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