Re: [Cooker] kernel-Upgrade does not modify grub boot menu
Ed Wilts wrote: On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Jürgen Zimmermann wrote: Hello, I have a current cooker installation with the grub bootloader and noticed, that a kernel install/upgrade does not modify grub's menu, but instead does ALWAYS update /etc/lilo.conf, even if it does not exist, and "lilo" is uninstalled (using "--nodeps"...) This is a behaviour which can render a running system by a simple kernel install in a "not startable" system... I've run into several cases where a kernel update can render a grub-based system unbootable. Since then, I always do the following: # rpm -Fvh kernel-sources, kernel-header, kernel-doc # rpm -ivh kernel, kernel-secure # cd /boot/grub # vim menu.lst - add my backup copies # ./install.sh - this doesn't ship with the x bit on by default Since I started doing this a month+ ago, I've never had an unbootable system .../E -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I have the same problem when I install Default I get the grub loader which I want, when I upgrade, the installer uses lilo. I tried the suggested fix above as root and get an error message, permission denied Rick Mercer
Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] kwintv-0.7.99-1mdk
Thierry Vignaud wrote: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this 'installed and ready to go' include FM radio and the IR remote control? nope. I've no FM radio card to test. tv cards are autoconfigured. if someone want to come in mandrakesoft office with his card or want to send us what is do be done for radio card (pci id of these cards, what to do when there is one, ...) No, I'm talking about the FM tuner that comes as an on-board bonus with most TV cards. i never head of such card. patches are welcomed if neccessary. And xawtv, kwintv, radio menu items? xawtv and kwintv are in Multimedia/Video menu. This is all very pleasing and good news! I will try it out on my next 7.2beta install. We should aim for at least what is already possible for these cards under Windows, eventually including all the capture and frame grabber facilities. These are very clever cards, and leave a TV set behind in the dust -- www.linux-mandrake.com somewhere between the playstation and the craystation Thierry I hate to tell you this but bttv, video4linux is broken in the 2.2.15-4mdk version that comes with Mandrake 7.1 and according the the email on this cooker you say it works only on kernels 2,3.34 and higher. I tried every capture program available for my Haupage B878 card and none of them even get past error messages. Rick Mercer
Re: [Cooker] Alsa support?
Installing the alsa rpm only puts the right files in the right places. I had no problem getting the sound to work under alsa. I have a celeron 366mhz computer with a CS4616 (Crystal Semiconductor sound chip) which is supported by alsa. You will need a linux kernel 2.2.15 or newer for alsa sound support. I got my on the Mandrake 7.1 cdrom version. Just be patient and follow the ALSA-sound-mini-HOWTO. You can get it at http://www.alsa-project.org/documentation.php3 Rick Mercer Mattias Eriksson wrote: Hi, I have installed the alsa packages, but how do I get alsa to work? I dont have a /proc/asound dir and I cant run the alsa mixer, it cant find a mixer or something... //Snaggen -- Mattias Eriksson E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tvistevägen 26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 907 36 UMEA Tel:090-198800 SWEDEN 070-5636769 'I don't fight for a cause Hemsida: http://www.acc.umu.se/~snaggen I fight for the fight' PGP: http://www.acc.umu.se/~snaggen/snaggen.asc
Re: [Cooker] no /proc/asound/dev for ALSA in hackkernel-2.4.0-0.24mdk
I just bought a HP Pavilion 8754C Pentium III with 30 GB HD and decided to install a stable version of Mandrake. (I test linux software on my E-Machine which is a Celeron 366) I installed the cdrom version 7.1 which has the kernel version 2.2.15-4mdk with it. This computer has shared memory instead of videoram on the video chip, so when linux installed it thought it did not have much video memory as well as not recognizing it, so it gave me a very low level resolution xwindow. I corrected it by using the X Configuration in DrakeConf by forcing a higher resolution setting ,i.e., 1024x768 and 16 million colors (24 bits) and experimenting with other graphic card drivers in the supplied Intel group. My xwindows works fine now. Here is the question. The kernel does not recognize my sound card. I get the following info from the Windows OS in this computer. Device: Crystal WDM Audio Codec Resources: IRQ: 09 I/O: 1200h-12FFh I/O: 1300h-0301h Device: MPU-401 Compatible MIDI Device Resources: IRQ: 05 I/O: 0300h-0301h If anyone can suggest where to find the modules for this and if thee are OSS or alsa and if they should work with the above kernel version or if I should upgrade to a later beta kernel version. Thank you very much, Rick Mercer
Re: [Cooker] Television Cards
I have a cdrom version Mandrake 7.1 with kernel 2.2.15-4mdk "out of the box" installation everything works great, except when I try installing and using any capture programs. I have tried 3 of the latest versions of Xawtv, and 2 of the latest Kwintv versions. I have tried the source, configure, make, install way and the RPM way. None has ever gotten past error messages when I try to run them. Even though I have the Haupage Wintv pci card with the B878 chip. The latest error message on trying to start it up was a vidmem conflict between the Xwindow DGA base address and the card. The Win98 drive in my same machine (E-machine brand with a celeron 366 with 64MB ram) runs the Windows version perfectly. The fact that all the mini HOWTOs and README files say it should run fine is just not true. If anyone has a version that will run on this Mandrake's most current version, please let me know where I can download it. Many thanks, Rick Mercer. - Original Message - From: Robert L Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2000 8:48 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Television Cards as to cards supported by Mandrake its more cards supported by the KERNEL anything using the BrookTree TeleVision chipset should be fine btw BTTV is - Hauppauge uses that chipset and "supports" linux so you should be able to just install xawtv or Kwintv or ... and issue modprobe bttv.o modprobe tuner.o - if you get a 2.4.0test6 kernel add modprobe tvmixer.o and you should be set Robert L Martin
Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] kwintv-0.7.99-1mdk
I have a cdrom version Mandrake 7.1 with kernel 2.2.15-4mdk "out of the box" installation everything works great, except when I try installing and using any capture programs. I have tried 3 of the latest versions of Xawtv, and 2 of the latest Kwintv versions. I have tried the source, configure, make, install way and the RPM way. None has ever gotten past error messages when I try to run them. Even though I have the Haupage Wintv pci card with the B878 chip. The latest error message on trying to start it up was a vidmem conflict between the Xwindow DGA base address and the card. The Win98 drive in my same machine (E-machine brand with a celeron 366 with 64MB ram) runs the Windows version perfectly. The fact that all the mini HOWTOs and README files say it should run fine is just not true. If anyone has a version that will run on this Mandrake's most current stable version, please let me know where I can download it. Many thanks, Rick Mercer. - Original Message - From: Thierry Vignaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [Cooker] Re: [Frozen-CHRPM] kwintv-0.7.99-1mdk Michael Stucki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Name: kwintv Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.7.99Vendor: MandrakeSoft 0.7.99 was just a short step to get back from 8 months of no changes. Since 1 or 2 weeks, there is already 0.8.0 out. http://kwintv.sourceforge.net BTW: Why did you remove xawtv from Mandrake? In Beta 7.2, it's not included. Please put either kwintv or xawtv in it. This makes it much more "complete". both are in mainstream distro, they're not anymore in contrib.
