On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Christoph Hammann wrote:
[snip earlier]
> Bonjour Daryl, hi Billy!
> je vous remercie de votre conseil immediat, and that's as far as my French
> goes...
> Yes, I agree, not having sound is a bummer. I like my mp3 (sung to the
> tune of Dire Straits "I want my MTV"). Did you try OSS? Yes I know it's
www.opensound.com has a version for the PPC? that would be *very* nice!
but alas, i only recall seeing versions for x86, SPARC and Alpha...
> commercial, but before I spend hours and hours trying to get sound to work on
> some obscure sound card under one of the PC Unices, I've had good experience
> using their sound driver. 20$ well spent, IMHO.
agree!
> What you told us about boot loaders and colour depth vs. modem working seems
> as if the first method didn't use X at all, but a framebuffer console, is that
> right? And what about alternative XServers, what about Xfree 4.0?
dunno about 4.0, but IIRC, it works...
> Billy, at what publisher does your book on Linux on laptops come out? Will it
> be available through online booksellers? Replying to this won't be seen as an
> UCE (a nice politically correct abbr. for unsolicited commercial e-mail I
> recently saw used on BUGTRAQ. It's still spam with me.).
Prima is the publisher... the book should be available in several days (i
was told it was due in the publisher's warehouse tomorrow)... and yes,
like millions of others, it will be available through b&n.com, amazon,
etc. (i *don't* like amazon for a number of reasons)...
> Thanks again for your informative replies.
> Christoph
> --
> Random fortune quote:
> Mythology, n.:
> The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its
> origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished
> from the true accounts which it invents later.
> -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
>
