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I'm using Mandrake 10.1, and my DNS resolution seems to be way too sluggish - there is a MINIMUM 4 second delay between "Resolving host..." and the site appearing. This is consistant between...

Can you provide more detail to your problems?

e.g. which applications are you having trouble with, & are there any error messages?

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NIce one DMR, your suggestions worked a treat.

It is definately the umask option that needs to be set for vfat, although setting the directory permissions before mounting also seems to work with...

Thanks for your suggestion;

I checked this out and the permissions are the same for all my hd* devices (brw-rw----).

Any other ideas?

Cheers

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I'm having trouble changing permissions of mounted directories.

I'm using Mandrake 10.1, and basically I am able to mount 2 different windows fat32 partitions, but for some reason can only...

Quick message to tie this thread up:

Dunno what the hell was up with my CD drive, but a few other problems were plagueing my system, so I did a clean re-install, everything OK now.

As for slow...

Hi there, just got round to tinkering with 10.1 again.

Below is some of the dmesg output relating to the CDRW:-

Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xffffbffa)
hdc: IRQ probe...

Just installed Mandrake 10.1 on a separate Harddive (running 9.1 on this one) and for some reason it doesn't seem to recognise the CDRW drive at all - it works fine on this 9.1 installation.

When...

For some reason Mandrake 10 comes with mozilla navigator as default, but no mozilla mail installed - I need this so I can import my mailboxes from a previous version.

I downloaded the latest full...

Anyone else use xMule? I'm using v1.6.1, purely because that is what installed from urpmi.

I have noticed a few strange-ities

Sometimes:
1) It will display a false download rate, and a large...

Just incase anyone has had a similar problem.. :

- I figured out why the screen would blank on startup - Mandrake has issues with systems that have over 1GB of RAM installed along with certain VGA...

Thankyou Grand Master, I have learnt much from you during my time @ justlinux (mainly coz you consistantly reply to my posts :D )

The errors from my XFree86.0.log when failing to startx are:
...

Hi all

Currently I have a root partition of around 8GB and my /home partition also around 8GB.. I'd like to move a bit of space from my root partition to /home as it seems like it would be more...

I'm now running the NVidia 4496 driver in failsafe mode... it seems to now boot consistantly with full 3D acceleration.

However, I am still unable to boot into anything other than 'failsafe' from...

OK, I'll *try* and keep this as brief as possible ;)

I had a Nvidia 4200 ti installed and working fine Under Mandrake 9.1 using Nvidia's latest unified driver. I decided to swap it for a FX 5200...

Hmm, not sure mate. The output of route -n happens to be exactly the same as on this machine, which is working fine.

I fear you may be right about the RT8139, it's integrated on the mobo, so maybe...

ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:09:73:A1:EF
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 ...

Hi guys

After much research & effort I failed to get my network interface working correctly.

In a nutshell: On my Celeron 800/128MB RAM with an integrated Realtek 8139 NIC, I cannot ping any...

Good stuff guys, thanks again.

Still no joy unfortunately... when I edit /etc/resolv.conf to add my isp's domain name (I assume you meant isp, dkeav), it gets changed back to 192.168.8.1 after a...

Thanks guys..

dkeav - using dhcp I do get an ip address, and can ping the outside world (my router, and my other comp connected to the same hub). On issuing the ping command it prints the...

OK, I have tried and I have failed - really didn't want to make this post, but I'm stuck & in need of expert help!

Got Mandrake installed on a Celeron800 w/ Realtek NIC, but cannot seem to get...

I've placed an order for 9.1 standard from the MandrakeSoft site (couldnt bloody find it anywhere else!) Better they get the money than anyone else I'd guess...

Does anyone have an idea how long...

erm.. wasn't sure where to enter 'acpi=off' , (Kernel image not found:acpi=off , if entered after pressing F1 for more options), so I disabled ACPI support in my BIOS

No joy :(

Grrrrrrrrr, redownloading and reburning at low speed made no difference. WTF could this be?

I'm willing to buy the official CDs, but it would seriously piss me off if the same thing happens with...