Re: Debian 2.1 - sound, lilo, gnome etc... questions

[Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo]

TG>> 1. I don't quite know how to configure sound in my system. Is there a

Use "make menuconfig" and "make xconfig". Go to the sound options.

TG>> tool    like RH sndconfig? I couldn't find one. I did read the relevant
TG>> HOWTO's but do I really need to compile the kernel? (there doesn't seem
TG>> to be any sound module in modconf).

2.0.36 should have modular sound integrated. If not, look on the Alan's
pages for modular sound patches. Or, if you like good commercial software
;), use OSS. It works not bad at all, and is not that expensive.

TG>> 2. There was some problems reported during installation. some packages
TG>> required the libraries
TG>> /usr/lib/libtcpwarpGK.so.1
TG>> /usr/lib/libomnithread.so.2
TG>> /usr/lib/libomniORB2.so.6
TG>> /usr/lib/libomniLC.so.2
TG>> (there were quite a few packages, I don't have their names handy though)
TG>> 
TG>> what are those?

I think those are parts of omniORB - CORBA package. Maybe GNOME needs
it...

TG>> 4. Slink comes bundled with gnome-0.30. In the unstable packages there
TG>> is
TG>> gnome-0.99-3 or something,  anybody had a positive experience with a
TG>> post 1.
TG>> gnome on slink?

gnome 0.30 is veeery old. I doubt anyone supports it anymore, with gnome
1.x out there.
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