scarecrow

Nothing plays well with PulseAudio, and the Mandriva implementation of it looks better than most (e.g. the absolutely crappy Ubuntu implementation).

Just ALSA, or OSS4 (the latter if you aren't using KDE4) should be fine.

If you have a folder /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, drop it in there (requires root priviledges). Firefox should see it automatically.

Phew!

http://www.ha19.no/anydata/

Written for other distros, but it should work in Mandriva, too.

The packages ending with "latest" are not real packages- just metapackages, which fetch the newest existing real packages as a dependency. You will see that they are smaller than 200K each.

You need just

kernel-desktop-latest

kernel-desktop-devel-latest

The third package (kernel-source-latest) is for rolling your own kernel, yoy will not need it for compiling kernel modules.

After installing these two packages, then first exit the x-server completely ( telinit 3 in a root console), and then do again the "sh NVID*.run" thingy. If asked about header places and such, leave the defaults in place.

If I have two HDDs same model, make, size, does this cause some type of conflict? Could this cause the blank screen problem?

Nope. The black screen is because the driver isn't properly installed.

alt+crtl+backspace is now disabled by default in xorg settings, as Ubuntuland thought a newbie could possible press these three keys together by accident...

The videocard is well supported by the regular nvidia driver, and should work right out of the box.

Maybe you have installed the "server" kernel? Which is the output of

uname -a

Shared interrupts aren't an issue on modern hardware, provided that the BIOS isn't broken.

Here's some great documentation about problems with hd-audio cards:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tiwai/docs/HD-Audio.html

Could you try adding, say to /etc/modprobe.d/sound.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf something like

options snd-hda-intel probe_mask=1

and/or

options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1

and see if it solves the problem?

Opps, wrong thread...

Installing the whole kernel-source package is rather an overkill, putting in the right kernel-devel package is actually better.

To find out which kernel you are running, so we can suggest the right remedy, please give us the output of

uname -a

I don't think that Mandriva 2008 had ntfs-3g... just the read-only ntfs driver.

The issue is very likely due to insufficient permissions for the user.

Can you please give us the output of

cat /etc/fstab

command?

And, for safe+fast read+write from/to NTFS partitions, you will need a reecent ntfs-3g driver.

Normally, if the driver is properly installed, and tried to run the above command with non-root priviledges, you should get an error like "unable to write to file blabla" and not "command not found".

What do you get if you run in a console (not necessarily root that time)

$ which nvidia-xconfig

If the driver installation was OK< then nvidia-xconfig should be either at /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin (it depends on the distro).

Do the contents of /etc/asound.state match the ones found by the ALSA script you've run?

The problem is that the model of the snd-hda-intel soundcard is by default set as "auto". Using "auto" the system tries to read the card's details directly from system BIOS. You may first try upgrading the BIOS, if an upgrade is available by Asustek, or explicitly define the card model.

Anyway, it is probably ALSA related, and looks quite similar to this problem:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14976

There are several things to try, but I can't be sure withoout having the hardware. Sure enough, I can try a few shots in the dark though... :P

Blacklist the module snd_pcsp and try again.

I had some trouble with it in my laptop, but somehow this module doesn't exist anymore in the stock Archlinux kernels. Funnily enough, I can see it being present at the Mandy ones, although I'm pretty sure it's deprecated (most likely as a potential troublemaker).

The above blacklisting may fix the "azx_get_response timeout" dmesg, which shouldn't happen.

Yeah, everything seems loaded.

Please get this script from ALSA:

http://git.alsa-project.org/?p=alsa-driver.git;a=blob_plain;f=utils/alsa-info.sh

Run it, and then paste the output somewhere.

The above method is more or less correct, but after installing the nvidia driver you must reconfigure your video settings. With Mandriva you can always use the video control module of "mcc", but the simplest method is opening a root console and typing in

#nvidia-xconfig --composite

and then restart the x-server.

You can do more customization, but usually this is enough to have 3D and composite effects running.

What about

#lsmod | grep snd

Can you possibly tell us which version of alsa-lib is installed?

I have read that the card works flawlessly with OSS v.4, but then OSS does not work well under KDE4, and it also has some other shortcomings.

There are about one dozen mainboards in the Asus M4N family. Which one do you have?

And no, the soundcard shouldn't be a problem. You just have to pass the right codec to alsa.

There are many variants of ESS Maestro.

What's the output of

#lspci

in a root console?

It's probably the ESS Maestro 2e, but it doesn't hurt to know for sure.

You can also give us an

#lsmod | grep snd

1. You can install Ubuntu over Mandriva- trivially.

2. The Ubuntu repos are not bigger than Mandrivas- for sure. Just enable in Mandriva the existing unofficial repos (PLF and such).

Both distros comply to the opensource directives, and don't offer ***oficially*** closed source or commercial stuff. But you can add this stuff, if you wish, via unofficial repos.

I'm not a big fan of Mandriva, or Ubuntu. But! if I had to choose one of the two for my box, I would surely choose Mandriva, for various reasons, which I will not care to explain here.

Just use the "kernel-netbook" stuff, or check what your netbook really needs, and roll your own custom kernel.

Yes, I know it's not trivial in distros like Mandriva (where the stock kernels are very heavily patched), but IMHO it's worth the effort.

Not here. Do you use the 64-bit edition?

And "Mandriva" is not something obvious here. The forum may be labelled "Mandrivausers", but about half of the members are not using Mandriva in the first place.

You definitely don't need Gutenprint for a HP printer, and most probably you don't need Foomatic, either.

I havewn't used a HP printer since ages, but I can make my Canon printer work without issues with no foomatic present (just cups athe the semi-crippled gutenprint driver, which is working fine, but with limited resolution abilities). I can even remove Gutenprint and use Turboprint instead, but Turboprint is neither free, nor cheap.

Also check through plasmoids as there's a kickoff called Lacalot

Lacalot, or Lack-A-Lot?

You probably mean Lancelot, which is just another menu UI.

The module for KDE4 palm sync is kpilot, which is not maintained anymore. Factly, it had no updates since ages, and it will not be present in KDE 4.4.