Apologies for cross-posting. I'm trying to get my Dad's machines set up so I can leave the US and return Down Under, and I'm tearing my hair out with some problems I'm running into. I bought both the machines involved, and have run Linux on them successfully for a while, and so has he.
We want gnomemeeting on them, so we can keep in touch. Windows and Netmeeting has worked just fine quite a while, but I can't get Linux set up. On the Toshiba Tecra 780 laptop, I can't get sound with any modern distro. Not Debian, not Redhat 9, not SuSE 8.2. SuSE 7.3 does it, but then no Gnome 2 and no gnomemeeting. I had a look at the modules loaded in SuSE 7.3/alsa 0.5, and I've built alsa 0.9 and alsa 0.5 in Debian but no joy. The alsa configuration program in debconf builds the configuration, but it doesn't then work. It's a Tecra 780 with a Yamaha OPL3-SA2 sound card - does anyone know how to make one of those work? The other problem is much weirder. The desktop machine kills the cable modem connection when it's powered up. Even when there's no ethernet cable connecting it to the modem. Didn't used to. It's worked for almost 2 years on that setup, and now it's killing it. Windows or Linux. Pulling the machine into another room and powering it up there seems not to kill the modem, so power is all I can think of, but that's ridiculously inconvenient in his house - the cable goes into the computer room. Has anyone seen such behavior? Lesser problems with the desktop involve the BestData VC-100 bttv video camera not working with Debian Woody (drivers lock up), but if we can't put it on the net, that doesn't matter a lot. I'd hate to have to leave him with Windows only, and me having to boot Windows to contact him. He'd rather use Linux, and I'm sure I do too. A shot in the dark, but I don't have a lot of hair left at this point. Anyone seen either of these problems? Cheers, Bret -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
