GREAT.. sound blaster detected here and operational.. someone thought ahead here
Lee Cronin wrote:
> I have also finished installing m 7.0
>
> Immediate comments.... pretty cool.
>
> No problems at all and BEST OF ALL... my Sound blaster live value sound card
> worked fine... all I had to do was compile a new copy of emu10k.o and put
> it in the modules dir and load the module.
>
> I am a real NEWBIE to LINUX so this is really great.... if I can get this
> card to work
> anyone can..., however but do not be fooled by the soundconfig utility this
> did not help.
>
> Well done all whom helped construct Mandrake 7.0 - its gonna be a winner.
>
> Now I have sound... windoze is going bye-bye!!
>
> Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Goetz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 08 January 2000 01:28
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cooker] More comments on Oxygen-3
>
> I just finished installing Beta-3. 3 immediate comments:
>
> 1. I noticed that amd was installed by default (as evidenced by the fact
> that I couldn't log in because my home directory couldn't be found ;-)).
> I'm pretty sure most people are now using autofs, which is newer, cleaner,
> and actively maintained. In any case, at the very least the installer
> should be given a choice between amd and autofs.
>
> 2.
> I'm not entirely satisfied with the granularity of choosing packages. For
> example, nowhere was I given the option of not installing TeX, as far as I
> can tell. (Of course I want TeX, but I think a lot of junk I don't want
> was installed anyway.) 1.3 gigabytes! What hath linux come to?
>
> 3.
> Is there any way not to get kde? kde and gnome are 2 terrible mistakes
> IMHO. I chose expert installation and tried very hard not to get any
> gnome or kde junk. Still, when I run startx, I end up looking at the kde
> desktop. :(p
>
> ************************************************************************
> PEOPLE NOT CLEAR ON THE CONCEPT (OR TECHNOLOGY, OR HISTORY, OR
> ECONOMICS, OR CULTURAL LITERACY) DEPT.:
> "Well, it seems to me we ought to be encouraged that in the year 1000,
> they had to add a new digit, and yet no evidence of economic disruption.
> And then a millennium before, we had dates going down, and then they
> started going up, and yet no evidence of disruption or chaos in the
> economy. So if they could do it then, surely we can deal with it now,
> it seems to me."
> -- Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, chairman Senate Banking Committee
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