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I'll give it a shot. I'd hate to reformat tho. Oh well whatever I've got to do to use the thing.

Formatted fat32.

Tried to insert the USB HD line into fstab with no luck. Actually it wouldn't mount at all. No line in fstab=mount as read only disc. Line in fstab=no mount. Just a thought, but do you think Norton could be causing this problem? I notice that I have all of these hidden windows/norton files on the HD since I plugged it into my work computer.

Ok, not sure where to begin looking on this problem. I have a USB HD that Ubuntu has handled beautifuly untill now. Not sure why, but suddenly, It has become read only. I check the permissions and it has read, write and execute permissions given to owner. Ok, everything should be good. Nope. Infact, It won't even let me change permissions as sudo/root. So, just for fun, let's try this the CLI way. root@kevins:/media/sda1/Recycled # rm /media/sda1/Recycled/desktop.ini rm: cannot remove `/media/sda1/Recycled/desktop.ini': Read-only file system Hmmm. Last time I had a USB HD problem, it was solved in the fstab file. # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0[/QUOTE] /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 Ok, no sda1. Well I can read from the drive. Not sure what to do, or where to start. Can anyone give me some hints?

While we're at it (stupid suggestions, that is) you might want to check your router and see if you can change tx from 100 mbps to 10 mbps or the other way around. My last install of Mandy, I had a similar problem. Even though my ethernet card was a 10/100 mbps card, I couldn't connect unless the router was set to 10 mbps.

Thought this was pretty cool. Decided to share. http://www.blinkenlights.de/arcade/games.en.html To make it relevant to this forum: *EDIT* Just saw this also - be sure to check out the live tab. (notice the picture of the GIMP at the bottom of the page)

I do believe that's exactly what I need. Thanks spinynorman. I'll check this when I get back to my Linux box. Hopefully that will help me diagnose what is going wrong with my "limbo" log in.

proftpd is telling me that another server is using port 21, when I try to bring it online. I recently switched from vsftpd to proftpd to fix some upload issues. Now, I can get neither uploads or downloads. I can log in from another computer, and username and password are accepted, but it just sticks me in limbo. No directory. These two problems may not be related, but I thought I'd start by figuring what was going on with port 21. If anyone can give me a hint on how to check a specific port, and find out what is running on that port, I'd be gratefull.

What software are you using to make these partition changes? *Edit* I didn't read thouroughly enough. Have you tried using partition magic from within windows? That has always seemed to work well when I'm trying to make changes for a windows drive.

I installed standard wine, just because I wanted to give this games a shot. The game runs well, but now I have no sound. Any clue? I also noticed that the fonts are more readable in wine than cedega, and the game actually looks a little better in cedega (kinda smoothed a little bit). Both of these are essentially the same right? I wonder why that would be?

I downloaded all 3. Using cedega to install, I put the first one on my comp. And it worked well. Played it for about 5 minutes then decided to install the other 2. Now, all move very slowly, and freeze after about 30 secs of play. Oh yeah, and the fonts are completely unreadable on my computer. I am quite interested in playing these, as I am an oldschool FF fan. If you have any hints as to how to get these things running right, please let me know.

I run 2. Proftpd has has a GUI (gproftpd for those gnome users) which makes it pretty easy to use and vsftpd, which has no GUI, but is secure and stable.

I think he's referring to the trick where you put your HD in a ziplock baggie and stick in the freezer for a couple of hours. Then plug it back in. The principle being that, since the majority of HD failures are mechanical wear, the cold temperature might be able to shrink the metal so that the HD works for a short time. I've only had one HD failure, and the trick didn't work for me, but others have told me that they were able to recover some files for a short amount of time, so It may or may not work for you.

Glad to hear that all is well again.

Daughter (4 in 2 months) loves it. I appreciate the time you spent on this. Thanks.

I believe arthur still had the solution correct. I'm not using MDK 10.1 yet, but I'm sure you can still go into the controll center and your networking options then when you are setting up the eth0 options, uncheck the automaticaly assign hostname button, and input your own. For example, mine is "kevins.linux.machine.com".

I've got a DL-524 and noticed the same thing on mine last night, except, I have mine set up to broadcast ID and when I turn off my linux box, It still shows up, but is just represented by a blank where ID should be (mac address is same, etc.) I'm not too worried about my situation tho, since I never turn my Linux box off, and If anyone is near enough to pick up on my wireless router, they'd have to be in my yard, The reason I noticed it was because I was setting up my box to accept a static IP (recently broke down and paid the extra $10) and it wouldn't let go of the IP and registered mac. If you get any resolution from D-Link, I'd like to hear about it, as I'm probably not going to research it for myself :D

Go to console and su to root, then change permissions on those files. Or if you like the graphical way, go to console, su to root, then type nautilus (or whatever file manager you use). Now you've got a file manager with root priv (better option than logging in as root), you can find the files you want to mess with, left click them and change permissions that way.

Excellent. Problem resolved. Thanks.

That did the trick bvc. polemicz, modprobe wasn't finding nvidia drivers because I had upgraded my kernel, but thanks for the suggestion. Everything seems to be running fine. Now, can someone tell me where I can change my boot options in Ubuntu so that it will default to the 2.6.8.1-3 kernel?

root@kevins:/home/kevin # uname -r 2.6.8.1-4-386 root@kevins:/home/kevin # ls /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386/kernel/drivers/video aty cirrusfb.ko hgafb.ko neofb.ko sis vesafb.ko cfbcopyarea.ko console i810 nvidia.ko sstfb.ko vfb.ko cfbfillrect.ko cyber2000fb.ko kyro pm2fb.ko tdfxfb.ko vga16fb.ko cfbimgblt.ko fglrx.ko matrox riva tridentfb.ko vgastate.ko root@kevins:/home/kevin # ls /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-4-386/kernel/drivers/video aty cirrusfb.ko i810 pm2fb.ko tdfxfb.ko vga16fb.ko cfbcopyarea.ko console kyro riva tridentfb.ko vgastate.ko cfbfillrect.ko cyber2000fb.ko matrox sis vesafb.ko cfbimgblt.ko hgafb.ko neofb.ko sstfb.ko vfb.ko root@kevins:/home/kevin # Hmmmm. Running kernel 2.6.8.1-4-386 but no nvidia in in that kernels modules (although it is in 2.6.8.1-3-386) Any suggestions?

Ok why will mine only work if the driver is "nv" and not "nvidia" like everything says It's supposed to be. My setup is almost identical to yours bvc except for that nv to nvidia thing. when I try "nvidia" it errors. *EDIT* Every howto says to install invidia-glx (which I have done) and then "sudo modprobe nvidia" in terminal. But I get And I'm having a hard time finding a thread/faq/howto that addresses this. Everyone seems to assume that this step is a no brainer. What the heck am I doing wrong here?

Well I edited xF86Config again, and replaced "nvidia" with "nv", even tho all the guides specify "nvidia", and I can launch X now, but it doesn't seem right. Can't play games, screen's offset a little, etc. I'll google around for some exp. If anyone else can help me with some hints, I'd appreciate it.

Just got a Nvidia Geforce 5500 card for Christmas. In the process of trying to set the thing up, I fudged up my XF86Config file. Now I'm stuck. Can't use my new Nvidia card and can't use my old ATI card. I need a little advice on getting my comp back. I'm pretty sure I can get the old card working again if spend some time on it, but that's kind of counter productive, as I would rather spend my time getting the Nvidia card working. I've followed the instructions in numerous threads that I've found, while googling (that's part of the reason I'm where I'm at) and haven't been able to get it going. No luck with nvidia-glx No luck with Nvidia's official drivers. ( It keeps saying It can't find my kernel source files, although I've downloaded) Can someone with a little patience show some mercy on this poor fool. This is my first dance with Nvidia, so I'm probably overlooking something obvious. Any help would be appreciated.

Ubuntu. That's what I'm running on my home computer. Excellent distro. Easy to set up, and many of the people on this board use it in addition to Mkd, so we can help answer your Ubuntu questions also if you post them in "other distros".