[newbie] system beep
Is it possible to configure the system beep to use external speakers rather than the (rather loud) internal speaker in the cpu? -- Joel VanderWerf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] /dev files changing owner???
I've been having the same problem. If you find out why, please post to the group. Thanks! -- Joel VanderWerf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Permissions on /dev/dsp
Hi, When I boot up and log in, sounds don't play. Then I chmod a+rw /dev/dsp and sounds do play. Fine. But when I shut down and boot up again, the permissions have reverted to crw---, and sounds don't play again. What gives? Also, has anyone been able to get the system sounds in the KDE control panel to work? I can play the .wav files from a shell, but nothing I do in the control panel has any effect. Thanks, Joel -- Joel VanderWerf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] amd message during startup
Hi. I get the following mesages when I start up: amd forgot to set AF_INET in udp sendmsg. Fix it! NFS: mount program didn't pass remote address! NFS: mount program didn't pass remote address! There's another message about amd during shut down (I think a red "FAILED" comes up). But I haven't noticed any problems. Should I do anything? Thanks. -- Joel VanderWerf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] QUICK HELP!!
I need a pci card looking for about 8megs or so.. Does anyone know if the ATI Xpert98 works with Xwin? I've had no trouble running at 1280x1024, 32bpp. Dunno about higher res tho. -- Joel VanderWerf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?
Matt Stegman wrote: ... The only reason you'd want to separate out /home is a) if your root partition becomes corrupted, you can still preserve your personal files and b) if you need to upgrade, you don't lose everything when you format the root partition. Something I've been wondering about: Let's say you have /, /usr, and /home partitions and you decide to upgrade. When you do the CD install, you say "No, please don't format /usr and /home, but go ahead and format /", right? You don't want to lose all those apps you've carefully downloaded. But what about the files from the CD that go to /usr, such as all the X11 stuff? Will the installer replace the old files in /usr with the new ones? Or will it put them in the /usr directory in the same partition as /? -- Joel VanderWerf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Does Linux use the Bios for Harddrives?
For stuff I've downloaded and added myself I usually try to make sure it goes into /usr/local which I have on a separate partition. I'd like to do that too, but RPM's usually put stuff in /usr/bin, /usr/lib, and so forth. Do you have to build from sources if you want things in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, ... ? BTW, I tried using RPM --relocate and the package turned out to be non-relocatable. Maybe I got unlucky and most of 'em are relocatable? -- Joel VanderWerf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] Why do RPMs always install into /usr, not /usr/local?
Hi, everybody, When I partitioned my disk, I assumed that the basic installation from CDROM #1 would go to /bin, /lib, /usr/bin, /usr/lib, /usr/man, and that additional "optional" packages (from CD #2-5 and from the web) could go to /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, So I made three partitons: / 2Gb /home 6Gb(with /usr/local symlinked to /home/local) /var 250Mb (with /tmp symlinked to /var/tmp) Basic installation would The idea was that if I needed to reinstall over my boot partition, all my /usr/local stuff would be safe (as would /home files, of course). I'd rather not have to download and install all that stuff again. Also, I could install another Linux distro and it would be able to see the partiton with all my installed apps and my home files. But as I look at packages in kpackage, I see that they all go into /usr/bin, /usr/man, So I tried using rpm with the --relocate option, but the package I chose apparently was not relocatable. Are most packages non-relocatable? How have other people dealt with this situation? Should I go back to a one partition model? Or keep the current 3 partition model, but put all of /usr in its own partition, perhaps with /home symlinked into it? Thanks for any advice! -- Joel VanderWerf [EMAIL PROTECTED]
