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Sorry it has taken me so long to respond...lots going on more important than the computer. The hardware definitely works fine. I tested it on another machine without problems. searching on USENET I found that the current kernel doesn't play well with cdrecord. I switched to cdrdao and can burn CD's without trouble. Since this is apparently a known problem I will continue to use cdrdao until a new kernel or new cdrecord is released.

I'm having a problem printing graphics on my Epson 777 under 10.1 with all updates. My Epson 777 generally works fine printing in color. I can print this website or a picture of my son, for example, and they more or less have the correct colors. However, when trying to print this file from OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 or GIMP it comes out as black and white only. In the GIMP, I can turn the saturation up to 8.0 and get *some* color in the cheeks, but mostly b&w. In OOo I get nothing but black & white. I have tried changing every setting I can find and still get nothing. The picture prints out fine on the same printer using Windows, so it's definitely some sort of MDK software problem. However, since the first .jpg has the correct colors I don't know where to start in fixing the .png file problem. Just to be sure it wasn't png specific I saved that second file as a jpg and got the same results. I really hate having to go to windows to print from this printer. Any ideas on what else I can check?

I have been unable to burn CD's since switching to the kernel that doesn't use SCSI emulation (10.0 CE I think). In K3b, the burn process looks like it is starting normally and in fact makes the drive light briefly come on, but then nothing else happens, including error messages. I have left it running for over a day and in the end had no CD and no error messages. I decided to take x out of the equation and use cdrecord directly. When I typed cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdd -v <some file>.iso, I got the normal startup messages, the drive light blinked once, and then nothing happened when I let it run over 2 hours. After that I was not able to kill the process, even as root. I wound up rebooting the computer to shut down cdrecord. My next step was to try xcdroast, not knowing that it was another cdrecord frontend. I ran it as root to configure it, and it hung up during the detection phase. It detected both of my drives in about 20 minutes and has done nothing in the last 18 hours while I left it running. Looking at the processes I see that xcdroast ran "cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus." I'm assuming that it has locked up again as nothing has happened in a long time. The line for cdrecord looks like this: root 5143 0.0 0.2 1748 556 ? D Jan02 0:00 cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus As root, I am now typing "kill 5143" but cdrecord is not stopping. Does anyone know what I can do to get cdrecord working again? My cdrecord version is Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu). Thanks

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately sndconfig says it found a legacy PCI card which it does not support. Back to the drawing board :D

Hi, I recently came across my old PCI radio card that I used to use under windows in this very machine. I tossed it into the motherboard, but my MDK 10.1 system does not see it. I initially installed and ran Gnomeradio, hoping that it would be autodetected, but it said /dev/radio not found. Indeed, there is not a "radio" under /dev at all. I'm not really sure where to start on this. Searching Google shows some info about isapnp that is supposedly invalid with the current kernel. Is there an easy way to get this card working or should I install it in a Windoze box? Thanks. edit: PCI not ISA!

Thanks for the info. I'm looking for two main things that Sandra did for my Windows machine that I can't seem to find: the motherboard model number and the exact type of memory installed. This information helped me accurately upgrade the processor and RAM in the other machine. I'd like to find out on this machine without opening the case; not because I don't know how, but because I want to see Linux do the same (and more) as Windows XP. Thanks again.

I guess the title says it: I'm looking for an application or series of applications for Linux that is/are comparable to SiSoft Sandra for Windows. I'd like to be able to run the program and have it tell me things such as my motherboard type/performance, memory type/performance, etc. Searching this site shows a lot of people commenting on their benchmark performance but little info on how to benchmark. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

That was my first thought, but the md5sum checks fine. I also checked the md5sum of the amarok package against the one in the ISO, so I know that the CD burned ok.

FWIW, I recently upgraded to 10.1 over ftp and then later downloaded the CD's. It turns out that the CD's have newer versions of some programs than any of the Mandrake 10.1 mirrors. The most notable one is KDE 3.3 instead of 3.2, but there were others. I am looking through the mirrors-list on MandrakeClub, and so far I haven't found a single mirror that shows KDE 3.3 packages in the cooker, 10.1, or community trees. This makes me wonder where they are storing the packages that are located on the CDs.

I upgraded my 10.0 installation to 10.1 CE over the internet. I used the ftp server recommended by the install program, and everything seemed to work fine. I eventually downloaded all 5 CD's and attempted to add them as sources. Normally this shouldn't be required, but it turns out that the CD's had newer files than the ftp site I had used (KDE 3.3 vs 3.2). Anyway, all the CD's worked fine except for #2. If I try to add it using the media manager, it closes the media manager down without reporting any errors. If I try to add via urpmi.addmedia, this is the output I get: urpmi.addmedia 10.1CommunityCD2 /mnt/cdrom added medium 10.1CommunityCD2 [snip] reading rpm files from [/mnt/cdrom] writing list file for medium "10.1CommunityCD2" building hdlist [/var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.10.1CommunityCD2.cz] choosing compression method with "gzip -4" for archive /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.10.1CommunityCD2.cz real archive size of /var/lib/urpmi/hdlist.10.1CommunityCD2.cz is 5084589 no info available for package amarok at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/URPM/Build.pm line 470. Any ideas?