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Do you mean in Kcontol center or MCC? Not sure I ever saw this in MCC. I do know that I only have the 75 DPI font package installed. SHould I get the 100 DPI package. Not sure how you mean to change the font size. Please clarify. Thanks, Robert

I agree that 16 bit depth works fine. But this is a work around and not a solution. I did like to use my hardware to its full potential. I just think that Mandriva should wait till xorg 6.9 is final or provide an option to install xorg 6.8 stable. Tejas Kokje <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Agreed! But, for the hardware on my PII laptop, I'm not sure I get 24bit color anyway. At least it's not noticible like 256 color mode would be. I'm just happy to be able to read the screen! Robert

OK, learn something new everyday. I was able to alt-click and move the window up so I could select apply and ok. Isnt this a sign that something's not right with the x server? Why wouldnt all dialogs appear within the screen's size?? Thanks. Robert

yes, but the window is already too big, and I cant move the top of the window beyond the border of the desktop. I only get 2 icons in upper left corner - minimize to tray, and maximize window. when maximized, the the buttons are still below the bottom edge of the screen, even with the kicker moved out of the way........ R

I did a urpmi update to Cooker 2006 yesterday hoping the crazy color/icon label display issue would be fixed (has the same problem in RC2, but didnt fix it) since they are about to release 2006 to Club/everyone shortly, but that was not the case. I did solve the problem by changing the color depth from 24 to 16 bit, and everything was fixed (no need to change display driver even). Hope this helps others. Now, if I could direct you to this post: laptops thread for a separate issue for you ideas... Thanks, Robert

I am running the cooker version of 2006, and all is well, but this problem has had me for a while, even on LE2005. When I go to a config diaglog (help/configure X app) the window that opens is too big for my screen and I can't make it any smaller so I can make my config changes then choose "OK" or "Apply" or whatever is at the bottom of the window. The desktop fills the screen properly, though I am running a the screen/driver in 800x600 16 bit mode, using the NeoMagic MagicMedia built in graphics. Anyone know what part of Xorg.conf would cause this> Thanks, Robert [moved from Laptops, etc by spinynorman]

Thanks. No intention to use emulators, so maybe i'll go with the smp, if it's possible to choose when installing. Robert

I have an Intel P4 630 with HT which shows up as 2 processors in the WinXP hardware descriptions, so should I choose a kernel with SMP enabled to get the most out of the processor? Or is that boxes with 2 physical cpus? Thanks, Robert

Well, using Knoppix and Ubuntu live I had a few issues: 1) knoppix didnt seem to have the e100 lan driver 2) Ubunt used the i915 video driver at my 1280x1024 resolution, but left about a 1/2 inch black vertical band on the right side of my monitor. I ran lspci -v and -vv and most info came back as unkown device: Not sure if its worth the hassle when 2006 comes out to install since it probably wont have properly set up xorg for my chipset or monitor (dell 19" flat panel). Any ideas??? Thanks, Robert lspci -v 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2770 (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Capabilities: [e0] #09 [5109] 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2771 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes) Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: efd00000-efdfffff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- Capabilities: [88] #0d [0000] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 00000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [a0] #10 [0141] 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2772 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at eff00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Region 1: I/O ports at ecd8 Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Region 3: Memory at efec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 00000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2776 (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Region 0: Memory at eff80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27d8 (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at efebc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [70] #10 [0091] 0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27d0 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes) Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: efc00000-efcfffff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- Capabilities: [40] #10 [0141] Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Address: 00000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [90] #0d [0000] Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27c8 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [uHCI]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 Region 4: I/O ports at ff80 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27c9 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [uHCI]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 22 Region 4: I/O ports at ff60 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27ca (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [uHCI]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18 Region 4: I/O ports at ff40 0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27cb (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [uHCI]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 23 Region 4: I/O ports at ff20 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27cc (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 Region 0: Memory at ffa80800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [58] #0a [20a0] 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1) (prog-if 01 [subtractive decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff Memory behind bridge: efb00000-efbfffff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- Capabilities: [50] #0d [0000] 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27b8 (rev 01) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Capabilities: [e0] #09 [100c] 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27df (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: I/O ports at <ignored> Region 1: I/O ports at <ignored> Region 2: I/O ports at <ignored> Region 3: I/O ports at <ignored> Region 4: I/O ports at ffa0 0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27c0 (rev 01) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 20 Region 0: I/O ports at fe00 Region 1: I/O ports at fe10 Region 2: I/O ports at fe20 Region 3: I/O ports at fe30 Region 4: I/O ports at fea0 Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27da (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9 Region 4: I/O ports at ece0 0000:03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27dc (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 3 Region 0: Memory at efbff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Region 1: I/O ports at dcc0 Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME- lspci -vv 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2770 (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2771 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes) Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: efd00000-efdfffff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2772 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at eff00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Region 1: I/O ports at ecd8 Region 2: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Region 3: Memory at efec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 2776 (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Region 0: Memory at eff80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27d8 (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at efebc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27d0 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes) Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: efc00000-efcfffff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27c8 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [uHCI]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 Region 4: I/O ports at ff80 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27c9 (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [uHCI]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 22 Region 4: I/O ports at ff60 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27ca (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [uHCI]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 18 Region 4: I/O ports at ff40 0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27cb (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [uHCI]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 23 Region 4: I/O ports at ff20 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27cc (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 Region 0: Memory at ffa80800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1) (prog-if 01 [subtractive decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff Memory behind bridge: efb00000-efbfffff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27b8 (rev 01) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27df (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: I/O ports at <ignored> Region 1: I/O ports at <ignored> Region 2: I/O ports at <ignored> Region 3: I/O ports at <ignored> Region 4: I/O ports at ffa0 0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27c0 (rev 01) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO]) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 20 Region 0: I/O ports at fe00 Region 1: I/O ports at fe10 Region 2: I/O ports at fe20 Region 3: I/O ports at fe30 Region 4: I/O ports at fea0 Capabilities: <available only to root> 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27da (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9 Region 4: I/O ports at ece0 0000:03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 27dc (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell: Unknown device 01ab Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x10 (64 bytes) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 3 Region 0: Memory at efbff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Region 1: I/O ports at dcc0 Capabilities: <available only to root>

ok, when I get it from dell, well see what happens. And to think I skipped the ATI 128mb PCI Express upgrade thinking it would be even more trouble. Not sure it was the best decision, in retrospect. THe club LE2005 cd's have ATI kernels.... oh well...... What are my chances that the partitions will get dorked during install since the only exisitng one is NTFS? Robert

Getting a new machine which has the intel 945g express/950 integrated media/graphics chips and not sure if these would be a problem to install the LE2005 or newer 2006 betas. No linux drivers are listed on the intel site, but not sure they would be anyway. Can anyone confirm this chipset is ok for Mandriva install? Thanks, Robert

I've had problems too (especially after a fresh install), so here's my 'recipe' for speeding things up - gathered together from this and other forums. I think the most effective is disabling ipV6, but I went about making changes all at once, so I have no real proof that the ipv6 change really was the most important. Recipe for Better Networking (Faster Browser loads) /etc/Modules.conf #to turn off ipv6 at OS level, was empty before alias net-pf-10 off For wireless configurations only /etc/sysconfig/network #only had NETWORKING=Yes before HOSTNAME=localhost NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 # or the IP address of your gateway device - your default GATEWAYDEV=wlan0 In Firefox - about:config ipv6: toggle to false I'm trying to attach a screen shot of the about:config changes I made, but not sure it will work. Basicall increased the network.http.max and .pipeline to true. good luck. I get reasonable response now downloading pages now.

well, yesterday I forgot the /dev/, so just tried adding it today and it still has the same problem. I tried Konq again, it is still giving the 'cant find superblock error". Robert

Steve, ls -l /dev/sr0 gives this scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/cd I tried putting that for the device in Grip (version 3.3.0), but no dice -- just says no disk, but the status tab says grip started successfully. robert

yes it is music cds I'm trying to mount so I can rip them with Grip, but always says 'no disc' when I put either the /mnt or /dev path to the drive, but as I said, K3b has no issues and Kscd auto-starts when I put one in the tray, Robert

Using 10.2 beta 3 with mm kernel, I cant seem to mount this drive so that Grip can use it, even when opening grip as root, but K3B/Kscd has no problem seeing the drive and accessing the media in it, playing or burning cds. Here is my fstab for the device: /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom1 auto umask=0,user,suid,exec 0 0 Here is the error I get when trying to mount it: /dev/sr0: input/output error mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only /dev/sr0: input/output error mount: /dev/sr0: cant read superblock. I'm using the 2.6.10-mm kernel and all proper modules seem to be loaded: Module Size Used by sg 31644 0 driverloader 258888 0 autofs4 15620 0 md5 3456 1 ipv6 220416 8 nm256_audio 68764 1 sound 59948 2 nm256_audio soundcore 5600 2 sound ac97 3584 1 nm256_audio af_packet 17672 4 ieee80211-r8180 24324 0 ieee80211_crypt-r8180 2948 1 ieee80211-r8180 pcmcia 15748 4 yenta_socket 15744 1 pcmcia_core 40768 2 pcmcia,yenta_socket ide-cd 33952 0 loop 11784 0 nls_iso8859-1 3200 3 nls_cp850 3968 3 vfat 11520 3 fat 34976 1 vfat isofs 30648 0 zlib_inflate 14976 1 isofs synclinkmp 46500 0 synclink 54104 0 hdlc 21376 2 synclinkmp,synclink lapb 10240 1 hdlc syncppp 12992 1 hdlc capability 3080 0 commoncap 3712 1 capability pcspkr 2792 0 psmouse 21012 0 intel-agp 16028 1 agpgart 20136 1 intel-agp nvram 6152 0 i8k 4752 0 sr_mod 14884 0 cdrom 31388 2 ide-cd,sr_mod tsdev 5568 0 mousedev 8600 1 joydev 7872 0 evdev 7424 0 usbmouse 3968 0 usb-storage 60740 0 usbhid 37888 0 ata_piix 6532 0 libata 34820 1 ata_piix scsi_mod 91520 4 sg,sr_mod,usb-storage,libata uhci-hcd 26384 0 usbcore 86488 6 driverloader,usbmouse,usb-storage,usbhid,uhci-hcd ext3 108552 2 jbd 44824 1 ext3 Var/log/messages: tail -f /var/log/messages Mar 8 19:13:32 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block0 Mar 8 19:13:32 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block1 Mar 8 19:13:32 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 64 Mar 8 19:13:32 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block16 Mar 8 19:13:32 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block17 Mar 8 19:13:32 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 Mar 8 19:13:32 localhost kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector Mar 8 19:14:02 localhost kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 5 Mar 8 19:16:47 localhost su(pam_unix)[9668]: authentication failure; logname=robert uid=500 euid=0 tty= ruser=robert rhost= user=root so I added myself to cd, cdrom, cdwriter goups, still no luck. K3b still works, but konq cant display or mount the drive. Any idea what could be causing this? THis is usually my go-to drive which mounts and loads no problem. Thanks, Robert

you dont say what version you're running, but if its a beta, I think the issue was that the init scripts has net and pcmcia starting with the same number, so pcmcia tried to start before net and that doesnt work. THis is only from memory and I may be missing some details. Check your init scripts rc3-5.d and maybe then you see the problem. Robert

I have had good luck with Linuxant's Driverloader. Its not free (as in beer or any other), but for $20, its been a bargain so far since everytime I try a new version of MDK (now 10.2 beta 3) something is broken (new?!) from the previous version and Tech Support has been excellent, even to the point of helping to fix some bugs in the version.h file of the beta3 release. Totally out of scope for the product, but nice to know they will go that far. My card is a b card, but some f-'d up version that none of the open source packages will be useful for. You can get a trial license for 20 days. Maybe that's the route to go to use what you've already got, before you buy new hardwar. Good luck, Robert

what's your ifcfg-eth0 file look like? Post here

what card are you using? I have a Dlink DWL-650 (802.11b)which uses the Rtl8180 chips and I got ndis working before with no problem (use Driverloader now, though). Is the card supported by ndiswrapper? Do you have kernel sources installed? Not sure if its necessary. Robert

you should add a line: essid=any or youressid (no quotes) for the wireless. Maybe get rid of all the ip addresses since you're using dhcp it will get one from the router, no need to assign, or change bootproto to static. Just make sure your router is set to assign to those ip ranges. Here is my ifcfg for a Dlink (realtek) card which I connect to a Linksys wireless router, set to dpcp: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes ESSID=myssid HWADDR=00:05:5d:98:1d:32 MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="" NEEDHOSTNAME=yes DHCLIENT_MODIFY_RESOLV_CONF='yes' DHCLIENT_SET_DEFAULT_ROUTE='yes' Good luck.

My solution was to add 'modprobe yenta_socket' to the end of the rc.local file.

I have 10.2 beta installed on my laptop, but had to add the pcmcia package after the install since it wasn't installed automatically. When the machine boots, I can see the log saying "starting PCMCIA".......OK but in actuality after booting it is not started. In MCC/services, pcmcia is listed as on-boot yes, but is not running- status is stopped. How do I get it to actually load? If I modprobe pcmcia, I can see 2 modules loaded, but I still cant get driverloader to load the card because it cant see any pcmcia devices. Thanks for any pointers... Robert

Just got the Forge512 and cant use Rio software under MDK, so what is everyone using that will allow me to transfer stuff to the player with ID3 tags so I can create playlists, albums etc? I already have XMMS and grip for converting and playing on my laptop, just not sure if they are acceptable to transfer stuff over to the Forge. Thanks for any pointers... Robert

Make sure its the correct kernel - in terminal, type: uname -r [robert@localhost robert]$ uname -r 2.6.8.1-12mdk This is the latest kernel, so maybe you should urpmi kernel to see what's available since you seem to have an older one, and the go up to the 1-12 version. Also, maybe your urpmi sources are down. What does uprmi.update -a do? Anything hanging? If so try going to urpmi.org, look for the easyurpmi link and re-set your sources... Good luck, RObert