Re: [newbie] No sound in linux?
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Wayfarer wrote: When I run sounddrake (as root of course) it finds my sound card fine. When I hit 'test' I hear Linus's voice fine, but if I click on 'ok' I get: sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp' No such device- Only clicking 'exit' lets me out. I have checked the permissions in /dev/dsp* I'm running an Athlon 700/128ram with an SBLive in Mandrake 7.1, and I was in the exact situation you described, and I now have working sound in Linux. That's the good news. The bad news is that I'm not entirely certain which thing I did to made it work. =) Linuxnewbie.org has a little article called "SBLive" issues that helped me out: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/soundcards/sblive.html [At one point, the author warns the reader away from the 'make install' command, but that was what worked for me, rather than his manual method, so it might be worth a shot.] The driver at Creative is updated VERY frequently; the one I'm using came out the day I installed it (and finally got it to work). Sorry I can't provide concrete answers. Good luck. =) B. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Veni vidi velcro: I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Re: [newbie] UsRobotics PCI Modem
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Carroll Grigsby wrote: whatever. If you do decide to go to the above site, it would be a good idea to know the FCC ID number for your modem, as that is the primary means of identification. The FCC ID is usually written on a white paper tag on the card, which means that you have to look inside the box, and that's something that may be inconvenient while you're on line. Hope this helps, regards - - carroll As an addendum to this, even if the aforementioned web site says 'nay' on your winmodem, you can in some instances get it to work anyway. My particular modem (ID'd by FCC number) is labeled in red as a tool-of-Micro$oft winmodem incompatible with Linux, but I'm able to use the Lucent drivers to connect anyway. I don't know how, but I'm not going to argue with the thing. =) B.
[newbie] Video resolution oddities
I installed Mandrake 7.1 (my first Linux) on Monday morning. Since
then, I've been trying to get my display resolution down to 800x600. My
video card, a 32M ATI Rage Fury Pro ("detected as Rage 128 (generic)"), is
capable of much more than my 15" monitor can comfortably display, and X
defaulted to a painfully high resolution. Selecting 800x600 (at any color
depth) resulted in a 1024x768 size display--too small to see
comfortably--and 640x480 is BIG. Also, testing the newly selected video
mode invariably caused the display to become ridiculously scrambled and
impossible to use; I had to restart X to see the results of any changes.
Ctrl+Alt+"-" and "+" allowed some flexibility, but not a satisfactory
answer.
Finally, I tried setting it to 1024x768, which lo and behold gave
me a perfectly-sized 800x600 screen. I should have thought of that days
ago. =)
Is this little switch problem common to the 7.1 distro? Also,
does anyone have any tips on configuring my particular video card in
Linux?
I'm having enormous fun setting up and learning Linux. I could
get it done a lot faster if I didn't have to keep going to work and
sleeping and such, though.
B.
