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Figured it out: Open ~/.gnome/Gnome and change the line that says default-show to equal whatever browser you want to use Make sure you preserve the "%s" at the end of the line Now to just figureout how to set the default mailer... :D

The result was about changin settings in the control centres - as I said that didn't work for me. It might be worth trying to delete .gnome or something like that and trying to do something different

Did a search - nothing useful. there was another thread, but they jsut said to play with the settings in the control centres - which I have done, but no difference

I always get links opening in mozilla - but I want them in galeon. I have changed default browser in both gnome control centre and KDE control centre, but nothing makes any difference - any suggestions?

Daniel - how do you get your ip? If you also get it dynamically frm your ISP then we may be on to something. This is still likely to be a mandrake problem though - I have used the same ISP for 8.0,8.2 & 9.0 - this is the first time I have not been able to change the hostname

Bizarrely - I have the same problem, but only one of two machines that I have installed 9.1. on My main desktop works perfectly, but my server insists on calling itself dhcp-187-2742 An interesting factor is that my server has two NIC cards - one of which is getting it's ip dynamically - but my main desktop has a static ip - could this be the difference?

I am trying to reconnect my network after installing 9.1 and setting up samba again. so far, so good, but how do I set the password for a remote user? I tried using smbpasswd <new password> but I was asked for the old password - which I don't know! Is there any way of figuring this out?

I'm afraid that, because I am stupid, I did not back up. However, due to a similar incident recently (note that I stil ldidn't back up - how dumb am I ?) the only unrebuildable thing in /home was my saved wolfenstein game. I guess that's rebuildable by playing to that point again though!

Well - my first impressions aren't great. The installer nuked my /home even though I asked it not to As to useability ete, apart from saying that MCC looks MUCH better, it's toot early to say

OK - so it's all intalled fine now - I've just lost everything in my /home I'm really not sure why though as I did specify NOT to format /home And before anyone says - I know I should have backed up

I did a manual set up for my network - because the auto one didn't pick the right settings. The reason I say that supermount doesn't work is because during bootup I am told that supermount is not a supported file system or something like that. I am trying to re-install now - I have to resign myself that all my docs in /home are gone - despite not wanting to format that drive I'll let you know if I still have problems on trhe other side of this second install So far my 9.1 experience is by far the worst yet

Just installed 9.1 andexpected everything to be perfect. Not so. When booting for the first time I get two significant errors: 1) supermount is not supported apparently 2) My network completely fails to work. When trying to start the loopback interface, I am told that 127.0.0.1 is already in use. Also, depsite configuring my network card duriong install - it can't even be found now! Please, please help me Edit: I also lost everything in my home directory despite not formatting /home. When I try to log in using the user I created during install I am told that /home/paul does not exist!

When I finally get it all downloaded I plan on taking the "clean re-install, just don't format my /home" route. With 9.0 and previous this required installing in expert mode. I read something somewhere about being able to jump into expert mode at any point with the 9.1 installer, which would mean only having to do that bit (and maybe a couple of other) in expert mode - is this true?

Paul - love the wallpaper! :D I was gutted this mornign as I sat down to try and burn some CDs using the ISOs I downloaded last night. Decided to do a quick checksum - only to discover that CDs 2 & 3 were wrong! doh! More downloading for me

I am gettting closer to the end of my download of 9.1 (although I wouldn't be suprised if my download failed with 1 minute to go!) I'd be interested to know initial impressions of 9.1 - especially the install phase. Also - I'm thinking of putting it on my server - how's the networking/server side of things? Do you like it? :mystismiles:

I figure that if I install 9.1 then all the hardware detection will start from scratch - this will probably stop my problem from re-occuring. I hope so anyway

I don't really care if it is really slow - I'm happy just to wait. I just hope I don't lose it part way through!

OK - I have sound back - what I did was as follows: 1) noticed that job 1749 was mentioned in previous output - so I killled it. This turned outto be a dock app that I've used for ages to control volume 2) rmmod snd-en1371, which was a module I hadn't come across before 3) modprobe es1371 - all working again I have had problems with my printer which led me to play with the hardware list in drakconf. This leads me to suspect that draksound (which I opened, did nothing with and click "OK") may have caused theproblem in the first place. My issue now is how to stop it happening again as I suspsect that I will get the same problem when I reboot

I had tried that - but this time I did it from the command line so that I could see the results - which are: Doing alsactl to store mixer settings... [ OK ] Shutting down ALSA sound driver (version 0.9.0rc2): no. (sound i[FAILED]used by pid 1749 ) snd-ens1371: Device or resource busy

result of modprobe: /lib/modules/2.4.19-24mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg modprobe: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.19-24mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz failed modprobe: insmod es1371 failed

OK - just did an lsmod and noticed that the module for my soundcard isn't loaded (es1371) so I tried to load it using insmod - with the folowing results: Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-24mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz /lib/modules/2.4.19-24mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz: unresolved symbol ac97_probe_codec_R84601c2b /lib/modules/2.4.19-24mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz: unresolved symbol gameport_unregister_port_R70daab68 /lib/modules/2.4.19-24mdk/kernel/drivers/sound/es1371.o.gz: unresolved symbol gameport_register_port_R98692e58 I have no idea how to sort these unresolved symbols out - any ideas anyone?

Since the printer is installed locally - I wonder whether this thread should be under networking rather than Hardware - mods what do you think?

ran dmesg ina console - here is the result: Linux version 2.4.19-24mdk (qateam@updates.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #1 Thu Jan 30 13:13:07 MST 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e9400 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ef0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000007ef0000 - 0000000007effc00 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000007effc00 - 0000000007f00000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 0000000007f00000 - 0000000008000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 126MB LOWMEM available. Advanced speculative caching feature not present On node 0 totalpages: 32496 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 28400 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 devfs=mount Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Found and enabled local APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 501.146 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 999.42 BogoMIPS Memory: 126060k/129984k available (1176k kernel code, 3536k reserved, 443k data, 132k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 128K CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 501.1685 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 66.8222 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 668222, slice: 334111 CPU0<T0:668208,T1:334096,D:1,S:334111,C:668222> mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9ae, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2410] at 00:1f.0 isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized devfs: v1.12a (20020514) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 ICH: chipset revision 1 ICH: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x10a0-0x10a7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x10a8-0x10af, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: ST38421A, ATA DISK drive hdd: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 16498944 sectors (8447 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=17459/15/63, UDMA(33) Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:<6> [PTBL] [1091/240/63] p1 p2 < p5 p6 > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 91k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 13:39:07 Jan 30 2003 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64 usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1080, IRQ 11 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usbdevfs: remount parameter error EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal Adding Swap: 249440k swap-space (priority -1) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre11 (May 11, 2002) PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:09.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1f.3 tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7829 advertising 01e1. eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0x2000, 00:A0:CC:58:89:07, IRQ 9. PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 01:08.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:01.0 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: Printer, hp deskjet 5550 lp0: using parport0 (polling). eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled. device eth0 entered promiscuous mode inserting floppy driver for 2.4.19-24mdk Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 hdd: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 93M agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 Chipset. agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000 [drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i810 @ 0xf8000000 64MB [drm] Initialized i810 1.2.0 20010920 on minor 0 mtrr: base(0xf8000000) is not aligned on a size(0x180000) boundary parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] parport0: Printer, hp deskjet 5550 lp0: using parport0 (polling). Sorry that there's so much

What is dmesg? Everyting is plugged in properly - I can see a power light o the top of my speak so I know that is has power - seriously, I have done nothing since last night (when sound was working) but this morning everything all sound is dead Very frustrating

Today when I booted into 9.0, as I do almost every day, I had no sound - not an every day occurence. All necesary services are running - and my speakers are plugged in. What cuold cause sound to suddenly stop working overnight with my not having done anything?!