[newbie] Toshiba 1005-s157 problems

Hi. I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 on a Toshib 1005-s157 laptop. Everything seemed to go fine during hte install, but afterwards, a few things dont work: 1. Sound. Does not work, and I cannot look at the hardware in the control center (see below :-)) The sound was shown currently during

[newbie] nikon coolpix?

Hi. Has anyone had luck with getting any of the Nikon digital cameras to work with Mandrake 8.1? Specifically, the usb connectivity? I read a page on the web, pointed to by gphoto.org, which says that the camera can be accessed as a mass-storage usb device, using the scsi subsystem: When

Re: [newbie] Kernel issue

I guess if you're brave enough, you can try to download and compile a kernel yourself from kernel.org. When I tried this, it ended up causing me all kinds of problems - basically, my reiserfs partitions were corrupted due to problems with power-down. I would think that downloading the rpms from

Re: [newbie] Portmap ?

How long does it stay locked? Do you see any interesting messages in /var/log/messages? Is it configured to use any rpc services? Maybe it is, and rpc is taking a long time to time out. Vijay Marc Oestreicher writes: I have a bit of a problem with a new mandrake 8.1 installation that I

Re: [newbie] Can't ping from or to Mandrake box

You probably chose a firewall setting which disables ping, i.e., icmp requests are dropped silently by iptables filtering. For more info, see /etc/Bastille/* HTH, Vijay prontomail writes: Could someone please tell the best How-To resource available for Linux on the net? In the

Re: [newbie] Program with ./configure

I think that configure is running, but one of the programs its calling is not available on your system - hence the command not found. Tough to debug - look through what configure is trying to do, and try doing a where foo for each program it calls. HTH, Vijay Daniel Chen writes: Yes, I am

Re: [newbie] RaiserFS or Linux partition

If you do choose ReiserFs, please ensure that you have disk write-caching turned off (I dont know how - maybe edit bdflush parameters?) I recently experienced a lot of file corruption due to power failure on my reiserfs partitions. Please note, I did not fool around with write caching, so maybe

RE: [newbie] ZIP drive under Linux-Mandrake 8.1?

You don't need to reboot, you can do a 'mount -a' to mount all entries in fstab. Vijay Mel Roman writes: I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always assumed that fstab was read once when Linux boots, and didn't look at it thereafter. If that's the case, then you'd have

[newbie] accessing cdrom causes segv

Hi. After upgrading to 8.1 from 8.0, I recently tried to access the cdrom, by inserting a cd and going to /mnt/cdrom. This caused ls to segv and the following message was in /var/log/messages: Jan 22 08:34:29 saraswati kernel: kernel BUG at super.c:274! Jan 22 08:34:29 saraswati kernel: invalid

Re: [newbie] Can't access root

Are there any error messages while booting? You can try booting into rescue mode using your cdrom. If you have 8.1, it will have mounted your disks for you. Try to fsck your / to see if something is wrong. cheers, Vijay SKLIM writes: Hi! I need HELP ... for access my root user at my