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11-24-2007, 10:04 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Round Lake Beach, IL
Distribution: Mandriva
Posts: 19
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Hi, my very first post here
I don't know where to post this. Probably a lot of place that I could. Anyway here goes.
I am very frustrated today. I have tried PCLOS. I like it, I get everything working in it except that it won't see my Western Digital 'My Book' external hard drive. I have it connected via firewire. In Mepis, it sees it as removeable storage, like a flash drive. In Ubuntu, it picks it up just fine.
Now I have Ubuntu 7.10 installed. But for some reason I cannot get my ATI Radeon X1950 Pro (PCIe) card driver installed properly. When I had it before, everything worked. I used the restricted driver, and did something else, but cannot remember what it was, and I got Compiz working fine, with the cube and all.
Personally, I would rather use PCLOS, but I just can't sacrifice it not seeing my external hard drive.
If someone can help me with either of these 2 problems, I would be very grateful as I am very frustrated and want to get my system up today.
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11-24-2007, 10:40 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Waiheke NZ
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 9,211
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Quote:
I don't know where to post this.
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...mber-intro-24/
Please read the sticky:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...se-read-81010/
... no worries. Introduce yourself. Meanwhile, lets see about that problem:
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Now I have Ubuntu 7.10 installed. But for some reason I cannot get my ATI Radeon X1950 Pro (PCIe) card driver installed properly.
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System > Administration > Restricted Drivers Management ... what makes you think the driver is not installed correctly? Have you tried the free ati drivers?
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I have tried PCLOS. I like it, I get everything working in it except that it won't see my Western Digital 'My Book' external hard drive.
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Not sticking an icon on the desktop is not the same as not "seeing", so how did you check?
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11-24-2007, 11:04 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Round Lake Beach, IL
Distribution: Mandriva
Posts: 19
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Since I was gone I got the driver problem solved. Someone had me do this:
[HTML]sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl[/HTML]
From there I was able to get everything working.
As far as the PCLOS goes. I looked at where my storage devices were (My Computer? It's been a long day) and only my 2 internal drives were there. The one where windows is installed and the other one with Linux.
I'm not sure if I really want to call this one solved yet, because I really liked PCLOS. But the distro that just blew me away appearance wise was Suse. I couldn't get either the video driver or it to see my external drive.
Oh also I don't know how to make that section where I highlighted code to say code.
Last edited by bgast1; 11-24-2007 at 11:05 PM.
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11-25-2007, 12:54 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Waiheke NZ
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 9,211
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External firewire:
check dmesg for mention of the drive.
check fdisk -l to see it listed.
check ls /dev | grep sd
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11-25-2007, 02:11 AM
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Registered: Aug 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Distribution: Slackware, Mint, Debian
Posts: 238
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Take a look at you dmesg to see if the firewire (1394) drivers are loaded.
If it is, then check if the external drive is detected as a scsi device, probably sda.
If yes, then do sudo fdisk -l, if it is listed you may have to manually mount it and/or add it to /etc/fstab.
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