titous09

problem solved, thx guys

when i try to install acme it says: no package named acme

what should i do?

great thanks for the help guys, i'll try it once the comp is put back together.

i was wondering if there was any way that i could bind a button to have my cdrom automatically eject. when pressed again, the cdrom would go in.

thanks

i installed mandrake 10.0 on an old HP pavilion 7935. i didn't install any video drivers and so i'm guessing i'm just using the default mandrake installation ones. well when i look at pictures they are grain-y and 'line'-y. so i'm guessing it's a video driver issue. i've looked that the mobo specs (http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?product=62755&lang=en&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&docname=bph07292) and it says the video is integrated and VIA (S3 Savage4). i've tried downloading drivers for this but everytime i try to install it says i have to have the xfree86 server installed...

can anyone help?

k, then what soundcard?

Is it onboard?

Do you have a latency timer setting in the bios?

If one is available have you tried the oss driver> alsa pretty much sucks for most soundcards, IMO.

Are you running the music from the hd, or cd's? If hd, is it on the same hd as the install or on another ide channel? Does the same happen on cd's or another ide channel?

What do your hd settings look like? Notice any slowness compared to other os's? (search the board for hdparm, and be careful)

put;

echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq

at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local, reboot, and see if it helps.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

it's an onboard soundcard

music is run from HD, only 1 HD

also does it when playing off of CD

no latency timer settings in BIOS

u r also running kde so in kcontrol>Sound, what are your settings?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

buffer is as large as possible.

note: i tried to install some AC97 audio drivers and it still didn't fix it. what can i do now?

yep

okay i got the ALSA plugin installed and have disabled MMAP mode but it still does it. now what?

whenever i have music playing in the background, it will skip and crackle when i do other things than just listen to the music. like right now it will crackle a bit while i'm typing. i can especially notice it if i scroll with my mouse in openoffice. the only things i have open at that time are xmms, 2 konqueror windos, and openoffice. anybody have any suggestions?

specs on the comp:

1.3 AMD Athlon

256MB RAM

Mandrake 10.0 running KDE 3.2

thx got it fixed

so i've installed xmms but it doesn't like to play my mp3's. if i drag it into the playlist and press play, xmms just closes. if i right click the file and choose to play it with xmms it does not play at all. xmms opens but when i try to click play it just freezes. i can play the music with other programs, would just rather like to use xmms. i am running mandrake 10.0 and kde 3.2

wow guys, thank you so much for your help. i just reinstallled mandrake and chose a generic setup for my on-board video and it works now. thank you all though very much for your efforts!

agh i'm getting frustrated. so i finally got mandrake installed on this HP comp. well now when i boot it does something it hasn't done on my other installations on another comp. instead of having the nice login where you click the name and enter the password, i get this black screen where i have to manually type the login and then the password. then i have a command prompt, what do i do now?

i think i'm going to have a demolition derbi with this HP. according to the site i have to press F10 repeatidly until a recovery meny appears....well nothing appears! yey super. ugh i'm getting frustrated.

edit: i think i may have found it! F1 goes into BIOS and i messed with the boot orders and what not and finally got it to boot off CD first. installing mandrake now....

it was an HP pavilion 7935

all i've got as far as mobo is: A7V-VM

the bios chip (if i'm looking at the right one) has a little sticker on it with this:

A7VH2

3.04

LCG1

the box i installed mandrake with has 256mb and the box i want it to run on has 256 mb also

However the easiest way to get round this if you cant boot from CD is to do a network install.

You copy the files onto a linux box with ftp or nfs or http and then make a boot disk that sets up the network and finds the server with the install.

 

this way the detection can procede properly.... sometimes chipsets are just too incompatible to do the moving the HDD trick! but this way it will be clean!

how do i do this?

the computer was an old 1.3 AMD HP compy. the model of the mobo is A7V-VM. I've tried to look up some things about this mobo and it seems a lot of ppl have boot problems with it. I can hardly get into the bios on this comp. Also, another thing to note, when i tried to start mandrake on an even older gateway computer (200 MHZ 32mb ram) the same error occurs. So perhaps it's not the mobo? Or do I not even meet system requirements. The thing to also note is that this HD will boot normally and correctly into Mandrake on the computer that it was installed on (one i scrapped together, 466 MHz 256mb ram)

Zoo,

what does boot to livecd mean?

I was talking to a friend (comp e/comp sci) and he said that you really can't switch out HDs like that from comp to comp. Is this true?

Zoo,

it was the only HD in the computer.

Ixthusdan,

what is MEPIS and how do i boot with it?

that is what i did...took the HD out of the HP and installed mandrake on another comp, then switched it back

So ive got this unused HP sitting around and want to run linux on it. For some reason i can't boot to CD-ROM to install mandrake (dunno what it is, stupid BIOS).

Anyway, I've intalled Manrake succesfully on another computer and so I've switched hard drives and i try to boot. It gives me this error message:

there is more above it but i need to pick a place to start copying what i see on the screen.

------------------------

Mounting sysfs

Creating root device

Mounting root filesystem

mount: error 6 mounting ext3 flags defaults

well, retrying without the option flags

mount: error 6 mounting ext3

well, retrying read-only without any flag

mount: error 6 mounting ext3

pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2

Remounting devfs at correct place if necessary

Mounted devfs on /dev

Freeing unused kernel memory: 272k freed

Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.

Can anyone help me with this? Do I have to install Mandrake on the mobo that it's run from?

once you install a program through the console from the mandrake CDs, in which directory does it go?

i've recently installed gaim and do not know how to start it except for through the console. also, why does it never remember my login account information?

moved to software by tyme

that makes sense, thank you.

on my desktop i always have a mounted floppy drive. it suddenly apperead once i installed a new floppy. it stays on my desktop even when there is no disk in it. when i put a cdrom in my drive, a cdrom icon will show up and it works fine. how can i set it so that i always have a cdrom icon on my desktop and when i put a cdrom in, it doesn't create a new cdrom icon?

anna,

wow thank you so much! linux people seem to be so much more helpful :D. i will try what you suggested when i get back home. and yes i just typed that file.

one more quick question, do i do the same thing for a floppy?