Linux-Setup Digest #548, Volume #19 Mon, 4 Sep 00 10:13:16 EDT
Contents:
Re: Can't make initrd-2.2.16.img (Villy Kruse)
ssh/cvs (Erdal Yigit)
Re: Can I dual boot with windows 2000? (Harry)
Help: What Is A Bootable CD-ROM? (Marty P. A.)
Re: Linux Mail Server (Chris Stratford)
Re: Systems freezes upon starting X ("Tony Neville")
Re: How to boot Linux after installation of Win2k ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Elsa Gladiac 2 (Geforce 2)? (Hanno =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6ttcher?=)
Re: cant mount cdrom and floppy? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
proftpd: EPSV not understood (J. Ganjs)
Re: r.h. 6.2 annoyances (Villy Kruse)
pop 3 mail ("Edmond Tang")
Re: Can't make initrd-2.2.16.img (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: LILO (or just LI ) ("Mait Lang")
LILO problem ("Phil Evans")
running netatalk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IP tunnelling and VPN (Tomas Kral)
kernel-modules (Andreas Westend�rpf)
Adding a second scsi card. (Steve Bellenot)
My Lan card can't determinie IP information (Michael)
Re: CDRW set up as ro (Steve Martin)
dev-files ("m")
Duron, LILO, RedHat 6.2 probs? (Stephen Bridges)
Re: cant mount cdrom and floppy? (Andrew Higgs)
Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700 (Robert Krawitz)
Re: Need help configuring soundcard (Andrew Higgs)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Can't make initrd-2.2.16.img
Date: 4 Sep 2000 08:12:35 GMT
On 03 Sep 2000 10:39:03 +0200, Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>The image file created by mkinitrd holds essential modules. The
>kernel needs these before it can mount your root file system. An
>example might be the driver for a SCSI host adapter if your root file
>system resides on a SCSI drive and the kernel was compiled without
>support for SCSI.
>
>If you cannot manage to get the loop device working, try building a
>kernel with all necessary drivers (including those for SCSI) built in.
>Answer "y" to the configuration questions, instead of "m" for module.
>Include the loopback device as well. Boot into that system, then
>re-build the kernel the way you want it. Since loopback is now
>available, you should be able to run mkinitrd without any problems.
And since your kernel now includes the required SCSI driver you no
longer need an initrd image, so you can skip it entirely.
Villy
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From: Erdal Yigit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ssh/cvs
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:26:38 +0200
hello,
i have to much problems with cvs over ssh.
the cvs check a file in/out and don�t close the prozess. i have then
4000 open filehandles with cvs, abd ssh connects from the clients. have
anyone a tip for me?
thanks
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I dual boot with windows 2000?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 09:45:09 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assuming the first partition is hda1 and you format the remaining 10 Gig
as hda2, your Linux partition, and hda3, a swap partition, then install
Mandrake as per usual, including making a boot disk - very important!
When installing LILO, put it on hda2 (IMPORTANT - don't put it in the
MBR!). You can then use bootpart (shareware) to create a file (call it
bootsect.lnx) that'll boot to hda2. Add this to boot.ini as:
"Mandrake Linux 6.0"=bootsect.lnx
bootpart can run only under DOS, so you may have to boot using a DOS
diskette to run it if you haven't got DOS on your system.
Harry
Greg wrote:
>
> I recently Installed Windows 2000 on a ten Gig partition and would like to
> put mandrake 6.0 on the other Ten Gig. How would I go about getting linux
> on without using bootmagic. I once Saw on a laptop linux and windows on
> the same machine and all that you had to do was at the lilo boot was type
> windows. Please help...
>
> Greg
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marty P. A.)
Subject: Help: What Is A Bootable CD-ROM?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 08:32:09 GMT
I want to know what makes a CD-ROM a bootable CD-ROM.
Is it in the hardware of the drive itself or is it in the way the
computer is set up?
I am familiar with ATAPI drives and that they require a driver in
order to run - and this unlike the EIDE drives that can boot from
the BIOS. (If I am missing the boat here, please let me know).
Does this mean that an ATAPI CD-ROM is not a bootable drive or
is there a way to make it a bootable drive?
Thank you for your comments and thoughts.
Marty
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Stratford)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Mail Server
Date: 4 Sep 2000 09:08:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8op6rh$495$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Darren Wyn Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'd avoid Qmail if at all possible - it has definite problems when
>> things get that large.
> Would you define one or two definites ?
Ok, here are two of the more irritating "features":
The primary one is that accepting incoming messages takes priority
over actually delivering them. When your server is pretty small and
not getting much traffic that's not a problem. When you reach larger
volumes of incoming traffic Qmail still accepts messages but they just
sit around in the preprocessed queue.
Another problem is its behaviour when trying to deliver messages to a
site that's unavailable. Qmail will start to deliver each message
(one message only per connection - not exactly network friendly) even
when it knows that the site it's trying to deliver to is unavailable.
It has to start a new process before it finds out that the delivery
isn't going to succeed. Again, for small sites that's not really a
problem, but for larger ones this quickly eats resources that would be
better used elsewhere (take a look at the Qmail list archives for the
number of times people have seen this problem when the likes of
Hotmail disappears off the network for a while.)
Chris.
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From: "Tony Neville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Systems freezes upon starting X
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 21:18:51 +1200
"Rex Pruess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I installed Red Hat 6.2 on my 3-year old HP Kayak XA (model D4799N). This
> model has the Cirrus Logic 5465 AGP video card. All's well provided I don't
> use X. When using X, I can work for a couple of minutes before the system
> hangs. Any tips appreciated.
Hey, Blood... I run Red Hat 6.2 on a three year system which sports a Cirrus
Logic 5465 AGP video card, too. X works fine. However, during the time I
was using an old Slackware distribution, X froze when resizing a window,
opening XChess, and running some screensavers.
In RH6.2 you should have the following section in /etc/X11/XF86Config
Section "Device"
Identifier "Cirrus Logic GD5465"
#Option "fifo_conservative"
VideoRam 4096
EndSection
Try including Option "xaa_no_color_exp", Option "no_pixmap_cache",
and Option "sw_cursor" in the section above.
They solved the lockups and drawing problems under Slackware.
If that doesn't work, maybe you'll find something of use in /usr/
X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.cirrus.
Cheers,
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to boot Linux after installation of Win2k
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 09:14:31 GMT
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:35:13 +0800, "Qian Haishan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have one hard disk, orignally it is installed with RedHat Linux 6.2, while
>today after I installed MS Windows 2000, I found that LILO was lost, so I
>can not start Linux any more. Who can help me except reinstall Linux?
While I really don't know very much about linux (I'm administering an
NT-network, and I STILL think, that as a _desktop_ OS, Win2K is better
suited than linux! ;-) I have tried my luck on Suse 6.3 from time to
time (not that it would like my GeForce graphics adapter or the way I
prefer to partition my HD, but still...). Speaking from that
experience I'd *guess* that just like Suse, RedHat has the option to
boot from CD-Rom. Suse offers several boot-options, one of them being
boot from CD, start from HD. This worked for my installation, even
though there was no lilo at all and suse wasinstalled way beyond the
1024- (or whatever) cylinder-border. I'm sure RedHat has a similar
option for you.
Once you've booted into your system, re-installing lilo shouldn't be a
problem.
Frank
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From: Hanno =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6ttcher?=
Subject: Elsa Gladiac 2 (Geforce 2)?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:33:48 +0100
Hi everbody!
I try to install a Suse Linux 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16) with gnome. But
erverytime I try to configure my X-Server the PC is hanging. I think
it's the Geforce 2 Video Card that isn't supported by Linux till now.
Anyone of you knowing this problem?
HELP!
Hanno
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cant mount cdrom and floppy?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: 4 Sep 2000 06:11:04 -0400
In comp.os.linux.hardware @ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1)I'm using Slackware3.0(kernel 2.0.0), but cant mount /mnt/cdrom and
> /mnt/floppy. I can see my cdrom using dmesg command like-- hdd:CS-R38 ATAPI
> CD-ROM Drive, also under /dev--i can see cdrom--->dev/hdd, then when i use
> mount /mnt/cdrom commnad, it respond " mount:mount point /mnt/cdrom does not
> exit"
I assume that is "does not exist". Does it? See if there is an empty
directory /mnt/cdrom/ (you will have to create it if it is not there).
(my setting in /etc/fstab---/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauot,owner 0
> 0).
well, then you would have to do a mount /dev/hdd (there is no entry
telling it how to mound /dev/cdrom) or change the entry in fstab to
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner 0 0
> 2)when i exec mount /fd0/floppy, system respond "fs type vfat not supported
> by kernel".
What's the fstab entry for this? And don't you mean "mount /dev/fd0"?
Can you mount ext2 filesystems on floppies?
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From: J. Ganjs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: proftpd: EPSV not understood
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:16:48 +0200
Hi,
connecting to a proftpd 1.2.0rc2 FTP server and issuing a "MPUT *" command, I get the
following error messages,
(the transfer is not successful).
EPSV not understood.
No PORT command issued first.
What does this mean? Any hint is appreciated.
Bye
ganjs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: r.h. 6.2 annoyances
Date: 4 Sep 2000 10:22:24 GMT
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000 08:17:31 -0600,
Caldera Systems OpenLinux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Firstly, how to I get telnetd and ftpd up? There is no intetd process
>up, and no inetd.conf file. I understand the security implications of
>inetd, but for the moment I need convienient remote administration.
These components are not included with a client install, so you need
to add these later.
>Secondly, how can I get X to run without being root?
Just login with your login name and password; if you don't have any
make one using the useradd command.
>Lastly, could someone explain to me why putting set -o vi or EDITOR=vi
>in .bashrc or .bash_profile does not work?
>
Replace the contents of /etc/inputrc with the following lines
set meta-flag on
set input-meta on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on
set editing-mode vi
The last line is magic and gives you permanent "set -o vi". Some of
the options of the original /etc/inputrc conflicts with vi mode.
Villy
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From: "Edmond Tang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pop 3 mail
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 18:25:57 +0800
Hi,
I am trying to set up a POP3 server on a RH 6.1.
I am not sure what the problem is, maybe something i did not enable.
When i try to do:
telnet localhost 110
it tries to connect but it returns: connection closed by foreign host.
This means that my server is closing the connection, anyone have any ideas
why?
Please help. Thanx.
Edmond
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Subject: Re: Can't make initrd-2.2.16.img
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 04 Sep 2000 12:28:00 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse) writes:
> On 03 Sep 2000 10:39:03 +0200, Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >If you cannot manage to get the loop device working, try building a
> >kernel with all necessary drivers (including those for SCSI) built in.
> >Answer "y" to the configuration questions, instead of "m" for module.
> >Include the loopback device as well. Boot into that system, then
> >re-build the kernel the way you want it. Since loopback is now
> >available, you should be able to run mkinitrd without any problems.
> And since your kernel now includes the required SCSI driver you no
> longer need an initrd image, so you can skip it entirely.
Assuming that a non-modular kernel is acceptable for him, yes.
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From: "Mait Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO (or just LI )
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:34:19 +0200
Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am trying to intall LILO and it stops at LI also. I try to boot to Linux
> and Win98. I have two hard drives. But Linux and win98 are on the same
> drive but in two different partitions. I try the linear option too but it
> didn't work. Please help.
Maybe you got similar problem like me.
I wanted to have Linux on my w98 OEM computer. I used fips to split 19 Gb
disk and installed
RH 6.2. I put linear option to lilo.conf. On reboot i got Just LI.
I tried several things but solution was :
small 60 Mb root partition below 1024 th cylinder and now i can use lilo
to boot linux or w98.
You can check this:
comp.os.linux.announce
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: LILO version 21.5.1 released
LILO version 21 by Werner Almesberger has been updated to support booting
from disks > 1024 cylinders using a new 'lba32' option (-L new command line
switch).
Mait
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From: "Phil Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO problem
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 12:39:49 +0100
I have recently installed SuSE Linux 6.4. Everything was going ok at first,
but now LILO refuses to work properly. I have a 30GB hdd, and whenever I
try to setup LILO it does warn me about the partition being over the 1024
cylinder limit, however it was working in the beginning, so presumably this
isn't a problem.
The actual problem is that wherever I install LILO (whether it's in the MBR,
the boot partition, or the root partition), I simply get LI, and nothing
else. I have read this problem may have something to do with the drive's
geometry, and I did get messages from PartitionMagic that there were
mismatches, but even when it fixed these problems, there was still no joy
with LILO.
Does anyone know anything about this problem; What other causes for "LI" are
there? More specifically, does anyone else have a linux partition over the
1024 cylinder limit and having problems?
Phil Evans.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: running netatalk
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 11:32:55 GMT
Hello All
I have mandrake 7.1.
I have probs to get runnig netatalk.
I have this message:
box# atalkd
socket: invalid parameter
socket: invalid parameter
atalkd: cannot get interfaces, existing.
Why that?
Could anyone tell me what i have to do to make netatalk running
thanks a lot
vuru
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomas Kral)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,fa.linux.kernel
Subject: IP tunnelling and VPN
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:42:02 +0200
Hello,
Can anyone explain how to create and set a tunnelling device. I have read
some VPN docs and Networking HOWTOs, but I am not any wiser.
I am on 2.2.12-20 and tunneling (CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m) has been compiled in.
Thanks in advance.
--
_______
SCIENCE Thomas Kral
SYSTEMS http://www.scisys.cz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Westend�rpf)
Subject: kernel-modules
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:06:30 GMT
hi! i need some help. where do i find the file where i can specify
what kernel-modules should be loaded at system bootup? i'm running
redhat6.2.
thx
Andreas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Bellenot)
Subject: Adding a second scsi card.
Date: 4 Sep 2000 12:09:43 GMT
Is there a how-to on adding a second scsi card? The Bios sees it,
and the tape drive attached to adapter and /etc/conf.modules got
updated. (The adaptor is adaptec 2920c, and the update incorrectly?
gave the driver as fdomain instead of the correct? aic7xxx.)
Dmesg indicates the kernel is only sees the first adaptor and the
devices connected to it.
--
http://www.math.fsu.edu/~bellenot
bellenot <At/> math.fsu.edu
+1.850.644.7189 (4053fax)
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: My Lan card can't determinie IP information
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 20:22:26 +0800
When I use ifup to call my ethernet card, the error message is shown.
What can I do?
Thank you very much
Mic
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CDRW set up as ro
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 12:50:52 GMT
Mark Schneider wrote:
>
> I purchased a scsi-3 CDRW for my Linux web server. I want to be able to
> write to this drive/media. If I have a blank, unformatted cd it will
> not mount.
Seems you're trying to mount a CDRW like you would a hard drive or a
floppy.
I don't think you can do that at all. Mounting already-burned CD's is
okay
(as you found out). To write to a CDRW, you need to use a software
package
such as cdrecord. It's not as simple as just mounting it read-write and
writing to the filesystem. Before a disc is burned, there is no
filesystem
in existence; after it's burned, it's read-only.
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From: "m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dev-files
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 15:24:05 +0100
Hi,
i backuped my linux but i forgot to save my /dev - directory.
when i installed a minimal installation of my distribution, it installed the
devs - package and i got several dev-files back.
then I extract my saved files and overwrite the new installation.
So do I have all dev-files which I had before?
or did I lose some?
on the first view i saw nothing different.
but i.e. the syslogd told me it cannot found /dev/xconsole...
i created /dev/xconsole with "mknod xconsole p"
IS THERE ANYTHING MORE THAT NEED TO CREATED??
--THX--
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Bridges)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2000 14:26:14
Subject: Duron, LILO, RedHat 6.2 probs?
I put together a computer with a socket A motherboard and a Duron 700MHz
CPU. After trials and tribulations Windows was installed (an unfortunate
necessity ;) ) and that worked.
I then installed Red Hat. And that did not work. If I turn my computer on
now the lilo prompt is for some reason getting stuck on LI. The boot disk
works, but only has a linux record in it.
This sounds like the lilo probs with large disks from other posts on here
and i can probably deal; with it eventually. But I also have another
problem.
The new linux partition doesn't boot. After loading the kernel in, it boots
and finds the Duron processor . . . .
CPU: AMD AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 00
Enabling extended fast FPU save and restore...done.
Disabling CPUID Serial number...general protection fault: 0000
Then lots of numbers and Stack numbers are printed in hex which i can copy
if they help. This all finishes with a kernel panic and the whole thing
hangs.
Any help would be REALLY appreciated. I am sorry for the crosspost but I
honestly didn't know where the problem is.
Widget
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From: Andrew Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: cant mount cdrom and floppy?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:35:59 +0200
1) A guess would be that running 'mkdir /mnt/cdrom' would fix this
problem.
2) You probably need to run 'modprobe fat; modprobe vfat' to insert
modules which have not been loaded. I am assuming the modules are there
however.
Hope this helps...
Kind regards
Andrew Higgs
"@" wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Two questions to ask:
>
> 1)I'm using Slackware3.0(kernel 2.0.0), but cant mount /mnt/cdrom and
> /mnt/floppy. I can see my cdrom using dmesg command like-- hdd:CS-R38 ATAPI
> CD-ROM Drive, also under /dev--i can see cdrom--->dev/hdd, then when i use
> mount /mnt/cdrom commnad, it respond " mount:mount point /mnt/cdrom does not
> exit"(my setting in /etc/fstab---/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauot,owner 0
> 0).
>
> 2)when i exec mount /fd0/floppy, system respond "fs type vfat not supported
> by kernel". Is modfying kernel a only way to deal with, if so where can i
> get better sources to do so('cause i read some HOWTOs but dont explain
> clearly to deal wiht my problems)
>
> thanks
>
> sean
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Photo 700
Date: 04 Sep 2000 09:52:27 -0400
Terence Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thank you very much for your reply. Should I download
> ghostscript-6.01*.tar.gz or ghostscript-6.*.src.rpm?
Either one can do it. I'd suggest the .tar.gz just because our
instructions don't tell people how to build it into .src.rpm's and I
don't know how to do it myself.
--
Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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From: Andrew Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Need help configuring soundcard
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:44:17 +0200
Hi,
I am not sure exactly where Mandrake would store it's start up scripts
but look for the one which sets up either all your modules or one which
sets up your sound card. Play around with the module parameters and see
what comes out (or set it to what you know it should be).
Unfortunately, I don't know Mandrake and have no experience with the
Sound blaster Live.
Best of luck.
Kind regards
Andrew Higgs
Mike wrote:
>
> Im running Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and have a SoundBlaster Live! Value soundcard.
> harddrake and sndconfig find it but I cant hear anything when i do a Test.
> What can I do to get sound?
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