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Assistance / Pardus for beginners / Re: strange USB problem - I'm clueless - any ideas?
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on: October 24, 2008, 17:54:50 PM
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Need more input, frisil. What is the computer motherboard and cpu and it would also be helpful to know what make of external hds? Any thing happen that you could think of that was signigicant two weeks ago? The specs of the system may give a clue. I'm thinking host controller.
Lisa Marie
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Assistance / Installing Pardus / Re: [solved]Administrator's password not accepted
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on: October 23, 2008, 21:56:42 PM
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Hi,
I also found this out, as you see, I come from the land of sudo (ubuntu).
When I installed I set up two users, one with admin. priveleges and one without, and whenever I log in, I use my "plain" user. I tried to change the clock settings, and it would ask for root password, and it wouldn't accept it. I finally figured it out and started a new session, logged into user with admin. priveleges and was able to change the clock settings, and do other functions where user was not allowed.
My main session is as "plain" user, especially while surfing, listening to music, watching a movie. My preference.
Lisa Marie
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General / Introduce yourself / Re: Live, Breathe, Die, Pardus.
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on: October 23, 2008, 21:25:38 PM
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Three from Romania? It's a party!  Welcome Mhmrcs, and that is true what you pointed out about Pardus - being new and still in its wonderful young stage. It's pretty sharp for a youngster! Glad you could introduce yourself! Hmmm, my mother called all of our female cats, Pising Gal. I think it means little girl in Hungarian. Mom is first generation American but knew a few of the words and phrases in Hungarian language. Regards, Lisa Marie
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General / Introduce yourself / Re: Hello, and congratulations from the United Kingdom
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on: October 23, 2008, 21:13:48 PM
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A big welcome, Tony! And please don't be shy! Pardus has been the big surprise of the year for me in terms of using my computer. It makes it fun and easy! I'm hoping more parents will let their children use it as it has a great desktop look that I think even children would find enjoyable to explore.
Regards, Lisa Marie
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Assistance / Pardus for beginners / Re: serious problem: cd/dvd drive slowdown
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on: October 14, 2008, 20:46:21 PM
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Hi, Well, I installed it on my older system this morning and all systems go. I was just watching a DVD, Lost in Space and reminded me of why I stopped using this machine - Noisy Fans! I have socket A, amd athlon xp +2100 cpu, Biostar M7VIZ mobo, onboard VIA chipset, 1Gib SPD DDR 333MHz memory RAM, Audigy Live! 7.1 24bit audio card, ATI Radeon 7000 video card, one cd burner, and dvd burner. So, it can't be ide as these are ide connected. The only thing I didn't get was system sound at beginning, and I checked the speaker icon for volume, turned it up from 0 to 100%. Then I had to change settings in the players, as usually they are set to /media/sda1, or more often as /dev/cdrom. I changed them all to /dev/scd0. Played some Mahler on the player as well as Kaffeine and Amarok, all is well. I haven't tried to burn anything, but it does sound like something is not set up right in your system. I used Pardus 2008.1 install disk. The more system specs you can give, the better people can help. (Adminstrator, is there a way to make code scrollabe so huge data doesn't take up so much thread space? Thanks! Just checked and I see that one sends in dmesg output to Administrator. Gotcha. Lisa P.S. Frisil, after looking about for some answers, it could very well be a BIOS problem that would be fixed with a BIOS upgrade. One person that was compiling their own kernel by using a newer kernel had this problem where the cd player becoming very slow, and it turned out to be the onboard VIA IDE controller. He rewrote his kernel to use a generic one and all was fixed. Look at your computer motherboard and cpu's homepage for any bios upgrades - see if anything has been fixed that may be directed towards your problem - such as IDE, DMA, etc. The problem also sounds like what my husband experienced after installing xp on an older gateway computer he got from his Aunt. Shame on me for posting a MS link, but the problem is somewhat similar. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/IDE-DMA.mspxRegards, Lisa Marie
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Assistance / Software / Re: Aegisub
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on: October 13, 2008, 19:49:39 PM
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Though I am in no way very knowledgeable about manually installing software, when I get those file not found errors it usually means I just need to create the file and give correct permissions, or install as root. Just thinking aloud here, as I'm sure you probably thought about this. I'll have to check Aegisub out as I don't know what it is.
Lisa Marie
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Assistance / Pardus for beginners / Re: serious problem: cd/dvd drive slowdown
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on: October 13, 2008, 19:40:04 PM
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Hi Frisil,
Welcome, and am sorry to hear about the problem you are encountering.
Now, you have me curious. I have an older machine with IDE type connections, no Serial ATA stuff, so I'm going to install Pardus 2008.1 (install disk) on my AMD K7 family cpu, BioStar motherboard and see how it goes. I am surprised we don't see more of this complaint, as I am sure that we all do not use SATA drives, optical drives. This is interesting problem to say the least.
Again, welcome!
Regards, Lisa Marie
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General / As seen on the internet / Re: Pardus team at CEBIT 2008
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on: October 12, 2008, 20:14:03 PM
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 I caught that, waf! I'm probably old enough to be your mom - will be in my mid-40's come January.  Pinar is pretty. Nice to see them having a cd give away for others to try out Pardus! Lisa Marie
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General / General topics / Re: [solved] multiple boot windows XP with more than one Linux OS
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on: October 12, 2008, 19:08:04 PM
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I worked on this yesterday after receiving the other distro my husband sent to me. I have xp, the second distro, and Pardus 2008.1. XP and first distro are on the first hard drive, with a NTFS storage partition between XP and ext3 distro partition, and a swap partition at the end. On second hard drive I installed Pardus and chose not to install bootloader. Then, went into first distro and from there I tried to find the menu.lst in mounted Pardus, but of course it wasn't there as I didn't install bootloader to it. So, hard way, as I'm not using a live disk, I did a second install of Pardsu on second hd just after the Pardus partition, this time installing bootloader to the second Pardus partition, so I could look at the menu.lst. There's probably an easier way to find this out, and I could have also asked one of you to list what is in your Pardus 2008.1 menu.lst, but I was able to mount the second Pardus install and look at the menu.lst which I copied as an entry in the second distro's menu.lst, making sure I used (hd1,0) and not (hd1,1) as was listed in the second Pardus install. Sorry about the long output in code. I was trying to get it in its own scrollable window. # menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8) # grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8), # grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub # and /usr/share/doc/grub-legacy-doc/.
## default num # Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and # the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used. # # You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry # is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'. # WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not change this entry to 'saved' or your # array will desync and will not let you boot your system. default 0
gfxmenu=/etc/grub/message.elyssa
## timeout sec # Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry # (normally the first entry defined). timeout 10
# Pretty colours color cyan/blue white/blue
## password ['--md5'] passwd # If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing # control (menu entry editor and command-line) and entries protected by the # command 'lock' # e.g. password topsecret # password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/ # password topsecret
# # examples # # title Windows 95/98/NT/2000 # root (hd0,0) # makeactive # chainloader +1 # # title Linux # root (hd0,1) # kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro #
# # Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified ## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below
## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs
## ## Start Default Options ## ## default kernel options ## default kernel options for automagic boot options ## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z ## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted. ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro # kopt=root=/dev/sda6 ro
## default grub root device ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0) # groot=(hd0,5)
## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options ## e.g. alternative=true ## alternative=false # alternative=true
## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options ## e.g. lockalternative=true ## lockalternative=false # lockalternative=false
## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the ## alternatives ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5 # defoptions=quiet splash
## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options ## e.g. lockold=false ## lockold=true # lockold=false
## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option # xenhopt=
## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option # xenkopt=console=tty0
## altoption boot targets option ## multiple altoptions lines are allowed ## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options ## altoptions=(single-user) single # altoptions=(recovery mode) single
## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst ## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the ## alternative kernel options ## e.g. howmany=all ## howmany=7 # howmany=all
## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option ## e.g. memtest86=true ## memtest86=false # memtest86=true
## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system ## can be true or false # updatedefaultentry=false
## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options ## can be true or false # savedefault=false
## ## End Default Options ##
title Linux Mint 5 KDE CE, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=/dev/sda6 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
title Linux Mint 5 KDE CE, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=/dev/sda6 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
title Linux Mint 5 KDE CE, kernel memtest86+ root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian # ones. title Other operating systems: root
# This I configured to add Pardus to menu items # on /dev/sdb1 title Pardus 2008.1 Hyaena hyaena root (hd1,0) kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.25.16-108 root=LABEL=PARDUS_ROOT vga=791 splash=silent quiet initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.25.16-108
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/sda1 title Microsoft Windows XP Professional root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 My first attempt I left off the root=LABEL, etc and when I clicked on Pardus at boot splash, it showed only console output and ended with "could not find boot device /bin/sh; can't access tty; job control turned off". So, I added that bit and it works fine. After I made sure all os's booted properly, I deleted the second Pardus install. I made a backup of the menu.lst just in case if things didn't work out, or if a kernel update messes up the whole thing. Ubuntu based distros are bad about having many, many updates when the system is still new, and many of these will be kernel updates. I'll add to this if I have any problems with my particular lay-out. I may have to rearrange it so that Pardus is second, and I edit Pardus' menu.lst to add the other distro. Or, just blow away Mint if I fully embrace Pardus, as I don't need it, but wanted to see if I could do this type of set-up. So far, I have to say I like Pardus best, and then Mint KDE, as Pardus's layout is excellent, the install is top quality, and I find I have all that I need with the packages that are default installed. I also like the way Pardus's PiSi package manager only installs the parts of the packages it needs to do an update, which saves me much time and I think is a neat idea when it comes to updates and package installs. Makes sense. Lisa Marie
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