did you try...?
[root@internet paul]# which sndconfig
/usr/sbin/sndconfig
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You know you've been hacking too long when...
...your digital alarm clock goes off and you think "Bloody Macs!"
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Philomena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems
> Hi Alan, Paul, and anyone else who wants to chime in :-)
>
> Well, I tried the various suggestions, but no luck. Draxconf doesn't seem
to
> have a "sound" option - I'll leave the sound alone for now.
>
> I think I should first concentrate on the problem with the floppy and CDRW
> drives (and I have an internal ZIP drive - I'm guessing that doesn't work
> either). I've attached the output of dmesg - during boot, it looks like
the
> CDRW and ZIP are recognized as ATAPI, but then later down, as scsi
devices.
> Also, there are lots of error related to the floppy drive. Could you take
a
> look and see if there is something in the boot msgs that can point the way
> out of this ?
> I'm learning a bunch of little things along the way here, so I appreciate
> the response.
>
> Thanks,
> 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
> > > >
> > > > )0(-----------------------------------)0(
> > > >
> > > > Spring is nature's way of saying:
> > > > "Let's party!!"
> > > >
> > > > )0(----[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]-------------)0(
> > > > http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208
> > > > Registered Linux User 174403
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
>
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>
>
>
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