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Hello all. I have got Mandrake 10.1 oe. I have been using this no problems for a few months now. Today I was using mandrake fine, I shut down, went out for the afternoon and when I came home I started her up. Well it started hanging on the Detecting New Hardware part. I turned that off and now it hangs on the Alsactl restore part. If I hit CTRL ALT DEL it comes up with stopping ALSA and don't go anywhere. I can't figure out how to do teh interactive boot as to not run ALSA. So at the moment I have a unusable Linux box. Please help me. UPDATE: I have now figured the Interactive boot. I can boot it up by telling it not to boot ALSA. Now Mandrake Control Center won't work. Whats up with that. What the frik has gone wrong here. I thought Linux was supposed to be stable. I typed in the terminal - service alsa stop - This stopped alsa ok but MCC & harddrake won't start up also my USB flash drive won't work now. Is it time for a windows style reinstall?

I'm running Mandrake 10.1 oe. Thanks for the advice though, its worked. Thanks again

Hi, I'm getting this message that "Operation not permitted, set length failed" when ever I try to download from Azerues. I had no luck with Bit Tornado either. Any clues??? Thanks

Hello. I'm trying to install Azerues and its telling me that I only have Java 1.2 and need 1.4. Problem is that I can't figure out how to install 1.4. Any clues anyone?

Upstairs for thinking aye? I have plugged in the PS/2 options and it seems to be working ok with out stopping. Well it has on this boot anyway, I'll keep this updated. Any ideas as to why the USB stops working at random times? I'll not use the USB mouse/keyboard anymore but I'd still like to know what the problem is.

What if I'm using Mandrake? I only used Knoppix to test the mouse and I didn't use any cheat codes for boot. DO you want the same file running Mandrake posted?

I have been running Knoppix for the last 2 hours and the mouse went fine. I looked at the settings in Knoppix and they are set exactly the same as Mandrake. Getting ready to throw the Box out the window.

OK I was wrong, it still does it. I have no scroll and it still stops responding. I'm getting a tad desparate cause Mandrake is unusable at the moment & I'm having to use Windows. I can't find any thing on Google either.

How do I chek the IRQ status? Also I have found that the scroll wheel has stopped working. I have also told Mandrake that its a USB mouse and it has not happened since. But not matter what I chamge the type of mouse too it won't give my my wheel back

Well as to date none of the above have worked, although I'm stoked I got rid of that Nvidia splash screen on start up. Also when they start not responding unplugging the replugging the USB cable does noting. I have plugged in the PS2 connection for my mouse as I have a choice and will see if just the keyboard which is still USB stops on its own. Does anyone havea ny other ideas?

Thanks for that Chris, I'll give that a goi. Yes my devices are USB. My receiver has a single USB plug that connects both the keyboard and mouse. THanks again.

Ok here goes.... # File generated by XFdrake. # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "en_US" Option "XkbOptions" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Plug'n Play" HorizSync 30-72 VertRefresh 50-160 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # Dell D800 and few Inspiron (16/10) 1280x800 ModeLine "1280x800" 147.89 1280 1376 1512 1744 800 801 804 848 # Dell D800 and few Inspiron (16/10) 1680x1050 ModeLine "1680x1050" 214.51 1680 1800 1984 2288 1050 1051 1054 1103 # Dell D800 and few Inspiron (16/10) 1920x1200 ModeLine "1920x1200" 230 1920 1936 2096 2528 1200 1201 1204 1250 +HSync +VSync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection Now for some reason the problem only happens some times. Its all very strange.

Hi All. I have a problem thats started in the last week. After about 15 minutes of Mandrake 10.1 OE running the Mouse and Keyboard stop working. Linux is running fine in the background but I can't do any thing. After a bit longer the screen saver comes on and then I have to reboot. The only thing I have changed in the last week is I installed the latest Nvidia drivers. The mouse thing started happenng a few days after the graphics driver install tho. Any help would be wicked. Thanks heaps

Don't take this as gospel but when ever I have had empty mount points I have just deleted them from /mnt like a normal file. I have had no issues, but please I'm very new to Linux and you may want a second opinion.

Thank you very much, I'll give it a go.

Ok, I have tried to connect to 3 different networks. \ I am plugging my network card directly into a hub that has the internet. I have mate on the same network that connects fine. I have tried to do every thing exactly the same as him but still no internet. It comes up on boot about not being able to configure an IP. Also my network status weither disconnected or connected has disappeared out of my task bar. Does anyone know how to get it back there? Whats the commands I type to display onformation that will help people help me? THanks

Hello, Whats every one use for their messenger programs? I am using "Kopete" but am finding that half the time it won't connect to the messenger side and the other half the time people from the ICQ side don't get any of my messages? Is there a better alternative?

Thank you very much Rainer. I am now also all updated and "Official" Thanks heaps for the working link.

Hello Rainer.Can you please tell me which links you used for URPMI. I'm getting the exact same errors as you were. That would be wicked. Thanks

THANK YOU> Up stairs for thinking aye.

Hello, I'm using Mandrake 10.1ce and am trying to connect to the Net via a network. I have gone to configure network and selected "Lan" connection etc. It comes up saying my LAN and internet is configured. Only problem is that its not connecting to the Internet. My network card is plugged into a router. Another PC (Windows) is also plugged into this router and is getting the net fine. If i go to monitor connections and then click on "Connect Lan" it says that I can't connect to the net and I have to check my configuration. I have tried for flippin hours now and am getting ready to throw my PC through the nearest window. My network card is a NForce2 onboard one thats been detected fine.

Hello all. For some reason Thunderbird would not start yesterday and came up with an error about my default profile being busy. Me being dumb started to create a new profile then decided agasint it. Now I can't figure out how to bring up the profile manager to delete the half done new profile. My old one is there but its starting up the new one. I can't figure out from which directory you use the thunderbird -p switch to start it. Anyone know? Thanks

That has done the trick thanks Adamw. Next question. It also takes a while booting up at the "Loading USB Printer" part. Now my printer is not supported at all (Canon i320) so is there any way I can turn that part off? I have looked about but can't find any way :) Thanks again for the Hardware detection thing.

Wicked, Thanks. Just out of interest, when You want to add and remove packages and it asks for the CD's will the old CE ones work or Will i have to download the Official ones? Also if I have already setup URPMI with 10.1CE links how do I remove the old links so I can add the new ones? Thanks again for you help.

I might jump in here aswell. I have a soundblaster Live and 8 times out of 10 the sound is set to mute when booted? It also says it can't find a sound card on boot but once KDE is up and running it correctly says I have a sound blaster. Any ideas?