aRTee Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Who reported the libwxgt error? Give us the link please, so we can vote for that bug. Also, on mandrakeclub someone posted guidelines to install nvidia drivers, with those it went fine for me. Does anyone else have trouble with the system not shutting down properly? Both my desktop and my laptop don't power down, they just stop with that message: power down without really shutting off the power. Other annoying things: lirc isnot included (no remote when watching movies, argh!!), and I can't seem to urpmi dvdrip (Video-dvdrip, a.k.a. dvd::rip) due to a dependency problem with some perl module. I added plf and contrib cooker for that, but no joy... Since evolution moved to a new system (it copied my mailboxes over, did quite a few things) I don't want to go back to 10.0 OE, so now I have to make do without remote, and other things I just mentioned.. Nasty.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 It was me, but I havn't done it yet. I've also that irritation "can't shot down" proprely bug. Also if you init 3 the screen is a mess! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 aRTee and artificial: the libwxgt and the shutdown bug were reported and solved the last days. The mdk cookers have been working hard the last weeks, i had some spare time today @work to read the cooker archives and following the changelog. There were other very nasty bugs with network and udev and kde not starting and stuff. Community 10.1 is to be expected tomorrow evening, European time ;-) I am sure 10.1 Official will be great. My main problem is that 10.0 OE runs so unbelievable fast and just everything works wonderful here on my box that I hesitate (for the first time) to try the next release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Hello ANNA. Reference your last line :- I feel the same way. I am really enjoying Mandrake10-OE. I am glad that I have a second setup of Mandrake that I can replace with the newer Official when it is released so I can try it out in safety. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Just another short remark. One, in my opinion, very serious issue, is NOT solved: the changing of the partion layout when installing a dual boot system with Windows and while installing MDK repartition the harddisk (using parted, with MCC). Known as LBA bug and 'My windows does not boot after installing Mandrake (or Suse, or Fedora, with kernel 2.6.x)'. We should make a sticky here on the board: Before you install MDK on a dual boot system, please change the settings for your harddisk in your BIOS to LBA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 Hmmmm....that bug could discurage people who want's to try linux (mandrake and still having M$ on their machine IMHO. Nice to know that the other bug have been taking care of, thanks :) I've been to busy trying installing Nvidia driver 6111.....no luck what so ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted September 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 hopefully, M$'ers won't be trying a rc linux ;) that was my beef with "Community'.....for too long we had n00bs downloading and installing it.....an rc ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_Max Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 hopefully, M$'ers won't be trying a rc linux ;) that was my beef with "Community'.....for too long we had n00bs downloading and installing it.....an rc ;) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That would be the logical approach. DOn't download anything but stable versions if you are new to Linux. Of course ppc's don't seem to have that boot problem, as it works different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted September 14, 2004 Report Share Posted September 14, 2004 It was not only in 10.0 Community, or in the RC, but also in 10.0 Official. That's why I am posting it here - and obviously it's hard to solve, and we will have to deal with in 10.1 C and O too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 There's one problem with LBA; setting that in the bios after having used the disk extensively can lead to data loss. I recommended this to a colleague, and he lost 120GBs of data. Recovered only part of it. Disk partitioning: (approx.) hdb1 8GB / ext3 hdb5 2GB swap hdb6 15GB /home ext3 hdb7 130GB win_e fat32 Changing from 'auto' to LBA in the bios on my own system shows a change in numbering for CHS information; on this colleagues machine those numbers where not shown. After setting it to lba, and booting to windows the second time (not the first), windows complained about something wrong with e:\ and tried to 'salvage' things. This wrecked all files. My colleague then tried to rescue the files, forgot how. All files were saved with another extension, quite a few were lost... Question: Does this happen when writing the partition table (for instance, when just changing partition type), or only when redefining partition layout? Do FC, SUSE etc really suffer the same problem? On a side note, A.I., read this: (from mandrakeclub comments to rc1) Try this instead: $ wget http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x...0-6111-pkg1.run $ sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run --extract-only $ cd NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1/usr/src/nv/ - Create 'nv.c.patch' and paste the following: ----nv.c.patch begins after this line------- --- nv.c 2004-09-09 08:45:03.952069615 -0400 +++ nv.c.new 2004-09-09 08:44:45.866404893 -0400 @@ -3694,12 +3694,12 @@ switch (state) { - case PM_SAVE_STATE: + case 'PM_SAVE_STATE': nv_printf(NV_DBG_INFO, "NVRM: ACPI: received standby event "); status = rm_power_management(nv, 0, NV_PM_ACPI_STANDBY); break; - case PM_RESUME: + case 'PM_RESUME': nv_printf(NV_DBG_INFO, "NVRM: ACPI: received resume event "); status = rm_power_management(nv, 0, NV_PM_ACPI_RESUME); break; ----nv.c.patch ends before this line------- $ patch -p0 < nv.c.patch $ cd ../../../ $ su # sh nvidia-installer That should take you to the usual nvidia installation wizard Cheers! ;o) Note that I couldn't do it with the patch, I did it by hand, just added the ' characters. Other than that, I followed this advice and it worked fine. Another comment, I read this one later, didn't do that. dont follow this advise, thats totaly rubbish. these are constants not strings, thats why you get the error. instead replace PM_SAVE_STATE with PM_SUSPEND_MEM (suggestion from the nvidia forum) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 Thanks aRtree :), but a solved the problem, just alittle bit diffrent. It's somewhere in another thread. I'll appriciate for your help anyway :) .:=The AI Dude=:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted September 15, 2004 Report Share Posted September 15, 2004 Question: Does this happen when writing the partition table (for instance, when just changing partition type), or only when redefining partition layout? Do FC, SUSE etc really suffer the same problem? Suse and the Suse patch: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/05/fhas..._booting91.html The bug on MDK 10.0 - scroll down, its not fixed. https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7959 The bug on 10.1: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2...09/msg02462.php My 10.0 Official LBA 'bug': http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=14754 Sorry, aRTee, more I don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted September 16, 2004 Report Share Posted September 16, 2004 Thanks anna! Will have a look at those links. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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