my 3 problems

[ims27_8]

I'm nearly up and running in mandrake 8.2. Just 3 things:
- how do i burn iso's? I have X-CD-Roast, and i can't work it out. <<<DONE>>>
- Is HardDrake supposted to make the screen go black with a blinking white curser in the top left corner of the screen when you run it? it says "please wait while detecting hardware" then it goes black.
- I can't get sound to work. I have VIA VT8233 onboard sound. How can i install it without using hardDrake? I got some linux drivers on the cd that came with the motherboard, but i got an incorrect kernel version error.

thanks to anyone who can help

[ August 16, 2002: Message edited by: Lt. Reliability of the Redmond Army ]

[voidmain]

I guess the <<DONE>> means you figured out your CD issue?

If not, "cdrecord" is the underlying app that xcdroast uses. I use xcdroast for interactive burning but normally I use a script that I created called "mkcd" that uses cdrecord within it. So from a command line I just "mkcd file.iso" and it burns the ISO.  If you have an IDE CD burner you need to use the ide-scsi kernel module to emulate a SCSI CD burner.  cdrecord uses SCSI addressing.

See the http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html" target="_blank">CD-Writing-HOWTO
for more info.

Sorry I don't have the answers for you on your Mandrake questions, hopefully the Mandrake users can help you out.

[Master of Reality]

isnt it mkisofs that creates the images?
Xcdroast is very confusing when trying to make isos with it. Shit, the lights just blinked, powers gonna go out, turnin off computer.

[ August 16, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[voidmain]

"mkisofs" is used to create the ISO images from a directory structure.  "cdrecord" is used to actually write the image to CD.

[pkd_lives]

It sounds like something is causing hardrake to lock-up, I have not had problems, or black screens.

Have you tried the manufacturer's website for new drivers?

Has all your hardware except the sound card been recognised (I would suggest removing it and proving this)?

Can you prove your soundcard has not gone south?

Don't know what to use other than Hardrake at the moment. A Noob to Linux myself really.

[choasforages]

is there a utility called sndconfig in the /sbin or /usr/sbin dir's

[badkarma]

And be sure to pick the right driver, I got a acer 20x10x40 and used the generic-mmc driver at first which wasted a couple cd's. Turned out I had to use the generic-mmc-raw driver.

[beltorak0]

(XcdRoast) did you read the manual carefully (i know, but we have to start somewhere)?  what error did it give you?  if it is not usable, run it as root, enter setup, and add your username to the allow list.  Also, you need to add a group (xcdwrite) and add users to that group (that's the group used by xcdroast for permissions).  you sheould then be able to use it as the user specified.
(drivers) make sure that the drivers are for the same kernel version as your kernel.  If in doubt, recompile the kernel and drivers (you will also need to compile at least the drivers if you compiled the kernel in the past for a later version).  then try "modprobe via" or maybe "via*", or if you want to, compile the kernel (and drivers) with kernel autoloading support.  That sould get the kernel to autoload any required drivers as needed.
(mandrake)sorry, can't help here.  I use slackware.

one final note, take everything i say with a grain of salt, as i am a noob too.  but hopefully this helps.

-t.