jaraeez

hey, sounds like DNS isn't resloving. Have you entered the correct DNS servers for your ISP? what does '/etc/resolv.conf' say? do you the firewall active? & what does 'ifconfig -a' show?

** bored ** :D

OK - I am sick and tired of ndiswrapper breaking whenever the wind direction changes!

 

Recommendations for wireless cards with native drivers that are consistently rock solid please! Ideally cheap - but I'm desperate!

lol I hear you & totally agree. NDISwrapper has been fine & I am grateful of the App but as you state I am also tired of it breaking 'nilly willy'. So I to am after a wireless PCI card which just works with Linux, which has the drivers already built in so once I boot any distro just using wlan I'm CONNECTED..!!

You should be fine with virtually any as long as they are PS2 connections (not tried the USB). I have a A4 Tech set which has rechargable batteries & boy am I pleased that they do... This set I have are very cheap (probably like me!) & are a couple of years old but work excellently.

HTH

? I believe you need to do 'sudo' then whatever command your running after that. Have you created a passwd for root?

I think this should be moved to a more relevant section of the forum!

oops :) to slow...

Try the DVD again then when it boots into the CLI (command line) log in as the user you created then type

startx

& have a look at the errors you get if any. Depending on the errors you see you also have the option to change your video card & monitor if indeed that is the issue by typing

su

then enter the password for root. Then type

XFdrake

Post the errors if you are still stuck...

HTH

My favourite firewall is smoothwall. I've run this for a number of years on an old computer that was not worth using for anything else. Why do I like smoothwall? I only need the one for running a smal network and it looks after the other computers, also the ability to run a web server, mail server on the orange interface without worrying too much about staying safe on the green network. The web interface is great to use and one can keep an eye on what is happening on the various networks. Yes it is overkill for a single computer, but I like it. :P

Ditto...

Smoothwall all the way. Being a hardware based firewall it frees your personal PC's CPU, mem, etc to be able to get on with whatever you need to do. The forums are top notch with a friendly community & there are a lot of add-ons to make the firewall even more productive. Finally there has not been one reported case a an actual break-in...& weighing in at 35MB for the iso is a bonus ;)

Smoothwall Forums

Smoothwall Home

Yeah I've just been looking this 'distro' as well looks interesting. Hers a link of a review for the latest version if anyones interested http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/11329 . As one or two of you have already suggested I might install as a 2nd OS on another PC & 'have a play' ;)

Then all i can think off is the bios. I have noticed that some bios's have an option to turn DPMS of from there (power management i think)

Might be a rewritable made by windoze "Imapi burning engine".

Effectively this is an open packet writing disk, which can be read only under Windows XP or "better" and only if the reading device is a burner (a plain DVD-ROM will fail to read the disk).

This is a good point. If I burn a DVD on XP & leave it open it will not play on my DVD-ROM, but will play on my DVD-WRITER all in Mandriva (bloody took me ages to sus that one out ;) )

Refresh rates dont matter on LCD/TFT's.

 

On a CRT, it draws the screen, and has to keep drawing the screen otherwise it will fade. On an LCD/TFT, it draws the screen, and whatever it drew remains, so even on a low refresh rate, you will not see any flickering or effects.

 

James

Interesting.. I never knew that. So in essence on a LCD/TFT if you have 60 or 75 it makes no difference? What about with regards to say clarity?

I think maybe putting a hash # in front of DPMS in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file in the Monitor section may help ex:

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor1"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName	"Dell 1702FP (Analog)"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
	HorizSync	30.0 - 80.0
	VertRefresh  56.0 - 76.0
	#Option	 "dpms"

HTH

bingus lets us know how you get on. I have for now 'let it be' & will try once it becomes a bit more stable.. Thanks

Oh well here goes!! :D

I take it that you can login but you have problems accessing your home folder?

If so try renaming you user /home/yourusername/.kde folder to .old-kde or whatever then log out & back in again. This should give you a clean desktop enviroment. All you need to do then is copy your configs etc from the .old-kde to the new .kde

HTH

oops sorry I need to remember to read the whole post before replying & not to reply when I'm in a rush ;)

you could run

XFdrake

as root then choose graphic card from the options

I think i added those two options right. I found where i can add them but it still does the same thing. Once i enter in my username and password, a little ring appears around the mouse pointer (which i can still move) and then it sits at the blue screen.

 

Any other suggestions?

Maybe try CTRL, ALT and Backspace which should drop you to a terminal. Login as normal user then issue su & password for root. Then you can either try

startx

which will try to start your X window & then you will be able to see any errors which you can then post back here if still stuck...

HTH

Yeah I tried that (& there is some really nice looking themes as well) but unfortunatley it's a no go for me :(

Hi,

Not sure how far you got with the install, but doing the following might help (its helped me a few times when I've had that error)

1st. You should have a file called /etc/asound.state. If so as root do

cp /etc/asound.state /etc/asound.state.old

then remove the /etc/asound.state file

rm  /etc/asound.state

2nd Shutdown the PC & then restart it (I found if I do a reboot I still get the error, but if I shutdown then restart the error goes!)

Also open mcc & go to hardware from there check your sound card is using the correct module (driver)

HTH

Sure, but seeing as i'm the only user on this PC i preferred this way, but yes the other way is to place the binaries into the firefox folder at /usr. So is it wrong? not really IMO

Hey,

Can you ping localhost & or 127.0.0.1. Also take a look at your /etc/host file & post if your not sure about its contents..

Oh & have you restarted httpd service after editing (Just a thought)

HTH

ok just to add a little confusion ... this is what I did:

1st I unpacked the firefox 2 in my /home/user folder so that I have a subfolder called firefox.

2nd Backed up my /home/user/.mozilla/firefox folder (you never know!)

3rd copied all the contents from the firefox 2 folder to the profile folder within my /home/user/.mozilla/firefox folder.

4th Ran ./firefox-bin from the /home/user/.mozilla/firefox (which is not firefox 2) for test purposes, which all worked fine.

5th create symlinks for various plugins (take alook at

about:plugins

for your installed plugins) as well copying flash 9 beta plugin to the plugin folder

6th Created short-cuts on my task bar

Then when firefox starts its version 2, it has all my bookmarks intacted, it has all my extensions & themes working..

Long way round & I would luv to hear of another way which is a lot more cleaner :) ..

Well thank you very much .. we now have progress. The beryl logo pops up then once on the desktop my windows wobble (boy do they wobble!) A few issues though 1st I have a dual setup & maybe beryl wont work with dual but when I run beryl only my primary screen works & the secondary is just blue with nothing, no task bar etc.. I run seperate desktops. Then when i elect kwin as the manager I get back my secondary desktop & it functions as normal but I cant right-click on the desktop! Heres my xorg.conf just in case you notice summit wierd..

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Videocard0"
Driver	  "nvidia"
VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
BoardName   "nVidia Corporation NV17GL [Quadro4 200/400 NVS]"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier  "Videocard1"
Driver	  "nvidia"
VendorName  "Videocard Vendor"
BoardName   "nVidia Corporation NV17GL [Quadro4 200/400 NVS]"
BusID	   "PCI:1:0:0"
	Option "RenderAccel" "True" 
	Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
	Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true" 
	Option "BackStoring" "True"
Screen	  1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device	 "Videocard0"
Monitor	"Monitor0"
DefaultDepth	 16
SubSection "Display"
	Viewport   0 0
	Depth	 16
	Modes	"1280x1024" "1024x768"
	Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device	 "Videocard1"
Monitor	"Monitor1"
DefaultDepth	 16
SubSection "Display"
	Viewport   0 0
	Depth	 16
	Modes	"1280x1024" "1024x768"
   Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
   Option "Composite" "Enable" 
   Option "RENDER" "Enable"
EndSection

Any ideas would be appreciated. I only really want beryl for the nice looking emerald themes on kde.. :) not bothered about all the other fancy stuff

ps I also lose the window frame when running beryl :(

TIA

cheers I'll give that ago & post back...

Well if anyone can shed some light on this I would be grateful.

What I've done so far:

Installed both the dkms-nvidia-9629 & nvidia-9629 plf packages.

Installed the beryl packages as described by this wiki http://wiki.beryl-project.org/index.php/Install/Mandriva

& also did all other bits from the same site (AIGLX selected etc..). Rebooted then started the beryl-manager from the CLI. Well it started (did give out an error which I didnt copy - to early & needed to get to work but it was complaining about the fact it can't start because another window manager was running). Tried to change the window manager to beryl but it would not let me (it was stuck on compiz). So changed it to kwin & that worked, but it will not let me choose beryl. When I try to reload it (the windows stutter a little) all i get is the windows that where already open but without the titlebars, & I can not close any window. I need to restart startkde to get my desktop back again. After a little googling I read that if the desktop icons are hidden this may happen (dont ask why!) but even after that still no go.

To be honest with you I'm at a loss now & I'm now thinking is it really worth all this effort...