On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
> > I have a genuine SoundBlaster PRO ISA soundcard and for the life of me I
> > can't get the bloody thing to work under Mandrake (or RedHat) with
> > soundconfig... even lothar didn't set it up right. The only time I got it
> > working was using OSS under SuSE... should I install OSS under Mandrake
> > and use it instead of sndconfig? How is this going to affect the sound
> > daemon, enlightenment's sound, etc if I do?
>
> If you want to install it install it it won't break it, but isapnp should
> really be able to handle it.
Does isapnp work on non-PNP cards? This one isn't PNP... BTW, how do you
get the config file for isapnp again? I thought it was pnpdump for some
reason, but I can't find the proper command.
> None that i know of.
That's good to know.
> > Time configs. People are using atomic clocks and other time servers to
> > update their own clocks. How do I do this? Do I need a time server in my
> > own timezone? I tried doing this with some tips in Linux Journal (Sept 99
> > issue) and the NTP servers, but I could never find one in my own timezone
> > (MST7MDT). Is there a way to offset the reported time? Ie. if I pick an
> > NTP server that is GMT0 is there a way I can have a perl script (I'm
> > assuming there is a program to do this also, but I don't know what it
> > is... enlightenment there would help) report it back as my local timezone
> > or give an offset (ie. -7)?
>
> xnntp just needs the offset told to it if i remeber correctly, rdate does
> the timezone conversion automagicly, but even if it didn't time.nist.gov
> is in your timezone
Cool... there's one in my TZ... couldn't find one on the list that LJ
referred to. Thanx. =)
> > Dang... there was another question, but now I can't remember it... =(
>
> The answer is blue.
Maybe if I was running OS/2 still... =)
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