[expert] Found joystick problem, need Modeline help
Never mind, I found it. I needed to do a modprobe joydev and ns558 also Now I'm having trouble setting video modes. xmame really requires modes such as 320x240 to work better fullscreen. How do I set a video mode? (Under XFree86 4.0.3.) My XF86Config contains Modelines for various low resolution video modes including 320x240, 400x300, and others. But nothing I can do can get any of these modes recognized by anything (never mind xmame). If I manually add 320x240 to any Modes lines in XF86Config-4, or if I add them in XF86Config, I still don't get them. Also, when I do XFdrake, it doesn't see the 320x240 or other low resolution modes. I really have little idea where even to begin.
[expert] How do I set up a joystick?
I am running Mandrake 8, with fvwm2 as a window manager and no Gnome or KDE. I'm trying to compile/run xmame and need joystick support, but can't figure out how to get it. harddrake shows a line for joysticks, but if I click on it nothing happens. probing options lists no configuration tool for joysticks. rpmdrake lists no packages that contain the string joy. xf86cfg doesn't seem to anything useful that I can figure out (like put a joystick section in my XF86Config-4). I can try modprobe analog or turn on my Sidewinder and try modprobe sidewinder. This doesn't give an error message, but doesn't do anything useful that I can see, either. What can I do to get a working joystick?
[expert] Getting rid of winbond message
After rebooting (Mandrake 8.0) and getting a login prompt, a few seconds later some message about Winbond appears. It seems that some background process that is part of booting prints this message. What prints this message? I'd like to redirect it to /dev/null or do something with it which causes it not to print out on top of the login prompt, but I need to find it first...
Re: [expert] LM 8.0 -- WINBOND/SMSC IO detection error in console
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote: Occasionally when I boot up to the console (runlevel 3), I see the following strange message on the screen: sher07 login: Winbond Super-IO detection now testing ports 3F0, 370, 250, 4E, 2E, SMSC Super -IO detection now testing Ports 2F0, 370. I then have to type CntRL-C to return to my usual logon screen with the prompt, so I can log INTO KDE with startx. I get this message 100% of the time (booting up into the console). Ctrl-C isn't necessary for me, I can just type my login and password on top of these messages... it seems to be some kind of background process.
[expert] Cursor problem in X?
When I start up X, my cursor appears for a split second in the middle of the screen and then moves farther right and up. What's causing this? It's only cosmetic, but I don't like when my machine does things I didn't tell it to do. This happens before any window manager starts. (I could tell, by adding a big delay to my .xinitrc before starting the window manager--it still happens immediately.) I'm running Mandrake 8.0, XFree86 4.03, and using a Matrox G400 card. The monitor in XF86Config and XF86Config-4 is a Generic|High Frequency SVGA, 1024x768 at 70 Hz. (But is actually running at 800x600). Also, XFdrake doesn't work for me. I get an error modprobe: Can't locate module serial. If I let it continue anyway and test a mode, testing modes that I know should work (800x600, 65536 colors) cause a black screen and a hang until the test finishes.
[expert] new VIM, odd map expansion?
I'm getting an odd problem in vim (the 6.0z alpha in Mandrake 8): every time I type the characters 16 and don't wait a few seconds between the 1 and the 6 I get a meta character instead (M-=). It behaves just like a map command except that :map and :map! don't show anything suspicious. Also, digraphs are off and vi-compatible mode is on.
Re: [expert] Sound is only coming out of one speaker
On Sun, 6 May 2001, John Wolford wrote: I have sound coming out of only one speaker. I'm using a Soundblaster AWE32 card, i believe (i did so much swapping around and now it's been awhile since i've had to open the hood). Definately SoundBlaster, anyway, and i enabled all the soundblaster modules when i last built my kernel. I configured it with sndconfig awhile back. I just tried to reconfigure it with Harddrake and every time it tried to test it, it would come back with the error: modprobe couldn't locate isa-pnp module. Sure enough, locate isa-pnp comes up empty. Well, I had the exact same error (with a different ISA soundcard) about modprobe not finding isa-pnp. After some advice from here I gave up and installed the card the old way and it worked (though sndconfig doesn't handle my card). I suspect this is a problem with ISA soundcards in general. I can understand not wanting to spend a lot of effort on support of a dying bus type, but I really wish someone would fix this.
Re: [expert] Sound is only coming out of one speaker
On Mon, 7 May 2001, John Wolford wrote: I saw your original post but i didn't see any replies. What was the advice you received, and what does installing it the old way mean? The advice was to forget about using Harddrake. In this case the old way meant to: -- pnpdump the card and put the result in /etc/isapnp.conf, uncommenting the appropriate parts. I had already done this before (Red Hat 6) so I just got the file from my backup. -- put the appropriate alias and options lines in /etc/modules.conf (also already in my backup; it was called conf.modules before) -- run isapnp on startup. This should be automatically done already (I think it's in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit). -- modprobe the soundcard on startup. /etc/init.d/sound will automatically modprobe anything named sound or midi. (It didn't do the FM chip in the soundcard, so I had to add a line to do that, or I could have put it in /etc/modules.) It also turned out that on my soundcard, I had to isapnp *immediately* before modprobe or it wouldn't work, which meant modifying /etc/init.d/sound a bit, but you probably won't need to do that. I haven't tried using ALSA yet.
[expert] Help needed: sound, modem
I'm trying to use harddrake to install/configure my soundcard. It gives me options of Terratec Soundsystem Base 1 and Terratec Soundsystem Base 1/ MIDI, which are ISA and using modules ad1816 and mpu401 respectively. For my card (Shark Predator ISA with Waveblaster) it seems correct. But it doesn't autodetect the correct port or the FM device. And the install doesn't actually work at all. It gives an error modprobe: Can't locate module isa-pnp. My modem is one of those hardware PCI Actiontecs. I know the kernel can't detect them yet (had to manually modprobe). It does work when set up through Draknet, but I get several minor annoyances: Dialup Options doesn't reread the old configuration and I have to type in everything again each time; it doesn't seem to configure some things (giving nonroot users permission to connect, using a different init string, whether to redial when disconnected, whether to log the commands sent to/from the modem); cancelling can sometimes cause a core dump. Also, how should I start PPP? I've been using ifup ppp0, which certainly works, but there has to be some graphical interface that doesn't require Gnome or KDE. Does anyone know if locate is in the distribution anywhere? (I actually use it.) Minor bug: The startup screen with the text logo claims I have One 850 Mhz AMD AMD Athlon Processor Processor 127M RAM. The repetition of the words AMD and Processor make the line overflow onto the next line, ruining the logo. (What should I do to report minor bugs like this anyway?) Supermount seems to be causing me problems. I've gotten a kernel panic from various combinations of mounting, unmounting, switching disks, and supermount.
[expert] questions...
I don't have Mandrake right now. I do, however, have Red Hat 6.0 and am intending to upgrade in the near future. Does anyone know: -- If Mandrake is compatible enough with Red Hat that I can do the kind of upgrade that keeps some configuration files. -- If there is an upgrade option which lets me wipe out the OS while keeping some directories such as /usr/local and my home directory. (They are not on separate partitions. And yes, I realize this may cause some problems such as the RPM database not knowing about any programs that are still in /usr/local). Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
