On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 02:36:33AM +0000, =: !! wrote: > Hi! I just wanted to ask a couple of questions: > > 1. I just installed a compatible soundcard and I want to know how to make > debian recognize it.
I don't think the stock Debian kernel has sound support built in. You may need to compile a new kernel (not hard -- really!). The harder part is getting the correct driver configured and your hardware recognized. You'll have to give more information about the type of sound card (ISA|PCI) and what you've tried thus far. > 2. I just recently installed a new browser netscape 407 but when I try to > launch it nothing happens. I even tried installing mosaic too but mosaic is > not visible in my gnome desktop environment. I do not know whats wrong can > somebody please advice? Well, it's probably not not doing anything. Try launching it from an xterm by typing in `netscape'. It may be seg-faulting automatically. It may be you don't have all of the parts installed (unlikely if it's on your menu) or it's having problems with libc5 compatibility. I think the Mosaic package has a bug report against it for not setting up a menu entry properly. You can try it from the command line with `mosaic'. It's a poor substitute though. > 3. is there a command to see packages that are available in the debian ftp > server after apt-get update? dpkg --print-avail <package> or dpkg -l '*' > dpkg.list Since there are so many packages (4000+), you'd be better off browsing them from Debian's website or through dselect -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller [email protected] | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
