<quote who="Henry T Wijaya">
> 1) when gnome is loading, a beep is emitted. yet, when trying to play an
> audio cd & a wav file, no sound is heard. peeked into rpmdrake, and found
> gnome-audio package is installed. so where should I go poking next?
In the Control Centre, under Multimedia, then Sound. Make sure "Enable sound
server at startup" is checked.
> 2) There're 3 other pc's using Win2k, and had some partitions shared.
> How do I access those shared partitions? What program do I use
> specifically? Do I simply mount them just like cdrom?
Kinda, but like this:
mount -t smbfs //windowsmachine/share /mnt
> 3) There's a black square-ish black box at the bottom right hand corner
> of the screen. What's that for?
Not sure. Screenshot? (Please pop it up on a website, not attached to your
email to the list.)
> 4) Was tinkering around and add a clock panel. had it removed, instead
> of the rest of the icons filling up the empty space, it seems as if
> there's a ghost copy, thus gaps. how do I remove those gaps?
Middle-drag the other applets and icons along the panel.
> 5) how do I mount a NTFS volume created by W2k, that's residing on the
> same hdd?
NTFS under Linux is pretty unstable. You can mount it read-only with the
ntfs module, though. Same as anything else, you just have to specify the
filesystem type:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hd?? /mnt
> 6) does licq able to use the data files used by windows version of
> icq2001b?
No.
> 7) does Galeon able to use the mail data file created by windows
> versionn of Netscape 6.2?
Galeon doesn't handle your mail, it's just a web browser. You'll have to use
Mozilla, and I believe it can use the mail files you use under Windows.
> 8) I'm using a broadband router. The manual deals with Windows only and
> had instructions to fill in the address of DNS servers and the "DNS suffix
> for this connection" field under windows. Is there such equivalent field
> under linux? How do I add such entries?
/etc/resolv.conf:
search nsw.bigpond.net.au
nameserver ip.address.of.nameserver
nameserver ip.address.of.nameserver
> 9) Upon starting Gnome, it complains of my host isn't a valid entry.
> Does it refers the host as the name of this pc? I'd put in
> "nsw.bigpond.net.au" thinking that it's referring to "DNS suffix".
> Obviously I'm wrong.
You'll need to add an entry to your /etc/hosts file.
> 10) Lastly, installing StarOffice should be done under root, right?
Generally, no.
- Jeff
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