On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 18:24, Henry T Wijaya wrote:
> Hi listers,
>
> just installed mandrake 8.2 on my laptop, the furthest progress on linux
> I've made so far after departing from slackware. was tinkering around
> and few newbie questions that cropped up & I hope wouldn't take up much
> of your time, mind you that some questions would seem trivial.
Thats what we're here for ;-)
>
> 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?
Sound in gnome is done through a daemon called ESD (no comments on its
efficency are requested or required!). You can go to a command prompt
and type
ps -ef | egrep esd
You should see something like this
tgreen@cavey:~$ ps -ef | egrep esd
tgreen 1018 1 0 Mar22 ? 00:00:00 esd -nobeeps
This means that user tgreen (me) is running esd. If its not running,
make sure you're in the right group (audio on debian, I'm not sure about
'drake.
Then check that you have 'Enable sound server at startup' turned on in
the Gnome Control Center and restart your session (logout/login).
You may also want to check that you have the volume turned up on the
mixer (I know you got beeps, but the mixer settings may get clobbered
during your session startup.
> 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?
You need to use a package called samba. There are a lot of howto's out
there on this, but to give you an overview....
mount -t smbfs -o username=tgreen,passwd=mypass //windowsbox/windows
share /mnt
(the above is all one command)
That should give you a place to start. If you get an error about smbfs
not supported, check you have the samba package.
> 3) There's a black square-ish black box at the bottom right hand corner
> of the screen. What's that for?
Possible load/network monitor (I have two, do they look like the ones in
http://bandcamp.tv/misc/screenshots.html ?)
If not, perhaps you could email ME (not the list) a screenshot
> 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?
Right click on the applet and select 'move' (I think middle button works
too). you can then slide them around.
> 5) how do I mount a NTFS volume created by W2k, that's residing on the
> same hdd?
NTFS (if I remember correctly) is an experimental kernel option and is
available as read only or as read write (I think writing was UBER
dangerous last time I looked). Don't know if the options you need will
be compiled into the default kernel (read only maybe, I doubt if r/w
will).
Try (If your NT partition is the first partition on your IDE drive)
mount -t /dev/hda1 /mnt
> 6) does licq able to use the data files used by windows version of icq2001b?
Eerrrrr, don't know about that one. I use gaim (you might like it too),
it has plugins for MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, IRC etc etc etc
> 7) does Galeon able to use the mail data file created by windows
> versionn of Netscape 6.2?
Galeon doesn't have a mail subsystem in it, mozilla (the grunt behind
galeon) does and AFAIK it uses the same mail formats as the windows
version (or it used to at least)
> 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?
In the file /etc/resolv.conf, you need to put entries in like this
search this.domain.au
nameserver ip.of.name.server
> 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 could be missing an entry in your hosts file (/etc/hosts). The
entry should match your machines name (try the hostname command)
> 10) Lastly, installing StarOffice should be done under root, right?
>
If you want to do a multiuser install then you need to login as root and
run 'setup /net' (I think). This will install the base system and allow
'normal' users to do workstation installs (at about 10mb).
phew, is that it????
Let us know how you get on.
Greeno
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