PurpleGuitar

I had a problem in which the Amarok tray icon was not showing up after upgrading to 2010.1, but this is fixed by launching "Service Manager" and manually starting "KDED Status Notifier watcher". This service is marked to be used, but whenever I log in, it shows up with status "not running." How can I force this service to run when I log in, so that Amarok works as expected?

I cannot get the internal microphone to work on my Acer Aspire 1410. It does work in Windows 7, so I know the hardware is OK. I cannot get any recording in Mandriva 2010. I have opened kmix and ensured it is not muted, and I raised the mic and mic boost levels. I also twiddled the "front mic" vs "internal mic", but with no results. When the mic levels are high and the mic is not muted, I get soft white noise from the speakers. Muting the mic drops this out. This happens regardless of whether front or internal mic is selected, and regardless of whether "Capture" is checked or not. I don't know if this is significant. With front mic selected, when I playback my recording, I hear noise. With internal mic selected, when I playback I hear nothing at all. One other potentially interesting thing. I have shown all of my channels, and while there is a slider for "front mic", there is not one for "internal mic". Again, I don't know if this is significant. I would appreciate any tips and suggestions. I started by using Skype for testing the audio, but this was cumbersome, so now I'm using Sound Recorder. Kernel is 2.6.31.12-netbook-1mdv. Same thing happened with desktop kernel; tried to change in case it made a difference.

On Mandriva 2010, using Eclipse and Sun's JVM, buttons do not behave correctly. If a button becomes enabled from a disabled state, then it cannot be clicked. I can still press enter to activate it, but that's obnoxious. Any known fixes?

Interactive Firewall I had a sysadmin look over it, and he said it was configured to log by default, it just wasn't. We'll see what happens with the new config next time I'm scanned.

I was working yesterday and got a notification, via a widget in the panel, that I was being portscanned. I ignored it at the time, but now I want to go back and see the logs and decide whether to whitelist or blacklist the machine. Where can I find these logs, or how can I bring that widget back up? In the past, it has only shown up when there's an alert, but then it disappears. I'm running Mandriva 2009.1.

In Mandriva 2009.0, no matter what focus policy I choose, I get "click to focus" behavior. That is, no matter whether I choose "focus follows mouse", "focus under mouse", or "focus strictly under mouse", I get the "click to focus" behavior. I have tried two different mice, one USB and one PS/2, with no change. Customizing the focus behavior worked on this same hardware in 2008.1 and earlier. I have another 2009.0 machine that does not have this problem. To try to fix this, I booted to a console and wiped out my .kde and .kde4 folders. Restarting in KDE then did not change this problem. I don't know what to try next. Any suggestions?

For the past several releases, I have used amarok to listen to streaming Internet radio. In Mandriva 2009, I can still open a stream using Amarok, but now it stops after each individual track, rather than continuing to the next one. I'm listening to rainwave.cc -- here's a URL to test: http://stream.rainwave.cc:8000/stream.ogg I tried out some other players: totem (Movie Player) will play for a while and then crash kmplayer works fine, but I would rather use Amarok, partially due to OSD support. Any tips?

I love emacs, but the fonts look horrible. Does anyone know if there's an easy way to get emacs to use fonts that look as nice as, say, kwrite? I found a link describing how to build emacs with gtk support for ubuntu, but I'd like something for KDE4 and Mandriva 2009: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=126023. Any tips? EDIT: I failed to mention that I'm using xemacs. "Regular" emacs uses nice fonts, but I prefer using xemacs since I can easily resize the window to the size I prefer. Maybe a workaround is to make emacs behave more like xemacs, since emacs fonts are readable. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Inspired by this question, I tinkered with my cables. I had been connecting with a DSUB cable but to the monitor's and video card's DVI slots via some adapters that came with my video card. I borrowed a proper DVI cable (i.e. DSUB-to-DVI adapters), and voila! Now I have my proper resolution as well as the right edid data. What a silly thing to be wrong. I don't know why the type of cable or adapter would bork the EDID data, but that seems to be what happened. Thanks to everyone who put their heads together on this!

I tried it with the modelines in and out, but to no avail. I still am stuck with 1024x768 stretched over my monitor. Here's a section of my X log: (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 8800 GTS 512 at (--) NVIDIA(0): PCI:1:0:0: (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-1 (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-1: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-1 (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1680x1050"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1600x1000"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1440x900"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1280x800"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to validate any modes; falling back to the default mode (WW) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select". (WW) NVIDIA(0): (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes: (II) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select" (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768 (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device CRT-1's EDID; cannot compute DPI (WW) NVIDIA(0): from CRT-1's EDID. (==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals. (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp For reference, my xorg.conf file looks like this, which I believe is just like before except with UseEDID set to false: # File generated by XFdrake (rev 247269) # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort) #DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work EndSection Section "Module" Disable "dri" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "Flat Panel 1680x1050" HorizSync 31.5-90 VertRefresh 60 # Option "PreferredMode" "1680x1050" # # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync # ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync # ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1680x1050_120" 313.20 1680 1816 2000 2320 1050 1051 1054 1125 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1680x1050_100" 256.20 1680 1808 1992 2304 1050 1051 1054 1112 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1680x1050_85" 214.51 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1103 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1680x1050_75" 188.07 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1096 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1680x1050_60" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1680x1050_50" 120.21 1680 1776 1952 2224 1050 1051 1054 1081 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1600x1000_120" 284.04 1600 1728 1904 2208 1000 1001 1004 1072 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1600x1000_100" 232.13 1600 1720 1896 2192 1000 1001 1004 1059 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1600x1000_85" 194.21 1600 1712 1888 2176 1000 1001 1004 1050 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1600x1000_75" 169.13 1600 1704 1880 2160 1000 1001 1004 1044 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1600x1000_60" 133.14 1600 1704 1872 2144 1000 1001 1004 1035 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1600x1000_50" 108.66 1600 1688 1856 2112 1000 1001 1004 1029 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1440x900_120" 229.75 1440 1552 1712 1984 900 901 904 965 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1440x900_100" 187.55 1440 1544 1704 1968 900 901 904 953 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1440x900_85" 156.79 1440 1536 1696 1952 900 901 904 945 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1440x900_75" 136.49 1440 1536 1688 1936 900 901 904 940 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1440x900_60" 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1440x900_50" 87.41 1440 1512 1664 1888 900 901 904 926 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1280x800_120" 181.21 1280 1376 1520 1760 800 801 804 858 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1280x800_100" 147.89 1280 1376 1512 1744 800 801 804 848 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1280x800_85" 123.38 1280 1368 1504 1728 800 801 804 840 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1280x800_75" 107.21 1280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 835 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1280x800_60" 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 -HSync +Vsync # # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] # ModeLine "1280x800_50" 68.56 1280 1336 1472 1664 800 801 804 824 -HSync +Vsync EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 6100 and later" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" Option "DynamicTwinView" "false" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" Option "UseEDID" "FALSE" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1440x900" "1280x800" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1440x900" "1280x800" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1440x900" "1280x800" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1440x900" "1280x800" EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection Also, I did just install the latest nvidia driver from non-free, 177.70-2.2mdv2009.0. It did not seem to make a difference.

Unfortunately, this doesn't change the behavior. I'm still stuck with 1024x768 max, and the X logs still say that there are no valid modes for 1680x1050 on down to 1024x768, as before. The only difference in the log is that it no longer dumps the EDID data.

177.70, if I recall correctly.

It seems the problem is deeper than the modelines. I tinkered with this for a while until I remembered that my wife has the same monitor and is running 1680x1050. D'oh. I copied her xorg.conf file, only to see that it is identical to mine. This file works fine on 2008.0 and 2008.1, but it fails on 2009. Here are excerpts from the X log: (WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): The EDID read for display device CRT-1 is invalid: the (WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): checksum for EDID version 1 is invalid. (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Raw EDID bytes: (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 5c 85 03 22 01 01 01 01 (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 19 11 01 03 68 2f 1e 78 2e c5 b0 a4 59 49 9a 24 (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 12 50 54 bf ef 00 81 80 81 40 71 4f 95 00 95 0f (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): b3 00 81 c0 81 00 21 39 90 30 62 1a 27 40 68 b0 (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 36 00 d9 28 11 00 00 1c 00 00 00 fd 00 38 4c 1e (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 52 10 00 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 ff 00 30 (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00 fc (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): 80 4c 43 4d 2d 32 32 77 33 0a 20 20 20 20 00 17 (--) NVIDIA(GPU-0): (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 8800 GTS 512 (G92) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0) (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 62.92.25.00.07 (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 8800 GTS 512 at (--) NVIDIA(0): PCI:1:0:0: (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-1 (--) NVIDIA(0): CRT-1: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-1 (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1680x1050"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1600x1000"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1440x900"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1280x800"; removing. (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to validate any modes; falling back to the default mode (WW) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select". (WW) NVIDIA(0): (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes: (II) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select" (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768 (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device CRT-1's EDID; cannot compute DPI (WW) NVIDIA(0): from CRT-1's EDID. Any ideas? I guess I could try rebuilding the nvidia driver rather than using the one from mandriva non-free.

Nothing at all. I tried verbose mode (-v flag), and I got the following: probing EDID using VBE (port 0) vbe: int 10h points to c000:1a84: 52 50 ba ca 03 ec fe c0 VBE version: 3.0, oem version = 98.146 Memory: 14336k OEM name: NVIDIA Vendor name: NVIDIA Corporation Product name: G92 Board - 03930000 Product revision: Chip Rev EDID: Error (0x4f15): 0x014f Retrying with old LRMI interface VBE version: 3.0, oem version = 98.146 Memory: 14336k OEM name: Vendor name: Product name: Product revision: EDID: Error (0x4f15): 0x014f probing EDID using VBE (port 1) vbe: int 10h points to c000:1a84: 52 50 ba ca 03 ec fe c0 VBE version: 3.0, oem version = 98.146 Memory: 14336k OEM name: NVIDIA Vendor name: NVIDIA Corporation Product name: G92 Board - 03930000 Product revision: Chip Rev EDID: Error (0x4f15): 0x014f Retrying with old LRMI interface VBE version: 3.0, oem version = 98.146 Memory: 14336k OEM name: Vendor name: Product name: Product revision: EDID: Error (0x4f15): 0x014f I'm sure 1680x1050 is supported: it's what i used on Mandriva 2008, 2008.1, and on Windows. Unfortunately, since the reinstall I do not have my old xorg.conf files laying around to see what the difference was. The monitor is a Westinghouse LCM-22w3. My xorg.conf file is as follows. # File generated by XFdrake (rev 247269) # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the xorg.conf man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort) #DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work EndSection Section "Module" Disable "dri" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Generic" ModelName "Flat Panel 1680x1050" HorizSync 31.5-90 VertRefresh 60 # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1680x1050_120" 313.20 1680 1816 2000 2320 1050 1051 1054 1125 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1680x1050_100" 256.20 1680 1808 1992 2304 1050 1051 1054 1112 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1680x1050_85" 214.51 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1103 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1680x1050_75" 188.07 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1096 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1680x1050_60" 147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1680x1050_50" 120.21 1680 1776 1952 2224 1050 1051 1054 1081 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1600x1000_120" 284.04 1600 1728 1904 2208 1000 1001 1004 1072 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1600x1000_100" 232.13 1600 1720 1896 2192 1000 1001 1004 1059 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1600x1000_85" 194.21 1600 1712 1888 2176 1000 1001 1004 1050 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1600x1000_75" 169.13 1600 1704 1880 2160 1000 1001 1004 1044 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1600x1000_60" 133.14 1600 1704 1872 2144 1000 1001 1004 1035 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1600x1000_50" 108.66 1600 1688 1856 2112 1000 1001 1004 1029 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1440x900_120" 229.75 1440 1552 1712 1984 900 901 904 965 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1440x900_100" 187.55 1440 1544 1704 1968 900 901 904 953 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1440x900_85" 156.79 1440 1536 1696 1952 900 901 904 945 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1440x900_75" 136.49 1440 1536 1688 1936 900 901 904 940 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1440x900_60" 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1440x900_50" 87.41 1440 1512 1664 1888 900 901 904 926 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1280x800_120" 181.21 1280 1376 1520 1760 800 801 804 858 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1280x800_100" 147.89 1280 1376 1512 1744 800 801 804 848 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1280x800_85" 123.38 1280 1368 1504 1728 800 801 804 840 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1280x800_75" 107.21 1280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 835 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1280x800_60" 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 -HSync +Vsync # modeline generated by gtf(1) [handled by XFdrake] ModeLine "1280x800_50" 68.56 1280 1336 1472 1664 800 801 804 824 -HSync +Vsync EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 6100 and later" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" Option "DynamicTwinView" "false" Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1440x900" "1280x800" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1440x900" "1280x800" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1440x900" "1280x800" EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1680x1050" "1600x1000" "1440x900" "1280x800" EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection

Sure enough, that worked... mostly. I cannot get a resolution about 1024x768. I am using a 22" Westinghouse monitor, and I specify it as a Generic Flat Panel 1680x1050. However, it still comes up 1024x768 and only gives me options up to that resolution through krandr. When I check the X log file, it says that the nvidia driver cannot find compatible modelines for all my resolutions above 1024x768. I tried commenting out all the modelines, and that gave the same results. Any tips? I can post my xorg.conf on next reboot, if that might help, but it's simply the XFdrake generated one -- no customizations.