Mandrake 10.1 Questions - Stop Services from loading on boot.
 

Hey all-

As the forum says I'm a newbie, so I'm going to ask some newbie-esq questions.

I installed mandrake 10.1 on my pc. I tried disabling sounds through K-Mix which didn't work. I was wondering how I could disable the sound server from running on boot. I fooled around with Suse before and I believe there was a runlevel editor which I could select which services start on boot. I believe I found that in the Mandrakelinux control center 10. So my questions are....Is that the right place to disable it? if so what .conf file does it refer to, in other words how would I do it without the control center gui? How can I start the sound server from konsole?

Also along similar lines, I have a wifi card and a wired network card, how do I disable the eth0 (Wired card) from starting on bootup.


Also I'm experiencing a weird problem with my mouse (Dell Inspiron 8200 Laptop)...When it boots I have no mouse control.....If I change the mouse type in the Mandrake Control Panel to 2-3 different types, then back to one that represents mine, it works. However once I reboot.....its back to the same old....Any ideas?

THANKS for all of your time, I sincerely appreciate it.

hi there

to get the service that are running

run this

chkconfig --list

this will give u the list of the service that are running
to disable the services in ur runlevel

run this

chconfig <service name> off

or to start

chkconfig <servioce name> on

regards

If I turn them off, will then the service be suspended at boot the next time I turn the machine on?

Thanks

Man chkconfig to see it does what you want.

It's probably the harddrake (a hardware autodetecting and configuring) service that's messing with your mouse. Disable that at boot and the problem should clear. :)

I disabled harddrake and there is no resolve. Has anyone else expieranced a similar issue? Can anyone suggest any other possible course of action?


Thanks for your time all.

To disable the ethernet card, you can go ( as root ) to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and edit that file. There is a line that says "onboot=yes", change it to "no" to stop the card from starting on bootup.



As far as your second question is concerned, I don't have any ideas on that one. Sorry.