demonicomelette Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 I have NO idea what I changed, but now when I turn my computer on, it goes through all the normal boot stuff, and then when it gets to "looking for new hardware" it just stops. However, if I turn it off and turn it back on and do failsafe mode, and then load KDE, it seems to work. I'm using KDE on Mandrake 10.0 official, on my laptop. Can anyone help me? Can I disable the looking for new hardware thing? I'm not planning on gettng any, anyhow... -demonic (Brand New User) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 you can deactivate the harddrake tool in the mandrake-control-center at the starting-servies section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 turn harddrake off it's only good for when adding new hardware or making a change in certain hardware Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonicomelette Posted December 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 First off, the support I've been getting here the last two days has been phenomenal. I've asked loads of probably really stupid questions, and I've gotten lots of very patient answers. But I think I've figured out the bane of my existence, the cause of my problems: Right. I'm using a laptop, with Drake 10.0, KDE desktop. I'm trying to get power management working. I've tried enabling acpi. Now when I turn on my computer, it gets stuck on "looking for new hardware". And if I turn off looking for hardware thing, I lose my mouse. (generic optical USB). So I dumped everything, and re-installed, advanced mode, and got the following error: There's somethig wrong with this file: mkisofs-2.01-0a27.2mdk.i586 Do all these things have something to do with eachother? Wouldn't bloody surprise me. Here's the deal: Help me out with this, Come to Bournemouth, and I'll buy you a pint. -demonic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted December 6, 2004 Report Share Posted December 6, 2004 I can't be sure, but AFAIK, this kind of error is with defective CDs... Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted December 6, 2004 Report Share Posted December 6, 2004 I was going to say that myself. i suggest you check the md5sums of those CDs you're using... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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