on my laptop it's all about freebsd. well, that and win2k. i need to play age of empires, dammit. =jay On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] daniel j shahin wrote: > you know, I find RedHat 7.1 to be my favorite commercial linux distro right > now. I used to use Mandrake and debian, (actually my web server is still > mandrake) but RH has really caught up in ease of install and in cutting edge > features. RH7.1 comes with Alsa, but the chipset is still unsupported for > my thinkpad... > > d$ > > Oh, yeah, you can. > > > > That's actually independent of mwavem. What you want are a different > > set of audio drivers for Linux called ALSA. It was sort of a pain to > > get it up and running before, but i think things have improved greatly > > over the last year to year and half or so, so it should be pretty > > painless. If you run into problems, let me know. > > > > You might want to toy around with other distros too (other that > > redhat). Thorsten turned me onto Mandrake a while back and i've been > > using a combo of that and Debian since. > > > > Ciao, > > Sach > > > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, [iso-8859-1] daniel j shahin wrote: > > > >> can I use the soundcard yet? I still have yet to make that work on my > >> 600e running redhat 7.1 > >> > >> d$ > >> > Well, in other news. > >> > > >> > For those of you that are running Linux on IBM thinkpads, they > >> > finally reached version 1.0 for mwavem hardware (this is the chip > >> > that controls the ports on the back including the modem and serial > >> > and parallel ports). > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> >sach > >> > > >> > > >> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > >> > Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:45:46 -0500 (CDT) > >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > Subject: [ltp] mwavem-1.0 released > >> > > >> > Changelog entry follows: > >> > > >> > Version 1.0 Source > >> > > >> > * Includes latest code from driver patch 2.4.6-20010718 > >> > - Module now builds as mwave.o instead of mwavedd.o > >> > - Driver now registers it's UART with the serial driver (Thomas > >> > Hood) - Some global function name cleanups > >> > * init script modified to use new module name > >> > * Minor HOWTO updates reflect new module name > >> > * Silly typos fixed, one of which could prevent mwavem from > >> > building, one > >> > in mwaved init script module parms > >> > * Installation now adds mwave to /etc/modules.conf > >> > * README.devfs included (Thomas Hood) > >> > > >> > > >> > Cheers...Paul... > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > > >> > Paul B Schroeder > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > ----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list ----- > >> > The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: > >> > http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > > > > /* > > sach jobb > > sugoi consulting > > 1177 polk street > > san francisco, ca 94109 > > > > 415.345.8872 (w) > > 415.345.8871 (f) > > 415.559.5483 (c) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > %s/windows/linux/g > > */ > > >
