Thanks for the response. I just got Fabio's message (my ISP's mail
delivery service has been down) as I was sending this off and I will try
his ideas as well.
RXmi LETOT wrote:
> > make xconfig;
> > make config;
> > make menuconfig;
> > make mrproper.
> >When I try to run these commands I get complaints about some target not
> >being
> >found;
>
> Can you tell us whitch targets? Always give the full error message.
/usr/src/linux] make xconfig
/usr/src/linux] make: No rule to make target `xconfig'. Stop.
Similarly for commands `make config' and `make menuconfig'. What is
wrong?
> >2) How do I go about configuring sound? Do I have to compile that into
> >the kernel
> >too...? I have a soundblaster compatible card;
> >I should mention the following:
> >i) I have an ESS AudioDrive 1869 soundblaster 16 compatible card;
> >ii) upon running sndconfig I get the message ``error accessing
> >dev/audio''.
>
> I know that some SB16 compatible cards are not so compatible. Have you read
> the docs comming with the source tree? Anyway the sound support must be
> configured in the kernel or in a module. Do you have any message at bootup?
I used sndconfig, which supposedly does away with having to compile
sound
directly into the kernel. But you may be right that the problem may be
an
incompatible sound card. Sigh..
> >3) The CD player (generic 32x IDE device) worked fine during install,
> >but during a
> >Linux session I cannot
> > i) manually open and close the CD tray;
>
> What do you mean by *manually* ? Can you open or close it by another way?
I just mean opening it by pressing the button on the CD player itself.
> > ii) mount the CD-ROM drive. Actually I sometimes can mount the CD-ROM
> >drive; but I still cannot manually open and close the CD tray. But it
> >works fine in that other operating system we have all grown to
> >dislike...
> What do you mean by *sometimes* ? Give us more hints (under which account,
> under X ? ,...)
I am logged in as root.
More testing tells me that mounting is not the problem. The problem is
removing
the CD after the drive is umounted, even when the tray is empty. When I
press
the button, nothing happens under KDE.
> >
> >4) I tried minicom and echo but cannot get any response from my modem
> >under Linux. I correctly configured the modem using the RedHat
> >``control-panel'' dialog, but I still cannot get a response.
>
> Can't help on that one, I have no modem :-)
I hope someone can, but thanks for at least responding :-)
> Hope I was of any help, and give us more info about your problems.
> Please forgive my English, I'm French speaking :-)
Your English is fine: Comme ton Anglais est beau!
Thank you and best wishes
Idris
