[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > why do people always suggest the most obvious stuff that was already done and > listed in there message as "i did this but the wrong thing happened" and then > someone has to be %&*%*&%&* and suggest what they already did, its ubsured > and ignorant This is not intended to Flame... At several megacycles distance (in my case Add a further 12 hours!!) into the future, it's very difficult to know what the user did before - yes?? An assumption has to made about the experience of the poster - has he/she been watching the list?? All those kinds of things. Looking back at the original message from Ian, the manner in which he phrased it, the implication that he is hierarchy-aware of other linux distributions, and last but not least - the manner in which he phrased the question - lead/leads me to conclude that he like some of the rest of us often suffer 'brain-farts' - a prompt of that nature is adequate. Once again the it comes back to plain common sense. If you ask a question - you should at the very least tell the list what you have already tried, what the result was including as much detail as possible about error messages. "I put the key in - but my car won't start" "Why is my tire only flat at the bottom??" Every new subscriber to the list gets a confirmation email in which instructions/recommendations are given on how to phrase messages and how to remove yourself from the list. It is blatantly obvious that many (most) of the those who demand to be removed trashed that email somewhere in the region of 50 years _BEFORE_ they joined. Come-on now, there no need for these things to be continually restated - it's plain common sense. As is the next - If you don't know the answer to why the car above won't start, should you not suggest "Did you turn the key to see if the starter would operate" - seems fairly sensible. -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.) > > In a message dated 20-Sep-00 09:38:59 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writes: > > << Try running sndconfig from a terminal window as root. > > HTH > > Ian > > > This is just a gripe. I know that Harddrake (or sounddrake) is just > > another linux shell that conveniently runs existing teccho programs > > that most people don't understand, but the various programs in my > > distribution of 7.1 don't seem to match up, and when I try to upgrade > > them, they don't match up in other ways, the upgrades call the little > > programs by different names and stick them in different directories. > > The upshot is that my sound card would work if configured right, but > > doesn't. > > > > > >>
