Havin_it

Hi, seem to have made an annoying boob. I must have misconfigured ACPI for my laptop because when I closed the lid, I got logged out. I was doing URPMI in a root console at the time. When I re-opened the lid I got the KDE login and logged back in as normal user. Now I can see the download is still going on (it's about 550MB) but the console I had open is now blank and logged-in only as local user. Is there any way I can bring the URPMI console back up? EDIT: I think it's finished now, as the net traffic has tailed off, but I'd still like to know if there's a way to do this as I've been in this situation before with various running processes.

Ne'mind, I have got myself back in. It seems there was an additional problem with XFree86 config, which I'd also been playing with before the shutdown. I found a config for 'monitor2' in the config (I'd been trying to use the laptop's TV-out connection) which couldn't be found and was choking XFree. So, one crash-course in vi later (god that was confusing. Who would use it?) I've got to the point where I can type 'kde' and get back in. Yet to see if it'll do so when I reboot, but hey, the days are ticking down 'til clean-installing 10.1OE anyhoo... Just glad not to be marooned in Windoze in the meantime!

Speed the Mac thinks it is: Not sure if it's quite that fast in reality... ahem, my GF's Celeron 700Mhz still gives it a run for the money, but I find it quite tolerable given a few optimisations (turning up the redraw interval to 100ms and giving the emu 256Mb of RAM). This is on a Celeron 2.66Ghz host, 515Mb total RAM. And yes, I still frequently see the Beach Ball of Doom...

True, it is still hella slow, but speed has improved greatly in a short time. Getting quite excited about the devs' current task - 'hwmmu' - don't ask me what it means, but it's intended to reduce CPU workload dramatically. It comes into its own for a webmonkey on the move - all 3 main OSes on one laptop!

I don't know if I can do an FTP install, because either of my possible internet configs take quite a bit of hacking to work. 1) USB modem - need to drop firmware to appropriate location. 10.0 config tool only gave option to load from floppy (I don't have a floppy drive). Maybe this has been improved in 10.1? 2) Wifi card - depends on up-to-date version of ndiswrapper. I gather 10.1 pre-installs ndiswrapper 0.8 - too old! - which needs to be manually hacked out of the kernel-source and replaced. Unless there is a way round these issues, I will always have to wait for the ISOs unfortunately.

I've done the equivalent for GRUB - removed the 'resume=/dev/hda6' item from the boot command. Before doing this, I booted into the old kernel and did 'mkswap /dev/hda6' (Don't know if this is the same as formatting...) Result: can now boot new kernel, but only to command-line. Tried 'kde' but it complains about an undefined screen 'screen2' not found. Again, some of this scrolls off the screen before I can read it. The errors in the boot process seem to be centred on the lo interface, vtund and CUPS. Is there anyway I can log the boot info so I can post it here?

Further info: there is a bug for this in the Mandrake anthill: http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/query.php?bug=559 The info there talks about hacking suspend scripts etc. - bit out of my league. They mention using 'mkswap' to purge the hibernation file, but I can't recall the mount-point of my swap partition. Is there a command I can use to identify it?

Thanks guys. I did a little googling myself and it seems the problem has cropped up a few times. This thread has a lot of info (from a lot of anxious contributors) on the specific problem: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/sh...p?postid=836764 My reading of the info there is that: a) The root of the problem may well be not enough swap space. My swap partition is about 512MB (same as my amount of RAM), but in XP my hiberfil.sys is about 700-800MB. B) I can probably get back into the 2.6.3-16 kernel boot by adding 'noresume' to the config or typing it at the GRUB prompt. I haven't tried this yet because of c) c) It's mentioned that the filesystems will not have been unmounted properly, so I should do a filesystem check during booting. Can anyone tell me how to do that? It's done this automatically every 20 boots or so, but I'm not sure how to force it. Another thought of my own: I wonder if it would be wise/very unwise to purge the swap partition from Windows? I believe I could do that using Partition Magic...

Well, no joy there. It kinda made the TV screen flash, but that was all. The drivers seem to match my card, but is it possible there'd be another more recent set out there? Will see if I can find out on Intel site.... Not that it'll be happening too soon anyway, as I just fried my Mandrake install after trying to hibernate. So that's minus one point for the 'just push the button, can't hurt' school of thought. The linuxon-laptops site had two articles for my model, except it wasn't my model (system specs were considerably different), and neither had info about ACPI/easy-button config.

But can this really be an absolute block against the legislation coming somehow into effect? I admit the situation seems parallel to the UN's powerlessness to pass Security Council resolutions against Israel thanks to America's repeated veto, but the UN cause does not have the backing of B. 'Kermit' Gates...!

Oh God. Serious? Isn't there anything extreme like emptying the swap partition or deleting a hibernation file (like Windoze hiberfil.sys) I could try? At the end of the day, I could retrieve my data (once I remember where it all is) using command-line then do a clean install once 10.1OE isos come out, so I guess it's not the worst. But I'd welcome a chance to get back in there properly... :Hurry Up With The ISOs!!:

<panic panic panic> General notes: Laptop: Toshiba Satellite A30, dual-boot WinXP and Mandy 10.0 OE (FTP upgrade from 10.0 CE) Kernel: 2.6.3-16mdk bootloader: GRUB So, I activated ACPI suspend fuunctions in KLaptop with the goal of being able to do a hibernate from my power button. First, tried doing it from the KLaptop menu. Short scroll of text, power off, OK. Boot back in from GRUB, first part looks like normal boot, then it cuts to a different readout. Something about pages and waiting for DMAs to settle down. Then cuts out and goes back to the pre-BIOS manufacturer screen. Repeat. Same thing. Repeat. Just get the word GRUB and a blinking cursor. Boot into old kernel 2.6.3-15, get through all the normal initialisation checks with a few things amiss - localhost can't be mounted, some new output about Vtund (too quick to read), then goes to console login. Tried typing 'kde' but just get a bunch of output most of which disappears off the screen before I can read it. Type 'exit' and logs out, shuts down but doesn't power-off. How can I proceed? It seems like the stored hibernation info is causing the problem, but hey, I'm no expert. Can I fix this from the console? I have a FAT32 partition that's shared between Win and Lin if it's necessary to import other files/tools, and I still have the 10.0CE install CDs. <please please help>

Hey, thanks for droppin' in. I should get to try it out tomorrow as the GF's away from HER TV - it's kinda hard to get airtime yet. Can't say I'm all that confident really - if the power button is anything to go by (the best I can get out of that is a regular shutdown, no hibernate) the TV-out button will probably make me some cheese on toast or something. ...mmm....cheese.... Um, well I'll let you know anyways.

Hi all, I've had generally pretty good experiences so far with this laptop, and I'm now trying to realise some of those last un-looked-at lappy functions. ACPI is all working pretty well, but I've not thought about the TV-out function yet. I figure since my DVD playback is a bit smoother on Linux, it'd be great if I can output it to TV. The output is SVHS, and activated from an easy-button on the case. There are also some playback control buttons on the case so the lid can be kept shut while streaming. The graphics card is a builtin Intel 82855GME 64MB. Any pointers on how I might get this working? I could of course just push the button, but experience suggests that alone won't do the trick.

If you are looking to create network sharing folders on the Linux box, you need to have a Samba server (smbd) running and create a Samba user to identify the Windows machines when they access it. The Mandrake Control Center isn't great for setting this up, I'd recommend an excellent tool called webmin which is available in the main FTP repository. It lets you control a range of computer functions through a web interface on https://localhost:10000 - which of course means you can remote-access it if required. See what you think - trust me, I'm no network guru myself esp. on Linux, but I found it relatively easy this way.

Here's the info on removing older version (written for Mandy 10.0 but I'm sure the same procedures apply). http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=20356&hl= Also I found with ndiswrapper 0.9 that you must let the modprobe occur before inserting the card. Doing it the other way gave me a kernel-panic...! Good luck!

Nope, still nothing found. I guess the crusher is you have a HP server and I don't. Will keep playing in the hopes that something clicks, but I guess it's not gonna happen. Thanks for taking the time anyway!

Ok, well I got the driver installed and the printer still works with it. Tried running Xsane again, but nothing new there. I guess the last ditch will be the aforementioned find-scanner command. Hope you don't gotta work too long, dude...

Should I uninstall the printer and/or CUPS itself before doing this? (It would be worth doing anyway, as I'm gonna probably do a clean-install of Mandy 10.1 when I get it.)

It can't hurt, I guess. WINS is the fallback for when DNS doesn't work, but bear in mind it needs to be configured on all machines.

Ah...encouraging...! What is your network topology though? Is the AIO running off another PC, or a standalone print server? If the latter, is it a HP JetDirect server or something else? (I should say that the Belkin server is the cheapest of its type on the market. And to clarify my orig. post, the HP JetDirect is about FIVE times the price in most stores.)

The FAQ is here: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=5494 Some aspects of installation are not covered there though; for example, you should start by checking for a bug that occurred with 10.0 Community. 10.1 may have fixed this, but if (like 10.0) it has an older ndiswrapper pre-installed, you need to get under the hood to remove it. Here's my suggestion for making a clean start (do this before installing the latest version of ndiswrapper): 1) If you don't have it already, you will need the source package for your current kernel in order to use ndiswrapper. Open a konsole, type su to login as root (you will be prompted for root password) and then type: $> urpmi kernel-source<kernel number here> You will be prompted to download and install the package. 2) Now you need to start cleaning house. $> urpme ndiswrapper This will remove MOST of the preinstalled ndiswrapper 0.4 (yes, 0.4) or of whichever version you have installed already. To get rid of the rest: 3) (Still as root user) type: $> kwrite /lib/modules/<kernel version>/modules.dep [EDIT - Sorry, this bit was wrong before, I left out the <kernel-version> folder ] In this file, find and delete the following lines: /lib/modules/<kernel version>/misc/ndiswrapper.ko /lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/3rdparty/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko.gz Save and close. Now you may as well delete the files themselves - do it from the console by typing $> rm <path as above> 4) now you can install an up-to-date version of ndiswrapper. If you can find an RPM (say at rpmfind.net or rpm.pbone.net), don't settle for a version lower than 0.9 for such a new card. Alternatively, grab the newest source package (tar.gz) from their website and follow the instructions in INSTALL. This is a useful document whether you use source or RPM, because it also has basic clear instructions for installing your Windoze drivers. Let me know if any of the INSTALL confuses you. 6) I also advise creating a config file for your wireless interface. It should be called /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 If you don't yet have this file, you can create it either through Control Center (create a wireless connection) or manually. Control Center is a good shorthand way to input all your network info (TCP/IP settings, wireless SSID, encryption key etc.) but you should be prepared to check and tweak the file if it still doesn't work. 7) Once you have used the ndiswrapper -l command to check your installed driver recognises the card when inserted, remove the card and do ndiswrapper -m so your ifcfg-wlan0 config file will be read when you re-insert. (But don't re-insert yet.) 8) Now type $> modprobe ndiswrapper Then insert the card. If the card has an LED to indicate power-on, it SHOULD now be lit. Then (pray a little, can't hurt) the Link LED should start twitchin'. To see for sure how you got on, type $> iwconfig You should see all the wireless info for wlan0. If not, and if you can't connect, show us the output from this command. That should get you started. A lot to digest, but feel free to ask if anything is confusing.

I am not getting NEAR the Mozilla site (or mozillazine.org) for the last hour since I read the news. That's gotta be an encouraging sign...! I did manage to get it from here (link from OSNews article): http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/ Spread the word!

I'm currently using HPOJ, which is linked off the PSC750 entry in the HPIJS site. Not quite sure what the relationship is - if I read the HPOJ site correctly, http://hpoj.sf.net HPOJ has been merged into HPIJS?

If that is exactly how the file is, there are a couple of other things that should be in there. First comment-out the lines for IPADDR and NETMASK (put a # in front), and add WIRELESS_ESSID=your_essid WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=your_hex_key DHCP_HOSTNAME=your_comp_name NEEDHOSTNAME=yes I think that's all but I'm in Win now; will check my file later. Also, was there a specific reason for using dhclient manually? the ifcfg-wlan0 script should call it implicitly. NOTE: if your interface comes up but iwconfig shows ESSID, key and other info missing, you can try adding that manually. Start with $> iwconfig wlan0 essid your_ssid If the AP is working correctly (does it have ESSID broadcast enabled?) it should complete the other info. Usually. What are you currently seeing from iwconfig?