With your soundblaster first thing is do you have "PNP OS" enabled in
your bios? If so, it won't work.
----- Original Message -----
From: BrewMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux-mandrake newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:30 AM
Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop acting
wierd?
> I just installed Mandrke complete 7.0 a couple of days ago. I am still
> trying to get the hang of it. There are a couple of things that I am
> wondering about so far.
> 1 - I can't get my Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 to work. I dropped
> to another session as root, used both sndconfig and soundconfig, but
> neither gets the card to work. sndconfig hangs after saying it finds a
> pnp soundcard, and soundconfig says the device is busy. I used the same
> settings for address, IRQ and DMA that show up on my computers boot
> sequence in soundconfig.
>
> 2 - There are about 4 icons that have disappeared from my desktop in
> Gnome, including the autostart, trash, and a couple others. They
> are present on a directory listing on a terminal session, and show up on
> a KDE session. They seem to sporadically pop up, and I can't see any
> reproducible actions I have made that do this. I can't figure this out.
>
> Thanks for the thoughts. I am sure more questions will come with time.
>
>
>
> Ken
>
>
