Hi all,
Thanks to everyone for the responses - gives me some options to track down.
BTW, I had run sndconfig and it delivered the same result - just the single
tones. It picks up the correct card, so its very strange. I'll try these
things out and see if I can crack at least one of these problems !
Thanks again,
philomena
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Shoemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems
> philomena....gotta' update my previous reply...oops! Sorry,
> that one got away from me :-) Anyway, there is no setup any
> more (it probably is an artifact on some people's systems from a
> previous version after they've done an upgrade install to 7.0),
> it's now called drakxconf and can be launched from a console as
> root.
>
> Alan
>
>
> philomena wrote:
> >
> > Paul,
> >
> > what/where is "setup" ? I tried executing the command from the console
and
> > its not found. I searched all drives and didn't find anything.
> > I reinstalled and made sure to leave supermount on - so, my fstab
entries
> > are exactly like yours, but the devices are still not working. Error
message
> > is a bit different - KFM says something like "can't display directory",
and
> > if I try to command line ls, an error message states there is an
> > input/output error.
> >
> > Thx,
> > philomena
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:59 AM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems
> >
> > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, root wrote:
> > >
> > > >time, IDed all the available memory - everything seems fine so far
except
> > the
> > > >three basic things - sound. floppy drive and CDROM drive
> > > >My sound card was correctly identified, but any sounds come out as
> > tones - no
> > > >bells, roars, crashing windows - just flat tones. The card is an SB
> > Live!.
> > >
> > > run "setup" as root, and check the 'sound' section. I have an SB
Value64
> > > and that was initially off too. After going through this by hand it
worked
> > > fine.
> > >
> > > >Neither the floppy nor the CDROM drive will mount - any attempt comes
> > back with
> > > >the error msg like (for the floppy) "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid
block
> > > >device"
> > >
> > > What is in your /etc/fstab.
> > > For floppy and cdrom with me it says:
> > >
> > > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> > > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> > >
> > > Does that match?
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
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