adamw

holy cow, that's a UI nightmare...gotta love KDE sometimes. :)

The Mandrake installer. It can do all the partitioning you need to do, including resizing NTFS partitions. Just select custom partitioning when you run the Mandrake install.

You guys are talking at cross-purposes :). He doesn't want you to press esc when the boot menu comes up. He wants you to select Linux, then *while the progress bar is showing*, hit esc. This will kill the progressbar and show you the real boot process instead, where you can see what's happening. Tell us what's the last thing showing on the screen when it hangs.

arctic: that also applies to GNOME when you have multiple displays, usefully. Any apps I have running on my second display don't show up in the taskbar on my first.

for future reference, if you ever need to compile something because it's not available via urpmi, the message you were getting indicates that you didn't have the *development libraries* for glib installed. Mandrake splits packages into the parts needed just to run software, and the parts needed when other software wants to build against it. These parts are kept in separate '-devel' packages, to save space. The package that would have solved your compilation problem is libglib1.2-devel (or something similar, I don't remember the exact name offhand). However, you should always try to install via urpmi *first*. Only ever install from source if the software you want has not yet been packaged for Mandrake.

the range is surprisingly good too - it works right across the room, 10ft or so. the box only advertised 6ft range - first time I've *ever* bought a tech gadget that does BETTER than it says on the box ;)

aussiejohn: some DSL modems have no ability to connect via ethernet at all. The one I got when I signed up for ADSL in the UK a couple of years back *only* had USB (one of the Alctatel frog modems). In that case getting the USB working is your only cheap option - you can buy an ethernet-capable modem, but it's an expense some people don't want.

try unmounting before you remove the device. Linux seems to like unmounting things that are there more than things that aren't :)

laborite: 'alt-f2' will get you to a 'run program' dialogue box. type 'gnome-terminal' to open a terminal then you can run 'mousedrake' from there.

well, not strictly true. you can't get commercial packages via easyurpmi and you can't get oddball stuff like the kde 3.3 packages that were thrown onto CD4 of the 10.1 download. aside from that, it's fairly close, yes. :)

...and besides, I never have had a problem with plf packages conflicting with main or contrib packages using urpmi. so why would I want smart? :P

well, the same people always run those repositories, but they're not the same as the people who build the main distro, and they're not all using the same build system.

thanks artee - I forgot about your alternative! sorry. I just set up the bluetooth remote stuff with my cellphone last night, it's great...I can control Totem and Rhythmbox from my cellphone now, and enter arbitrary commands if I don't mind typing 'em on a cellphone keypad :)

Hmm. I'm looking around but the only relevant thing I can find on Google is a fairly hardcore thread involving the module's author and lots of hacking to the module source, heh. I *think* that message means it's looking for the audio on channel frequency 5500Hz and not finding it. Could you try this as a modprobe: modprobe saa7134 tuner=1 card=26 audio_debug=1 and see if you get any extra useful output in dmesg?

Not really, but it's useful data :(. How about drakconf --noauto ?

i810_audio isn't ALSA, it's OSS. snd-inte8x0 is ALSA.

BIOS updates can be a crapshoot, though - I updated mine recently in the hopes it'd make the board identify my CPU a little better (it doesn't) and I now get a Lilo timestamp mismatch error about 75% of the time on boot. I reboot a few times, it goes away. gah.

Yeah, SATA's extra speed doesn't actually make a blind bit of difference in 99% of cases - SATA's theoretical peak is 150MB/s, ATA is 100MB/s (or 133MB/s with Maxtor's non-standard extension), but as you can see from the results we're getting most hard disks don't even make 50MB/s. If you had two very fast hard disks and you copied something large from one to the other...it might be a tad faster on SATA than ATA, but that's all.

well, plf is officially unofficial but unofficially official. :P plf packages are built by the same people who build main and contrib, for the most part, and they're built the same way against the same system.

well, you can use certain cellphones as bluetooth remotes, including mine - ericsson t610. lirc (using infra red as remote control) works a bit better than IR file transfer stuff, apparently, but here's a heads-up - you won't get it to work using the stock Mandrake kernel, because its lirc is broken :(. You'll need to install the kernel-multimedia-2.6 kernel from contrib; that one is built with working lirc support. I can't help you any further from there, though, sorry!

awesome, it's good to know they backported the fix :)

you need to make sure you have the right device set as 'input' in your mixer. It will most probably be called line-in.

artee: from the thread it seems he was always running the md5sum on the iso files before burning, never on the actual burnt discs.

You don't need that patch. As the message implies, Mandrake's kernel is already patched with DSDT loading capability. All you need to do to use a custom DSDT on a Mandrake system is build it into the initrd.

that's not my experience with 10.0 and SATA. As John said, I find that the SATA devices start at hde, not the IDE ones. When I boot my machine with MandrakeMove 2 (=MDK 10.0), its SATA hard disk turns up as /dev/hde, and its ATA DVD burner shows up as /dev/hda. Under 10.1, the burner is /dev/hda, and the hard drive is /dev/sda.