hey everyone. just a couple of questions from me. my new mandrake 7
install is running pretty smoothly, but i have hit a couple of snags;
mostly minor. first of all, i can't seem to get my sound card working.
i went into lothar and it said the card was already configured. I went
to change the settings, and just hit test and I got the sound bite of
linus saying linux. nothing else seems to make any sound at all outside
of system beeps. secondly, i have 96 MB of ram in my computer, but
mandrake is only picking up 64 MB of it. it still counts up to 96 when i
first boot up. oh yes, adding users.. when I was still doing the
install setup, i'm absolutely positive that I created an account in my
name aside from the root accout. there was nothing set up when i first
started, though. i tried creating one with useradd, but i seem to be
having some problems with the -p flag. the man file says that the
argument for -p is the encrypted password as returned by crypt. does
this mean I have to write a c program before I can add my user? ok, only
a couple left to go. :-) ./ doesn't seem to be in my path, and i
haven't had any luck in adding it there. i thought it was just setenv
PATH $PATH: ./, but that doesn't seem to do anything. i'm using bash, by
the way. also, when I was installing, i noticed it getting a package
that was some IM software compatible with aol's instant messenger, but I
don't recall the name. any ideas here? i think that's it for now, hope
to hear from you all soon.
Mike
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