kernel in the first place! Mandrake Cooker may be a possibility, again I can't offer much help here, though browsing the ftp mirror reveals it uses kernel 2.6.7rc1 which is available as an RPM as well as a source RPM. I wonder if you could at least get your system to boot eventualy into MDK10 whether you could take the cooker RPM of kernel 2.6.7 and install that? The last option which is not very satisfactory is just to wait a couple of months for MDK10.1 community edition. Cooker page
  5. This kernel bug report may provide a bit of help. It is a long page so scroll down and you will find several different kernel parameters you could try a boot time. Also, it is reported that the nforce2 bug is fixed in kernel 2.6.6 if you could somehow get hold of that. Of course, your problem may be unrelated, but the symptoms are the same. The link in my previous post to the nforce forums should work!
  6. As you still have nforce2 problems you could look in this forum. I don't know if you have found this forum already, but I found it very helpfull. The nforce Linux forum is full of questions and possible answers to your problem. It was from there that I realised I needed to update the BIOS for the Shuttle motherboard.
  7. I had the same type of problems, random freezes, mainly during disk activity. I tried all the noapic, nolapic tricks and leaving usb things unplugged. In the end I updated the motherboard BIOS and have not had a single problem since. I have a shuttle FN41 board (nforce2). If your board is more than a few months old it may be worth checking if there are updates available.
  8. Just a quick update: All my install problems and random freezing appear to have been fixed by a motherboard BIOS update. For those interested, I have a Shuttle SN41G2 and updated the bios from FN41S018 to the latest FN41S025 version. I've also put a message in the hardware forum with a bit more info.
  9. For those having terrible stability problems with nforce2 motherboards the problem may well have been fixed at last! From info in the nforce linux forums here it seems that recent BIOS updates as well the latest 2.6.6 kernel finally solve the problems. 15 attempts to install MDK10-OE on a shuttle SN41G2 resulted in random freezes during the install. I finally decided to flash the BIOS with the latest version and attempted another install, this time with APIC *enabled* and no kernel-parameters such as nolapic etc. The install went perfectly, so far everyting works, ethernet, sound, nvidia drivers installed even a USB mass storage device! If you are having these random freezes you should check if a BIOS update is available from the motherboard manufacturer. You probably will need a MSDOS boot disk which you can get from here if you don't already have one. (Alternatively, try the 2.6.6 kernel which I haven't yet tried myself.) My system has only been running for an hour or so, but that's already a hour longer than it was working for.
  10. the file (linux source)/documentation/kernel-parameters.txt should be what you are looking for. an example is here at the Linux Cross Reference site.
  11. Thanks. I'll remind you again if you forget! :D
  12. Me too I gave upo using Mandrake completely as it kept locking up. How much RAM do you have becuase im using kernel-enterprise (1GB) Its very much improved over 9.2 for me. I can only think its something wrong...in the install. Can you post your /etc/lilo.conf ?? I'm not in front of the machine right now so I'll post the lilo.conf later. My main concern is just how difficult it was to get installed on the SN41G2 with all the random freezes. It does not inspire much confidence compared to the VIA KT400 which installed perfectly from the same install discs. The problem machine has the following specs: Shuttle SN41G2 (nforce2), AMD Athlon 2.6GHz (or thereabouts), 512Mb RAM, HD 120GB, Haupauge PVR350 TV card, BIOS options all "Optimal" i.e. automatically chosen and not overclocked. Unused motherboard devices disabled. apic disabled. Although Mandrake 10 is to some degree installed now, I'd really like to track down the problem and start the install again. I'm going to take out the TV card and restart again. Gowater, do you have an SN41G2? If so, and if you have time, please could you post your BIOS version, and any relevent settings in the BIOS. It seems some people with identical hardware have problems while others do not.
  13. I notice the original poster on this topic has an nforce2 board. I asked about MDK10 and nforce compatibility a while back and most people had good results. I tried yesterday to install MDK10-Official on a Shuttle SN41G2 (nforce2) and had terrible problems. The (fresh) install would freeze at random points, though mostly during disk formatting or package installation from CD1. I tried at least 15 times before getting to the end of the install! (I still have to configure X properly before I can see KDE) I have apic turned off in the BIOS, and typed "linux noapic nolapic" at the install prompt. This helped, but I still had a couple of freezes before it worked. My install CDs are from bittorent, the MD5 sum is fine, and I installed onto a Via KT400 chipset board in a matter of minutes without a single problem. I remember I had bad problems installing 9.2 on the nforce2. I'm concerned that this machine is not going to be stable with MDK10. Is there any reason for these freezes or a definitive solution? I dare not even plug in USB device just yet!
  14. I have just updated my MDK10 to the latest mandrake standard kernel 2.6.3.13 using uprmi. Everything is working, though I have a couple of questions.. 1) Will things compiled against the old kernel continue to work without any changes. I'm thinking mainly of the nvidia graphics driver. 2) I haven't yet installed the source. When I do will the old sources still be kept, and how do I ensure that the new sources are used when compiling. Does changing the link linux in /usr/src to point to the new source directory ensure this? 3) More generally, as I now have two kernels and maybe more in the future, is there anything to be aware of when switching between them. They would all be 2.6.x.x but does this cause problems when compiling against one and running the application under another? Thanks!
  15. I already use ALSA for sound but I think I will try the forcedeth driver in place of nvnet. Please let us know how you get on with MDK10 and nForce2.
  16. Has anyone tried either the download or powerpack community release of Mandrake 10 with an nForce2 motherboard yet? Like many others I've had lots of random freezes using 9.2 which I never really solved (though I got from several per day down to once every 2 or 3 days). There are many other threads describing these problems with USB, IRQ settings and the nvnet driver all conspiring to cause random crashes. Is it now more stable with MDK10?
  17. Hi GodFlesh. I'm still experimenting with MythTV at the moment. My setup is a normal monitor sonnected to the DVI port of my PC (Shuttle SN41, onboard graphic chip). I then have a television connected to the PVR350 TV-out connector (actually using the composite and audio out on RCA leads). When I run MythFrontend the main application opens on the computer monitor. If I then select live TV or watch a recording, then the TV picture appears full screen on the television. I selected the option 'use PVRs tv-out' and chose /dev/video16. These settings are somewhere in the configure playback options page. So basically, I have the MythTV application on the monitor, then when I watch TV, this appears on the television (via the PVRs onboard MPEG decoder so very low load on CPU). HTH.
  18. I have found that with my PVR350 and MythTV you have to select either the PVRs TVout OR the computers monitor, not both at the same time. I've only just got MythTV working so I may have missed something. In my setup I have the Myth application window on my monitor and the video routed to a TV through the TV out.
  19. I had identical problems on my nforce2 system. Since I set noapic and nolapic in lilo it has been very stable. I believe this limits the IRQ channels to 0 - 15 (ie <10 hex) I do still have problems however with a USB card reader which I have abandoned for now. This is part of my lilo.conf. If you try this, don't forget to type lilo after editing to register the changes. image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="noapic nolapic devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only
  20. Thanks aRTee! I made a link from /usr/lib to /usr/local/lib where the library was and it works a treat now.
  21. If you use a PVR250 then mpeg encoding is done in hardware and uses virtually no CPU. If you go for the PVR 350 then you can direct the mythTv output to the onboard mpeg decoder and video out. The required ivtv drivers are now very good. The result is amazing quality with virtually no CPU load for recording and viewing at the same time! I think you can get by with a modest CPU in this case. Otherwise, I think anything over 2GHz should be fine. I have a 2.4GHz athlon. As for the radio tuner, I have not tried that. I only have the composite video and line audio connected. If anyone has more clues about the liblirc_client.o.0 file please reply! With all this wonderful hardware all I have at the moment is an error message in a terminal window!
  22. I'll try those locations this evening, thanks. I changed lirc because version 0.6.6 that comes with Mandrake 9.2 does not work with Myth0.14. I tried initially and after reading posts on the mythtv mailing list found I should install lirc 0.7.0. I think it is something to do with i2c? lirc 0.6.6 worked fine in reading the remote but not in passing those commands to mythtv (native lirc support). Perhaps it is specific to the tv card?
  23. Hi, I had MythTV working very well except for the remote control on the following setup: Mandrake9.2, MythTV 0.14 (Thacs rpms), Hauppauge PVR350 video capture(ivtv), nforce2 MB. To get the remote working I removed everything I could fine related to lirc, then recompiled lirc0.7.0pre2. The remote control works fine using irw, but now mythfrontend & mythbacked will not start. The error is unable to find file liblirc_client.o.0 Now, I do remember deleting this before but can't remember where from! The new version of lirc has created this file, but where should I put it so that mythtv can find it? If anyone has a similar setup to me, could you tell me where the file liblirc_client.o.0 should be located? Thanks.
  24. As a follow up to my original post... I started again to reinstall 9.2 and immediately ran into freezes during the install. I then went to the BIOS and disabled all the things I don't need such as SPDIF, Parallel port, firewire etc. Also I unplugged a USB Flashcard reader. The install then went very smoothly. At the end I still had to configure X for a DVI flat screen and compile the nvnet drivers for the ethernet port. As an extra precaution I checked the force noapic and left unchecked the acpi options in the lilo config tool of Mandrakes control center. One of the previously mentioned things seems to have worked as I no longer have the random freezes. I've since unchecked the noapic option without any consequences yet. Next I installed all the relevant updates except for the moment the new kernel. I installed updates to rpm first and that seems to have prevented the lost menu problem. So far the system is stable :D
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