Dear Civilme:
Thanks a million for the advice, which has proven quite helpful on Netscape. As for
the sound on KDE, it's a common problem evidently. It's too difficult to remove alsa,
because the program manager then wants to remove all of the dependencies that include
everything and the kitchen sink. I tried to disable it, but that didn't seem to work
either. Anyway, it's no big deal...I can wait the 30 seconds for the sound to start on
KDE--I am only missing the start-up sound!
Another troubling problem is the use of the RPM installer. I tried it first by
downloading the news-reader PAN v0.9.7 in the i386.rpm format. It loaded perfectly and
instantly appeared on my menu thereafter. But, since then, I downloaded the most
recent version of Mozilla and Galeon and neither of these will install using RPM.
Oddly enough, if I go directly to the file and click on it, it invokes the RPM
installer, which then states that there is an error installing the packages. But, if I
let the program manager find the file, it lists it as "installable," allows an install
and states that it was successfully completed, but then you never find it anywhere.
I find this to be somewhat bizarre and I think this is one area where Windows
prevails...it seems to be much easier to install downloaded zipped software in windows
than on Linux. I had zero problems downloading Mozilla for windows for example and it
instantly installed and operates.
Any more advice for this poor soul???
Thanks again...
Mike
PS: You seem to be working overtime with all of these posts! Do you ever get a break?
In a message dated Sat, 7 Jul 2001 6:22:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time, civileme
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<< On Saturday 07 July 2001 19:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello Group...
>
> I installed and have been using LM 8.0 for about a month and a half now. I
> know I read somewhere about why Netscape opens with colorless buttons, but
> I can't remember where it was that I saw that. Anyway, how is that
> corrected so that the toolbars look real?
>
set 16 or 32 bit color depth. netscape goes monochrome at 24.
> Also, I seem to have more success with KDE than Gnome, but for some odd
> reason, KDE starts without sound for about one or two minutes before I
> start hearing it. This is odd, because in the beginning it started with its
> own start-up sound. Now, I hear nothing for the first minute or two...why
> is that?
>
You have both alsa and oss sound systems installed--remove one of them
If it is only like 30 seconds you are waiting for a timeout on /dev/dsp
> Funny thing about Linux...it looks great and feels so good to escape the
> clutches of those greedy commercial codeslingers, but it's the little
> things that combine to frustrate the user...like intermittent sound loss
> and colorless buttons...
>
> Anyway...any ideas???
>
> Mike
Civileme
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