On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> Ok. Try running the hardware configuration from Darkconf. See
> if it detects your soundcard. Do you have sound in kde?
>
Works fine. I should have mentioned I have an ISA SB AWE64.
This is just my opinion, but I think it's fairly realistic. All
the combinations (actually permutations) of motherboards/chipsets,
ram, cpu's, pci/isa cards, HDD's, etc. It's amazing how much of it
any OS manages to get working at all.
I've built every computer I've ever had (~10), and overclocked
'em. I tend to stay away from hardware that's just out, eg,
Athlon/VIA, any Intel motherboard other than a BX chipset (like
i8<whatever> ) and buy quality parts. I'd never even consider
video/sound/modem/etc built into a motherboard. I rarely have
hardware related problems. I also stay away from hyped up things
like AGP and ATA/66. The performance increase they claim is mostly
smoke and mirrors, the system errors they can introduce can be
devastating. About all I'll say about ready mades (like Dell,
Gateway, etc) is I have a very low opinion about their quality and
versatility.
I'm currently running a p3-450 at 608mhz, 256mb ram at 135mhz
cas2, pci voodo3 (oc'd to 178mhz in W98), IBM 7200rpm HDD's run on
ata/33 ..... no problems
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~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> Tom Brinkman wrote:
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> > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > > With your soundblaster first thing is do you have "PNP OS" enabled in
> > > your bios? If so, it won't work.
> >
> > Not here. I run a Soyo 6ba+III with an AWE64. In both Windows
> > and Linux I never have set the bios (Award 4.51) to enable 'png os'.
> > I believe setting 'png' and 'ACPI' disabled solves a lot of problems
> > for both OS's. I've set up my SB several times with 'sndconfig' run
> > from a level 3 (eg., NOT in X) console as root.
> > --
> > ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: BrewMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: linux-mandrake newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 1:30 AM
> > > Subject: [newbie] Sound Blaster Install problems, Gnome desktop acting
> > > wierd?
> > >
> > >
> > > > I just installed Mandrke complete 7.0 a couple of days ago. I am still
> > > > trying to get the hang of it. There are a couple of things that I am
> > > > wondering about so far.
> > > > 1 - I can't get my Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 to work. I dropped
> > > > to another session as root, used both sndconfig and soundconfig, but
> > > > neither gets the card to work. sndconfig hangs after saying it finds a
> > > > pnp soundcard, and soundconfig says the device is busy. I used the same
> > > > settings for address, IRQ and DMA that show up on my computers boot
> > > > sequence in soundconfig.
> > > >
> > > > 2 - There are about 4 icons that have disappeared from my desktop in
> > > > Gnome, including the autostart, trash, and a couple others. They
> > > > are present on a directory listing on a terminal session, and show up on
> > > > a KDE session. They seem to sporadically pop up, and I can't see any
> > > > reproducible actions I have made that do this. I can't figure this out.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the thoughts. I am sure more questions will come with time.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ken
> > > >
> > > >
