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IronTank - 16.09.2006, 15:07 Uhr
Titel: GRUB on Boot

I've just installed kanotix w/ windows. Here's how it's partitioned:
sda1 - windows
sda2 - kanotix
sda3 - fat32 (Exchange files b/w linux-win)
sda4 - swap

What I did was installed kanotix then installed windows, but windows overwrote GRUB and kanotix wouldn't load. Traurig

But, I read the faq on kanotix's website "Bootmanager - GRUB"

I followed what it said and GRUB is now installed, but when I boot up the comp it has no GUI, it says "for the first word TAB lists possible command completions..etc"

What should I do to get GUI back? Geschockt

Thanks for any advice.

piper - 16.09.2006, 15:57 Uhr
Titel: RE: GRUB on Boot

Depending what version of Kanotix you are using

2006-01-RC1

Just put in the Live CD, go to Kmenu > Kanotix -> kanotix installer

and click on Recover an existing Kanotix-HD-Installation and from there just choose MBR

Easter rc4

put in the Live CD, click on the fish -> kanotix installer

and click on Recover an existing Kanotix-HD-Installation and from there just choose MBR

For both

put in the Live CD

mount your kanotix /

then as root

grub-install --root-directory=/media/sda2 /dev/sda

IronTank - 17.09.2006, 07:39 Uhr
Titel: Sound PRoblem > Skype

Thanks for the reply piper.

Using the GUI Installer to update caused an error, and grub-install command doesn't have a gui for GRUB at boot. It's alright now, I reformatted it and reinstalled and everything works fine now. But, for some reason skype won't work, due to some sound device problem. But, sound is working fine, as I went to "Control center > sound & Multi > sound systems" and clicked the test buttons and there's sound.

I'm not sure if it's my sound card or the skype install that's not working. Any idea how to fix this or what the problem might be?

Thanks for any help again. Sehr glücklich

devil - 17.09.2006, 07:49 Uhr
Titel: Sound PRoblem > Skype

turn off systemsounds in kcontrol and try again.

greetz
devil

IronTank - 17.09.2006, 15:03 Uhr
Titel:

Hey devil, everything is working now! Thanks for the help everyone! Sehr glücklich

IronTank - 17.09.2006, 16:17 Uhr
Titel: Re: Sound PRoblem > Skype

devil hat folgendes geschrieben::

turn off systemsounds in kcontrol and try again.

greetz
devil

Sorry, back with another problem. After I turned off systemsounds skype works but now i'm not getting any audio output for anything. The person on the other end can hear me though. I'm just not hearing anything I tried to play some mp3s and no audio.

Any solutions?

Thanks!

Kano - 17.09.2006, 16:25 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: Sound PRoblem > Skype

Did you try 2006-01? That scype has ALSA support.

IronTank - 17.09.2006, 16:34 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: Sound PRoblem > Skype

Kano hat folgendes geschrieben::

Did you try 2006-01? That scype has ALSA support.

I'm using the 2006-easter-RC4 preview release installed on HD. Does that have ALSA support?

Kano - 17.09.2006, 16:49 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: Sound PRoblem > Skype

No. Install skype beta yourself.

http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-beta-deb

IronTank - 17.09.2006, 20:33 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: Sound PRoblem > Skype

Thanks for reply, Kano.

I downloaded the package and tried a few things:
1. double clicking the .deb package.
2. console > root > apt-get install skype
3. console > root > apt-get install skype-beta-1.3.0.37-1_i386.deb

None of these worked.

I tried using adept updater, but it was updating a whole bunch of stuff on debian and got me a bit scared so I canceled it. After, I used console and did
apt-get update
then
apt-get dist-upgrade

I'm not sure if this is the same as what adept is doing, but it's downloading and installing heck of a lot of packages at the moment. I'm just doing this for experimental/knowledge purposes.
I'm in the process of downloading 2006-02-RC1 and going to do an update-install once it's done to fix the skype problem and hopefully whatever problems after apt-get distro-upgrate might cause.

But, for general purposes I want to know why the apt-get install and other things i tried on the console didn't work?
Did I type the command wrong or is it something else?
Also, what does the apt-get dist-upgrade do and if it's the same as what the adept updater did?
I'm new to linux and this is a good oppurtunity to learn something so anyone with any explanations please elaborate.

Thanks. Smilie

anticapitalista - 17.09.2006, 20:56 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: Sound PRoblem > Skype

Once you have a downloaded .deb file, let's say to /home/anticapitalista/downloads

you then have to type this in a console, as root

cd name_of_directory
dpkg -i name_of_app.deb

eg cd /home/anticapitalista/downloads
dpkg -i skype-beta-1.3.0.37-1_i386.deb

Another way is to single left-click on the downloaded .deb file and kpackage should automatically install it.

The_Seeker - 17.09.2006, 21:01 Uhr
Titel: RE: Re: Sound PRoblem > Skype

Another little tip is once you've changed to the directory where the .deb file is and you've typed "dpkg -i", type the first letter of the package name and hit the TAB key. You'll find it will autocomplete the name of the package.