Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-17 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Jun 17, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > > Alex, > > I would like to thank you for your arrogant, obnoxious reply to my > letter. > no problem > It's people like you that keep Windows users using Windows. > The reason I asked for a step by step howto for setting up sound is > because I don't

Re: Can't get audio to work

2002-06-16 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Jun 16, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > > I can't get audio to work. I have the following sound card that is > built into the motherboard: > >Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS > PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02) > > I have the driver for it compiled int

Re: Ok folks help really needed! New Debian install

2000-10-27 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I think what you probably need to do, is make sure the bios settings > on your laptop are set so that you can boot from the CD drive, and > then boot it using the debian CD. > thats one option. The other is to use windows to copy the disk images from

Re: 2.2.15 kernel boot freezes at "running ntpdate..."

2000-06-10 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Mark Phillips wrote: > > > I was wrong. The problem was ntpdate. It was trying to poll the internet > > while not connected to it. > > The thing which is puzzling me is: why did the 2.0.36 boot fine and > successfully get past ntpdate? You see, that is why I initially > did

Re: Suspend and X

2000-06-07 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > > Does anyone know how to grab Fn-F1 (Setup Menu) or Fn-F3 (Battery > status) that switch back to text mode? They also crash if you hit > those keys from X, but are fine from a text console. > As far as I know there is no way for any OS to detect the Fn ke

Re: Help. pcmica doesn't work any longer.

2000-05-28 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Jens K. Olsen wrote: > > Please help. > I just updated my frozen on my laptop. > After updating, I am not able to use pcmcia any longer. The pcmcia-core > module is not being loaded automatically on startup any longer. When I > try to load it using modconf, I get the following

Re: Problems leaving computer on overnight

2000-05-03 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > > OK, now on to my present problem: > I have a Thinkpad 390E (266mhz and 128 meg of Ram) running Debian frozen > at my place of work. Historically, I have shutdown my laptop every night > and then rebooted every morning. But, as I understand tha