>>>As for your other messages; Is anything in your system not working?
>>Cannot log out of Xwindows to switch users or to shut down. Computer hangs
>>on exit.
Leaves me with an X cursor on blue screen. Can switch to a console and
shut down from there, but cannot use X windows again. Seems like KDE is
shut down (X cursor back) but X windows does not shut down and return
control to KDM.
>>Sound card not working right.
I may need some tweaks, but I found the basic problem: A couple of missing
hardware jumpers on the motherboard, to route the sound to the back jack.
Header is there for motherboards that bring out the front jacks to a
header. Mine has little cables that plug into the jacks on the back, so
doesn't use the header, and needs the jumpers on the header. I figured
that out by dual-booting into windows (which I keep for diagnostics like
this only), and playing with the fancy utility Gigabyte sent to set up sound.
>>USB drive comes up as read only.
>>I'll think of more.
mouse scrolls some apps by the page, others by the line.
mailto: links do not bring up Thunderbird.
>>
>>>and have you done your updates?
>>
>>I have been updating since 2005LE
I have not done the Christmas era updates, since past updates did not help.
There is no Christmas version for X86-64, and I am on a dial-up connection
(40-48K).
> What is your security level?
Standard. I am behind an IPCop firewall.
> The USB read only issue may be because you have
> too high a level. Standard security is fine for a desktop machine.
>
> If you really want a higher level of security, then by selecting
> options>Expert mode in Mandriva Control Centre you can select
> Security>SecuritySystem>SystemOptions and enable/disable specific security
> checks.
>
> I think the option that forces read only on FAT32 partitions is 'User umask'
Actually, there is more wrong with the USB than just the permission. The
system does not mount the USB drive at all.
Let's start with my old USB drive, which has less problems (I think it did
come up read-write, but it does not mount).
Here is what dmesg said about that drive:
usb 2-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: MicroAdv Model: QuickiDrive64M Rev: 2.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sdd: Unit Not Ready, sense:
: Current: sense key: Unit Attention
Additional sense: Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed
sdd : READ CAPACITY failed.
sdd : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
sd: Current: sense key: Unit Attention
Additional sense: Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed
sdd: Write Protect is off
sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdd: 128000 512-byte hdwr sectors (66 MB)
sdd: Write Protect is off
sdd: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host6/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
It does not mount the drive, and it is not visible in the "Devices" Icon on
my desktop.
I can mount it with the command: mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/oldies
but only if I su to root, and then all the files come up with file access
for root (and root group) only. Not very useful.
When I try to get to it via Konqueror->Go->Storage Media I get the error
message: "KDE mediamanager not running"
Here is my /etc/fstab:
/dev/md1 / reiserfs notail 1 1
/dev/md6 /VMWare reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/md0 /boot reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/md7 /home reiserfs notail 1 2
LABEL=TED-USB-2 /home/millers/My\040Documents/drv/USB1 usbfs \
users,rw,noauto 0 0
none /home/millers/My\040Documents/drv/USB1 supermount \
dev=/dev/sdd1,fs=vfat,--,umask=0,user,noauto 0 0
//office/SHARE /mnt/SHARE smbfs user,username=%,noauto 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount \
dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,exec,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount \
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,exec,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,noauto,users\
0 0
//raider1/pictures /mnt/pictures smbfs \
user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.raider1.T 0 0
//raider1/space /mnt/space smbfs \
user,credentials=/etc/samba/auth.raider1.T 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/md5 /tmp reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/md3 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/md4 /var reiserfs notail 1 2
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> As for the hanging on exit try disabling acpi (There is a button in
> Mcc>Boot>Boot options.
That was a bomb. Mandriva would not boot up. Hung during hard drive
initialization (I have SATA drives). I copied these last few lines off the
screen as it was stuck (I keep it in verbose mode):
Loading libata.ko module
Loading sata_nv.ko module
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xC800 irQ 10
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xC808 irQ 10
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 312581808 sectors: lba48
In a normal boot that section of dmesg looks like:
libata version 1.11 loaded.
sata_nv version 0.6
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APSI] enabled at IRQ 23
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> Link [APSI] -> GSI 23 (level, low)
-> IRQ
217
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xC800 irq 217
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xC808 irq 217
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d01 84:4003 85:3468 86:3c01 87:4003 88:407f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 312581808 sectors: lba48
nv_sata: Primary device added
nv_sata: Primary device removed
nv_sata: Secondary device added
nv_sata: Secondary device removed
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
Ted Miller
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