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  1. Sounds like you're pretty much "Down for the count"! One other suggestion that you've probably already tried. Do a fresh install of 2006 to the same partition you originally installed to. Make sure you uncheck "format partition blah" and when the package installation screen comes up, leave everything as checked, and finish the installation. This should re-install 2006 leaving all you're previously installed personal software intact, as well as you're home directory. Good Luck
  2. FWIW! (against my better judgement) I just used the upgrade option on the 2007 CD's to upgrade from 2006 to 2007. It worked amazingly well with one exception. It totally screwed up "X" (I'm using a Nvidia GEForce MX440 AGP8 video display card). It has taken me two days to finally get "startx" to bring KDE up. I finally Installed a new, clean version of 2007 on another partition of the same machine, copied xorg.conf to my upgraded partition and now I can at least bring up the GUI -- but I can't change resolutions, automatically start "X" (even though inittab is set for runlevel 5) and XFdrake is set for 1280x1024 I'm still stuck with 1024x768 resolution --- nuff of my problems!! lxthusdan's suggestion is the best idea, but if you have the H.D. space you might try this: Do a fresh install of 2007 on a different partition and copy you're /home/"Tarwn"? to the new installation or anywhere else so that you have a backup. Then do another install of 2007 telling it to upgrade you're 2006 install to a 2007, this might bail you out and you could possibly end up with a useable upgraded from Mandriva 2006 to 2007. Hope this helps.
  3. From an icon on the Desktop I need the following to happen: (I assume I have to use KDESU before the program name ) which will be kdetv-Television and another with kdetv-S-Video kdetv-Television, I need to do the following: rmmod bt878 rmmod bttv modprobe bttv card=37 tuner=43 modprobe bt878 kdetv then for kdetv-S-Video: rmmod bt878 rmmod bttv modprobe bttv card=72 tuner=5 modprobe bt878 I don't know how to make the equivelent windoz batch files in Linux, Thanks for any help! EDIT(Qchem): Moved to Terminal Shell Commands...
  4. It looks like both of those files are installed already, If you want to re-new you're updates source, delete the two update sources in you're media manager and either use Mandriva to create a new one, or easyurpmi.
  5. Looks like you're Update Sources in the Media Manager need to be re-done, You might try using a different mirror.
  6. Try: urpmi libexpat --- this will get you both xpat & the development files
  7. Xinerama works GREAT in 2007, so now I 'd like to have it in 2006 on production machines, but can't seem to make it work! It does work in 2006 doesn't it? Thanks for any help!
  8. Try the mirror at ftp://ftp.uni-wuppertal.de -- I'm still using MDK 10.1 and am able to get updates from that mirror, so I suspect they will also have 10.2 updates available also. Most mirrors it seems have stopped offering updates for 10.1 & 10.2
  9. It looks like xdtv at the present is only capable of capturing TV video & sound and the option of capturing S-Video video & sound is not viable at this time. There is no option that I could find that would disable TV sound and enable S-Video sound in the .xdtv config file. I've tried to contact the author to get some help on this but have got no response. The program is a 1000% improvment over xawtv for TV viewing and capturing, possibly there will be an upgraded release in the future that will add what sems to be lacking. Thanks again for you're help Yves. From the lack of responses to this post, I would guess very few people are using this excellent piece of software.
  10. Yes Yves, I understand what you are saying - and agree with you, the difference is I'm trying to make S-video capture work with the xdtv (sucessor to xawtv)program. Using this program there is now way to turn off the sound from TV other than turning "Line" off, or reducing its volume gets rid of the audio from TV, but the program (or drivers)will not allow audio recording from a different audio source (cdrom or mic) irreguardless of how you set the mixer controls. This all works flawlessly (Sob!) using Windoz, only the "audio output" from the TV card connected to "Line in" of the audio card is required. Seems like this same configuraion should work in Linux. I've been using the RPM's for xdtv, so my next step is trying compiling from source and see if that makes a difference. I want to thank you again for trying to "bail me out" on this problem, I currently accomplish excellent S-Video capture (with sound) using Avview on a ATI "All in Wonder" Rage 128 pro and Mandrake 10.1 and also accomplish the same using Mandriva 2006 with a Hauppague PVR-250 card. This xdtv program looks like it has a lot going for it and I'm determined to figure out how to make it work. Thanks again!
  11. Thanks for you're response Yves. You are correct in that the latest kernel modules do provide the ability to get either alsa or oss sound directly from the video device, however this is where the problem is, It doesn't seem to work! Thats exactly what I'm trying to accomplish. When I switch from "Video Source" - Televison to "Video Source" S-Video the audio from the Television is turned off, however as soon as I turn on the S-Video source (Camcorder or VCR) the audio from the Television returns rather than the selected S-Video device. (and again this works correctly in Windoz) which makes me think its a problem in the SAA7134 & BTTV modules! But its hard to believe that BOTH modules would have the same identical problem. My cards do not have a "on card connector" like your's sems to have, so I can't employ you're solution --- I wish they did!
  12. Mandriva 2006, Kernel s 2.6.12-12 & 2.6.12-24 --Capturing video from a camcorder using S-Video works fine but records the sound from the TV tuner, rather than the sound on the on the Camcorder recording. I'm using both BTTV (Pixelview) and Saa7134 (10 Moons) TV Capture Cards and they both fail the same way (they both work correctly when booted up to Windoz). This is using the latest version of XdTV, which as far as I've been able to tell, is the only Video Capture software that is capable of capturing S-Video under Linux. (other than MythTV). Also if there is any other Video Capture software that WORKS for Linux, I'd sure like to hear about it. Thanks in advance for any ideas!
  13. Anybody using this card? If so, could you answer a couple of questions about its performance! I'm primairly interested in good TV & video capture abilities. Also what video drivers make it work, ATI's or GATOS? Does it work with Avview? Any other Linux video capture software that works with it? If you are using this card, what's ou're opinion of it? Thanks for any replies.
  14. Hey scarecrow, thanks for the info, but I got it working. Using the 2.6.12-12 kernel from 2006 and manually loading modules: sata_nv & libata did the trick! For some reason you can't list the SATA drive in fstab, you have to manually mount it.
  15. Is there any way of making MDK 10.1 (kernel 2.6.8) recognize a SATA drive? I've tried installing kernel 2.6.12-12 as it recognizes SATA drives on Mandriva 2006, but it didn't help the problem on MDK 10.1 Am I missing something, or is this just something that can't be done on MDK 10.1? Thanks for any "Words of Wisdom"! [moved from Software by spinynorman]
  16. Hey ianw1974, the noapic optin "did the trick" -- thanks much, I owe you one!
  17. I use all static address's on the LAN, but tried letting DHCP get the address, and that didn't work either. lo being "blacklisted" has nothing todo with the problem, its "blacklisted" when I run the network install from other boxes also. the last entry in <Alt-F3> is DHCP: Sending Discover, then a bunch of <sleep>'s before it craps out with a "No DHCP reply received" error. On the other machines DHCP: sending Discover is immeadiatly followed by DHCP: Sending Request then "got network xxxx" Gateway, DNS etc! I re-installed DHCP but that didn't help either. I can't think of anything else to try, other than physically removing the Eth1 & Ra0, but neither one of them are being used. Thanks for the help "ianw1974" got any other idea's?
  18. I'm trying to do a network install from a machine on my LAN that has done this install procedure several times successfully before, now it gets as far as "sending DHCP request..." and stalls out. The log (Alt-F3) says it found interfaces eth0,eth1,ra0 and lo, but lo is "blacklisted, looks like this is what's preventing the install. Four other machines on the LAN do "Net installs" without problems! Anyone have any ideas on what I've screwed up? Thanks
  19. Well, I got it working, Maybe what I went through will help someone else. Mandriva said my card was a "10Moons TV PCI card"! The box the card came in said it was a "Easy TV mpeg" with a phillips tuner & 7134 chip. As I stated above Mandriva detected these settings but the card responded as described above. 10Moons scared me as the name of a workable TV card (but it did function correctly in Windoz), so in desperation I plugged it into a different machine and booted it up using SuSE 10.0 which had a different vintage (newer) version of saa7134.ko --- TV worked!! Changing channels worked (kinda) SuSE detected the card the same as Mandriva, I was convinced it was a problem with saa7134 ---WRONG!! Turns out 10Moons cards are also marketed under the name of Sabrent (which uses a LG tuner! -- need I say more? Changing the tuner type to LG NSTC (Tape series) fixed everything and the cards works with both the Mandriva multimedia kernel as well as 2.6.12-12mdk. Apparantly the assembly line in China used the last Phillips tuner in the box and had another box full of LG tuners, so they installed them, after all, a tuner is just a tuner -- once you've seen one, you've seen them all, RIGHT? Lesson learned! Before you blame the Linux driver, verify the tuner on you're card (peel the label off the tuner itself if you have to in order to identify it!) even though this will probably void the warranty. I can't believe I bought a TV capture card named "10moons PCI TV Capture Card"!
  20. The default saa7134 module in Mandriva 2006 won't display TV with the cards that use this module. XAWTV comes up with a black screen with no video info. Using the 2.6.14.mm.7mdk is an improvement as using it lets XAWTV display a snowy video, and by switching between NTSC & PAL you can get a brief TV display of a cable TV channel and then it reverts to the snow once again. The TV card & tuner is correctly identified & installed, but channel scanning results in "no signal" responses for all channels. Is there any saa7134 module for Mandriva available that works? Thanks
  21. klipp

    XFree86 4.6.0

    Thanks scarecrow for saving me the time of trying to make XFree86 work with Mandriva 2006, I'm aware of what the "Official" ATI drivers now finally support and they work pretty good on the newer ATI cards. The "UnOfficial" ATI drivers (for several years) have been the only means of making the older ATI cards function in Linux, thanks to the "Gatos Project" and these ATI.2 drivers as they are now called worked pretty well, that is, until Xorg 6.9.0! DRI acceleration has never (to my knowledge) been workable on these older cards but KM has worked fine. The problem now is that the older gatos drivers WILL work in XFree 86 and up through Xorg 6.7.0. The reason for this is that Xorg 6.7.0 still loads drivers with the ".o" suffix wheras Xorg 6.9.0 will only load the recompiled ".so" suffix drivers. The new "r128" gatos driver you mentioned is of the ".so" variety and does not have the code included to load the bt829,fi1236,msp3430,saa7114, tda & theatre drivers like its older counterpart driver does. I'm no expert on ELF but it looks to me like the only solution is to re-compile the older r128_drv.o, but this too would probably only result in a bigger "bucket of worms". I've been unable to get any assistance fro Gatos, I think possibly they may have "given up the ghost" on ATI now that ATI is finally turning out some quality drivers for their newer cards. I have a couple of other posts further down in this forum, looking for help also. Thanks for you're time and efforts, any other ideas (other than throwing these cards away and buying newer ones) would sure be welcome.
  22. klipp

    XFree86 4.6.0

    The drivers come from ati-gatos (ati.2 drivers) The ones that work with Xorg 6.7.0 are from the: ati.2:XFree86 4.2.0 package ati_drv.o atimisc_drv.o r128_drv.o
  23. klipp

    XFree86 4.6.0

    One example!! ATI drivers for their "All in Wonder" 128. TV & Video capture works fine in Xorg 6.7.0 (because r128_drv.o will load!) Xorg 6.9.0 will not load r128_drv.o but now only loads r128_drv.so which does not recognize the fact that the ATI card is capable of TV & Video capture.
  24. klipp

    XFree86 4.6.0

    Hey, scarecrow!!! Thank you, but update it with what? I have all of 2006's updates installed.
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