Shadowchaser

Besides being a Great fan of Linux i'm also a Huge Oakland Raider Fan. So here it goes.

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Well when the Bios was telling you something was trying to write to the MBR, That means to me that in your bios the option for virus scanning is on (or) you are running Mcafee or Norton and it warning you about the attemped mbr writing. Like everyone said check to make sure that the window drive is on Master not Slave or Select. Also you may want to try and make sure that LBR is On in the Bios. As for the Data being erase ... GOT me but i remember in the 90's a bios virus that did a low level format of all HD's. You also my want to try a LIVE CD and mount the partitions.

-ShadowChaser

You guys are awesome, I'm sure everyone at MUB will agree on that!.

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Does anyone one know what parts of Connectiva are going to be added to LE2005 (Limited Edition 2005) or future releases? Because my 10.1 is rock stable and i don't plan to upgrade unless some new kick-butt features are to be added. If you know what features are to be added let us know. :D

It going to be hard to stick with Mandrake with Stupid name they are giving it. I know what is important, is what's inside the software not the name. BUT the name is so crappy that it competely turns me away from it! Once again WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY THINKING!! who knows maybe they'll change there mind..

-Shadowchaser

lol

Mandriva hmm , I don't like it sounds like some kind of tropical disease :(

who knows maybe they will end up changing it back do to poor response.. What the heck were they thinking?

whew i got fooled.

:)

i would say amarok is more user friendly and it gives you a better abilty to manage your Music over Xine.. Xine is a Very Powerful Video Player that can play music. but it lacks alot of Music features that Amarok offers.

best bet would be to start fresh.

I installed Kde 3.4 four days ago but i didn't urpmi --auto-select what i did is install in sections... For example i installed Xorg 6.8.2 first then i installed kdebase and kdenetwork

next i move into kde multimedia and kdm, granted something needed to install becuase they were depencies..once the Core files (kdebase) were installed i then went into "Install software" and i download on 'updatebilty' .. i pick anything that had to do with Thacs KDE even if i wasn't sure i needed it. I pick it, then went into addable and selected anything that had to do with kde 3.4... once everything download i then ctrl-alt-backspace.. i then notice acouple of little things like service menus were missing and my task bar was all different (i forgot kde servicemenus 3.4) i download kde servicemenus 3.4 and fix that problem. also notice that my Glxgears was all wrong so i download nvidia 6629 and installed it..I didn't try the new drivers because so many ppl are having trouble with them, anyway to only issue i have i sasl which i'm going to fix thanks to a previous post. Also for does using XQF you might have update geoip and Xqf to the newest version for some reason KDE 3.4 broke XQF.. but once updated it should work fine. So after a little bit of tweaking my KDE 3.4 is running smoothed, heck i even got my KfireSaver3d screensaver... Also i reboot my system and i show no errors and Kdm started fine..

This work for me i hope it works for everyone who want to do it this way.

-SC

I am currently use KDE 3.2 and Xorg 6.8.2 (which I just upgrade it)  Do I need to upgrade KDE 3.3 first before going for 3.4?

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No you don't have to update to 3.3 to go to 3.4 just make sure the you have all the repostories.

1.mandrake main

2.mandrake contrib

3. plf 10.1 free

4. plf non-free

5. thacs rpm

you can use Easy-Urpmi to get them.

PS use glibc-devel-2.3.3-23.1.101mdk.i586

good luck

Well i installed it... Its very cool..There are acouple of little things like i had a great screensaver called Kfireworks that's gone it was part of 3.3 but not part of 3.4?? anyway there is also an issue with Kontact i can't send out any emails, but my mozilla messenger is working fine. does anyone know where i can get that firework screensaver??

oh ya ,

Thac you the Man!!!!!!!

keep up the great work!

-Shadowchaser

opps the name of the screensaver is KFiresaver3D ....

Ok Doom3 is known for this problem it's happens with Via chipset and onboard audio.. know i don't know what motherboard you have but it sounds like doom3 doesn't like your Sound (chipset)... I found a work around i will post it.. i found it at a doom3 forum no author.

    WARNING: ioctl SNDCTL_DSP_SPEED failed to get the requested frequency 44100, got 44101

 

 

 

I don't have a sound server, and use pure OSS (no alsa emulation). Apparently it is caused by low-quality sound chipset, or bad drivers, that are not able to provide the requested frequency (due to limitations or round-off errors), and return the closest frequency they can handle. It should not be really an error, but Doom3 decides that for 1Hz of difference, it won't play sound :/

 

I propose a... radical fix: patch the doom3 binary so that it doesn't compare the returned value with the expected one, and act as if it was OK.

 

I don't assume any problem this could cause to your system !!

 

You will need a hexadecimal editor for that; I used "hexcurse" (text-mode).

- You should know where you installed doom3, and go to this directory.

- DO A BACKUP of the original "doom.x86" binary in a safe place elsewhere.

- You may need to be root to modify the file. In this case you should better do a copy of the file as a normal user, edit it as described with this user, and overwrite it back as root when you are done.Less chance to do errors as root...

- open the file with "hexcurse doom.x86"

- Go to the byte to modify by typing "Ctrl-G" and entering the address ; for doom3, it is address 001BED1B ; for doom3-demo, it is 001BE3FB.

- Modifiy the "74" under the cursor to "EB".

- Save (Ctrl-S) and quit (Ctrl-Q)

The md5sum of the modified binary is now:

a4b9c37eef2ad5142b9c88f0447bb52a for the complete version

3cb21789bd262ef6f4b451cce8559239 for the demo version.

If not, you made an error; restore the backup file and start again.

 

Now doom3 should ignore any difference in the frequency settings. It worked OK for me because I have only a 1Hz difference; if you have more, I don't know how it will behave...

 

 

For those interested/who want to be sure I didn't just install a virus in their binary :) here is the explanation:

 

I used "objdump -d doom.x86 > doom_disassembled.txt" to get the disassembled (machine instructions) version of the program. the SNDCTL_DSP_SPEED ioctl has for value 0xc0045002. There is only 1 occurence of this value in the code. Reading the disassembled output around leads to:

 

 

    8206ce5: bf 02 50 04 c0 _______ mov $0xc0045002,%edi <-- SNDCTL_DSP_SPEED ioctl code

    [... some more parameter passing ...]

    8206d05: e8 1a 42 e4 ff _______ call 0x804af24 <-- call the ioctl function

    8206d0a: 40 ________________ inc %eax

    8206d0b: 0f 84 7e 02 00 00 ____ je 0x8206f8f <-- test if return value is -1 (error)

    8206d11: 8b 4e 10 _______________ mov 0x10(%esi),%ecx

    8206d14: 3b 8c 24 a4 00 00 00 _____ cmp 0xa4(%esp),%ecx <-- compare a passed parameter to a returned value (the 44100 Hz)

    8206d1b: 74 24 __________________ je 0x8206d41 <-- if equal, continue code somewhere

    [... else fall through the warning code and sound disabling ...]

from what i have found this Patch / editing really does work .....

But do this at your own risk!!!!!

good luck

-ShadowChaser

hmm try in console as root..

nvidia-settings

this should open a little nvidia settings box and part of the setting there is a splash screen on or off option... and for Doom3 try shutting off the arts in kde (a shot in the dark :D )

good luck

-SC

I tried with old version 4.2.1 RPM and 1.3.2 point2play and got the exact same error messages. So I do not think it is CVS issue

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i tend to agree..

try to disableing arts {sound server} in kde and try playing a game.. arts tend to conflict with some audio programs... all try playing a game from gnome to see if the issue is with KDE.. but i think the problem might be arts

sounds like something is missing from the cvsCedega build..

cool i'll have to try it!

Ok KDE 3.4 looks sweet any bugs?? how hard would be be for me to upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4? When i went to 3.3 i used the rpms on my PowerPack CD.

Thanks,

SC

well i think i found it, i updated my libcurl and it fix the problem so far so good :) thanks to all for help me in this little endeavor. here is a on me

-SC

ok LiquidZoo i double check to make sure i have update sources in package manager and i do.. so i dropped down in CLI and did urpmi rpmdrake {as root} and it said everything all ready installed... So i went to my Update_Sources and look for a rpmdrake i didn't see one... any other idea??

Thanks :)

Hmm

Well all the necessary mirrors are setup, as for urpmi --auto-select, I get a little nervous about using this option because i use it once and it Broke my system, Of course is was back in Mandrake 9, Remember i can update via Package Install i do have an option to pick the software by updateablity, and i know this works because i have used it in the last week.. By the way Arctic thanks for the fast reply :D

Hello all,

About 3 weeks ago i decided to do a total reinstall and Cleanup of my system, I install 10.1 power pack and started to bring back my system to the way i like it.. anyway i tried doing MandrakeUpdate and all it does is the following:

1, Ask for root password-> i give it

2, ask to check mirrors -> i answer yes

3 start to download hdlist.cz -> ok

then nothing it just dissapears...

now everyting else work, like Package Install, and Removal.

so i add in media manager a update source {that is correct for my version 10.1} and i can

under install package : install package by updateabily...

But i would really like to use Mandrakeupdate that shows in the menu Bug fixs, Security, Normal update..

any idea's on how i can fix this?

Thanks,

Mandrake 10.1

KDE 3.3

download Unrar from PLF, in command line i type unrar e filename.. the letter e tells it to extract , i never tried it with file roller though.

-SC