On Sunday 18 November 2001 00:21, Susan Macchia enunciated: > Hi Keith, > > I do have a 2nd cd writer which VMware fails to see on initial > installation. I set it up as a scsi cdrom device and I can read from it, > but have yet not tried to write to it. Since I use gcombust, etc, it is a > lower priority for me and I haven't searched the website or asked them > about support for it. Also, I get no sound. But I really don't need it > for those things yet. I want to set up a win98 version for my son to use > his educational software with, and that will need sound. I'll let you know > when I get to that point.
With the writer I can add it in but it sees the two dives but acts as if they ate one , real wierd. As for sound, I get broken or non in Mandrake 8.1, get sound in Suse but on reboot it looses it and I haver to reinstall in linux then is sees it on boot it might say its busy. not real worried here about either. > I also have problems with /dev/lp0, so for now I am using Samba to print, > but I eventually want to understand why it can't connect to that port. again i am not worried but it says its busy because lp0 is occupied by the linux printcap. > Again, even with these limitations, the fact that it runs without booting > into a specialized kernel is a plus to me. Not that I have time to roll my > own, but I want to be able to play without having to worry that I can't run > my critical window's apps. Yes, its fine as can and do run what I need from windows which is getting less and less. I have DVD and VCD's playing from linux now plus I can use quicktime, shockwave, see winword and excel from netscape with crossover. Must say that its getting to the stage where I will not need to reboot to do what I want. -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
