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  4. Mandriva Freezes Solid [solved]

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    That's funny you mention that...

     

    I've noticed since this who fiasco started that my LED indicating HD activity never goes off. I know top monitors CPU usage, is there something similar for HD usage?

     

    BTW... I am getting an average of anywhere from 1 to 10 lines per second in /var/log/messages.

     

    Jeremy

  6. Mandriva Freezes Solid [solved]

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    ianw1974,

     

    I'm actually using Firestarter at the moment. I was blocking the address of several sites that seemed to be requesting port access to any open port on system, the only ones of which are open are www, ftp and ssh. Some of the requests were for ports like > 4,000, which I'm sure were closed. They all appeared to be from the same source. As soon as I blocked one source, another one quickly appeared. I can give you the list of sources if you'd like.

     

    Jeremy

  8. Mandriva Freezes Solid [solved]

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    History:

     

    I've had MDK 10.1 Running on this sytem for about six months, never had any problems. About a month ago, I upgraded to Mandriva 2005LE. Re-started, ran fine. I had 18 days of uptime with no issues. Then one day I came home, and the box was froze solid. No combo of keys would work, couldn't ssh in from anywhere, nothing... Did the hard reset. I got an error that my hd was full. That's odd, I thought. I reparition and give / another 1Gb so I can boot. Once I'm in, I see that the file /var/log/messages is about 2Gb. That's *really* weird, I didn't even think I could have files that big! The file is full, as in every single line, with messages from my firewall. I block the addy, and another appears, and another and another. Finally, after blocking about ten or so addy's, the messages stop appearing so fast, although they still appear quite frequently now.

     

    The problem:

     

    Since this event, I've been unable to maintain any sort of uptime. My box freezes solid *everytime* after about two hours. I can't figure it out. There's nothing out of the ordinary in any logs that I've looked in. Here's what I've tried:

    1. noapic, nolapic boot option
    2. removing all sorts of services including power management
    3. uninstalling the nvidia drivers (NForce MB only, not the Gforece video drivers)
    4. running memtest86 for hours
    5. blowing air conditioned air directly from my AC vent to the open box via a 15" fan (in case it was over heating)
    6. and finally, I tried every cron job on it's own to make sure those weren't doing it.

    I'm running out of things to try. Short of completely re-installing the OS, I don't know what to do. At this point, I'm pretty much willing to try anything.

     

    Anyone have any ideas?

    Thanks,

    Jeremy

  9. No TV After Mandriva Upgrade

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    My card doens't require the btaudio module b/c the it's of the type with a jumper from the TV card to the sound card. I know that the audio problem is coming from the TV card. If I connect a mic to the line-in, I get sound. If I connect headphones to the line-out of the TV tuner, I get nothing.

  10. No TV After Mandriva Upgrade

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    Hi all,

     

    I have a Kworld PVR 878 TV Tuner. It worked *perfectly* under MDK 10.1. Remote control and everything. Then I upgraded to MDR 2005 LE and it stopped working. Here's the problems I'm having now.

     

    Right off the bat, I had no sound, but I did have all the channels. Of course, the first thing I did was fire up MCC and try to reconfigure it. It autodetected everthing just fine, but then when it came time to scan for channels, well that didn't work either. It finds about ten or so channels, but they're all the same channel, and to make it worse, it's all TBS. So I get channels 2, 6, 10, 34, 76, and 55, but every single one of them is TBS. Plus, there's no sound.

     

    So... Any ideas? I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas! (j/k, I've tried everything I can think of). If you can tell me where to start, that'd be great.

     

    Jeremy

  11. 5.1 Surround Sound Issues

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    Gowator,

    I don't have 3 tabs. I have only input and output. Of those, I've tried just about every possible combination of on/off I can, still nothing.

     

    Adam,

    That would be great. I'll give the new settings a try tonight, if you send me the files. I use Alsa (kmix is just the KDE front end to it), not OSS, although I tried OSS when I installed the nvidia driver.

     

    I'll update to Mandriva 05 as soon as I can. Just have d/l and upgrade. BTW... How was the upgrade from MDK 10.1 to MDR 05?

    Jeremy

  12. 5.1 Surround Sound Issues

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    Well,

    Here's where I'm at with getting the surround sound working:

     

    I tried nvidia's drivers, they were actually worse then Alsa, so I switched back. I bought a splitter and now have both the center and fronts spliced together, just so that I can get sound out of the center speaker. speaker-test -c 5 (or 5.1) still gives me nothing out of the center, obviously, but at least I have a center (albiet setup like 4 channel).

     

    It would seem that my center output just isn't working. I can't figure out why. I don't know that it ever worked, as I never had anything but Linux in it.

     

    Also, kmix master volume still isn't working. Is that fixed in Mandriva 10.2?

     

    Jeremy

  14. 5.1 Surround Sound Issues

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    Posted · Edited by jeremy1701

    Adam,

    You're file fixed a couple of my errors, but I still have the following issues:

     

    when I run speaker-test -c 5.1, I get no center speaker at all.

    Master volume doesn't work.

     

    Have I done something wrong? Should I restart alsa after I do alsarestore? EDIT: I just restarted it. No go.

     

    Thanks for your help!

    Jeremy

  16. 5.1 Surround Sound Issues

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    I have an ASUS "A7N8X-E Deluxe" mobo that has 5.1 surround sound card. I just got some Logitech 5.1 surround sound speakers. I'm running MDK 10.1 official. I can't seem to get the speakers working properly.

     

    First off all, there's three outputs on the card, Center, Rear and Line-out (Which I assume should be Front?). When I run speaker-test -c 5.1 (or 5), Center and rear are switched and I get nothing from front. There's an option on kmix (kde front end to alsamix) that says "Duplicate Center", if I de-select that, then I get front and rear, but no center.

     

    What do I need to do get this working in true 5.1?? I feel like my sound card is all messed up. Line in won't work at all, but Mic in does. I'd like to have both mic and line-in working. I feel like when I plug in the headphones in the front, the speakers should cut out, but they don't. Also, in Kmix and alasmix, my main volume slider doesn't work at all. In order to adjust the volume, I have to turn up PCM.

     

    Can anyone help me?

    Thanks,

    Jeremy

  20. USB 2.0, Mandrake 10.1, ASUS K8V SE Delux

    in Hardware

    Posted

    What jumpers in the MOBO?

     

    If you can explain, is it somewhere in Book for MOBO?

     

    It was in my book that came with the MOBO. On mine, the jumpers were located just behind the upper and lower USB ports on the rear of it. That doesn't mean yours will be, and I wouldn't recommend randomly moving jumpers. If you don't have the book, I'm sure you can get it from the Asus web-site.

     

    Good luck,

    Jeremy

  21. USB 2.0, Mandrake 10.1, ASUS K8V SE Delux

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    I tried installing Mandrake 10.1 Official on my ASUS K8V SE Delux, which has Gigabyte LAN Card inbuilt and has AMD 64 Processor.

     

    For some reason It wont install with USB 2.0 option Enabled in BIOS Settings. I was just wondering if there is a way around for that.

     

    I have a similar board with USB 2.0. I had to manually change the jumper on the board in order to enable USB 2.0.

     

    Hope that helps.

    Jeremy

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