crazyspongebob

Have you tried vlc player? It's the main media player on my mandriva box.

kernel-2.6.17.5mdv-1-1mdv2007.0

nvidia-kernel-2.6.17-5mdv-8774-1mdk

nvidia_legacy-kernel-2.6.17-5mdv-7184-1mdk

kernel-source-stripped-2.6.17.5mdv-1-1mdv2007.0

Have you tried to uninstall the nvidia kernel? and then reinstall them. check gcc to see if you accidentally uninstall it. reinstall it, too.

I booted the box with Mandriva kernel and problem solved. thnx.

jt

So should I roll my system back to the older kernel then by uninstalling that kernel?

I am runing MD2007 with kernel version 2.6.18.8-1mdv on a dual amd mp 1.2 ghz with 1gb of ram. After I upgraded to this kernel, I could not just plug in a usb flash drive and have access to it as a regular user. I have to call up the control center and run "look at and configure the hardware" to see the drive. I have to configure the drive to be mounted as root with a mount point and then unmount the drive and disable the mount point. After this, I can mount the drive as a reguluar user. The following is what the log gives me after typing dmesg|tail:

usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4

usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

usb-storage: device found at 4

sda: assuming drive cache: write through

SCSI device sda: 121856 512-byte hdwr sectors (62 MB)

sda: Write Protect is off

sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00

sda: assuming drive cache: write through

sda: sda1

sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda

sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0

usb-storage: device scan complete

I have no problem seeing my 60gb IAudio player as a removable drive when plugging it in the usb. Just the hoops that I have to go through to get access to the usb flash drive drives me crazy. With Ubuntu, I just plug in the drive and it works. Any suggestion?

At first I thought that it could be the drive. So I try other drives that I have. It's the same problem.

jt

I tried to start kbounce from the terminal. However this time it crashed and restarted X without leaving any messages.

at the boot screen, hit F1(I believe) and then type the followng to see what happens.

linux noprobe

I think that is the comand.

J.T.

Try to disable the sata controler in BIOS to see if the system boot from CD-ROM without hanging. Just a hunch.

I'll try that and let you know. thnx.

are there any error messages in /var/log/messages?

It just crashed and don't know if it can log the error.

J.T.

I have Mandriva 2007 running on my dual AMD 1200 MP with 1GB of RAM, ATI 7500 AIW and SBLive value. KBounce game crashes my computer at various stages of the game. Sometimes it crashes at the middle of the game and sometimes right at game over.

j.t.

Do you use Adblock or some content blocking software? If yes try to disable it. If that helps whitelist yahoo mail.

Found the culprit. It was the NoScript extension. Just uninstall it and problem solved. Thanks.

I'm still using the vanilla version of Yahoo! Mail. I hate the beta.

I'll try FF2 out to see what happens.

Thanks,

J.T.

Using pmount is a lot easier than mount since pmount does not need to be root. I had the same situtation but on a ubuntu box.

I am currently running Mandriva 2007. When reading Yahoo! Mail using Firefox 1.5.0.8 and recently updated 1.5.0.9, I cannot see the text of the messages unless I click on the printable view link to open a different window in the printer friendly view. I also tried Firefox 2 and had the same problem.

j.t.

The Mandriva Control Center does this just fine. But there are 2 things to do. The first is to install the driver or activate the device. The second is to setup networking on the device. All can be done using the gui.

I've tried the gui out with my heart content, but nothing works. So I have to fire up vi and edit the darn file. Other than that everything works fine.

J.T.

I have recently bought a Freecom CLASSIC SL external HDD and was irritated when i saw an advert in a magazine for a Portable Mandriva distro and Lacie globetrotter external HDD, I would have loved to purchase this problem but now having a spen £60 on a 250GB HDD, i can not afford to. However i would really love to run this portable linux solution on my HDD and was wondering how to, I'm not new to linux (i'm no expert either) i've been using it for a couple of years and just wanted some information on whether and if so, how this could be done!

I am currently running Mandriva 2006 on a WD Passport 40 GB (usb 2.0) with no fuss at all. Mandriva 2006 is one of the easiest distro to put on a ext hard drive. I had tried Ubuntu 5.10 on the drive with some tweaking. I just have to configure the BIOS to boot from usb on any computer that I plug my hard drive in.

J.T.

Now I'm assuming I have to configure the wireless connection to retrieve the address information from the dhcp server? Is there some file I configure for this?

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Do you have Winblow$ on the laptop? I configure my wireless card with the same chipset by using ndiswrapper to install the winblow$ driver. Then I have to go to /etc/ndiswrapper directory and edit a config file which I don't remember it off hand. You have to put the card's MAC address and WEP and Network id into the file.

J.T.

I am new to the linux world and I just installed mandriva on a Toshiba (Qosmio 2.13 ghz centrino). I was trying to connect the toshiba to my home wlan using mandriva the problem is that the wireless card is detected but the drivers need to be installed. I downloaded ipw2200(etc).tgz it's the most recent one though. the compressed file is bunch of files that i wasn't able to open using mandriva it asks me to chose an app to run them. They weren't installation wizards ( :) I am new to linux).

What version of Mandriva did you install? I installed Mandriva 2006 on a Gateway laptop with the same wireless card. Mandriva detected the card and installed the appropriate driver and I have had no problem connecting at all. I have 2006 power pack though.

J.T.

Hi there! I’m so desperate that I’ve signed up for this account ;) I’m trying to install Mandriva 2006 DVD Free, but it seems to have a problem with my Promise FastTRAK TX2000 raid array.

FastTRAK TX2000 Raid card is not a hardware raid. It runs through software and CPU. Promise only has the close source driver for redhat 9 and some other older distros. You can use it as a ata133 controller to set up any distro, but not its raid functionality. Unless you want to run FreeBSD, IDE controller functionality is the only thing you get when using linux in general and mandriva in particular.

J.T.

P.S. I have a FastTrak TX2000 myself.

I have tried downloading through browsers, a couple of mac based FTP apps, and nothing seems to cooperate. It errors out at the end of the download and says "a network connection error has occured" which pops up in the Mac download manager.

Don't use a browser to download large iso images. For your FTP apps, I wonder if they have the resume functionality. If they do, you just resume the download.

J.T.

Intel has the pro 2200 series (methink) that is linux supported natively. This card is on centrino. I tried both Mandriva2006 and Ubuntu Breezy, and both recogized the wireless card

J.T.

Do you know what FS was on this?

 

fdisk -l /dev/sda

cybrjackle,

Both my pendrive and firewire drive are FAT32 since I have a WinXP laptop and want to share data between the two boxes. I have no problem using the two drives with my XP laptop.

J.T.

Update: I am able to manually mount the pendrive using pmount /dev/sda1 since it is recognized as such but no firewire drive recognized.

Check if the firewire modules are being loaded

 

lsmod | egrep 'ieee1394|sbp2'

Here is my result.

sbp2 24072 0

scsi_mod 138376 1 sbp2

ieee1394 104312 2 sbp2,ohci1394

you might also look in dmesg for ieee and sd[abc]

 

 dmesg | egrep 'ieee|sd'

Here is the result. It is rather long tho.

[4294745.876000] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0090e63900000578]

[4295788.993000] ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-01:1023

[4296513.959000] sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:

[4296514.078000] sda : READ CAPACITY failed.

[4296514.078000] sda : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08

[4296514.078000] sd: Current: sense key: Unit Attention

[4296514.117000] sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled

[4296514.117000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through

[4296514.204000] SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)

[4296514.208000] sda: Write Protect is off

[4296514.208000] sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00

[4296514.208000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through

[4296514.220000] SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)

[4296514.224000] sda: Write Protect is off

[4296514.224000] sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00

[4296514.224000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through

[4296514.234000] Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

[4296519.098000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

[4296519.109000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

[4296519.141000] NTFS-fs warning (device sda): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future.

[4296519.145000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.

[4296519.145000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used.

Aborting without trying to recover.

[4296519.145000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

[4296519.156000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.

[4296519.156000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used.

Aborting without trying to recover.

[4296519.156000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

[4296519.248000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.

[4296519.265000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.

[4296519.312000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.

[4296519.324000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.

[4296519.360000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.

[4296519.372000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.

[4296519.394000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda

[4296519.417000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda

[4297171.060000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

[4297171.070000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

[4297171.077000] NTFS-fs warning (device sda): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future.

[4297171.081000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.

[4297171.081000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used.

Aborting without trying to recover.

[4297171.081000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

[4297171.093000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.

[4297171.093000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used.

Aborting without trying to recover.

[4297171.093000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

[4297171.138000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.

[4297171.154000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.

[4297171.166000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297171.180000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297171.192000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297171.204000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297171.227000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda

[4297171.250000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda

[4297288.786000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

[4297288.796000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

[4297288.802000] NTFS-fs warning (device sda): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future.

[4297288.806000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.

[4297288.806000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used.

Aborting without trying to recover.

[4297288.806000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

[4297288.817000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.

[4297288.817000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used.

Aborting without trying to recover.

[4297288.817000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

[4297288.862000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.

[4297288.877000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.

[4297288.889000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297288.900000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297288.911000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297288.924000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297288.946000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda

[4297288.968000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda

[4297615.648000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

[4297615.658000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

[4297615.665000] NTFS-fs warning (device sda): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future.

[4297615.669000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.

[4297615.669000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used.

Aborting without trying to recover.

[4297615.669000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

[4297615.682000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.

[4297615.682000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used.

Aborting without trying to recover.

[4297615.682000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

[4297615.726000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.

[4297615.742000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.

[4297615.753000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297615.764000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297615.774000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297615.787000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297615.809000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda

[4297615.831000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda

[4297671.812000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.823000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.830000] NTFS-fs warning (device sda): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future.

[4297671.834000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.

[4297671.834000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used.

Aborting without trying to recover.

[4297671.834000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

[4297671.845000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.

[4297671.845000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used.

Aborting without trying to recover.

[4297671.845000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

[4297671.892000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.907000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.919000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.931000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.943000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.955000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297615.809000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda

[4297615.831000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda

[4297671.812000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.823000] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.830000] NTFS-fs warning (device sda): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future.

[4297671.834000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.

[4297671.834000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used.

Aborting without trying to recover.

[4297671.834000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

[4297671.845000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.

[4297671.845000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used.

Aborting without trying to recover.

[4297671.845000] NTFS-fs error (device sda): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume.

[4297671.892000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.907000] VFS: Can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.919000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.931000] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.943000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.955000] VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev sda.

[4297671.978000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda

[4297672.001000] ReiserFS: sda: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda

Here is the result after I give the box a cold hard reboot.

[4294744.610000] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'

[4294745.942000] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0090e63900000578]

[4294746.013000] ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[00d04b0003314119]

[4294746.013000] ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting...

[4294746.338000] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023

[4294746.338000] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023

[4294767.857000] ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device - login timed-out

It seems the drivers loaded and running but pmount is unable to decide/recognize which filesystem to load.

J.T.

Thanx for the suggestions. I'll try them out and let you all know. Both my pendrive and LaCie drive are FAT32. I check dmesg. Vfat, NTFS, and other filesystem tried but not recognized or some message of the same sort.

J.T.