jaraeez

Your welcome -- ;)

There's a really good one I use (tried & tested) which has a Mandriva 2006/2007 built rpm ManDVD

hth

have you run this command

sane-find-scanner

as root?

as a matter of interest have you tried the front end - as root run

mcc

then from there Hardware > setup scanner this will then prompt you to install sane & any extra bits (just make sure that your repositories are set up - easyurpmi )

once your scanner is connected (usb?) as root type sane-find-scanner & take it from there... hth

oh this might help http://club.mandriva.com/xwiki/bin/view/KB/HardwareHscan

well done - I've used Ndiswrapper for years with this chipset & rarely had any problems so fingers crossed ;)

as root try

insmod acx

before modprobe

hth

Just upgraded to 3.5.6 using urpmi from 3.5.4. All went smoothly & I would like to 'thank you' for your time & effort ..

No, don't use ndiswrapper.

 

This card has a fully developed NATIVE driver. All it needs is those firmware files placed in the firmware folder and it'll work fine.

 

James

I agree with you to a point but I've found that the acx module lacking in some aspects. For instance I have an USR5416 802.11g Wireless Turbo PCI Adapter

02:09.0 Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54Mbps Wireless Interface

& the acx module will not run 125 Mbps nor will it let me have a 256 wep key. Where as the win driver along with ndiswrapper does both & is also very stable... my 2 bits ;)

Work for me with Mandriva 2007.0 and Firefox 2.0.0.2

 

That's the UK, France and the US... must be an Aussie thing! :D

lol ironic springs to mind as the site is catered for the Aussies

The url that I cannot get is http://www.thediscshop.com.au.

 

It comes up with a Forbidden...........A 404 not found error...etc.

 

I have all Firefox latest updates for both 2007 and 2007-1(cooker)

Cheers. John.

Hey John, just tried your link & alls fine here (Mandriva 2007.0 - Firefox 1.5.0.10)

There is some scripts running on the page (maybe you have an extension blocking it ie: no script)

OK, done that. This is what I get. Is this correct??

 

[root@localhost james]# urpmi --auto-select
One of the following packages is needed:
1- gnome-speech-driver-espeak-0.4.10-1mdv2007.1.i586 : Backend for gnome-speech based on espeak (to install)
2- gnome-speech-driver-festival-0.4.10-1mdv2007.1.i586 : Backend for gnome-speech based on festival (to install)
What is your choice? (1-2)

pick no.1

I would also do as greg2 suggested although this should be picked already

tried the link you sent & have replied to your message asking if getting to the login is further than you got. If so I noticed that it uses a java script - amybe now that you have sorted out your repositories you could do a 'urpmi --auto-select' at the cli (command prompt as root) then log out & log back in & try again?

Jareez, can I send you the link by personal message?

sure... Can I ask if you tried the suggestions I made?

Thanks for your reply Jaraeez.

what is a https site? It is a secure site if that what https means.

;)

As for the version of Firefox, it's 2.0.0.2. I didn't have any trouble before I upgraded to this version, although I can't be sure that the problem is related to this upgrade. As for Opera, it's 9.10 - the latest version, I believe.

The fact that I have trouble with both browsers leads me to believe that the problem has something to do with a Mandriva configuration - but I can't imagine which!

I think this maybe related to nss (not 100% sure though) as you say that it happens in both Opera & Firefox

I have recently been experiencing problems of Firefox not being able to open some sites that are quite easily opened by Galeon and Konqueror

hmm again this makes me feel it's nss.

Can I ask if your PC's are fuly updated as I know they were issues with one of the nss updates in Mandriva

Maybe you could also post one of the links you have a problem with so as I can give it a go.

You could also start firefox with 'firefox -profilemanager' in the cli (command prompt) and created a new profile, then try the link from that profile.

I take it is a https site? What version of Firefox do you have? If its lower than 1.5.0.10 upgrade & see how you get on...

Thanks... As a matter of interest does FC still have the time zone bug - where by selecting London would always end up with 'Guernsey' (same time difference & no disrespect to Guernsey but it's no London is it!) ;)

in your logs - what does dmesg say that may be of interest?

strange!! to me it sounds like you boot to a command prompt (init 3) then you issue the 'statrtx' command?

There is no button for "Turn Off Computer", at least there isn't on mine. It just gives the option to Logout.

 

I don't understand why it isn't there, since it was when I had 2006 installed last year. Huh.

Hey,

when you click on logout you then should have the option to 'end session' 'restart computer' or 'shutdown computer'. From the cli (command line) you could also issue the following command

 shutdown -h now

which will of course shutdown the pc. Is this a clean install or have you upgraded? I would also check the HD for errors.

HTH

Just yet another beryl video, what's so special?

C'mon now -- it's quite arty & I can see where the've really tried to sync the movements to the music :D

One thing I have noticed recently in the IT job sector, which is that there a far more Linux admin jobs advertised. :)

I don't know how I completely neglected to do a Google search. Wow, go me :o

 

How do I get it to install the RPM with all the required libraries? It's been a while since I've done this.

Hey,

The way I go about such a senario (maybe not the best way) is once I know what requirements are needed fire up mcc as root 'of course' & search for the individual files (assuming you have setup all your repositories). Install away then install the rpm from the cli rpm -iVh ... like I say maybe there is a better way but this works for me. I use http://rpm.pbone.net/ in most cases which will let me know the required libraries before installing the rpm.

HTH

Cheers for that.. unfortunately it did'nt work for me. First off I only had the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc script

#!/bin/sh
# (c) 2000-2002 MandrakeSoft
# $Id: xinitrc-xinitrc,v 1.2 2002/09/10 05:53:43 flepied Exp $

# Set a background here because it's not done anymore
# in Xsesion for non root users
if [ "`whoami`" != root ]; then
xsetroot -solid "#000000"
fi

exec /etc/X11/Xsession $*

& as you can see I changed the colour to #000000 then rebooted but still had the blue :(

Hey,

Not a big deal but if someone knows how then cool. I have dual monitors running in seperate desktops. Once the system boots to the login screen the other screen is just plain blue. My login screen is black in theme (KDM Theme Manager) & I was wondering if there was a way to change the colour (UK spelling! lol) of the initial screens to black (for a more consistant look). So that once the login screen appears the other screen will be black in colour.. make sense?

ps I've looked in the /home/user/.kde/share/config folder & played around with kdeglobals, kdesktoprc, kdesktop-screen-1rc, but no help

cheers

Hey, there various ways here's a link http://docs.kde.org/userguide/audio-cd.html for starters..

HTH