Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
where from? "Alan N." wrote: 2. Sound: Run sndconfig at the prompt. Select your sound card. If that doesn't work, try some of the other choices. I have an ALS and got the Soundblaster to work for it. I ran sndcnfig and when it does the sample test I get this error message: "The following error occurred playing the sample: sox:Known effects: avg band chorus copy cut deemph echop echoes flanger highp lowp map mask phaser pick polyphase rate resample revern reverse split stat vibro sox: Effect 'dev/dsp' is unknown" Yep, same thing for me. Dload the sox upgrade. This will fix the /dev/dsp is unknown. This might fix it, might not. Write back if it doesn't. Same symptoms exactly I had. Alan
Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
open a terminal. change to su ( root ). sndconfig at the prompt. Gl.. Make sure you upgrade sox. BTW, you epsiode sounds very like my own. If you run Gnome, don't use gmix ( the audio mixer ). It kills things. Alan - Original Message - From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 6:59 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems where from? "Alan N." wrote: 2. Sound: Run sndconfig at the prompt. Select your sound card. If that doesn't work, try some of the other choices. I have an ALS and got the Soundblaster to work for it. I ran sndcnfig and when it does the sample test I get this error message: "The following error occurred playing the sample: sox:Known effects: avg band chorus copy cut deemph echop echoes flanger highp lowp map mask phaser pick polyphase rate resample revern reverse split stat vibro sox: Effect 'dev/dsp' is unknown" Yep, same thing for me. Dload the sox upgrade. This will fix the /dev/dsp is unknown. This might fix it, might not. Write back if it doesn't. Same symptoms exactly I had. Alan
RE: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, you wrote:
You have to give it a DOS/Windows partition: Create the partition with Windows'
fdisk, and then format it.
Well, you CAN create it with Linux FDISK as well. Just tell
it you want it to be an extended dos partition, either type
5 ("Extended") or type f (Win9x "extended/lba) Granted,
I've never created anything except a primary DOS partition
using Linux FDISK, but if you create a standard "DOS"
partition (type 6) you can always re-do it with DOS fdisk
if you don't like it G
John
RE: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
That would be "umount" not "unmount" (no "n") Regards, Joseph Gardner Senior Designer / Technical Support Kirby Company Cleveland, OH -Original Message- From: Bret Craw [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 10:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] 4 persistent problems 3. To mount the cdrom, you need to tell it to mount it somewhere. Usually, people mount it like this: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom This will tell it to mount the cdrom into the /mnt/cdrom directory. To access it, you will need to go to that directory. cd /mnt/cdrom. Then you can look at it with dir command. If you want to change CDs, you need to unmount it. Type unmount /mnt/cdrom. Above, the -t is type. Good luck. Don't know the answer to the other problems. application/ms-tnef
RE: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
Below is yet more answers you your questions. I am just confirming what everybody else has already said 8-) -Original Message- From: Toby Sheets [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 4 persistent problems Ok, in the last 2 days I've reinstalled about 4 times to try and sort out various bugs. Please be patient with me (this *is* a newbie group after all). Here are my problems: 1) SCSI. My system is using Adaptec 152x SCSI Host Adapter. When I do the install and try to have Linux probe the card it says it can't find one on my system. If I try to do the install manually it asks me for a module. What goes here so that I can try a manual install? You choose the aha152x.o module. 2) Sound. Install never asks about sound cards and so far I have no audio. Where/how do I configure audio?? run soundcfg at the # prompt as root. 3) Hard Drive. I just installed a brand new 17.6 Gig hard drive to run Linux on. It is setup as my primary slave. When I partitioned it with Disk Druid I set up 1.5 Gig for my "/" partition, 128 MB for my swap, and 400MB for "/home". Now the rest of that drive should, in theory (I think) show up as another drive in Windows. However, in Windows there is no sign of the remaining 14+ GB of hard drive space. Where did it go? Will I be able to save files on it and if so what format? You have to assign the rest of the free space as a FAT32 partition for one whole partition or if you choose just FAT you are limited to 2GB per partition. Then you format the FAT partition and you should see it in windoze. 4) CD-Rom. It must have found it during the install because it had no problems loading and installing the OS. But if I try to access my documentation CD's via Linux there are no drives mounted. How do I mount them? I wanted to add, if there are any Mandrake employees reading, that the install documentation I received with the Deluxe Linux is pretty anemic. The install did not happen in the same order as it appeared in the install guide and some options which I ended up needing were not even covered. I didn't even get any documentation except for what was on their website. I chose to download the iso image file. Didn't really need the documentation, so I can't comment on that. The user guide is about as helpful. It almost seems to assume some prior knowledge of working with in the Linux environment. Thank God Mandrake chose to include 3 other books on CD-Rom. Unfortunately, the user guide is so useless I can't get my CDRom to mount so I have to read the contents in Windows, memorize, then go to Linux and try what I read. I've been sitting at my computer for close to 8 hours today and I'm still right where I started. If you need any help, all you have to do is ask. John May - Computer Technician E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] webpage: http://www.cybergeek.org
RE: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, you wrote: Sure, you could do that. I suggested Windows fdisk instead because he indicated he was already using Windows, and because the man page for Linux fdisk recommends this: "For best results, you should always use an OS-specific partition table program. For example, you should make DOS partitions with the DOS FDISK program and Linux partitions with the Linux fdisk or Linux cfdisk program." Well, I'll admit I'm sorta a "newby" here, but I've created primary dos partitions before and it worked just fine. :-) John
[newbie] 4 persistent problems
Ok, in the last 2 days I've reinstalled about 4 times to try and sort out various bugs. Please be patient with me (this *is* a newbie group after all). Here are my problems: 1) SCSI. My system is using Adaptec 152x SCSI Host Adapter. When I do the install and try to have Linux probe the card it says it can't find one on my system. If I try to do the install manually it asks me for a module. What goes here so that I can try a manual install? 2) Sound. Install never asks about sound cards and so far I have no audio. Where/how do I configure audio?? 3) Hard Drive. I just installed a brand new 17.6 Gig hard drive to run Linux on. It is setup as my primary slave. When I partitioned it with Disk Druid I set up 1.5 Gig for my "/" partition, 128 MB for my swap, and 400MB for "/home". Now the rest of that drive should, in theory (I think) show up as another drive in Windows. However, in Windows there is no sign of the remaining 14+ GB of hard drive space. Where did it go? Will I be able to save files on it and if so what format? 4) CD-Rom. It must have found it during the install because it had no problems loading and installing the OS. But if I try to access my documentation CD's via Linux there are no drives mounted. How do I mount them? I wanted to add, if there are any Mandrake employees reading, that the install documentation I received with the Deluxe Linux is pretty anemic. The install did not happen in the same order as it appeared in the install guide and some options which I ended up needing were not even covered. The user guide is about as helpful. It almost seems to assume some prior knowledge of working with in the Linux environment. Thank God Mandrake chose to include 3 other books on CD-Rom. Unfortunately, the user guide is so useless I can't get my CDRom to mount so I have to read the contents in Windows, memorize, then go to Linux and try what I read. I've been sitting at my computer for close to 8 hours today and I'm still right where I started.
Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
go to lib | modules | kernel | scsi There you should see aha152x.o This is the module you need to insert. - Original Message - From: Toby Sheets [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 11:08 PM Subject: [newbie] 4 persistent problems Ok, in the last 2 days I've reinstalled about 4 times to try and sort out various bugs. Please be patient with me (this *is* a newbie group after all). Here are my problems: 1) SCSI. My system is using Adaptec 152x SCSI Host Adapter. When I do the install and try to have Linux probe the card it says it can't find one on my system. If I try to do the install manually it asks me for a module. What goes here so that I can try a manual install? 2) Sound. Install never asks about sound cards and so far I have no audio. Where/how do I configure audio?? run sndconfig as "root" from the prompt. 3) Hard Drive. I just installed a brand new 17.6 Gig hard drive to run Linux on. It is setup as my primary slave. When I partitioned it with Disk Druid I set up 1.5 Gig for my "/" partition, 128 MB for my swap, and 400MB for "/home". Now the rest of that drive should, in theory (I think) show up as another drive in Windows. However, in Windows there is no sign of the remaining 14+ GB of hard drive space. Where did it go? Will I be able to save files on it and if so what format? You need to create a dos partition there. Probably a dos extended partition. Just because you didn't give it to Linux doesn't mean you've given it to Windows. You have to partition and format it before you can use it. 4) CD-Rom. It must have found it during the install because it had no problems loading and installing the OS. But if I try to access my documentation CD's via Linux there are no drives mounted. How do I mount them? Assuming your CDRom is an IDE mounted as master on the secondary controller, it's probably mapped in as /dev/cdrom already. However, on the off chance tat it's not, you can manually mount it as follows: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom and it should then be accessible on /mnt/cdrom.
Re: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
Toby Sheets wrote: Ok, in the last 2 days I've reinstalled about 4 times to try and sort out various bugs. Please be patient with me (this *is* a newbie group after all). Here are my problems: 1) SCSI. My system is using Adaptec 152x SCSI Host Adapter. When I do the install and try to have Linux probe the card it says it can't find one on my system. If I try to do the install manually it asks me for a module. What goes here so that I can try a manual install? 2) Sound. Install never asks about sound cards and so far I have no audio. Where/how do I configure audio?? 3) Hard Drive. I just installed a brand new 17.6 Gig hard drive to run Linux on. It is setup as my primary slave. When I partitioned it with Disk Druid I set up 1.5 Gig for my "/" partition, 128 MB for my swap, and 400MB for "/home". Now the rest of that drive should, in theory (I think) show up as another drive in Windows. However, in Windows there is no sign of the remaining 14+ GB of hard drive space. Where did it go? Will I be able to save files on it and if so what format? 4) CD-Rom. It must have found it during the install because it had no problems loading and installing the OS. But if I try to access my documentation CD's via Linux there are no drives mounted. How do I mount them? I wanted to add, if there are any Mandrake employees reading, that the install documentation I received with the Deluxe Linux is pretty anemic. The install did not happen in the same order as it appeared in the install guide and some options which I ended up needing were not even covered. The user guide is about as helpful. It almost seems to assume some prior knowledge of working with in the Linux environment. Thank God Mandrake chose to include 3 other books on CD-Rom. Unfortunately, the user guide is so useless I can't get my CDRom to mount so I have to read the contents in Windows, memorize, then go to Linux and try what I read. I've been sitting at my computer for close to 8 hours today and I'm still right where I started. Hi, Toby, My attempts to answer your questions: scsi - That's strange that your scsi adapter wasn't detected. It sounds like you have an official Mandrake release. Have you tried to recompile the kernel with scsi support? sound - If you can boot up and get into X, run 'sndconfig' from the shel prompt. hard dive - Did you format the 14+ gb portion of your hard drive? It's been a while since I dual booted with Windows, but I think if you don't format the hard drive, Windows won't recognize it. Does Windows recognize any of your Linux partitions? cd-rom - To mount your cd-rom, do 'mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom' as root user. If you don't have the directory /mnt/cdrom, create it with 'mkdir /mnt/cdrom'. To unmount the cd-rom and eject the disc, do 'umount /mnt/cdrom'. The directory /mnt/cdrom cannot be busy when issuing the umount command, so you cannot issue this command from /mnt/cdrom or any of its subdirectories. To save yourself some keystrokes, put this line into your /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro0 0 Then, as any user, you can mount the cd-rom with 'mount /mnt/cdrom'. Unmount the cd-rom with 'umount /mnt/cdrom' Good luck, Hidong
RE: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
On 13-Aug-99 Toby Sheets wrote: 2) Sound. Install never asks about sound cards and so far I have no audio. Where/how do I configure audio?? Run sndconfig after you install. 3) Hard Drive. I just installed a brand new 17.6 Gig hard drive to run Linux on. It is setup as my primary slave. When I partitioned it with Disk Druid I set up 1.5 Gig for my "/" partition, 128 MB for my swap, and 400MB for "/home". Now the rest of that drive should, in theory (I think) show up as another drive in Windows. However, in Windows there is no sign of the remaining 14+ GB of hard drive space. Where did it go? Will I be able to save files on it and if so what format? You have to give it a DOS/Windows partition: Create the partition with Windows' fdisk, and then format it. 4) CD-Rom. It must have found it during the install because it had no problems loading and installing the OS. But if I try to access my documentation CD's via Linux there are no drives mounted. How do I mount them? mount -t auto /dev/hdX /mnt/cdrom Change the X to the correct letter for your CD-ROM drive. (hdb is it's slave on primary IDE port, hdc if master on secondary port, hdd if slave on secondary). Type 'man mount' for more info on the mount command. -Tom
