Jas

back in mandriva now.. i just went back and did an "upgrade", and installed grub this time :D works fine now, although thats weird that the rescue didnt work, and the main install thing did.. =\

had to format my windows partition today [not a surprise]... and next time i rebooted i realized lilo was gone.. so i put in the mandriva dvd... go to F1 and hit rescue, then I tried to reinstall the boot loader.. but it just kept giving me error 2... cant remember what the exact message was.. something about cant write to root and drakx or something...anyone know any quick fix or should i go write down the entire error message?

i wanna buy a logitech gamepad, but not sure what to buy.. the other day my cuz brought his gamepad over, and I tried to use it with zsnes and mupen64... but it was lagging, i'd press a button, and it would respond like 2 seconds later.. i'm currently using a gravis gamepad pro.. and it has no lag at all... was just wondering why the Logitech would've lagged? don't wanna go out and buy one and then have it lag on me.... any suggestions?

thanks man, works great :)

hey.. how would i set permissions on a folder... say chmod a-r and then make all of the files inside of that folder also not-readable.. trying to make my entire logs folder of gaim non-readable.. pain in the ass doing every folder one by one everyday lol.. thanks ;)

fixed.. had to ]$ modprobe parport_pc && modprobe ppdev ]$ rmmod lp

the only reason i have vmware installed, is so that i can use my parallel port, and the ONLY thing that doesnt work is the damned parallel port itself, no matter how many times i reconfigure it, or if i reboot, it ALWAYS tells me that /dev/parport0 is used by another program (such as another instance of VMWare Workstation) or driver (such as lp). Virtual device parallel0 will start disconnected

heres myne

can someone help me redetect all my stuff.... i need that parallel port

yesterday i was screwing around with vmware and it kept saying /dev/parport0 was being used by something else, so i just removed parport0 from /dev problem is, now when i rebooted its still not there what do i do to make it redetect it? [moved back to Hardware by spinynorman - sorry :)]

anyone?

i already have them installed, its not even LOOKING in the right folder though :|

to make it simple: o[jas@localhost jas]$ python Python 2.3.4 (#2, Feb 9 2005, 14:22:48) [GCC 3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux 10.1 3.4.1-4mdk)] on linux2 [jas@localhost jas]$ whereis python python: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.3 /usr/lib/python2.3 /usr/local/bin/python2.4 /usr/local/bin/python /usr/local/lib/python2.4 /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.bz2 checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.3... python checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking for python version... 2.3 checking for python platform... linux2 checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.3/site-packages checking /usr/include/python2.3/Python.h usability... no checking /usr/include/python2.3/Python.h presence... no checking for /usr/include/python2.3/Python.h... no I downloaded and installed Python2.4 earlier, how do i get it to look in my Python2.4 folder that it finds when i use 'whereis python' [moved from Software by spinynorman]

so er, any idea what i should do about my mp3 player? lol

ok, just tried that: [jas@localhost jas]$ dmesg | grep usb usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 usb 2-1: control timeout on ep0out heh, it works fine under linspire though ;x without having to toy around or waste any time doing anything, just plug it in and it works.. heh why cant mandrake be more like that, noticed my wireless "just works" with it too ;\

hmm.. [root@localhost dev]# dmesg edit; nothing here about mp3;x

nope, still same error :( [root@localhost jas]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/mp3 mount: special device /dev/sda does not exist [root@localhost jas]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/mp3 mount: special device /dev/sdb does not exist why isnt there good plug and play support edit: thought id go to /dev and ls: [root@localhost dev]# ls [root@localhost dev]# ls admmidi hda5 mixer ram7 tty11 tty35 tty59 vcs4 adsp hda6 mouse@ ram8 tty12 tty36 tty6 vcs5 agpgart hdc mouse0 ram9 tty13 tty37 tty60 vcs6 amidi hdd null random tty14 tty38 tty61 vcs7 apm_bios hiddev0 nvidia0 raw1394 tty15 tty39 tty62 vcs8 audio ide/ nvidiactl rd/ tty16 tty4 tty63 vcsa cdrom@ initctl| port root tty17 tty40 tty7 vcsa0@ cdrom0@ input/ ppp sequencer tty18 tty41 tty8 vcsa1 cdrom1@ kmem psaux sequencer2 tty19 tty42 tty9 vcsa12 cdroms/ kmsg psmouse@ sg0 tty2 tty43 ttyS0 vcsa2 console log= ptal-printd@ sg1 tty20 tty44 ttyS1 vcsa3 core@ loop/ ptmx shm/ tty21 tty45 ttyS2 vcsa4 discs/ loop0 pts/ snd/ tty22 tty46 ttyS3 vcsa5 dmmidi loop1 ram0 sound/ tty23 tty47 ttyS4 vcsa6 dsp loop2 ram1 sr0 tty24 tty48 ttyS5 vcsa7 dvd@ loop3 ram10 sr1 tty25 tty49 ttyS6 vcsa8 dvd2@ loop4 ram11 st0 tty26 tty5 ttyS7 vmmon fb0 loop5 ram12 st1 tty27 tty50 urandom vmnet0 fd@ loop6 ram13 stderr@ tty28 tty51 usbmouse@ vmnet1 fd0 loop7 ram14 stdin@ tty29 tty52 vc/ vmnet8 fd1 md/ ram15 stdout@ tty3 tty53 vcc/ zero floppy/ md0 ram2 tts/ tty30 tty54 vcs full mem ram3 tty tty31 tty55 vcs1 hda mice ram4 tty0 tty32 tty56 vcs12 hda1 midi ram5 tty1 tty33 tty57 vcs2 hda2 misc/ ram6 tty10 tty34 tty58 vcs3

last time i tried searching for a solution, i got the same error msg: [root@localhost jas]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/mp3 mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

I have a 512MB SanDisk MP3 player, I'd like to know how i can copy my music to it in mdk 10.1 o_O i hooked it up and tried looking around in /mnt/ and /dev/ but i honestly have no idea what im doing, tried searching google etc on the prob, found nothing, someone

well, i think i finally found something, i deleted EVERYTHING that had python in it (yeah it screwed everything up first) and then i went back and installed all the stuff with urpmi, and then i did urpmi gdesklets and i have it all installed, now, when i try and actually run something, i get: (gDesklets Shell:24978): GConf-CRITICAL **: file gconf-client.c: line 547 (gconf_client_add_dir): assertion `gconf_valid_key (dirname, NULL)' failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/gdesklets/gdesklets-shell", line 10, in ? shell = registry.get_plugin("UI_Shell") File "/usr/share/gdesklets/shell/PluginRegistry.py", line 59, in get_plugin result = self.get_plugins_by_pattern("name", name) File "/usr/share/gdesklets/shell/PluginRegistry.py", line 47, in get_plugins_by_pattern plugin.init() File "./Shell/__init__.py", line 77, in init File "/usr/share/gdesklets/shell/Plugin.py", line 25, in _get_plugins_by_pattern return registry.get_plugins_by_pattern(key, pattern) File "/usr/share/gdesklets/shell/PluginRegistry.py", line 47, in get_plugins_by_pattern plugin.init() File "./Profiles/__init__.py", line 19, in init File "/usr/share/gdesklets/shell/Plugin.py", line 31, in _get_plugin plugin = registry.get_plugin(name, *interfaces) File "/usr/share/gdesklets/shell/PluginRegistry.py", line 59, in get_plugin result = self.get_plugins_by_pattern("name", name) File "/usr/share/gdesklets/shell/PluginRegistry.py", line 47, in get_plugins_by_pattern plugin.init() File "./gDeskletsClient/__init__.py", line 23, in init File "./gDeskletsClient/__init__.py", line 33, in __get_daemon File "/usr/share/gdesklets/main/client.py", line 178, in set_startup_command self.__send(COMMAND_SET_STARTUP_COMMAND, cmd) File "/usr/share/gdesklets/main/client.py", line 31, in __send xdr.send(self.__sock, command, *args) File "/usr/share/gdesklets/utils/xdr.py", line 81, in send s.send(header) socket.error: (32, 'Broken pipe') no idea at all now, but i went back and tried to install updated rpm/source and i still get the same yucky errors =\ i dont care if im using an old version as long as it works :( edit; im guessing im getting all these errors because of python? so the question would be how do i configure it correctly, cause i tried to install superkaramba just now and the errors im being returned are cause of python :unsure:

well, after 24+ hrs of still not having figured out the problem, i decided to give up and try superkaramba, first tried installing from source [that never works anyway] so i go to find an rpm, installed it, and when i open it, i click open theme, im trying to use liquid weather plus, i can see where the window is supposed to be, but its just blank, it displays my desktops wallpaper in that little box... installing things on linux SUCKS, why the hell cant they copy a good thing like installshield from windows =\ who the hell likes to sit there to compile a thousand things with a hundred errors anyway, installing something simple like this is supposed to be a 30 second process, not 24 hours

yes im sure my urpmi repositories match my version of mdk, and no im not trying to install from Cooker, all stable releases... might just quit now heh, it was getting past this before i attempted installing packages, how can i just reinstall python altogether?

ok when i did urpmi gdesklets-0.34.1-1mdk.i586.rpm i get: Some package requested cannot be installed: gdesklets-0.34.1-1mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied libhowl.so.0) and when i did rpm -ivh --nodeps gdesklets-0.34.1-1mdk.i586.rpm it installed and then i did /usr/bin/gdesklets and i get: [root@localhost jas]# /usr/bin/gdesklets Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gdesklets", line 3, in ? from main import client, HOME, USERHOME, LOGFILE, PID_PATH, SOCKET_PATH, DISPLAY File "/home/goetz/tmp/gdesklets-buildroot/usr/lib/gdesklets/main/__init__.py", line 68, in ? File "/home/goetz/tmp/gdesklets-buildroot/usr/lib/gdesklets/utils/__init__.py", line 7, in ? ImportError: No module named threading

i already installed the python-devel package, along with like 20 others, the RPM _STILL_ doesnt work, i get: error: Failed dependencies: gnome-python is needed by gdesklets-0.34.1-1mdk gdesklets-display is needed by gdesklets-0.34.1-1mdk libgtop-2.0.so.4 is needed by gdesklets-0.34.1-1mdk libhowl.so.0 is needed by gdesklets-0.34.1-1mdk so when i try to install them, i get: [root@localhost jas]# urpmi gnome-python Everything already installed

trying from source, i get: checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.3... python checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking for python version... 2.4 checking for python platform... linux2 checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/python2.4/site-packages checking /usr/include/python2.4/Python.h usability... no checking /usr/include/python2.4/Python.h presence... no checking for /usr/include/python2.4/Python.h... no configure: error: Can't find Python.h! You will need the python development package to successfully compile gDesklets. but i've already installed all the python packages =\ oh and ever since i updated the easy-urpmi when i go to upgrade in mcc, it tells me my packages cant be updated