You'll be ready to teach the Newbie SIG if John is not available! Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chopin Cusachs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] RH 7.3 Adventures
> > Another day, another adventure. Learned more than I had ever wanted > to know about fstab, but now can see the vfat partitions in Linux. > > Having trouble with browsing from personal account. Can run Netscape > from root account, and if I log off root and on as myself can then run > Konqueror. As now set up, root uses Gnome on startx, I as regular > user get KDE, which is fine. Somehow fooled the system into thinking > the hostname of my computer was the name of my ISP's mailserver....... > changed that, but don't know what other consequences there are. KDE > screen locked when I tried to dial out as myself. Getting very familiar > with the reset button, but don't see indication of much damage. > > Booted with parallel port tape drive attached and with a tape, but no > sign that kudzu recognized it. No problem with Zip drive, CD, and > floppies. Set them for users access so I don't have to log in as root > to use them. Wonder where I check out what Linux thinks of my > external modem on serial port for dialup..... > > I'm confident there are a few incorrect settings to be ferreted out and > fixed, but the fingers are learning shell commands. > > Choppy > > > > At 03:51 PM 5/15/02 -0500, you wrote: > >I'm having issues with sound as well, oddly enough. I can play xmms or > >Kscd or other gui apps, but I'm finding that "play sound.wav" doesn't > >work. The sox app hangs. I found that /dev/audio* and /dev/dsp are owned > >by root and permission 600, which may have something to do with it. It's > >odd that some apps, like Kscd and xmms, talk through the KDE/Gnome sound > >server, but things that write directly to dsp fail. e.g. my licq spools > >up jobs for "Message.wav" whenever a message comes in. Anyone else having > >this problem? > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
