Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 22 December 2003 20:49, Doug Roberts wrote: > > On Monday 22 December 2003 20:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > See abovestill no luck..this is one stubborn problem > > > > Doug - I don't know whether this will help or not. > > > > I re-installed 9.1, then proceeded to lose kde. This

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread Doug Roberts
> On Monday 22 December 2003 20:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > > See abovestill no luck..this is one stubborn problem > > > Doug - I don't know whether this will help or not. > > I re-installed 9.1, then proceeded to lose kde. This is how I got it > back. Perhaps the same technique will wo

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 22 December 2003 20:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > See abovestill no luck..this is one stubborn problem > Doug - I don't know whether this will help or not. I re-installed 9.1, then proceeded to lose kde. This is how I got it back. Perhaps the same technique will work for X su t

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread Doug Roberts
> On Monday 22 December 2003 18:15, Doug Roberts wrote: > > >I think somebody messed up on the initiallizing script...because I can > > > find xinit in /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit and /usr/bin/X11/xinit. IMHO the > > > initializing script seems to be looking for xinit in one place and the > > > system ha

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 December 2003 18:15, Doug Roberts wrote: > >I think somebody messed up on the initiallizing script...because I can > > find xinit in /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit and /usr/bin/X11/xinit. IMHO the > > initializing script seems to be looking for xinit in one place and the > > system has it stashe

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 December 2003 18:33, Anne Wilson wrote: > Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux modprobe: modprobe: insmod emu10k1 failed > Dec 21 15:36:04 anne-linux sound: Loading sound module (emu10k1) > failed Well they're not getting loaded that's for sure. I gathered that lspci sees the device for what it

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread Aaron
ok next could you send me cat /etc/modules.conf please Thanks Aaron Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 22 December 2003 17:13, Aaron wrote: do rpm -qa | grep alsa i get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sefernigunim]# rpm -qa |grep alsa alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.9rc1_2mdk libalsa-data-0.9.8-1thac libalsa2

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 22 December 2003 17:31, Doug Roberts wrote: > > On Monday 22 December 2003 17:15, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > Anne...I sent this to Mandrake today...hoping my meager > > > insights could put them on the path to making a corrective > > > update to the XF86 mess they have made for us... > > >

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 22 December 2003 17:18, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2003 18:03, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Same one, HarM > > In that case I certainly would advise "urpmi.addmedia --distrib > cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom" to get at least the packages and > dependencies data-bases as they shoul

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread Doug Roberts
> On Monday 22 December 2003 17:15, Doug Roberts wrote: > > Anne...I sent this to Mandrake today...hoping my meager insights > > could put them on the path to making a corrective update to the > > XF86 mess they have made for us... > > > > Doug Roberts > > Thanks for your efforts, Doug. Let's hope

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 22 December 2003 17:15, Doug Roberts wrote: > Anne...I sent this to Mandrake today...hoping my meager insights > could put them on the path to making a corrective update to the > XF86 mess they have made for us... > > Doug Roberts Thanks for your efforts, Doug. Let's hope it gets sorted

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 22 December 2003 17:13, Aaron wrote: > do rpm -qa | grep alsa > > i get the following: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sefernigunim]# rpm -qa |grep alsa > alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.9rc1_2mdk > libalsa-data-0.9.8-1thac > libalsa2-static-devel-0.9.8-1thac > alsa-utils-0.9.6-3mdk > pd-alsa-jack-extended-0.36

Re: [newbie] Borked install - help needed

2003-12-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 22 December 2003 18:03, Anne Wilson wrote: > Same one, HarM In that case I certainly would advise "urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom" to get at least the packages and dependencies data-bases as they should be. And of course see what dmesg has to say about errors on