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It works! OOo now takes only few seconds to load (before it could take up to 2min). Thanks for the great tip.

I have this graphics card in my laptop. You can do one of the following things to get it working

1. Ignore that message during install. Choose autodetected settings. After XFdrake offers you to setup your laptop to boot directly into X, say "No". You will boot into the console and will have to start X using the startx. You will be able to change that later on, after you're happy with your config. It's very likely that your card will work. If X doesn't start for whatever reason, kill the X server (press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace). This will return you to the console. Login as root (su), and run XFdrake again, this time try other options (other drivers). After XFdrake finished, exit and start X again as user.

2. You can download and install the ATI driver from ATI or from Mandrake Club (if you're a member). I use the version from the Club, and that's the worst part of my experience with mandrake. I never tried the driver provided by ATI, can't comment on that.

3. If you have Knoppix LiveCD, boot from the CD, save /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file created by Knoppix to your harddrive, then copy relevant settings from this file to the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 which mandrake created for you during install.

An interesting thing, I had 3D acceleratin working with knoppix and Deb's radeon driver, but the same XF86Config-4, gives me only 2D graphics in mandrake.

I doubt that you can have *both* touchpad and PS/2 mouse working at the same time. I don't remeber the details, but eventually I ended up using the touchpad and a USB mouse to have both the touchpad and the external mouse working. Anyway, my suggestion is to setup the mouse step by step. First, unplug the PS/2 mouse and run the mouse config tool as suggested in the previous posts. See if the touchpad works. The config tool will add some lines to the file XF86Config-4 which is located in /etc/X11 directory. Inspect that file, look for lines like these

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
.............................

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier "layout1"
   Screen "screen1"
   InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
   InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Now backup that file (copy it into your home dir), plug the PS/2 mouse in and see if it works. Technically, it should work but the touchpad may stop responding. It may be necessary to logout first, and then login again for the mouse to start working. If the mouse does not work, run the mouse configuration tool again, and see if this makes any difference. If the mouse works, compare the new XF86Config-4 file with the one that you saved. The comparison may give you an idea why the external mouse did not work before.

If you are running ./configure, you are installing samba from the source, right? This script calls the C compiler (gcc or cc) which are not installed, that's why you get "no" messages. You have to install those compilers - login as root and run urpmi gcc. However, you probably have samba rpm package somewhere on the CDs, why don't you try urpmi samba?

Unless the printer is connected to the LAN via a printserver (ie. has a dedicated IP address on your LAN), you will have to configure SAMBA server on your linux box to share printers.

The radeon driver that comes with XFree86 should give you a decent 2D graphics. For some reason, on my system, Xdrake did not configure radeon driver properly, when I tried it (MDK9.2). This trick worked: boot from a knoppix CD, then compare your XF86Config-4 with the one that Knoppix creates, and edit the section relevant to your graphics card to use the radeon driver. Then reboot.

Before rebooting make sure that you boot into console (edit /etc/inittab to set init level to 3). From console, you will be able to play with X without rebooting, in case X crashes/does not start. From console, X is started with startx command. You can also try other window managers, and see if any of them work. And of course, you can download and install the ATI driver.

By the way, wih the radeon driver shipped with Knoppix even 3D acceleration works, but it does not work with the radeon driver shipped with Mandrake. Even funnier, with Knoppix glxgears give 1600FPS vs 1300FPS with Mandrake's ATI driver.

If you press and hold the power button for a cople of seconds, the laptop will shutdown and the light will turn off. For me, it never turned off when I was using the enterprise kernel on my T41. After I switched to the standard kernel, the laptop shutdown works without a hitch. It might have something to do with specific kernel config. By the way, do you use apm or acpi?

System -> Date and Time -> set it correctly. When you hit OK, you

will get a message about your hardware clock.

Thanks!

I should have mentioned that I use MDK 9.2. By the way, LiquidZoo,

where in MCC can I check/uncheck "Set Hardware Clock to GMT"?

It's funny, 'cause I had the same problem a few days ago... My solution is:

First, edit /etc/sysconfig/clock to ensure that UTC is set to false. This

will tell the Linux kernel that the BIOS clock shows local time:

UTC=false

This will make Windows happy, but the Linux system clock will be two hours

ahead/behind (depends on where you live). To correct the Linux clock add

this line to the start-up file /etc/rc.local

/sbin/hwclock --hctosys

This should tell Linux to adjust the software clock to the BIOS setting

(which has been set to local time; see step 1)

Try to start X with the option -dpi 120 (or larger):

startx -- -dpi 120

Once you find a comfortable dpi number, you can permanently add that setting to XF86Config-4

There must be a button Properties, next to the Printer pulldown menu. Click on it,

and modify the print command as follows

lp -Pname_of_the_network_printer

Don't change other stuff... If you use KDE and CUPS, you can put kprinter in that line. Then you will be prompted to choose the printer every time you print.

In using Mandrake 10.0 powerpack with kde, and i have a notebook Asus A2500.

So in klaptop, when i click to suspend goes fine, but when i click a button to go back, the screen stays black, and the only solution is te reboot manually.

 

Any help?

What do you mean "click a button to go back"? To resume the laptop from suspend, you must press a button on the keyboard (on my laptop, it's Fn+F4).

The commercial product called Ext2FS Anywhere from Paragon allows access to Linux partitions from Windows. Theoretically, you could keep your mail on a Linux partition and read it using Mozilla for Win while in Windows. I have a demo version of Ext2FS Anywhere, it reads and writes files to Ext3 partitions. Only problem is that the demo version creates files with root read/write privileges. So when i boot back to Linux, i have to chown them.

Whenever I do a suspend or resume (with apm enabled) I get weird stuff on the screen and it takes a long time...

Same here...

What's weird is that *sometimes* KDE will wake up into my last session, giving me a "enter your password to resume" screen.

That should be the default setting in your /etc/sysconfig/suspend. Change it to this:

# Set LOCK_XFREE to yes if you want to lock all your X displays at suspend
#LOCK_XFREE="yes"
LOCK_XFREE="no"

Ok all of that worked but I want these settings to survive a reboot also.

 

I was able to find where the defualt route gets set. /etc/sysconfig/network

 

Where does the static ip and netmask get set?

 

Thanks for the help

Check the settings in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (assuming eth0 as the default interface). Mine is:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=192.168.0.2
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
ONBOOT=yes
HWADDR=<card's MAC address>
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no

coverup, Yeah, I think my BIOS is apm compatible, since it worked with 9.2, and acpi (which I just tested) didn't.  I wonder why Mandrake 10 didn't install apm though...

 

When KDE restarts, I'm not prompted to log in again... it just starts the session completely over (with the KDE "starting services" splash screen).  Any open windows won't be there... it'll be a fresh new KDE session.  That said, I don't have any crash problems with suspend/resume.

Did you have the same problem with KDE in 9.2? I am still inclined to think that X (not KDE) crashes somewhere along the way during suspend/resume. What about Gnome or IceWM?

KDE should use the latest saved session profile when it starts. If it crashes and no windows are saved, then it will start from scratch.. You might try is to exit KDE with *save session*, this should save the profile (not the windows content though). Then restart KDE, the windows must popup. Now try suspend/resume to see if you get the windows back.

I was asking about your laptop 'cause I suspected that the BIOS might be apm compatible (if I am not mistaken, apm manages power at a BOIS/hardware level). The fact that suspend works with apm sort of confirms my guess (why Mandrake did not install it for you, that's another question...)

Why does KDE restart... Do you mean, you're prompted to login again? On my laptop, suspend/resume crashes KDE sometimes. If I boot into KDE (init 5), then after crash, I am presented with a graphic login window. Is this what you get? In that case try booting into console (init 3), and starting KDE by typing startx. That won't prevent X from crashing but at least you will know what goes wrong... Also, fancy screensavers are aften blamed for crashing X on resume. It may be a good idea to disable the screensaver and also disable screen blanking in BIOS.

BHW, how old is your laptop? I have a newish T41, acpi does not work at all with 2.4 kernel, apm works (more or less). Also, search this forum for R50, someone described how he disabled acpi in bios. That may help as well.

The apm and acpi daemons are apmd and acpid. To see which of them is running, run as root

# service -s

This will show the status of all services configured. Look for the lines

apmd (pid XXXX) is running...
acpid is stopped

or similar. Also, list the content of /proc directory,

# ls /proc

It must contain apm or acpi subdirs.

Don't try and use this script on another distro -- It will ONLY work on arch.

Arch... what exactly do you mean (sorry for the naive question). Can I use it on a MDK9.2, kerenl 2.4, laptop?

In MDK 9.2, you would need to edit /etc/sysconfig/suspend. If I am not mistaken, it has sections that cover both apm and acpi suspend/resume.

You can change profiles from console as root with

# /sbin/set-netprofile "profile"

You might try this in your script.

In regard to passing an option to a kernel... If so, you can create two/more kernel stanza in the lilo.conf with different profilename=profile... My impression however is that you want change profiles right before X starts...

The problem and the solution are described in kmail FAQ. It turns out that procmail can't crate lockfiles in /var/spool/mail (ah-hm... I wonder why?). The workaround is to tell procmail create the lockfile in a dir for which you have write access. When you setup kmail to read mail from the local mailbox (Configure kmail -> Network -> Receiving -> Add -> Local maibox) and choose `Locking method' `Procmail lockfile', you'll see the line next to it: /var/spool/mail/username.lock. Modify it to /home/username/whateverdir/username.lock

That's all folks! I now wonder whether evolution can be set same way.

To share files on the server with Windows, you will have to setup and run samba server on machine E. You can use swat or webmin for this, or edit smb.conf file by hand. Samba HOWTO will guide through the setup. After that is done, you will have to make your XP machines members of the same workgroup. (You will choose the name in smb.conf, by default it's MDKGROUP, but Windows comes with workgroup name set to WORKGROUP, so you'll have to change that). After restarting windows, the server will appear in the Network Neighborhood, and the windows users will be able to browse through their files, and read/write them. Again, the permissions must be setup in smb.conf

Mounting server files to a linux box is done through NFS service. It's a matter of adding an entry to /etc/fstab and running daemons. There should be NFS HOWTO around as well

Also, take a look at the posting "setting up a ML / XP network".