On Tuesday 30 April 2002 7:54 am, Vijay Ramachandran wrote: > Hi. > > I recently installed Mandrake 8.2 on a Toshib 1005-s157 laptop. Everything > seemed to go fine during hte install, but afterwards, a few things dont > work: > > 1. Sound. Does not work, and I cannot look at the hardware in the control > center (see below :-)) The sound was shown currently during install time as > on-board integrated AC-97.
Install the sndconfig RPM and run it in a root terminal. You may need to play with the parameters until you find a combination that works. If still no good look out for IRQ conflicts. KDE Control Centre>Information>Interrupts is a good place to look. Playing with your BIOS may help you resolve a conflict. > > 2. Viewing the hardware list from the control center. When I try to do > this, the screen suddenly goes dark, with a single blinking white cursor on > the top left of the screen. I can alt+F1 for a new console, and login, and > a ps shows that all the processes including X are running. When I > configured X, it showed the Intel 830MG video card twice, and asked if both > heads must be configured at the same time (to which I answered yes, not > knowing what it meant). I suggest from a root console running XFdrake and this time not selecting dual head. > > 3. usb mouse. I connected my ps/2 keyboard and mouse to a belkin ps/2 -> > usb adapter, and the keyboard works, but the mouse does not. There is a > message about "blacklisted uhci" module message in /var/log/messages. Same > problem with looking at the attached hardware. > Dunno- HTH derek
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