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  1. Been through all this forum and it seems a common problem. Have a laptop. Installed Mandrake 2005LE on it. No sound. No system notifications, no playing CDs, no playing mp3, test sound in kcontrol does not play, nothing. Kubuntu Breezy was on that laptop before and had sound working out of the box so I know it CAN work. According to Harddrake chipset is correct (ICH4 845G/GL Chipset Audio Controller). Default driver as shown in the topic. Mixer is OK (unmuted) Have tried to fiddle with harddrake, alsaconf, have changed to OSS, played with arts settings in kcontrol, every advice I have found in this forum, not a beep. One thing adviced here I could not do was changing between digital and analog output cause I have not found a place to do that. I was surprised to see that while 'sound' service is on, 'alsa' is stopped. Attempt to start it resulted in a message that alsa is already running. Dont know if its OK or not. If I tried to check if some app is occupying sound I got a message that '/dev/dsp does not exist'. Maybe this gives a hint to someone more experienced than I am.
  2. Last time I had trouble with perms automatically changing it was msec doing the damage. Just 2c from newb
  3. Been with Mandrake since 8.0. Decided to try Kubuntu recently (I do not like Gnome). 1. It looked a LOT better than Mdk. 2. It relies on KDE control center for conf - there is nothing like MCC for Mdk. They have modified it, and modification is flaky at best. One can still use standard kcontrol if this Kubuntu frontend does not do the job. In general, I think its a good idea. 3. Sound was working out of the box. This is something that has never happened to me in Mandrake. This is where the good stuff stops. 4. This sudo stuff is plain awful. Install ended with sudo broken so I could not use it for admin purposes. And I could not use it for setting root pwd as well ;) Knoppix to the rescue. 5. KPPP was broken. Has NEVER happened to me. Not even when I did my first Red Hat 6 install. And I need it. 6. After fighting with sudo setting up ANY networking was another long and senseless fight. For me Linux networking has always worked. 7. Finally, when installing updates and extra software, Adept (their new and flashy apt frontend) broke. So badly that after reboot even KDE would not start. So it was back to Mandrake fast. I can live with sound not working, but I hate security stuff that I do not need and that makes my life miserable as user/admin and that cannot be even switched off (if you activate root account, (K)Ubuntu config utils will not work properly, so you should not do it).
  4. wahur

    Prob with NFS

    Nah, I was too optimistic... Went to check other boxes (Mdk as well). It now works here in my box but not in the others... Guess you are right about Mdk, but it was my first distro quite some time ago (8.0 was it?), I learned to rely on its (administrative) bells&whistles and have had no time for more serious learning (being sysadmin here is just my side-duty). So I feel a bit trapped. Probably should take a serious look at Debian for further server work - Mandrake would still make a good desktop and for newer laptops its bleeding edge policy is unbeatable, too (well there is Gentoo but enough is enough). But for this I would need few months of relatively quiet time in my main biz which just does not happen.
  5. wahur

    Prob with NFS

    Heh, its a little bit like talking to myself, but seems like the prob is solved. Checked msec settings on my laptop. There was no rule about /mnt/fileshare so I made one. It was possible to save files now, but with incorrect ownership, ie user/user, not user/fileshare. So I went to look for msec settings in server. It appeared that there was msec rule for /fileshare, but with SGID flag missing. So I amended that and now everything works like it should. Lets see if this is permanent success or it will disappear as soon as I have to reboot the client. Anyway, thanks, Gowator, your hint about msec was invaluable! Wahur, can now have a life, hopefully, at least for vacation :-))
  6. wahur

    Prob with NFS

    msec sounds like a good idea. Never seen such a nasty, sneaking bastard-software before, mucking with things it should not touch... But how to find out?
  7. wahur

    Prob with NFS

    /mnt/fileshare is owned by root/fileshare same with original folder exported root can write to the folder (it is exported no_root_squash) Eeee... I would probably have to update all of the box for this? 'Cause all of the updates have been applied anyway? Now this would mean my winter vacation completely FUBAR. If I can avoid it, I will. Wahur, would like to get a life :-))
  8. wahur

    Prob with NFS

    Tried exporting a directory using nfs. (server is mdk9.2 and client mdk10.1) Client can mount the directory OK but... if I open file in that directory it is read-only. If I create a file and try to save it in the directory, i get an error message like "Such file does not exist". Directory is exported rw, it is mounted rw, it is owned by root/fileshare and user belongs to the group fileshare. All relevant user/group id-s match on server and client. Any ideas? Wahur
  9. Laptop is a difficult question. If you look around in diff. forums you will find out-of-the-box-working success stories, but they are few. There is a high probability that achieving full functionality will take some serious tweaking, and there is certainly a probability that you lose some functionality. My suggestion is, first to google around for "Linux Dell 9100" and see what comes up. You should get an idea if and how well power management will work. As sometimes hardware spec might differ it is also good idea to make a list of "sensitive" pieces - graphics card, wifi, modem etc. and do some googling on those devices. It might be a good idea to make a dual-boot test installation first, so that you have Windows as a fallback option. Finally, my experience shows that laptop support is getting better really fast, new and better stuff is coming out on weekly basis, even if 6-month release cycle of Mandrake does not make all goodies immediately available. Using cooker instead of stable release has certainly special attraction for laptop users but I would not suggest it to a beginner or for a mission-critical production box. Happy hunting! Wahur
  10. 1. If you have them installed there is a dropdown box on the login screen for choosing that 2. if you dont have it installed then there are two ways to do it: 2.1 su root urpmi kde or urpmi xfce4 or whatever desktop you happen to like. I suggest you try them out - kde and gnome are the big ones, but some lightweight thingy like XFCE or WindowMaker or ROX or Fluxbox or... hell, there are at least twenty good ones plus combinations of them... might be good for you as well. After all installing and uninstalling them is a snap. 2.2 is basicly the same but you just fire up Control Center and install the software from there. It takes more time, but you see what options you have and what kind of extras are available.
  11. Hi! I have usually following setup: * small 100Mb /boot which is not useless as suggested by bvc but very convenient if you do multi-booting and/or play with different kernels and want to keep it all neatly in one place. * main / for distro I use for work * /home unless you have taken similar "f..k the security" approach as bvc * secondary / for testing other distros (it is usually mounted somewhere in /mnt for my main distro) * in my homebox I have used partitions like /mnt/music or something Lately I have been thinking about making /usr/local as a separate partition because of some extra (non-Mandrake) software I install there. All the rest of it does not ask for separate partition probably (of course we are talking about fairly standard desktop box here)
  12. Simple question - does Mini disk have tha same rescue capabilities as normal Disk 1? Wahur
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