Ok look the situation is i've spent two weeks trying to get Mandrake 9.1 to work properly with no luck. I have THREE major problems - can all u expert users out there try to help or point me in the direction of a solution that actually works. I don't want to give up but I've just about had it - I don't have time to spend each and EVERY evening to get Linux to behave properly in the same way that Windoze XP does straight after install.

My problems are these:

I have a Soundblaster Audigy card which is detected by Mandrake on startup - it's working as i can get sound out of the analog jack to my headphones but my speakers are digital ONLY. I HAVE to get the SPDIF to work to get sound from my speakers and I can't find out how. Searched on loads of forums, tried loads of things and nothing has worked. Has anyone out there managed to get the SPDIF out to work on an Audigy under Mandrake 9.1???

My MS Trackball Optical is not recognised by Mandrake 9.1 AT ALL. It's a USB device but it's NOT a USB problem. My printer is on the same USB hub and works fine. MAndrake doesn't even power it (it gets a red glow round the ages when it's not being moved in XP). Mouse drake is no help.

My system doesn't HALT properly - it completes the log off process, the screen goes blank but my fans etc are still going. The only way to turn off the machine is to pull the plug which is not acceptable.

Please help if you can - I am absolutely at the end of my tether and I really can't afford to spend much more time getting Mandrake to do SIMPLE things.

Thanks

Well, unfortunately I have no clear help for any of your problems, but maybe I can help push you in the right direction for your first one. Check this thread http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showt...ghlight=audigy here and see if that helps your problem

I don't understand what that guy's going on about and I have already established that my Audigy is WORKING. I need to know where to go to enable the sPDIF out.

Thanks anway

About the mouse: Do you have any other working mouses? Switching to usb-mouse doesn't work straight away. Try to go to this site http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ and obtain an account. You might find something there.

Sound: No idea.

Halt: Fewer ideas than *none*

keep hacking! kamstrup

Ouch! I just checked http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ my self. There seems to be problems with the exact mouse you are talking about in mandrake versions later than 7.2 --wierd! But check it out your self.

greetings, kamstrup

As far as the shut down goes.......there are other threads with similar issues - it appears to be an APM/ACPI problem, in that it needs enabling in BIOS as well as in the OS

Did you try going into the Boot Loader Configuration and change the item that says "apm=off" to "apm=on". I did this and it now works great.

rberry88

I haven't tried that yet - thanks I'll give it a go - bloody annoyed with myself it's that simple!

I tried for days messing with the module files and all sorts of things until I tried this and it worked.

Make sure after you make the change to reboot your system then try it.

Hope it solves your issues.

rberry88

I've seen problems with usb trackballs before; my suitemate had a trackball that wasn't working at all with mandrake 9.1. He switched to a normal usb mouse, which worked fine; then he switched back and now the trackball works.
It's very strange...but it worked

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I only have access to an old ps2 mouse which I borrow off my flatmate so I can actually move around on the screen - with these problems I am only logging into linux to sort out problems at the moment - its unusable for anything else right now. Not being able to shut down properly, not being able to use my own "pointing device" - it's so bloody frustrating to not be able to even get my hardware to work - and I havent even gone near how I play a DVD in linux yet - I seem to see from the forums thats gonna be another trial. But my focus at the moment is JUST getting my hardware to work properly

I had some problems with a usb wheel mouse as well. Try this: start Mandrake Control Center, select Hardware and then Mouse. At this point mine showed a usb wheel mouse, but only responded to the PS/2 mouse for cursor movement, so : I selected the appropriate entry for the PS/2 mouse, pressed the ok button, closed control center, restarted x-windows. Then I logged back in and restarted Control Center, selected the USB Wheel entry, moved the wheel and then clicked each button, then pressed the OK button, closed MCC and restarted x-windows. Then the usb wheel mouse was working. I don't know whether moving the wheel is that important, but when I installed 9.0 at home with an intellimouse explorer trackball the instructions in the install routine said to move the wheel in a way that made it seem important.

Right well mine doesnt show a usb wheel mouse at all to start with so I doubt that will help - I will try it though. What concerns me is that the hub is obviously not even powering it at the moment though - theres no light being emitted when its on "stand by" (ie not being moved)...