On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:56, Angus Auld wrote: > I had a real marathon getting things setup. > Does anyone have any idea why Mdk installer would not show > me options to choose from various filesystems during my > SEVERAL installations??? I tried "expert" mode as well as > default. > Is there any way to change from the ext3 that I have now > to reiserfs? > Also, how can I get my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1150) to > power down automatically on shutdown. I now have to > manually do it with my start button. :-( > Besides that though, it looks good.
Greetings from a fellow Dell laptop user (i8600 here). You will find people around here pretty friendly, but even friendlier if you provide a few details such as Mandrake version :-) Thankfully, the questions asked are pretty generic to teh last couple of releases. On install, Mandrake takes a very conservative approach with Power Management by not enabling it fully, due to the large number of very buggy ACPI implementations out there in hardware land. You need to configure your machine after the install to tell it to use your laptop's ACPI power management. 1) Fire up the Mandrake Control Centre (MCC), aka "Configure Your Computer" in the Desktop Menu under System/Configuration 2) Go into the "Boot" tab, and choose "Boot Loader" 3) On the first screen, ensure that the "Enable ACPI" box is ticked, then select "Next" 4) If it wasn't already installed, MCC will now ask your permission to install acpi and acpid rpms, click on "OK" 5) Next you will see a list of boot options, select the default one (should be "linux" with an asterix next to it), and click on the "Modify" button 6) This brings up the details window, in the "Append" field make sure that there is an option "acpi=on" and not "acpi=off" or "acpi=ht", modify it if needs be. Click on "OK". 7) Now click on the "Finish" button to save your changes. 8) Next in the MCC, go to the "System" tab, and choose the "Services" option. 9) You will now see a list of Services available to run on your machine. Make sure that both "acpi" and "acpid" have the "On Boot" boxes ticked so that they are run every time you boot-up. 10) Click on "OK" to exit Services, then reboot your machine to see if it works. Note that the changes will not take effect until you have rebooted. Once you have rebooted, now shutdown to check that it works properly. If it doesn't, report back here and I'll tell you where to look for some clues on what could be going wrong. If you use the KDE desktop, might I suggest you check you have the kdeutils-klaptop rpm installed to get a neat battery monitor in your System Tray, and check out the configuration options (right click on the battery meter in the system tray) for power saving options to enable. Now, on to choosing reiserfs instead of ext3. I don't do installs too often anymore, some I'm a bit hazy, but thankfully we have osdir.com with their screenshots collection to come to the rescue. So during the install, you will come to the Partioning question screen: http://osdir.com/shots/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=147&slide=7 Choose the "Custom Disk Partitioning" radio button and click on next, which will bring up the DiskDrak screen (for which there isn't a screenshot unfortunately) where you can click on the "Toggle to Expert Mode" button, which should give you all the options you will ever need. If you are doing a new install, then try configuring the Power Management properly from the "System Configuration Summary" screen towards the end of the install: http://osdir.com/shots/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=147&slide=18 Click on the Boot / Bootlader "Configure" button and then the Boot / Services "Configure" button and follow the instructions as above. Hope this helps. John.
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