MrWhisp

Hi, I still use 10.1 since Mandriva 2005LE won't install on USB harddrive. The problem is that all links to rpm resources are to mandrakelinux and Mandriva have removed all old mandrake url:s. Does anyone have a suggestion to a working thac resource for 10.1? Regards, Mr Whisp

Hi, I managed to install 10.1 on an external USB drive by using the tips at http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/review101.html. The installation went without problems, but I cannot start Mdk. Once I try to login to KDE or Gnome I get the error message: The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE: No write access to $HOME directory (/). KDE is unable to start I have a formatted /home partition, but it does not seem to be in use since the system tries to create the .kde directory at /. Help please!

I ordered a USB driver from an Internet shop this morning, so in a few days I will try :)

Hi, I have a Dell Latidude D800 laptop at work, and since I travel a lot at work I want Linux as well as Win XP. Since the hd space is somewhat limited I had some thoughts about installing a Linux distro on a portable USB drive. The question is, has someone succeeded in doing this? I prefer Mandriva, but if anyone know about another distro it is okay as well. I read about small distros that could fit into a USB memory stick, but I want a full distro with KDE and Gnome. I also had plans about byuing the Globetrotter at Mandriva store, but it has been out of stock for quite a while now. Maybe they had stop selling them, or an upgrade might be on the way... Thanks for help!

I think you have the same problem as I have with my USB digital cameras. /mnt/removable exists but there are no files in the folder. I must manually mount the device. I didn't have to do this in Mdk 10.0 and 10.1, but in 2005LE (10.2) a mount is needed. Try mount /dev/sda1 and when you're done umount /dev/sda1 sda1 might need to be changed. Check the file /etc/fstab to see which device is connected to /mnt/removable. /MrWhisp

I get the message: mount: /dev/usb/lpX is not a block device

Hi, I installed the ATI drivers, and x works fine. I even managed to get the dual monitor setting to work. The problem is OpenGL. When I run fglrxinfo I get this output: display: :0.0 screen 0 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.2.1) Segmenation fault It seems that the hardware acceletation is not in use. How can I fix this? Thanks, MrWhisp

When I try to mount USB devices using the command: mount -t FAT32 /deb/usb/lp0 /mnt/ I get the message "fs type FAT32 not supported by kernel" I need FAT32 support for my digital camera and USB memories. What can I do to fix this?

It is pure robbery to take $69 (partition magic) for a partition program which you in best case uses once a year....

Okay, thanks for the help. My big problem is that I will run into space problem on my / partition some time in the future, so I think it's better to reinstall the whole thing now that I don't have to much stuff installed and running...

Hi, My USB automount disappeared when upgrading to 2005LE. USB interface is installed in /etc/modprobe.conf: install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe ohci-hcd; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true All my USB devices worked correctly in Mdk 10.1.... /MrWhisp

Hi, I have dual Mdk / Win XP on my laptop, and after using Mdk quite a while no I want to minimize or remove my XP partition. The only thing I use that partition is for gaming.... My question is: - Is it possible to reduce the size of the Win partiton and increase the size of my / Mdk partition without reinstalling Mdk? /MrWhisp [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

Yep, beep-media-player works fine! Thanks for the tip! Now I don't need xmms anymore :D

Since I have not been able to start xmms and the user I had is newly created, the .xmms folder only contains the empty folders Plugins and Skins, and no files exists. I'd rather live with my dual screens than a single screen and working xmms, but these problems are a little bit annoying....

Well, it's a built-in soundcard in a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D laptop. The only info in the specs is Audio: VT1612 The funny thing is that I didn't had any problem when running MDK 10 and 10.1, and now when I run 10.2 it freezes. I have one idea of what might cause the problem: I have recently installed the ATI driver and uses dual screen mode, one internal laptop screen and an external LCD screen. This setting didn't work at all in KDE 3.2, but seem to work okay in 3.3.2. I have however experienced that some applications don't like dual monitor setting. Example: - The filemanager in Totem freezes the entire computer.... - When trying to change desktop backgrounds in Gnome the computer freezes... Since xmms don't start at all, it might be a GUI problem.... In both examples above, and in the xmms case, the CPU is at 100% and the computer is really slow.

snd-pcm-oss is running. I have tried xmms-arts and xmms-jack and still the same problem. Totem works correctly, so I can use it instead. I preffer xmms though. Maybe an installation from the source code might help?

1. xmms does not run as root either. 2. Removing .xmms folder does not help. 3. Installed libalsa-oss0 package but it does not help.

I got a lot of text in the error txt file. Here are the errors I found: .... access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ... open("/usr/share/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ... connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ... lstat64("/home/dual/.xmms/config", 0xbffff28c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ... lstat64("/usr/share/themes/Galaxy/gtk/gtkrc.en", 0xbffff18c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat64("/usr/share/themes/Galaxy/gtk/gtkrc.en_US", 0xbffff18c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ... open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/libc.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ... lstat64("/etc/gtk/gtkrc.en", 0xbffff18c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) lstat64("/home/dual/.kde/share/config/gtkrc.en_US", 0xbffff18c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ... read(3, 0xbfffee30, 32) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) ... open("/home/dual/.icons/wonderland/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Nothing... no output, nothings happend. Except my cpu is at 100%...

Hi, After the upgrade to Mdk 2005 my xmms won't work. When I try to start it, the processor is at 100% workload until I kill xmms, and then I got a kde window crash warning message. I tried to reinstall the rpm package but it didn't help. Anyony know of a solution? /MrWhisp

I finally located the problem to be a kde issue, not an ATI or Xorg problem. When I use ATI Big Desktop or Dual Head and log into a kde user where no kde settings has been made, it works. But as soon as I change some kde settings, logs out and try to log in again kde freezes when attempting to restore the session. I use kde 3.2.3 and the support for dual screens might be approved in later versions. /MrWhisp

I would have posted the errors if there would have been any... Strangely, there are no errors. The driver works okay when I use single or laptop mode, but in big desktop and dual head it freezes. Could it be that I have an internal laptop monitor and one external?

I got some warnings: (WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory) (WW) fglrx(1): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xd0840000,0x4c2000) and (II) fglrx(1): driver needs XFree86 version: 4.3.x (WW) fglrx(1): Could not detect XFree86 version Which is strange since the driver is for Xorg 6.8...

Hi, After some help from you guys I finally managed to install the ATI drivers and use the Big Desktop mode to stretch the desktop over my internal laptop screen and my external LCD screen. My problem is that X starts, I see the login manager perfectly. I login and I see the login process works fine... But then everything went black and I have to restart the computer. Anyone know how to fix this problem? /MrWhisp

Hi, I have some problems with my monitor settings. I have a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop with an external LCD monitor and an ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics card. The problem is that when i start xorg (version 6.8.2) my external monitor gets no input signal. It gets signal before x starts. This problem occured after I installed the ATI drivers... I have two questions: 1. How can I get my external monitor to work with xorg? 2. Is it possible to stretch the desktop to both monitors? Regards, Mr Whisp