10.1 Issues. Wine, webcam,mozilla.....
Since installing 10.1 Official (twice now) I have been unable to get 'wine' to work as it did in 10.0 (effortless and ran great). Is the newest wine broken or is it MDK not installing it properly? Wine web sites don't want to bother with answering my questions.
I have been unable to get a single web cam to work. I am told the older and cheaper web cams will work with some work compiling and installing some modules. I have an old web cam that worked under 9.0 (did not need any compiling or installing modules) but it will not work now. I have a newer one (VEO) and it does not work either. Mozilla and several other programs seem like they do not update correctly (not 'update' as in package update). They will not "remember" passwords, highlight links that I have been to, or any number of other associated tasks that I have always just used as they have always been there. Several programs (not just mozilla) have this issue. I have checked all the settings in mozilla and they are like I have always had them in past releases. I have checked KDE settings (especially the 'restore previous session') and they are like I have always had them set in the past. I am at a loss. Though the 'bugginess' of 10.1 seems like it is less (maybe the bugs are just less severe) there seems to be many that are of a support nature that make the programs not work as they are intended to. Though I have had no system crashes or lock ups (the severe bugs mentioned earlier) the system seems less usable than previous releases. Anyone have any ideas about how to get MDK 10.1 Official to work as good as the previous releases? The few responses I have received in other forums were along the lines of "why do you need all that stuff anyway?" which does not help me at all. Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to provide. :study: |
I haven't seen ANY of this which you describe.
However I usually and promptly upgrade/update my installation right after the initial install. Did you follow this proceedure? http://www.zebulon.org.uk/urpmi_en.html To update your URPMI sources and follow the indicated directions about urpmi --auto-select Mandrake issued a slew of bug fixes... You should also urpmi wine It runs great for me, and even provides and integrated setup where all you need to do is double click on a Windows Executable to get Wine to launch it. As far as your web cam, you must of course install one for which Linux provides support. I had no problems with an ANCIENT Quickcam VC, Brooktree 848 TV tuner and raidio card in one system... but these are all supported. Check the MCC under hardware. Devices for which there are no kernel modules are reported on the left and the right shows no kernel module loaded. If there is no kernel module then that is the problem. If settings do not seem, to "take" this is usually a rights issue probably caused by an upgrade instead of a clean install. A clean install is preferable and all but required when going from one major version to another. You might want to cd /home find . -iname USERNAME -exec chown USERNAME {} \; To seach for and find any files belonging to USERNAME and automatically change the ownership to that user. Also find . -iname USERNAME -exec chgrp USERNAME {} \; In the past this has cured many similiar postings (usually again from upgraders...) |
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I installed the same MDK 10.1 from the same disks on my wife's Soyo Dragon and she does not have these problems. I am thinking there may be a difference in the kernels being used. Her's is the standard 2.6.8.1-12 mdk kernel while mine is the same but with smp and large ram support. So, the kernel is different. My brother is using the standard kernel on his computer with no problems. My computer is a Dell Precision 530 w/dual xeon processors and over 1gig of memory. MDK 10.0 has worked the best on it of any O.S. I have ever installed on it. I may have to go back to it. I was hoping I would not have to. I may wait for a while longer before I wipe my drive and re-install 10.0. Maybe there will be some more bug fixes that will solve these issues. I really like my video with the xorg drivers. Seems much faster and the colors are more distinct when running opengl. If everything just installed and ran correctly (especially in wine) then I would have more time to actually *do my work on my computer* instead of *working on my computer* which is what I need. Business does not wait for you to troubleshoot computer operating systems. |
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The few that do end up getting a LOT of support in Linux as reverse engineering everything is not required. As is the developers are people who tend to, either work for companies that have their own vested interest in supporting what THEY need Linux to support (after which they release the source code), do this as a hobby. Mandrake uses the Linux kernel, but they do not write the kernel. Hardware support revolves around the kernel. Yeah it would be GREAT if everyone provided code snippets to the developers, and you'd see most hardware supported quite easily, but as it is because Linux doesn't support what you have, does this make it bad. But we can dream can't we... Quote:
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urpmi the same kernel she is running and you'll get a new lilo entry which you can use at bootup. Now while I doubt this is the problem I did have a situation on my Laptop where-in I could not enable slamr modem support until I switched to the uniprocessor kernel. This wasn't a rights or setting issue though, rather the driver has a problem with an SMP environment. Quote:
If you get a chance to try the above test, also check to see if this cures your Wine problem... it just may. |
Thanks. Sounds like a good suggestion. I don't know how long it will take to get around to it though. The next 3 weeks are going to be pretty hectic for me. As soon as I get a chance I will try the uni-processor kernel and see what happens.
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Thanks again for the reply and the suggestions about where I should look for the answers. |
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