[newbie] No sound, can't play music CDs.

2002-08-24 Thread Mark Berkwitt
It's been a while but I finally got 8.2 installed. I didn't have this problem before, but I used KDE before. Could it be that KDE sets up the sound better than Gnome? I've got a mainboard with a CMI8738 sound chip. Installation recognized it but it still doesn't play. Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] about "Zapping" at TV program

2002-08-24 Thread savaidis
The "Zapping" module on this TV card program with the difficult name ("X...") it doesn't really makes the channels scanning and I see only one channel (I can't understand how it found it). I put Europeean channels but nothing happend. I can't go up or down to channels. And it looks it works better

RE: [newbie] cannot connect with modem.

2002-08-24 Thread savaidis
Well, I notice that Linux didn't send my Username and Password info to the login screen so I put and finally I login giving them by hand. (should I put "somewhere" the "expect Username:" to start the script?. I tryied some places but nothing) But now , again, it doesn't start the pppd. What now?

Re: [newbie] Did "System Updates" work for you? Update removed mywindow manager.

2002-08-24 Thread Mark Weaver
Joe User wrote: > On Saturday 24 August 2002 11:44 pm, Mark Weaver typed: > > >>Um...he was posting about the _8.2_ distro. >> >>The better time to do an update is after you've completed the >>installation and have rebooted the machine. When you're sure your X >>installation is running and stabl

Re: [newbie] How to delete old installations?

2002-08-24 Thread Sean Goh
> > >su to root and then open /etc/lilo.conf. Remove the offending entries >from the file and save. then run /sbin/lilo. If you have your boot >partition in a weird place, pass that to lilo. most likely yours would >be: > >/sbin/lilo hda > > > Ok thanks i've managed to delete the old entries